RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

Europe/London
Access Grid (RAL R89)

Access Grid

RAL R89

Zoom Meeting ID
66811541532
Host
Alastair Dewhurst
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    • 13:30 13:34
      Site Operations 4m
    • 13:34 13:35
      Experiment Operational Issues 1m
    • 13:35 13:40
      ATLAS Operations Report 5m
      Speakers: Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • 13:40 13:45
      CMS Operations Report 5m
      Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

      Apologies, Katy is at CMS O&C management 3-day meeting.

      ARC-CE token SAM test failures again, this time possibly properly fixed by a downgrade in software version at the CMS end. 

      Reminder to self: Still to look at the /unmerged/ problem.

    • 13:45 13:50
      LHCb Operations Report 5m
      Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

      News:

      • Heavy Ion data distribution started
        • RAL is going to get ~650TB

       

      Operational issues:

      • High failure rate for MCSimulation jobs is still present
        • Incorrect CPU requirement from LHCb
          • Per-job CPU limits are set in DB-12 seconds (DB-12 is LHCb benchmark);
          • DB-12 was supposed to match HS06 some time ago, but it is no longer the case;
          • At RAL the difference between HS23 and DB12 is quite significant, more than at other sites (probably due to HyperThreading?), therefore we are more affected by this problem;
        • Would it be possible to expose HS23 value of the WN's cores somehow (e.g. via env variable)?
      • DRIAC FileCatalog issues last Thursday and Friday
        • Probably caused by some DB issues at CERN, though not verified yet
        • Resulted in lots of completed and failed jobs across the grid.
    • 13:50 13:55
      ALICE Operations Report 5m
      Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • 13:55 14:00
      LSST Operations Report 5m
      Speakers: Thomas Birkett, Timothy Noble (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
    • 14:00 14:01
      Tier-1 Projects 1m
    • 14:05 14:10
      XRootD Development 5m
      Speakers: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jyothish Thomas (STFC)
    • 14:15 14:20
      Utilizing GPUs 5m
      Speakers: Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Thomas Birkett
    • 14:25 14:45
      Hardware deployment 20m

      Echo SN
      WN
      GPU

      Speaker: Jacob Ward
    • 14:45 14:46
      AOB 1m
    • 14:50 14:59
      Summary of Operational Status and Issues 9m
      Speakers: Brian Davies (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Darren Moore, Thomas Birkett
    • 15:00 15:05
      Any other Business 5m
      Speakers: Brian Davies (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Darren Moore