LT2 Technical Support Group

Monday 5 Nov 2007, 14:30 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

532 Blackett Lab (Imperial College London)

David Colling

The meeting will be reachable by phone conference at 0845 862 0333 pin: 963852

Present: * IC: M. Aggarwal * IC-LESC: K. Sephton * UCL: G. Sciacca * QMUL: G.Mazza * RHUL/BRUNEL: Duncan Rand Apologies: * LHCB: Raja [status via email] * CMS : Stuart[status via email] 1. Site Status * IC-HEP & IC-LESC & IC-ICT -- MA: Problems with LeSC accounting. -- MA: Looking at IC-ICT problem with (ATLAS & LHCB) jobs. -- KS: IC-LeSC (Viking cluster SAM test problems) -- single certificate expired error -- lcg-rm tests time out issue. -- KS: New accounts for production jobs for (VOs) will be created soon. Ongoing issue with atlasprd jobs. * UCL-HEP & UCL-CCC -- GS: UCL-HEP -- Maradona Error. Problems with copying output from CE to RB. -- Ongoing DPM problem. -- GS: UCL-CCC -- No information. * QMUL -- GM: Some WN's removed from the cluster. -- GM: More information required for SGE cluster running no shared home directories. -- KS: LIP and spain sites are using epilogue scripts to copy data. He will provide more information. -- GM: Atlas issue with memory at QMUL fixed. -- GM: CMS jobs are not running at QMUL. DR: New installation of CMS software required. * RHUL & BRUNEL -- DR: RHUL - Network disk problem is fixed. Rates observered around 20MB/s. -- DR: CMS problem ongoing. -- DR: SAM test problem due to SE issues. Reconfigured SE (BDII) but still not advertising disk space etc. -- DR: BRUNEL -- Nothing much to report. 2. Experiment problems/issues (If there any) * ATLAS -- No info. * CMS -- Stuart: The overall status is that we are waiting on central cms software installations. For individual sites: we are still seeing the problem with transfer quality at RHUL. In fact after a period of quite good running the quality had decreased again. * LHCb -- Raja: Nothing happening in LHCb.We are looking into the SAM-test problem seen by Duncan. It is also seen at Bristol. * Others: -- None 3. Open tickets & Action List -- No tickets open. -- All Actions: Open DC: Update Olivier's information on GOC database etc. DR: set up LFC for LT2 VO, with help from Mona KS: To provide epilogue scripts for SGE cluster running no shared home directories. All: * Check APEL accounting info * All LT2 sites add Supernemo (VO)

14:30 → 14:35 Site Status

* IC-HEP & IC-LeSC * UCL-HEP && UCL-CC * QMUL * RHUL * BRUNEL

14:35 → 14:40 Open tickets & Action List

14:40 → 14:45 Experiment problems/issues (If there any)

Atlas CMS LHCB Others

14:45 → 14:47 Dteam meeting representive this week