BiLD – 03/10/2024

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

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Follow-up from previous meetings

• Last BiLD was September 12th
• DiracX hackathon on 16th/17th Sept
• Last DIRAC certification hackathon on June 6th
  • last on lbcertifdirac70
  • then attempted to set up new infrastructure, without success
  • Discussion last week (26/9), see below

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DIRAC communities roundtable

LHCb:

Federico+Alexandre+Christophe+Christopher+Alexey+Ryunosuke

• “Business as usual”, but stressing the system with large number of Real Data productions. Performance of Transformation System getting critical (after many years since last time it happened).

ILC/Calice/FCC

André

• NTR

Belle2

Hideki, Ruslan

• Migration to EL9 cluster
• from previous meeting Can we use the TS to set Tags on its job? – open discussion

GridPP:

Daniela, Simon, Janusz

• No news.

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Topics from GitHub/Discussions

only un-answered topics with discussion updates:

• How to install TokenManager
• Any update for https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/discussions/7163 ?

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DIRAC releases

• v8r0
  • 8.0.53
    • NEW: (#7741) RequestTaskAgent uses getBulkRequestStatus instead of getRequestStatus

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DIRAC projects

DIRAC:

Issues by milestone:

• v8.0:
  • Auto-reschedule jobs waiting for long time?
    • Discussion: it would be helpful to monitor these jobs, but no auto reset
  • FTS3Agent deadlocks when running multiple agents
  • job status transition in ReqClient vs JobStatus
  • Removal of “Systems” part of CS
• v9.0:
  • Few issues moved to DiracX

Other issues:

• from previous meeting Is it possible to add a last chance option for file transfers via FTS ?
  * closed
• from previous meeting Pilot status for pilots in PollTime related sleep cycle
  • interesting discussion, feel free to contribute

PRs discussed:

• from previous meeting [9.0] remove JobDB’s site mask

WebApp:

• NTR

Pilot:

• from previous meeting Janusz some doc to write

DIRACOS:

• Neewds review PRs and release
• from previous meeting Installation errors for 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
  • ==> a new release is there, pending in conda-forge
• from previous meeting Requests for Apple-M2 compatibility
  • also asked to update doc…

Documentation:

• from previous meeting Need to decide on strategy for DiracX documentation – André to take care?

OAuth2:

• NTR

management

• from previous meeting Always upload releases to CVMFS
  • still not working (did not work for for 8.0.53)
  • Andrei created a new script, so PR needed

diraccfg

• NTR

DB12

• NTR

Rucio

• NTR

Tests

• NTR

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DiracX:

DiracX hackathon 2 weeks ago fruitful. Some PRs created and in general increased knowledge

Issues

• Christophe “I will go through all issues” next week

PRs discussed:

• from previous meeting Janusz Implemetation of PilotAgentsDB schema:
  • https://github.com/DIRACGrid/diracx/pull/292
  • https://github.com/DIRACGrid/diracx-charts/pull/112
  • Probably both OK, start with un-drafting

DiracX-charts:

• Also PRs to review (rather simple)

container-images:

• NTR

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Release planning, tests and certification

• Certification machines

  • from previous meeting Federico the support level for running services at in2p3 is not sufficient. I will move to k3s at CERN for everything in order to restart things
    • I would run all DBs, including MySQL, through k3s. This is of course not ideal for a production environment, but for the test setup is hopefully OK
    • 3 VMs for DiracX
    • 1 VM for DIRAC v9
  • The plan above did not fully work, so last Thursday we discussed what to do and:
    • For the moment (which might be a long “moment”) keep using the old setup at CERN:
      • lbcertifdirac70 for DIRAC code
      • DBs from CERN
      • DiracX running on paas.cern.ch (OpenShift)
    • keep investigating the other solutions, but with a lesser priority

• Next hackathon(s)

  • next week on Tuesday (!)

Next appointments

• Meetings:

  • hackathon: Tuesday 8th
  • BiLD: in 4 weeks (Oct 31st)

• WS/hackathons/conferences:

  • CHEP 2024 19th-25th Oct, Krakow
    • 1 talk in plenary (Federico)
    • 2 talks in parallel (Natthan, Xiaowei)
    • 1 poster (Alexandre)
  • DiracX hackathon: 14th-15th January 2025, CERN https://indico.cern.ch/event/1458873/
  • Dirac&Rucio mini-workshop and hackathon: 16th-17th January 2025, CERN https://indico.cern.ch/event/1443765/
  • Dirac Users’ Workshop: 17th-20th September 2025 - https://indico.cern.ch/e/duw11

AOB

• NTR

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LHCbDIRAC

• BKK:
  • getDescendants stuff: Alexey next week will finish the MR
    • will get hotfixed before
  • Chris added 2 new methods for speed up the consistency checks
  • Chris DM consistency check: “insame” query
    • new implementation, started reviving the discussion with IT
    • maybe need to use a materialized view
• Ryun is adding stuff for running LbConda inside the LHCb trasnformation jobs
• Ryun possibility of running on a subset of a BkQuery for prescaling
• from previous meeting Some runs without luminosity. Total luminosity is there.
  • Frèderic Hemmer to check it