BiLD (Bi-weekly DIRAC Development meeting) – 23/11/2023
At CERN: Andrè, Alexandre
On Zoom: Federico, Janusz, Daniela, Simon, Alexey, Michel
Apologies: Christophe, Christopher, Andrei
Follow-up from previous meetings
- Last BiLD on Nov 2nd
- Trying to catch all updates below
- Last DIRAC certification hackathon 2 weeks ago. Basically, did nothing but discovering that we could not really run without diracx fixes
- BildX on Nov 16th
DIRAC communities roundtable
LHCb:
Federico+Alexandre+Alexey
- Running on latest v8 patch – NTR
Belle2
Michel
- Attempting to install DIRAC from CVMFS from Pilot
- version of the Pilot still outdated
- will try using the latest pilot
- Discussion of how to improve monitoring of transformations
- more generically, if there other issues
ILC/Calice/FCC
Andre, Lorenzo
- Updated to 8.0.32
- No token provider for any VO yet, FCC promised for about January 2024
BES3/Juno
Xiaomei
GridPP:
Simon, Janusz, Daniela
- Prod and pre-prod now on 8.0.31
- Token tested for HTCondor (at Imperial) and AREX (at RALPP) for gridpp VO using our own IAM server
- Trying to recruit more sites for testing and looking at starting to roll it out on prod server
- Limited enthusiasm from sites at the moment.
- We learned that CERN apparently did not foresee to provide IAM servers to all the VOs they provide voms servers for.
Topics from GitHub/Discussions
only un-answered topics with discussion updates:
- not much questions/updates lately
DIRAC releases
- v8r0
- v8.0.32
- DataManagementSystem
- CHANGE: (#7296) default proxy lifetime for FTS is 36h and force the redelegation when 12h are left
- WorkloadManagement
- NEW: (#7266) SiteDirector - added preinstalledEnv and preinstalledEnvPrefix pilot options
- v9r0
DIRAC projects
DIRAC:
Issues by milestone:
v8.0:
- 15+ open issues
- usual reminder for closing/moving old ones
v9.0:
Other issues:
PRs discussed:
- Minor comments for some of them
WebApp:
Pilot:
- Still, did not merge
devel to master because of unavailability of stable DIRAC certification setup. Next steps:- fix lbcertifdirac70 installation
- submit pilots, verify
- if OK, try in LHCbDIRAC certification system
- if OK, try in LHCbDIRAC production
- merge
devel to master
5.1. close master branch to contributions
DIRACOS:
Documentation:
- Minor issue in one script
OAuth2:
- Multi-VO pilots submission: it is OK now, it seems
management
- from previous meeting 3 issues left, still valid?
- Always upload releases to CVMFS is again valid for clients
- higher priority now. This should also be done for non-x86 versions.
diraccfg
DB12
Alexandre
- Federico merged PR fixing the tests
- Ewoud opened PR for py3.11 (in progress)
- Federico Can we have DB12 run on ARM
- Andrè : I access two “real” ARM machines through OpenStack that can be used for the tests
- Federico: I will pass it to Ewoud
Rucio
Tests
Release planning, tests and certification
Certification machines
Next hackathon(s)
AOB
Next hackathon: Nov 30th
Next BiLDX: Dec 7th
Next BiLD: Dec 14th (last DIRAC meeting of 2023)
DIRAC+X hackathon:
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/1343151/
- 23rd-24th Jan 2024
- CERN, “usual” room
- You need to register
- Anyone’s welcome to suggest specific topics
- Federico attempts to upgrade to v9 pre-versions can be done
Next DIRAC Users’ workshop: originally planned for 27th-29th May 2024 (effectively 2 half and one full day) in Lyon https://indico.cern.ch/event/1341205, but issue with dates:
LHCbDIRAC