Middleware Readiness WG

Mandate

  • To help ensure that operations won't suffer when a site upgrades to version X of Middleware (MW) package Y, i.e. that versions are not only tested and certified internally by the Product Teams (PT), validated by the EGI staged rollout but also ready to be used in operation at the sites, integrated into the experiment workflows to the extent needed.
  • The Working Group (WG) concentrates on WLCG sites in EGI, as the OSG sites are run in close collaboration with the LHC experiment US projects which advise on the software to be deployed. Potential OSG-EGI interoperability issues should be reported to the MW Officer and/or WLCG Operations Coordination.

Members

See the members of the e-group wlcg-ops-coord-wg-middleware.

JIRA tracker

The MWREADY tracker. Alternative Dashboard view.

Baseline Versions

WLCGBaselineVersions

Products

The list of candidate products for MW Readiness Validation will change over time, depending various factors.

Product Contact Test Repository Production Repository Used by which experiment Comments
dCache P. Fuhrmann same as prod repo dCache site + UMD All  
StoRM A. Ceccanti same as prod repo StoRM site + UMD ATLAS, CMS, LHCb  
EOS A. Peters , L Mascetti same as prod repo yum repos All ATLAS tests via Hammercloud
xrootd A. Hanushevsky
G. Ganis (vomsxrd plugin)
EPEL testing EPEL stable All  
DPM O. Keeble EPEL testing EPEL stable All  
FTS3 A. Manzi EPEL testing EPEL stable ATLAS, CMS, LHCb  
VOMS client A. Ceccanti same as prod repo VOMS site + UMD + MAVEN for java stuff All  
HTCondor Tim Theisen (HTCondor), Tim Cartwright (OSG Middleware), Rob Quick (OSG Ops) downloads (Development Release) downloads (Stable Release) All CMS position: The testing that OSG and in particular the glideinWMS developers do, is enough.
ATLAS position here
CVMFS J.Blomer, D.Dykstra here disabled by default cvmfs site All Release procedure.
D.Dykstra runs the OSG tests.
ARC CE Balazs.Konya (hep.lu.se) EPEL testing (but also final tags in OS-specific repos) & ARC own repos for yum & apt release candidates Nordugrid web site, includes prod and test variants All Puppet code
CREAM CE
EL7, SL6
M. Verlato UMD Preview UMD All  
Argus A. Ceccanti Argus site, UMD Preview UMD All  
UI   UMD Preview UMD All  
WN   UMD Preview UMD All Puppet code
DM clients A. Manzi, O.Keeble EPEL testing EPEL stable Atlas, CMS, LHCb  

Experiment workflows

ALICE and LHCb have not had the resources to participate in these efforts.

Volunteer Sites

Volunteer Site Experiment VO Middleware product to test Contact Comments
TRIUMF ATLAS dCache SE Simon Liu, Di Qing  
NDGF-T1 ATLAS dCache SE    
Edinburgh ATLAS DPM SE Robert Currrie  
IN2P3-LAPP ATLAS DPM Frederique Chollet  
QMUL ATLAS StoRM SE Daniel Traynor  
INFN-T1 ATLAS StoRM SE Daniele Cesini  
Napoli ATLAS CREAM CE Alessandra Doria  
CERN ATLAS, CMS, LHCb FTS3 Andrea Manzi  
CERN CMS EOS Luca Mascetti  
PIC CMS dCache Antonio Perez-Calero  
GRIF_LLR CMS CREAM CE/WN, DPM Andrea Sartirana  
Legnaro CMS CREAM CE Massimo Sgaravatto  
Brunel CMS ARC CE Raul Lopes  

Procedure Guidelines

  • The validation of a new version will need to have a deadline in practice.
  • A new version may get deployed independently e.g. to fix ongoing issues.

Actions for the experiments

  • The experiment writes and maintains a document with concrete instructions to the Volunteer sites on how to configure their parallel infrastructure for readiness verification through designated workflows.

Actions for the Volunteer Sites

  • Set up an environment where new versions of the chosen MW can be quickly deployed, in order to be validated by the supported experiment(s). This will typically be parallel to the production infrastructure, but this is not a strict requirement.

WLCG MW Officer Tasks

See WLCGMWOfficerTasks.

The MW Officer can be reached through the wlcg-middleware-officer e-group.

Archive

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