BiLD – 07/03/2024

At CERN: Christopher, Christophe
On Zoom: Federico, Alexandre, Janusz, Daniela, Simon, Andrei, Hideki, Janusz, Vladimir, Alexey
Apologies: André

Follow-up from previous meetings

• Last BiLD on Feb 15th
• Last DIRAC certification hackathon 1 week ago:
  • still had issues
• Last BiLDx 5 weeks ago
  • cancelled the one of 2 weeks ago

DIRAC communities roundtable

LHCb:

 Federico+Alexandre+Christophe+Christopher

• Running on latest DIRAC v8 patch
• EL9: started moving hosts to Alma9

Belle2

 Cedric, Hideki

• 2 issues:
  • bug in Belle2 for setting up DIRAC from CVMFS
  • 1024 bit proxies.
• Now pilot works OK
• How LHCb did to for changing proxies?
  • we always uploaded proxies (for a while) with a hotfix

ILC/Calice/FCC

 André

• NTR

EGI

 Andrei

• Users submitting long jobs, and found out that the proxy renewal mechanism was not working – fixed in latest v8.0.39 patch

Juno/BES3

 Xiaomei

• In WebApp, should specify extension version when upgrading.

GridPP:

 Simon, Janusz, Daniela

• No news.

Topics from GitHub/Discussions

only un-answered topics with discussion updates:

• CPU Requirements and Time Left

DIRAC releases

• v8r0
  • v8.0.39
    • “just” fixes, most notably https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/pull/7479
• v9r0
  • NTR

DIRAC projects

DIRAC:

Issues by milestone:

• v8.0:

  • 10+ open issues, usual reminder for closing/moving old ones
  • dirac-dms-find-lfns misbehaves if given an invalid path

• v9.0:

  • NTR

Other issues:

• [8.0] Implementation of metadata methods into RucioFileCatalogClient closes issue #7382

PRs discussed:

• [8.0] Elastic: index creation only at indexing time
  • To avoid indices with 0 documents
• [9.0] remove notification db
  •  Federico started simplification, ended up removing the whole system
    • question: does anyone ever used this DB? – seems not
  • Will be merged now if no objections
• [9.0] feat: split JobWrapper.execute() into 3 submethods
  • Only refactoring. First of several PRs
  •  Federico would like to use this for integration testing workflows
• https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/pull/7492#discussion_r1514680164
  •  Christophe I can’t remember all details, but we should not contact the CS too much, especially not at handshaking time

WebApp:

• NTR

Pilot:

• Merge of devel to master: we are actually ready.  Federico will do it on Monday in LHCb, and on Tuesday for anyone else, if I don’t find last minute issues
• from previous meeting  Janusz some doc to write
•  Federico We do lots of mangling for using older python version. If CVMFS is available (this seems to be anyway a requirement) we can use the python (3.11) coming from CVMFS, and remove lots of legacy code.
  •  Chris²+Andrei can not do that
    • We can not even declare py2 “dead” when CentOS7 will get EOL, let’s talk again in ~1 year time

DIRACOS:

• from previous meeting Made a new release with libxml2 downgraded. Issue opened to gfal2 for proper fix
  • FTS/gfal developers are going to look at this now
• We might not be able to update globus again (OpenSSL version)
  • SRM still depends on it

Documentation:

• NTR

OAuth2:

• NTR

management

• Always upload releases to CVMFS
  •  Andrei Made a few updates, for ARM release. In contact with administrator, the ball is on his side.
  • from previous meeting
    • Also the upload of pilot files to CVMFS could be done same way
    • Right now the cron-job runs hourly
    • Few issues discovered (the releases were not properly propagated – CVMFS issue at RAL)
      • from Stratum0 to Stratum1
      • fixed by hand from time to time
      • https://cvmfs-monitor-frontend.web.cern.ch/ might be needed

diraccfg

• NTR

DB12

 Alexandre

• from previous meeting
  •  Ewoud opened PR for py3.11 (in progress)
    • missing the Intel vs AMD
  •  Federico Can we have DB12 run on ARM
    • André : I access two “real” ARM machines through OpenStack that can be used for the tests
    • Federico: passed to Ewoud
    • hepscore and ARM: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=164939 (Imperial’s ARM is still very much in the “setting it up stage”

Rucio

• NTR

Tests

•  Federico Repo for running “nightly” system tests targeting the DIRAC cert setup: still, did not find the time to do it

Release planning, tests and certification

• Trello: up to 10 collaborators:

  •  Christopher proposes to use Github projects:
    • https://github.com/orgs/DIRACGrid/projects/9/
    • GitHub has a concept of templates so we could use that. Or we could use the script I used to import it to generate a new board for each hackathon from a YAML spec: https://gist.github.com/chrisburr/0c4f48421e02e01286696453710c3028
  • Looks appropriate

• Certification machines

  • lbcertifdirac70 machine:
    • we should move to EL9 box in Q1 2024 (CC7 EOL June 2024)
      • As said, this should be done outside of CERN
        • Volunteers?
      • 2 options:
        1. completely new setup (new DBs).  Federico I would prefer this one
        2. keep the current CERN DBs (MySQL, OpenSearch), + Grafana.

• Next hackathon(s)

  • in 2 weeks (using github “projects”)

AOB

Next BiLDX: March 14th
Next hackathon: March 21st
Next BiLD: after Easter (April 4th?)

• Next DIRAC Users’ workshop in Lyon https://indico.cern.ch/e/duw10 June 19th->21st
  • most probably, no fee requested
  • registrations can open now

• Next DIRAC+X hackathon: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1376672/
  • 9-10 April
  • as usual, do register to participate

LHCbDIRAC

• v11.0: deploy board in https://trello.com/b/Ep0PAkbv/deploy-110
  • Let’s quickly review what remains here…
• https://gitlab.cern.ch/lhcb-dirac/LHCbDIRAC/-/issues
  • Moving Job finalization step from the workflow to the JobWrapper:…
    •  Federico the workflow modules are delicate and unit tests are not enough. There are (they were more up-to-date time ago) integration tests (“real jobs” ran in “real” pilots). They should be restored, maybe in a different manner.

    • I propose that our production workflow be streamlined to consist solely of a sequence of GaudiApplication modules.

      • Run only GaudiApplication module in the step
    • CWL: what are the boundaries between DIRAC and DiracX?
  • Bookkeping:
    • Extending the bookkeeping to support SMOG2
      • Should be done, but of course not exercised in production
      • Regarding the bullte points in https://gitlab.cern.ch/lhcb-dirac/LHCbDIRAC/-/issues/23#note_7633197 : we can test this with a Analysis Production
• VOMS backend will be shutdown in June 24
  • from previous meeting we need to make sure that all links will be updated
    •  Christophe will do adiabatically over the coming weeks
• OpenSearch migration?
  • no date yet
• Alma9
  • Puppet ready
  • lbvobox300 migrated, 1 new will be done today
  • 2 machines (lbvobox900 and lbvobox901) created by Joel
    • what to do with these ones?
  • https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/7368