News:

• Procurement + operations plan for FY26:
  • Operations plans still needed in December
  • We held a meeting last Friday about procurements with FY25 funds and about the situation with FY26.
    • We decided to delay purchases with FY25 funds until February (unless urgent needs)
    • We will have another meeting early February
    • FY26 procurement plans should just describe any updates to purchases with FY25 funds and, as usual, retirements and estimated resources.

Operations:

• Site production during the last two weeks: AGLT2, MWT2, NET2, SWT2 (CPB, OU), TW
• Open tickets: 
  • NET2
    • ggus 3255 NET2_Amherst: jobs failing with "Job has reached the specified backoff limitBackoffLimitExceeded"

A JIRA ticket was create to follow this issue.

• • • NET2_LOCALGROUPDISK blacklisted in DDM (DISKSPACE). More info
  • SWT2_CPB
    • SWT2_CPB_TEST blacklisted in DDM (FT). More info

Upcoming meetings:

• SuperComputing25 [Nov 16-25]:

• Registration and abstract submission for CHEP 2026 [23-29 May in Bangkok, Thailand] is open. ATLAS abstracts are due to the CSC by November 19th, and the conference abstract deadline on the 19th of December. 

• ISGC 2026 will be held from March 15-20 2026 and is now open for submission. The deadline is November 17th and again all abstracts should be sent to the CSC as soon as possible.
• The next LHCOPN/ONE meeting has been proposed to be located in Canada on the 14-16 of April 2026. The meeting will be hosted by CANARIE in a city not yet confirmed, possibly Ottawa.
• ATLAS S&C meeting [Feb 9-13 at CERN]