WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations meeting

Europe/Zurich
28-R-15 (CERN conferencing service (joining details below))

28-R-15

CERN conferencing service (joining details below)

Description
grid-operations-meeting@cern.ch
Weekly OSG, EGEE, WLCG infrastructure coordination meeting.
We discuss the weekly running of the production grid infrastructure based on weekly reports from the attendees. The reported issues are discussed, assigned to the relevant teams, followed up and escalated when needed. The meeting is also the forum for the sites to get a summary of the weekly WLCG activities and plans
Attendees:
  • OSG operations team
  • EGEE operations team
  • EGEE ROC managers
  • WLCG coordination representatives
  • WLCG Tier-1 representatives
  • other site representatives (optional)
  • GGUS representatives
  • VO representatives
  • To dial in to the conference:
    a. Dial +41227676000
    b. Enter access code 0140768

    OR click HERE

    NB: Reports were not received in advance of the meeting from:

  • ROCs: Italy, North Europe, Russia, SouthWestern, South Eastern
  • VOs: CMS, LHCb and ALICE
  • Minutes
      • 16:00 16:00
        Feedback on last meeting's minutes
      • 16:01 16:30
        EGEE Items 29m
        • <big> Grid-Operator-on-Duty handover </big>
          From: Central Europe / France
          To: Taiwan / CERN


          Issues: No report given.
        • <big> PPS Report & Issues </big>
          PPS reports were not received from these ROCs:
          AP, CE, IT, NE, RU, SEE, SWE

          Issues from EGEE ROCs:
          1. No issues reported

          Release News:
          1. gLite3.1.0-PPS-UPDATE13, has been released to PPS, has passed the pre-deployment tests and it is currently being deployed at the PPS sites.
            Details, release notes and test reports available as usual in www.cern.ch/pps/index.php?dir=./release/
        • <big> EGEE issues coming from ROC reports </big>
          1. Central Europe
          2. Germany-Switzerland.
            • According to GSSDCCRCBaseVersions sites are expected to deploy certain service releases by early February for CCRC08. Some of them are still in certification. What are the expected timelines? Will some of these services (e.g. LFC) be fast tracked to production? Any reason put forward by the experiments why they need those particular updates?
        • <big> gLite Release News</big>
          1. gLite 3.1 update 10 released today:
            • See gLite 3.1 updates for exact details.
            • 3 new gLite 3.1 services - glite-AMGA , glite-PX and glite-VOBOX.
            • New glite-WN with gfal and lcg-utils in particular.
            • Updated glite-FTM
            • Yaim
            • SL4 VO Box: all implementations of this VO Box for Alice must be coordinated with Alice.
      • 16:30 17:00
        WLCG Items 30m
        • <big> WLCG issues coming from ROC reports </big>
        • <big>WLCG Service Interventions (with dates / times where known) </big>
          Link to CIC Portal (broadcasts/news), scheduled downtimes (GOCDB) and CERN IT Status Board

          Time at WLCG T0 and T1 sites.

        • <big>FTS service review</big> 5m

          None again this week, relavent staff still on leave.

          Speakers: Gavin McCance (CERN), Steve Traylen
        • <big> ATLAS service </big>
          See also https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/TierZero20071 and https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/ComputingOperations for more information.

          1. Nothing special to report except the status of items raised previous week, especially about BNL failing SAM SE/SRM critical tests.
        • <big>CMS service</big>
          • Item 1
          Speaker: Mr Daniele Bonacorsi (CNAF-INFN BOLOGNA, ITALY)
        • <big> LHCb service </big>
          • Item 1
          Speaker: Dr roberto santinelli (CERN/IT/GD)
        • <big> ALICE service </big>
          • Item 1
          Speaker: Dr Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)
        • <big> WLCG Service Coordination </big>
          • Item 1
          Speaker: Harry Renshall / Jamie Shiers
      • 17:00 17:30
        OSG Items 30m
        Speaker: Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University)
      • 17:30 17:35
        Review of action items 5m
      • 17:35 17:35
        AOB
        1. Item 1