Activity of the month

Thursday 31 May 2007, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1 Roberta Faggian Marque

DILIGENT *WP1.8* - integration/testing phone meeting, May 25 *WP3.1* - reviewed gLite sites re-organisation - May 30, f2f meeting with EGEE PPS admin - TCom phone meeting, May 24 - review meeting in Machester - review preparation *WP4.2* - poster and stand and EGEE User Forum *other* - openlab summer student hiring - IMR reporting RPLO - meetings - EGEE07 RP track organisation, draft invitation for RPs, draft programme - EGEE User Forum stand - participation to EGEE User Forum/OGF - participation to EU review - database review - provided projects' contatcts to NA5 - updates to RP web page - May 29, EGEE07 PC meeting - sent invitation to RPs EGE/RP - monthly meeting - FP7 projects summary tables and DFS organisation - personnel contracts renewal - reporting for GLM

2 Pedro Andrade

WP1.2 (1.5) - reorganization of the development infrastructure - check status of the LB web service interface WP1.7 (1) - support to 4DSOFT on the usage of ETICS for test activities - support to 4DSOFT on the usage of the CL to deploy DILIGENT services WP1.8 (8.5) - maintenance of the deployment testing infrastructure - execution of deployment testing on integration build 0.2.6 - execution of deployment testing on integration build 0.2.7 - bug submission and follow-up - participation in release Beta weekly phone conferences - discussion about how to integrate the DILIGENT portlets WP3.1 (4) - reorganization of the pre-prod infrastructure - provided information to the TCom about the "diligent" VO support - meeting with PPS responsibles - interaction with EGEE ROCs regarding the registration of new sites WP4.2 (0) WP4.3 (0) Other (5) - participation to EGEE UF2 (poster and demo session) - preparation and participation to DILIGENT especial review - preparation of WP1.x IMR16 - participation in EGEEII 1st review Holidays (0) Last Update - 31 may

3 Karin Burghauser

Minutes 310507karin.doc 310507karin.pdf

4 Florida Estrella

EUMedGrid 5thQR tech description & effort table Review/comment on 1st EUMEDGRID revierwers' recommendation Review/edit forecast 2007 budget & effort Completed timesheets. Updated D22 planning, ToC with Domenico, John EUChinaGrid 5thQR tech description & effort table Finalize A34 report, sent to Federico, incorporated Depei's comments file here: https://edms.cern.ch/file/772559/1/SummaryAsianGridActivities_forQR.doc EUChinaGrid updated budget plan +3 months in 2008 Review new budget and effort tables to be added to the 5QR Completed timesheets. Health-e-Child Training discussion, emailed david re May, June proposals. AMGA discussion with Konstantin WP14 minutes 07.05 filed, actions CERN necker deployment, waiting for deployment desc fr Konstantin ISGTW article review http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000421 Review/comments to 5th QR sent to EMF, Joerg, David Completed timesheets. SEEGRID2 Preparation for FormC, Audit CERN 4th 3M report (technical contribution, financial excel) with Dusan & Dita https://edms.cern.ch/file/842347/1/SEEGRID2-WP1-GR-046-4th3MReport-a-2007-05-02_CERN.doc https://edms.cern.ch/file/842347/1/SEEGRID2-WP1-GR-013-Financial-a-2007-03-22_CERN.xls Dusan logistics to CSC07 in Croatia Dusan logistics SA1 meeting in Stockholm Prepare monthly summary of activities for P1 (May06-Apr07) for VV, DV, FE, JS, to be sent to Finance Preparation for the SG2 review, feedback from EGEEII 1st review sent to Ognjen BalticGrid Preparation of 6th Q CC. File here: \Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE\EUProposals_march2005\BalticGRID\Activity_Documents\Finance\CC\P2\BG-ICC-R1Q6-partnerCERN.xls Support for BG Summer School, looking for presenter? EELA JRUs Others OMII-EU audit cert support docs for Dita, missing Cons Agreement signature page, checking with Alberto EGEE07 planning, sent invitation to vincent breton. Collect registered projects' snail addresses for the EGEE07 brochure.

5 Domenico Vicinanza

Domenico Vicinanza May, 2007 Major work for EUMEDGRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Server maintainance (fixing SSL issues due to the new CERN certificate structure) for the EUMEDGRID installation in Malta. - Contribution to MEDIAN proposal - Testing CMS software on EUMEDGRID infrastructure, both using cms VO and eumed VO, from EUMED UIs (and eumed RB) and CERN UIs (and CERN RB). Results, organized in a report (HTML and PDF) were distributed within the WP3 and WP4 EUMEDGRID mailing list (HTML available here: http://cern.ch/vicinanz/cmstesting/) - Preparing CMSSW installation scripts to be tested and then executed as Software Manager on the WNs of the infrastructure to install CMSSW on 14 sites. - Working on the revised version of the Deliverable 2.2. EU asked CERN (as responsible for the related Action 2.2) to resubmit it with updated results and with some more details about interaction among WP2 and the Infrastructure and Application WPs (WP3 and WP4) Major work for <GD-OPS; GD-ITR>; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Test integration: ALICE Experiment VOBOX test integration follow up: taking care of feeding MONALISA with results coming from the VOBOX tests stored in the SAM Production database. It will be used the programmatic interface and the Grid Monitoring Exchange format. ALICE people will use those data to trigger their alarms - SAM Documentation: -- Completed a developer manual about adding new tests to an existing sensors (covering existing use cases) and added to the SAM documentation website (http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/). In particular a description about ALICE-VOBOX-like tests use case was added -- Working on an automatic system to integrate SAM tests source code documentation into the official SAM documentation repository and website. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- SAM Team and IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------ HPDC Meeting in Monterey Bay in June Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 4 day TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.2 and 3.3 55% WP4/A4.2 and 4.3 45% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project: 14 (10 Countries, 8 Mediterranean Countries) # of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure: 8 # of CPUs: 650 total SE: 7 total CE: 10 total gCE: 2 total RB: 5 total gRB: 2 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 0 ************************************************************

6 Marc Ozonne

ICEAGE WP3: ISSGC07 Mon 15th: Pratical Sub-Committee teleconference thu 24th: Pratical Sub-Committee teleconference Start testing the practicals against the KTH testbed CSC07 Update the slides for the Grid Track Update and run the practicals against the Gilda testbed Work together with the Gilda team to fix the errors Tue 22nd: meeting to review the progress SEMINARS Thu 3th, Fri 4th: "Techniques d'exposes et de presentations" Fri 11th, 25th: Oral english courses Tue 29th, Wed 30th: "Communicating Effectively" LEGAL HOLIDAY tue 1st, Thu 17th, Mon 28th HOLIDAY Frid 18th

7 Alexandre Duarte

Alexandre Duarte May, 2007 Major work for EELA; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * SAM Maintenance * EELA Grid Operation * Certification of two new EELA sites: UFCG and CBPF Major work for GD-OPS major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * ROC on Duty ( from 7th to the 18th of May) * Working on the Certification of the McGill University site. * Refactoring the bdii2oracle.py script * Working on a new documentation about joining the grid for the ROC CERN Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 6 TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP2/T2.1 60% WP2/T2.3.1 20% WP2/T2.3.2 20% Wp4/T4.2: 0% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project - 15 # of cpus - 658 total SE 62.5 TB ************************************************************

8 Lanxin Ma

Lanxin Ma May. 2007 Major work for ; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Tansfer EUChina SAM server and clients to chinese admin 2. Tansfer EUChina 2nd VOMS server to chinese admin 3. Helped chinese admin to solve EUChina SAM server problem Due to oracle-client problem, It failed when publish test results and SAM portal. 4. Ticket system 5. infrastructure trubelshooting:investicate & solve EUChina sites problem CE problems in beijing-ihep,beijing-cnic, infn-catania, infn-roma3 SE problems in beijing-cnic, beijing-ihep,infn-roma3 RB problem in beijing-ihep gLite UI problem in beijing-iheo 6. In order to install CMS SW application remotely by jobs in EUChina sites, contacted with CMS SW expert and CMS software manager and got the instruction and installing scripts. now the scripts is being tested, then preraring to install in EUChina sites. Major work for ; major changes in workplan --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. VOMRS maintenance & troubleshooting 2. VOMRS user support, Process user's requests, problems & tickets 3. Testing vomrs-1.3-1 with SLC3,tomcat5-5.0, voms-admin-server-2.0.3-2 and java 1.5. - manually setup voms with voms-admin-server-2.0.3-2 because there is no configuration file and metapackages yet. - test vomrs basic founctinalities, new features and bug fixes by WebUI and scripts - report and disscussion bugs with developer - wrote test plan and report, uploaded it at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/VOMSTesting 4. attend EMT meetings to disscuss the status of vomrs/voms testing status 5. wrote vomrs troubleshooting twiki page about "LHC Experiment VO user registration failed in vomrs" at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/VomrsFAQforServiceManagers 6. PPS top level BDII maintance & upgrade Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- EMT meetings for discuss vomrs/voms testing status IT-GD-OPS weekly meeting Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.3 70% wp4/a4.1 30% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 9 of sites in project 9 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 1320 of total cpus total SE: 10 total CE: 10 total RB: 7 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 1 total GridICE: 9 ************************************************************

9 Rolandas Naujikas

Rolandas Naujikas 05, 2007 Major work for BalticGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- SAM server/client installation and configuration at VU-MIF-LCG2. SAM server finally moved from CERN to BG infrastructure. Cluster VU-MIF-LCG2 updates. New cluster at VU-MIF-LCG2 extended from 40 to 108 cpus. Preparation for 3AHM in Tallinn: bgtut VO support at VU-MIF-LCG2. Major work for ; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Consultations for WMS<->glite-CE problems at CERN. Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- 3AHM in Tallinn. Some points from meeting: * improve support ticket processing - close ticket only when user says OK. * issues with user certificate usage in multiple VOs - copy results to SE at the end of job. * unstable/bad clusters - use FCR tool to temporary disable them. * start SAM testing in gamess and other VO's. * write test and start SAM testing of MPI support in clusters. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- none Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 9 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ NA2: 0% NA3: 0% SA1: Task2: Core central grid services: 20% Task5: User support system: 10% Task7: Logging and accounting system: 10% Task8: Validation and certification of production sites: 60% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 26 sites in project 14 sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 918 cpus (average) 47TB of SE

Konstantin Skaburskas

Konstantin Skaburskas May, 2007 Major work for Health-e-Child; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Servers for IGG hospital arrived at CERN. Work conducted by WP14 team: installations, configurations and testings. As a result of the above an automated remote installation procedure was devised: http://hec-maat-server1.cern.ch/hec/ks/CERN/ Can easily be adapted for DVD based installation. Procedure and code were devised/written by me with minor additions from Jordi, Jorge (Maat). - Help with finalization of firewalling for Maat servers at CERN - Helped with resolving problems with certificates for UWE site - Help with starting of deployment at DISI - proposing possible configurations for their site Major work for <GD-OPS; GD-ITR>; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Helped to resolve problems with KickStart file for PPS host installation - FTS2.0 - upgrade - debugging problems with DB upgrade - addition of new transfer channels to support SRMv2 sites - support ATLAS transfers via this FTS instance - a number of bugs reported to FTS devel team - PPS gLite Updates 28, 29 on WMSLB, FTS, MONBox_e2emonit Major issues arising -------------------- - Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - signed for "CoreGRID Summer School 2007" Budapest, Hungary, 3-7 September, 2007. Will be giving a presentation about HeC. http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/css07 Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ * days 0 *TimeSheet for the month *17* ------------------------------------------------------------ WP5/T5.1 --% (1-6 M) DoWI WP5/T5.2 05% (1-9 M) (13-30 M) WP5/T5.3 --% (7-12 M) DoWI WP5/T5.4 --% (10-15 M) DoWI WP5/T5.5 --% (16-18 M) DoWI WP5/T5.6 30% (13-30 M) WP5/T5.7 --% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.8 --% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.9 00% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.1 10% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.2 55% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.3 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.4 --% (13-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.5 --% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.6 --% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.7 --% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.8 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.9 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0%

10 Dusan Vudragovic

Dusan Vudragovic May, 2007 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Documentation for WiatG tool - SEE-GRID helpdesk activities - Creating and testing SEE-GRID SAM test Oracle account at CERN Oracle DB - Collecting contributions from partners for D3.1b Infrastructure Deployment plan - Working on D3.1b Infrastructure Deployment plan - SEE-GRID SAM supporter This month I created documentation for WiatG tool for SEE-GRID. Together with Mihajlo (BA) I have tested possibilities of CERN's Oracle database usage in SEE-GRID SAM instance. Beside this I have collected contributions from SEE-GRID partners and started to work on Deliverable 3.1b – Infrastructure Deployment Plan. A part from this, I was occupied with standard SEE-GRID operational activities. Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - ROC on duty for one week (21-25 May) - SAM supporter for one week (14-18 May) - GOC Wiki SiteProblemsFollowUpFaq pages updates http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/SiteProblemsFollowUpFaq This month I spent one week as ROC operator on duty and one week more as SAM supporter. Also, I updated GOC wiki SiteProblemsFollowUpFaq pages for GD-OPS. Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting (CERN conferencing service, May 21) http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=16563 - SAM weekly meetings - IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings Beside weekly SAM and IT-GS-OPS meetings I attended WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting on May 21. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - wLCG/ EGEE Grid Operations Workshop in Stockholm Next month I will go to wLCG/ EGEE Grid Operations Workshop which will be held in Stockholm. Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ - 5 days Last month I was on holydays for 5 days. TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ - WP3 A3.1 100% All my activities can be characterized as WP3 A3.1 activities. Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ - 30 of sites in project - 12 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure - 938 of cpus - 22.65TB total SE