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CERN, bat 2 R-030
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Production and PASTE Meeting, 18th November 2008, CERN
Chair: A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes: S. Paterson
CERN: A.Casajus, P.Charpentier, J.Closier, Z.Mathe, S.Paterson, R.Santinelli, M.Sapunov, A.C.Smith, A.Tsaregorodtsev, A.Zhelezov
Phone: R.Graciani
Apologies:
0. Ongoing Action List
(07) - 27/11/07 - Zoltan, Elisa - Ongoing new bookkeeping system development. Migration plan
(57) - 24/06/08 - Vladimir,Roberto - Automatic publishing of BDII / GOCDB information in the CS using GOCDB site names and provide a summary of recent changes
(82) - 01/09/08 - Andrei/Adri - to provide information from Accounting and WMS to allow GridMap for LHCb VO T1 activity
(83) - 01/09/08 - Stuart,Roberto - To perform glexec tests
(90) - 09/09/08 - Joel - Use new ProductionOutputData JDL parameter in modules instead of creating LFNs
(93) - 16/09/08 - Andrew - Improve RAW data monitoring tools and status of files in online runDB
(94) - 23/09/08 - Roberto, Marcos - Using SystemLogging service for dynamic services status monitoring
(95) - 23/09/08 - Roberto - SLS and SAM sensors development, upgrade SE tests with new DMS unit test
(96) - 23/09/08 - Roberto, Matvey - Dashboard SAM tests visualization, porting to DIRAC framework (pending deployment in production)
(106) - 30/09/08 - Ricardo - Produce twiki documentation for dirac-install
(107) - 30/09/08 - Ricardo,Philippe,Joel,Hubert,MarcoC - Produce proposal for how to perform standardised installation using install_project/CMT
(109) - 14/09/08 - Matvey,Andrew - Expose DataLogging interface on the web page
(111) - 14/09/08 - Philippe,Alexei,Andrei - Productions with file merging implementation
(113) - 21/10/08 - Ricardo, Adri - Document the CS procedures for both the mechanism to define authorization rules in DIRAC and also the current group properties
(115) - 21/10/08 - Vladimir,Matvey - Update SAM Agent to monitor and manage submitted jobs and publish results for faulty CEs to the SAM DB
(116) - 18/11/08 - Ricardo - Circulate a report on the recent Gauss CPU studies, steer the CPU related activities in DIRAC
(117) - 18/11/08 - Ricardo - Add a site attribute to reflect whether generic pilots are accepted there, update the Director
(118) - 19/11/08 - Joel - Request increased swap space for volhcb09 and announce when available
Completed Actions:
Done - (103) - 23/09/08 - Paul, Stuart - produce structured HTML version of the Shifter's guide
1. Action Updates
- Action(07) - Prototype Bookkeeping
Zoltan commented that a lot of feedback had been received from the physicists for the BK GUI. Philippe suggested to
gather all the suggestions prior to implementing the changes. Andrei mentioned it might be appropriate to use a
Savannah task list for this. The list of BK ports
- Action(57) - Automatic publishing of BDII / GOCDB information in the CS
Ongoing.
- Action(82) - Provide accounting information to allow GridMap for LHCb VO T1 activity
Adri has provided the necessary information from the Data Management side, for the WMS this is also done. The
long-standing issue of how to provide efficient measurements of CPU time across the Grid (without benchmarking
information for each WN) was raised. After some discussion it was agreed that Ricardo should circulate a report of his
recent Gauss studies. ( ACTION: Ricardo )
- Action(83) - gLexec tests
Stuart reported that the GDB report went well, ATLAS seemed to have the same desire for gaining experience with the
system. Philippe suggested to firstly ensure that the pilot role is available at all sites and then perform full-scale
tests. Ricardo was asked to add an attribute for each site reflecting the status with respect to generic pilots. (
ACTION: Ricardo ) The certification team have asked for a real test and Stuart will endeavour to provide them with a
nicely wrapped tool as soon as possible.
- Action(86) - Document job finalization policy
Ongoing.
- Action(90) - Production Output Data parameter
Ongoing.
- Action(93) - Improve RAW data monitoring tools and status of files in online runDB
Ongoing.
- Action(94),(95) - Service Monitoring
Andrew suggested using the DataManagement FTS monitor as a guinea pig for the SystemLogging service. Roberto
summarized the recent SAM updates, the CondDB test will shortly be made critical. The LFC replication and Tier-1
LFC instance testing are underway. There is an ongoing migration of tests to SRM v2 in the SE suite.
- Action(96) - Dashboard
Matvey has deployed this in development, action retained until in production.
- Action(106) - Ricardo - Produce twiki documentation for dirac-install
Ongoing, being prepared.
- Action(107) - Produce proposal for how to perform standardised installation using install_project/CMT
Ricardo will be coming to CERN in a couple of weeks to discuss the outstanding issues.
- Action(109) - Expose DataLogging interface on the web page
Ongoing.
- Action(115)
Matvey was added to this action point in order to check the progress with Vladimir.
2. Production Status Report
- Report from the Production meeting
Stuart commented that the FEST merging module is in CVS and the production is in the system. Joel has resubmitted
the ParticleGun (after solving the SubProcess buffer size issue) and lumi5 stripping for DC06.
- v4r1 release
Andrei remarked that this is still under preparation, the production machine was temporarily reverted to the earlier
release but Adri has already committed the fix causing the problem so will be replaced.
- Memory management on volhcb09
After some discussions at the Production Operations meeting Joel was asked for increasing the swap space on
volhcb09 to 8GB. ( ACTION: Joel )
3. DIRAC3 Tasks
Discussions are taking place during the DIRAC3 week.
4. AOB
Andrei checked that everyone submitted their CHEP abstracts as expected (this was the case by a show of hands).
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