RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 12:30 → 14:30 Europe/London

Access Grid (RAL R89)

13:00 → 13:01 Major Incidents Changes

13:01 → 13:02 Summary of Operational Status and Issues

Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Kieran Howlett (STFC RAL)

Weekly Report 10 May 2023.docx

Weekly Report 10 May 2023.pdf

13:02 → 13:03 GGUS /RT Tickets

https://tinyurl.com/T1-GGUS-Open
https://tinyurl.com/T1-GGUS-Closed

13:04 → 13:05 Site Availability

https://lcgwww.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/utils/availchart/

https://cms-site-readiness.web.cern.ch/cms-site-readiness/SiteReadiness/HTML/SiteReadinessReport.html#T1_UK_RAL

http://hammercloud.cern.ch/hc/app/atlas/siteoverview/?site=RAL-LCG2&startTime=2020-01-29&endTime=2020-02-06&templateType=isGolden

13:05 → 13:06 Experiment Operational Issues

13:15 → 13:16 VO Liaison CMS

Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

13:16 → 13:17 VO-Liaison ATLAS

Speakers: James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

13:20 → 13:21 VO Liaison LHCb

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

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slides.pdf

Tickets:

• Problems with uploads to antares
  • Tape famili were missing for 2023 data
    • fixed
  • The same problem seems to be present for 2009 data
    • Also years 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018 should be checked
• Problems with transfers RAL -> IHEP
  • solved
• Slow stat calls
  • No updates
• Network issues
  • No updates
• Request to remove environment variable
  • No updates
• Vector read
  • See slides attached
• Upload failures from WNs
  • Gateway issues last Thursday

Operational issues:

• New ceph storage node was added last Thursday, it was inaccessible from some WNs
  • This caused some download failures

Other:

• Replication of lost atnares files has started

 

13:25 → 13:28 VO Liaison LSST

Speaker: Timothy John Noble (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

13:30 → 13:31 VO Liaison Others

13:31 → 13:32 AOB

13:32 → 13:33 Any other Business

Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))