RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

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

Access Grid (RAL R89)

13:30 Experiment Operational Issues

1 ATLAS Operations Report

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

ATLAS liason meeting notes Brij

2 CMS Operations Report

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

Katy is on leave.

Nothing new to report.

3 LHCb Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

4 ALICE Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

5 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 Tier-1 Projects

6 Anatares Upgrade

New EOS nodes
Repack Progress

Speakers: George Patargias, Thomas Byrne

7 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)

 

8 Utilizing GPUs

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

9 SSD Storage Evaluation

10 Echo deployment

15:00 AOB

11 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

12 Any other Business

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