RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

Europe/London
Access Grid (RAL R89)

Access Grid

RAL R89

Zoom Meeting ID
66811541532
Host
Alastair Dewhurst
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    • 13:00 13:01
      Major Incidents Changes 1m
    • 13:01 13:02
      Summary of Operational Status and Issues 1m
      Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Kieran Howlett (STFC RAL)
    • 13:02 13:03
      GGUS /RT Tickets 1m

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

    • 13:04 13:05
      Site Availability 1m

      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 1m
    • 13:15 13:16
      VO Liaison CMS 1m
      Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

      Failing transfers to Antares were due to top level directories having correct assignment to storage classes, but lower level directories needing recursive treatment, which is now done. Test dataset has now copied successfully to Antares. 

      CMS made a request to have higher cache space for CVMFS on WNs - partly for future procurement, or improvement now if appropriate.

      Discussion during this meeting about how we can measure if the cache hit rate is good or bad before we make any changes. Alastair could use this info in future procurement.

      CMS still capped at 6k cores.

    • 13:16 13:17
      VO-Liaison ATLAS 1m
      Speakers: James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

      Awaiting sandox to increase the FD limit on WNs to test the resolution to the 'bad file descriptor error'

      Antares:

      • Identified failed transfers from Antares to Echo:
        • file reports a sucesful transfer, although antares has error message that file is no longer staged. 
        • Likely to due to HTTP access. 
        • Emailed fts / cta expers 
    • 13:20 13:21
      VO Liaison LHCb 1m
      Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • 13:25 13:28
      VO Liaison LSST 3m
      Speaker: Timothy John Noble (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
    • 13:30 13:31
      VO Liaison Others 1m
    • 13:31 13:32
      AOB 1m
    • 13:32 13:33
      Any other Business 1m
      Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))