WLCG DOMA BDT Meeting

Wednesday 16 Apr 2025, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN), Petr Vokac (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

Topic: WLCG DOMA BDT Meeting (twiki)

16:00 → 16:10 News

Speakers: Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN), Petr Vokac (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

16:10 → 16:30 Update to Data Integrity in WLCG Transfers

• Analysis of the current data integrity mechanism used in WLCG transfers
• Proposal to new standards
• Proposal to add data integrity in TPC Pull mode.

Speaker: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

DOMA BDT TPC DATA INTEGRITY.pdf

Timeline of the proposal:
- Hugo to prepare a 1-2 page summary and/or specification document
- To be presented at the DOMA-BDT session @ WLCG Workshop 2025
- Obtain agreement from the involved storage implementors
- Create tickets for storage systems
- Revive HTTP-TPC testing suite & adapt  for checksum verification

Stephan: Suggest to have a way in the error messages to detect whether the transfer is retryable or not

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Hugo: Would be interesting to find if XRoot has the same TPC problem?
 - Need Xrootd developers to answer this
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Petr: What are dCache and StoRM thoughts on implementing this?
  - Tigran: Agree with the proposal, but cannot give timelines

Communication e-group for future announcements:
wlcg-doma-bdt@cern.ch

16:30 → 16:35 AOB