Activity of the month

Friday 30 Nov 2007, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

** DCM ** EGEE-3 – Bob Jones The following projects were invited for the hearings with the European Commission: EGEE-III, DEISA2, OMII-Europe-2, EELA2, ETICS-II and BalticGrid-II. The EGEE-III hearing was held on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd October in Brussels to answer the 9 questions we had received the week before. The team of 4 representatives from EGEE was: Bob Jones (project director), Ian Bird (head of SA1), Cal Loomis (head of NA4) and Aleksandar Belic (PMB chair). It was a very formal meeting that lasted only 1 hour. There were 20+ reviewers in the room as well as the EC representatives (Kyriakos Baxevanidis & Enric Mitjana). Following the presentation there were a number of further questions from the reviewers. These additional questions, which were on the same subjects as the original 9, had to be written down by the reviewers and passed to the chairman who then read them out. No dialog was possible with the reviewers and it was difficult to understand the meaning of some of the questions but we did answer all of them. Following the end of the questions we were escorted out of the building. Given the formality of the meeting it was difficult for us to assess the impact we made with the presentation and the answers to the additional questions. The next step is to receive the Evaluation Summary Report which we believe will arrive this week. Assuming EGEE-III is selected for funding, we should then receive a letter of invitation for negotiations during November. The Evaluation Summary Reports for EGEE-3 and ETICS-2 have now been received, which put both of these CERN projects in the top two positions. Wolfgang congratulated the two projects on this excellent result. After the meeting, it has been confirmed that EGEE-III and ETICS-2 were invited for a pre-negotiation meeting on the 19/20 November. Related projects – Frédéric Hemmer Based on the Evaluation Summary Reports received by the projects, Frédéric will update the summary paper to send to the DG next week. Tim Smith reported that the HEPIS project proposal (the Marie Curie replacement project) which was going through the “redress” procedure, has not been successful and the procedure will now be stopped. A separate proposal may be made to a different call.

1 Roberta Faggian Marque

DILIGENT press release D3.1.1c ToC and deadlines planning for the end of the project and final review activity study FP7 future perspective for DILIGENT service activities ExCom phone meetings RPLO meeting web pages update look into ITIL usage for RPs invitation of new CP to register revision of updated list of CP from RPLO database IPR meeting input to CP FAQ web page EGE-RP follow up hiring of new staff meeting with potential candidate section meeting planning responsibilites an actions during maternity leave set up Indico pages meeting with Angela

2 Pedro Andrade

WP1.2 (0) WP1.7 (0) WP1.8 (4) - executed and monitored the deployment tests for integration build 0.3.0 - maintained the deployment testing infrastructure running RF services - updated of RF tasks in Savane - started the contribution to D1.8.2 - meeting with Meb about ETICS co-scheduling WP3.1 (11) - monitored the of status of DILIGENT sites in EGEE PPS - D3.1.1 prepared TOC and deadlines, wrote new chapter 4, updated chapter 1 - updated and reviewed the SAPIR data challenge press release WP4.2 (1) - prepared an abstract about gCube for an oral presentation at EGEE UF3 WP4.3 (0) Other (4) - meeting with EC (Campolargo and Mitjana) to explain EGEE and DILIGENT tools and videos - support to the EC people (Campolargo and Mitjana) about a problem in the Real Time Monitoring tool - discussed with Bob, Frederic and Donatella about meeting with EC people - prepared the Final Review and D4Science kick-off meetings with Roberta - end of fellow contract appraisal: wrote the appraisal report - discussed with Roberta the structure of D4S DSA1.1 Holidays (2) - 08 full day - 09 full day Last Update - 30 Oct

3 Alexandre Duarte

Alexandre Duarte November, 2007 Major work for EELA; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * SAM Maintenance * EELA Grid Operation * Wrote three papers for the 3rd EELA Conference * Helped with the preparation of the answers for the EELA 2 Hearing * Writing the DoW for the EELA 2 Major work for GD-OPS major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * ROC on Duty ( from the 5th to the 9th and from the 19th to the 23rd of November) Major issues arising -------------------- Contract ending in December. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Weekly SAM Team Meetings and Section Meetings EGEE WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations Meetings 5th and 22th of November) Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd EELA Conference in Catania (3rd to the 5th of December) Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 day TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP2/T2.1 30% WP2/T2.3.1 20% WP2/T2.3.2 10% Wp4/T4.2: 40% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project - 22 # of cpus - 1700 total SE 70 TB ************************************************************

Konstantin Skaburskas

Konstantin Skaburskas November, 2007 Major work for Health-e-Child; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- WP5/T5.2 20% (1-9 M) (13-30 M) - Investigated new VOMS Java API to be included to HeC G/W - Helped to HeC CA to come up with an optimal set of X.509v3 extensions for grid host certificates. New certificates compliant with OGF specification will be issued from now on for HeC hosts. - Meeting with all members of UWE team on the topic - "UWE grid site". Presented all "pros and contras" and relevant technical details of having and operating a gLite-based grid site. 15th November 2007. - Constantly populating HeC TWiki with new information. WP5/T5.6 45% (13-30 M) - Tested new VOMS release on SL4 to be deployed on HeC. This bug https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?31068 does not allow to configure the service for HeC. Waiting for official fix. - Configured three SAM submission frameworks on one physical server for tests submission to three HeC infrastructures: PDI, PREPROD, PROD. See: https://hec-maat-server1.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HeCWPs/MWMonit - Started regulars tests submission to PDI and PREPROD sites. See: https://hec-maat-server15.cern.ch/sam-pdi/sam.py WP5/T5.7 00% (18-30 M) - - WP5/T5.8 15% (18-30 M) - Provided an extended overview (for project members) of gLite Workload Management System and Local Resource Management System configurations to address problems related to short deadline jobs. WP5/T5.9 00% (13-30 M) - - WP14/T14.1 05% (13-30 M) - Helped to set up proper firewall policies for HeC G/W WP14/T14.2 10% (13-30 M) - Resolving time synchronization and other small problems for UoA site WP14/T14.5 00% (18-30 M) - - WP14/T14.6 05% (18-30 M) - Obtained guidelines from Jerome Revillard on deployment of the latest versions of HeC G/W. WP14/T14.7 00% (18-30 M) - - Major work for "GD-OPS; GD-ITR"; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- OPS: - CERN_PPS site upgrades/administration SAM: - nothing useful only prioritization of tasks was done. Major issues arising -------------------- - Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - "HeC Meeting" on 12-13 Oct 2007 - "WLCG Service Reliability Workshop" on 28,29 Oct 2007 Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ * days 0 *TimeSheet for the month *00* ------------------------------------------------------------ WP5/T5.1 --% (1-6 M) DoWI WP5/T5.2 20% (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 45% (13-30 M) WP5/T5.7 00% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.8 15% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.9 00% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.1 05% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.2 10% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.3 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.4 --% (13-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.5 00% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.6 05% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.7 00% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.8 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.9 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0%

4 Rolandas Naujikas

Rolandas Naujikas 11, 2007 Major work for BalticGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- SAM/FCR maintenance. VU-MIF-LCG2 all quattor templates namespaced. VOMS server (litgrid/gamess VO) problems solving, host certificate upgrade. Host certificate upgrade on others services (grid2/grid3.mif.vu.lt). glite-WMSLB (wms.mif.vu.lt) /var full - solved by clearing and moving to bigger file system. SAM server - top BDII and glite UI installed from 3.1 repository for SL4. Major work for CERN; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrades in CERN_PPS. Managing CERN's WMS/RBs. Major issues arising -------------------- 2 sites removed from EGEE production. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- None Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Balticgrid AHM4, 12-14 December, 2007 Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ None TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ NA2: 0% NA3: 0% SA1: Task2: Core central grid services: 60% Task5: User support system: 20% Task7: Logging and accounting system: 10% Task8: Validation and certification of production sites: 10% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 26 sites in project 12 sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 1119 cpus (average) 49TB of SE

5 Domenico Vicinanza

Domenico Vicinanza November, 2007 Major work for EUMEDGRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Preparing for the EUMEDGRID project conclusion (reports and statistics, documents) - SAM Server maintainance: -- Oracle XE database maintainance: database cleanup, updated structure, table reconstruction. -- Test Criticality Level: Restored production-like tests criticality level - Updated SAM CA test on the SAM client, to be compatible to the latest CA release. - Started procedure to certify and put in production the Malta EUMEDGRID node - WP3 (Infrastructure and support) activities: o Continuing following up troubleshooting with 4 CEs failing job submission tests o Working together with WP3 people and site admins (INFN Bari, INFN Pisa e SNS-Italy) to remove from the BDII some sites wrongly registered as part of the EUMEDGRID VO - WP4 (Applications) activities: o Software updates (ASTRA libraries and main program) - Support to site administrators Major work for GD-OPS; GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Test Documentation: -- First release of the VO-specific tests documentation completed and published. The document "SAM VO-Specific Tests Documentation" manual is available here: http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/htmldocs/MANVOTestsDoc/ (HTML), http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/MANVOTestsDoc.pdf (PDF) -- CERN ROC website maintenance (documentation added, updates to ROC procedures): http://egee-roc-cern.web.cern.ch/egee-roc-cern/ -- Prepared a SAM Manual for CERN ROC users: http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/htmldocs/MANROCUserManual/ (HTML) and http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/MANROCUserManual.pdf (PDF) - SAM Integration of new tests: -- Continuing following up the integration of Nikhef PoC tests (PoC is a software distribution of scientific oriented software, built for a bunch of dutch VOs in various science fields under the 'Virtual Lab for e-Science' umbrella) Tests results currently publishing result on the validation database: https://lxn1181.cern.ch:8443/sam-val/sam.py) and in the Nikhef SAM Server. Support to local admins to install and configure the server - SAM Support (GGUS) - CERN ROC On duty (GGUS and Remedy support) Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Team and IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings - CERN ROC Meetings Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------ Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 7.5 day TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.2 and 3.3 80% WP4/A4.2 and 4.3 20% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project: 14 (11 Countries, 8 Mediterranean Countries) # of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure: 5 # of CPUs: 1856 (total number, free 335 on Nov. 27th) total SE: 11 total CE: 11 total gCE: 0 (it has been deprecated) total RB: 6 total gRB: 2 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 0 Storage available: 59 TByte ************************************************************

6 Florida Estrella

Nov07 HeC Review QR7 file G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE\EUProposals_march2005\Health-e-child\Activity_Documents\QR\7\7-QR_draft1_301007_at.doc updated QR7 WP5 http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=23873 Upload october timesheet Wireless authorization, UoA WP5 QR7 input sent to David WP14 QR7 input sent to David files are here http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23873 Discussion fellowhsip post for Konstantin SEE-GRID-2 Contribution to the 6th 3M report sent to Valia, cc Dita https://edms.cern.ch/cedar/plsql/doc.info?cookie=7031933&document_id=879507&version=1 CA received, FH forwarded to Svet, deadline 30Nov07 BalticGrid Update of timesheet for 8Q - Aug-Sept-Oct07 Preparation of the 8Q ICC file is G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE\EUProposals_march2005\BalticGRID\Activity_Documents\Finance\CC\P2\BG-ICC-R1Q8-partnerCERN.xls sent to inger ICC and timesheets http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23428 password bgicc Participation in PMB 14Nov07 minutes http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23941 Review of D2.6 Dissemination Report, comments sent to Zofia & Robert file is here https://edms.cern.ch/cedar/plsql/doc.info?cookie=7080938&document_id=882493&version=1 Review, edit DoW-II/Update of Annex1 ===== http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=23991 password bga1. I have made corrections on pages 4,21,29,31,32,61,88 - all CERN related. I took the opportunity to update the CERN description and also replaced Markus with Frederic. I have noted that tables15-16 (pages 31-32) and tables 30-31 (pages 61-62) are identical. Also I recall that the security head was/will be removed? If yes, then further edits need to be done as there are several references to the security head in the document. ===== BalticGrid/BalticGrid-2 brief for FH for info meeting in Brussels 19-20Nov file is https://edms.cern.ch/file/882581/1/BG_InformationMeetingBrussels_19-20Nov07.doc BalicGrid PMB 21Nov minutes http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24214 EUMEDGRID Upload october timesheet Review of QR7 Participation in the EUMEDGRID workshop, EUMEDGRID PMB trip report: <> EUCHINAGRID Upload October timesheet Review of QR7 EELA Upload October timesheet Prepare travel arrangements for Duarte, EELA conference Complete EELA survey, sent AD,FE surveys to Leandro file here: G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE\EUProposals_march2005\EELA\Activity_Documents\Survey Review of Lanxin's EUChinaGrid paper to the EELA conference FP7 Call2 1.2.3 Country participation excel, as requested by bob G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP7\Projects\_Call-Sept2007\Call2-1.2.3-CountryParticipation CAll2 ESR summaries G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP7\Projects\_Call-Sept2007\Call2 ESRs - including OMII-EU-2.eml FP7 Grant and CA meeting with Angela, slides copied for Juergen & Alberto. PoW input to Bob and Frederic, file in G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE-II\RPLO\Events\PoW2007\PoW07-RP-FH.ppt FP7-Call2-Project Description- for SG, file in G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP7\Projects\_Call-Sept2007\FP7-Call2-ProjDesc-CERNSG.doc Update May08 active project summaries for AC/EGEE-III files: G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE-II\Related Projects\LOS EGEE - other projects\Summary\EGEE-III Related Projects_v7 G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE-II\Related Projects\LOS EGEE - other projects\Summary\Tables_CollabProjects_FP7Projects_221107 RPLO 09Nov meeting minutes http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23694 21Nov meeting minutes and RPLO weekly peb report http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24216 Documents sent to PEB for meeting 22nov07 files: G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE-II\RPLO\Documents\InputTo-EGEE-PEB\EGEE-II-RP-Nov07 G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\Projects\EGEE-II\RPLO\Documents\InputTo-EGEE-PEB\BG-SGSCI-EELA2-JRA GridTalk GridTalk brief sent to FH https://edms.cern.ch/file/882581/1/GridTalk_InformationMeetingBrussels_19-20Nov07.doc GridTalk GPF docs sent to Sarah, link http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24212 EGEE-II Read MNA5.3.2: “Progress report on International Cooperation Activities”: Others End of project summary report, template available at G:\Departments\IT\Projects\FP6\OfficialDocs\All_RPs\General_Docs\Status\EndOfProjectSummaryReport-PROJECTNAME sent to EELA, EUMEDGRID, EUCHINAGRID FH-RP matters -Angela/TT

7 Lanxin Ma

Paper Grid_Monitoring_in_the_EUChinaGrid_infrastructure-final-v2.doc Grid_Monitoring_in_the_EUChinaGrid_infrastructure-final-v2.pdf

Lanxin Ma November. 2007 Major work for EUchinaGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Wrote and submitted a paper "Grid Monitoring in the EUChinaGrid infrastructure" to the 3rd EELA conferece in Catania, Italy, 3rd-5th Dec. 2007 2. Prapering my talk at the 3rd EELA conference 3. EUChina SAM did not work for a long time since the harddisk for oracle DB was broken. I have re-setup SAM, SAM back to work - Re-created and configured oracle DB - Upgrade SAM server to date and re-configured it - Upgrade CA in SAM server to the latest version - Upgrade SAM clients for euchina vo and dteam vo to date - Re-setup cron job to submit test jobs - During seting up SAM, I encountered UI & RB problem, I contacted with the admin in IHEP. After fixing the UI & RB problem, SAM could work properly. 4. Prapering EUChinaGrid project summary report 5. EUChina operation support 6. Submitted and processed tickets according to the results of monitoring 7. EUChinaGrid infrastructure troubshooting and grid control Major work for ; major changes in workplan --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. VOMRS maintenance & troubleshooting in LCG production server 2. VOMRS user support, Process user's requests, problems & tickets(GGUS) 3. Test vomrs-1.3-1e with SLC4 and voms-admin-2.0.8-1. Test plan and report are https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/VOMSTesting 4. Updated vorms bug https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?31188 5. VOMRS FAQ about "How a VO admin delete a group" at http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/VOMRS_FAQ 6. PPS-BDII manage and upgrades in CERN_PPS weekly. 7. roc-wms, UI, roc-bdii mantaince and upgrade 8. ROC SAM test mantaince 9. PPS support, answer problem report in Remedy and GGUS about pps server Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- IT-GD-OPS weekly meeting WLCG workshop Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.3 100% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 12 of sites in project ~2000 of total cpus (Gstat) total SE: 14 total CE: 11 total RB: 4 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 1 total GridICE: 12 ************************************************************

8 Dusan Vudragovic

Dusan Vudragovic November, 2007 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Update of the wiki page which describes simple httpd-SSL integration and DN-based authentication http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/Simple_Apache-SSL_integration_and_DN-based_authentication - Savanna bugs regarding missing information in SAM programmatic interface https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?31695 https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?31696 - Savannah bug regarding SAM CE test submission through WMS https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?31801 - Minutes from SEE-GRID-2 PSC06 http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=22561 - SEE-GRID helpdesk activities During the month I have updated wiki page which describes Apache-SSL integration and DN-based authentication (http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/Simple_Apache-SSL_integration_and_DN-based_authentication) in the section Web Authentication and Authorization of the SEE-GRID Gridification Guide (http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/SG_Gridification_Guide) with useful examples of usage. I have opened two Savannah bugs regarding missing information in SAM programmatic interface. First of them (https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?31695) is opened because the previous SAM PI (http://lcg-sam.cern.ch:8080/sqldb/last_service_status_per_site.xsql?vo_name='OPS) contains the last submission time tag as a part of the content. This is not the case with a new version of PI that contains actual time in <ServiceMetric abbreviation="SS"> tag (http://lcg-sam.cern.ch:8080/same-pi/service_endpoint_status.jsp?VO_name=OPS), so it should be changed with last submission time. Second (https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?31696) is opened because some of the service tags (VOMS, MyProxy, gRB,…) at SAM PI (http://lcg-sam.cern.ch:8080/same-pi/service_endpoint_status.jsp?VO_name=OPS) doesn’t contain <ServiceMetric abbreviation="SS"> tag. Another Savannah bug (https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?31801) is opened due to problem with SAM CE test submission through WMS. SAM CE test submitted through RB and WMS doesn't retrieve equal values of SAME_WORK variable. In other words, SAME_WORK is not subdirectory of SAME_HOME, so SAM job doesn't use only the temporary assigned directory, but the one above as well. In that way the files are left on the WN after the job is finished. In the same ticket explanation of the problem and solution are given. Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - ROC on Duty for one week (November 5-12) - Minutes from WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting (November 5) http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23372 - List of tickets that should be discussed at November 7 Morning meeting http://egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/ROC_CERN/CERN-PROD_tickets/CERN-tickets-20071106.xls I spend one week of November as CERN ROC operator. As a part of this activity I wrote minutes from WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting on November 5 (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=23372). I prepared the list of tickets that should be discussed at Morning meetings on November 7 (http://egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/ROC_CERN/CERN-PROD_tickets/CERN-tickets-20071106.xls). Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - SEE-GRID-2 Sarajevo event (November 21-22) - Morning meeting (November 7) - WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting (November 5) - SAM weekly meetings - IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings Beside weekly SAM and IT-GS-OPS meetings I attended SEE-GRID-2 Sarajevo event on November 21-22, Morning meetings on November 7 and WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting on November 5. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ No holidays TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3 A3.1 100% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 35 of sites in project 12 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 1184 of cpus 50TB total SE