Attended:

Adrian, Alessandro, Renato, Carlos, Ivan , Joseph, Julia

Adrian reported about progress of APEL service migration, current step is DB migration. After completion main focus will be given to deployement to production of the APEL server with support of HEPSCORE functionality. The time line to have it in production y the end of November should be respected.

Julia asked Adrian how APEL translates time to work for sites which publish benchmarking factors using GLUE2 , while according to the code, GLUE2 format is not considered. The investigation of people working in the benchmarking project demonstrated taht among at least ATLAS sites there is plenty of sites which are publishing only with GLUE2 (see slide 17 of the presentation https://indico.cern.ch/event/1462197/contributions/6159281/attachments/2940215/5165207/wlcg_operations-analysis_corepower-20241003.pdf). Adrian promised to check APEL code. 

Julia told that according to the investigation mentioned above we are in a quite messy situation. Some sites are publishing with GLUE1, some other are with GLUE2, some with both but the numbers do not always agree. We (in this context EGI and WLCG ops) need to consolidate info in BDII, in order to do it properly we need to understand what APEL is doing regarding benchmarking factors. For sites which publish benchmarking factors in local configuration, we need a way to collect and publish them centrally in a single place. For WLCG site WLCG CRIC can be an option. But we need a way to get thses numbers form APEL in some way.

Julia asked Adrian to address two different issues reported from the sites - OU_OSCER_ATLAS and  WEIZMANN-LCG2, people are not getting answer for a while

Carlos and Ivan reported the EGI - QUANTA contarct was finally signed. Ivan tols that QUANTA started to actively work on the portal, person power is allocated. Weekly porgess reports will be sent to the lilst before our weekly meeting. There will be a dedicated mailing list of QUANTA. Issues and requests will be tracked via jira.

Next meeting is next Friday the 25tht of October same time slot.