RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

Wednesday 30 Jul 2025, 13:30 → 15:50 Europe/London

Access Grid (RAL R89)

13:30 → 13:31 Experiment Operational Issues

13:35 → 13:40 ATLAS Operations Report

Speakers: Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appelton Laboratory), Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

ATLAS liason meeting notes Brij

13:40 → 13:45 CMS Operations Report

Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

Katy is on leave.

Nothing new to report.

13:45 → 13:50 LHCb Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

13:50 → 13:55 ALICE Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

13:55 → 14:00 LSST Operations Report

Speakers: Mathew Sims, Timothy Noble (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

• CCMS1
  • Raw data ingested
    • script worked and everything was ingested on Monday and verified against other sites records as well
  • working on other components to the data set (skymap, calibrations, etc.)
  • Done by the end of the week
• IngestD issues have been raised by tests
  • Investigation points to config issues on our end, comparing with other sites to ensure ours is correct
  • Also found issue with LSST Rucio that I resolved
  • Monitoring setup by Nalin was very useful in identifing where the breaks were in the pipeline

14:00 → 14:01 Tier-1 Projects

14:15 → 14:25 Anatares Upgrade

New EOS nodes
Repack Progress

Speakers: George Patargias, Thomas Byrne

14:25 → 14:35 XRootD Development

Speakers: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jyothish Thomas (STFC)

ops automation pipelines in the works

monitoring improvements as well

'23 gens still pending network fix (routing to antares)

 

14:35 → 14:45 Utilizing GPUs

Speakers: Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Thomas Birkett

14:45 → 14:50 SSD Storage Evaluation

14:50 → 14:55 Echo deployment

15:00 → 15:01 AOB

15:01 → 15:10 Summary of Operational Status and Issues

Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore

Weekly Report 30 July 2025.docx

Weekly Report 30 July 2025.pdf

15:10 → 15:15 Any other Business

Speakers: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB)), Darren Moore