LHCONE R&D and RNT-WG call

Tuesday Sep 24, 2024, 5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Edoardo Martelli (CERN), Joe Mambretti (International Center for Advanced Internet Research Northwestern University), Marian Babik (CERN), Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM LHCONE

Presents: Joe Mambretti, Edoardo Martelli, Marian Babik, Tristan Sullivan, Carmen Misa, Bill Johnston, John McAuely, Vitaliy Kondratenko, Chris Walker, Andy  Lake, Yatish Kumar, Bruno Hoeft, Jim Chen.

LHCONE:
- LHCONE meeting #53 https://indico.cern.ch/event/1410638/
- MultiONE implementtion:: GGUS ticket campaign started on 23rd/9/2024. We hope to see more tagged prefixes soon

SC24:
- Tristan got connectivity to UVIC. Testing has started. From Starlight to Uvic is better than in the other direction. There is a 15-20% impact on performances when using the extension header vs a 1% impact when using the flowlabel field.
- Tristan: can give a report to the LHCONE meeting about this testing.
- Joe: there will be six 400G connections to the Starlight booth
- Joe: scitags was mentioned at the gloabl reasearch platform event in Japan 

5:20 PM → 5:50 PM RNTWG

SC24 
- UCSD/Caltech status - work on the flowd setup on-going 
- Starlight - dashboard now works (required some bugfixes in flowd)

CHEP
- Draft presentation available at:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCKj-9EUa7RjPdeXVb69OQIqr4iDA4H8Ggzia3ZwCdU/edit?usp=sharing
- Please comment directly in the presentation if you have any updates, suggestions

Collectors
- New PR: https://github.com/scitags/firefly-collector/pull/1
- Missing Kafka input/output plugin (A: Andy Lake)

flowd
- Released 1.1.5 (https://github.com/scitags/flowd/releases/tag/v1.1.5)
- Containers are now build and published on github packages
       - This now works: docker pull ghcr.io/scitags/flowd:v1.1.5 (or ghcr.io/scitags/flowd:main for latest)
- Setup koji scitags repo, build and published packages for RHEL9, Alma9, RHEL8, Alma8
- Repos to be available at: 
       - https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/repos/scitags9el-testing
       - https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/repos/scitags9al-testing
       - https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/repos/scitags8el-testing
       - https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/repos/scitagsal8-testing
       - etc. for -qa and -stable, i.e. scitags9el-qa, scitags9el-stable, etc.
       - Plan to ask to include the packages also in WLCG repo

Topical meetings to be scheduled:
- Discuss plans/proposal for production deployment of packet marking
- BBRv3 and packet pacing tests 

5:50 PM → 5:55 PM AOB

5:55 PM → 6:00 PM Next meeting

We skipp the week of the LHCONE meeting in Beijing.

Next meeting:  22nd October