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Alberto Di Meglio
(CERN)
Description
Conference Name: ETICS Technical Committee meeting
Recurrence: Every Thursday at 15:30 CET
Dial-in numbers: +41227676000 (Main)
Access code:
0126137 (Participant)
Participant site: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0126137
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Welcome and headcount
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Status reportsHighlights of the week, 5 minutes for each WP (NA2, SA1, SA2, JRA1, JRA2)
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a) NA2DISSEMINATION - Website: getting some feedback from developers at ENG for the re-organisation of the content LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY - Working on the definition of Long-Term Sustainability strategies which will then be discussed at AHM and be part of the DNA2.5. Working the document sent by Alberto it will be used as a working document. We will send a new version of it tomorrow. - Prepared a table of ETICS competitors with features, sent it to SA1 for contributions. - Working on a competitor analysis of ETICS as a certification tool service DELIVERABLES - Working on DNA2.5 (long-term sustainability strategy and activity report) and DNA2.6 (Dissemination and use of knowledge plan)
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b) SA1>>> Services - Tested and released client 1.4.4; with fixes for dynamically changing dynamic dependencies and other report formatting issues. - Preparing Client 1.4.5-1 with new options for building source packages as agreed with EGEE SA3 and JRA1. - ETICS 2.4.0 is under preparation. Will have YUM packaging and other improvements. With re-submission of jobs, for instance. - Some progress in implementing multi-package support, modification to the web servics, client and webapp ongoing. Is unclear how priority this are for gLite.... - Continue investigating how to instantiate a virtual machine on a grid WN. XEN and QENU will be the two platoform for virtualization. VMWARE seems to give problems of license and not installing it as root. Tested the conversion of vmdk disk-files from Qemu <=> Vmware <=> XEN. - Restarted on Submission Engines (discussion with Valerio) - Need to restart metrics plugins (at the AHM probably) - First metrics disseminator available for internal review but we should focues on A-QCM metrics and work with NA2. . >>> Infrastructure - Investigation of ETICS server/repository performance (AFS client reinstallations. We switched the etics3 and etics repositories. The problem seems solved. Was both afs cleint and wrog permissions. - Creating etics-deployment-server, etics-deployment-repository for etics_R_2_4_0_1 - Fixed mysql-shared-compat in etics_R_2_4_0_1 definition - Reinstallation of etics1-repository, etics2 - Backups cleaning with TSM service - Debugging the cross-site migration setup. It turns out that the Metronome v2.5.2b requires changes in order to operate with Condor required for cross-site migration. New version of Metronome will be provided by UoW >>> Deliverables - Updated DSA1.3 and sent it to A.Di Meglio, needs proof reading and submission to the PMB Resources: No changes. Dissemination and Training: No events this week. Planning: No news, but is urgent...
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c) SA2Support ------- - Andras/Andre'/Marco in shift. 4 GGUS tickets in, 2 solved, 1 pending, 1 escalated. - 2 request for externals blocked by the request tab problem. I don't know whether I will have the time to do this, with upcoming the deliverable. Infrastructure Integration Job Submission ------------------------------------------ - NMI submitter prototype deployed for testing. We are waiting for the network people to make the port available, and we'll pass the endpoint to Andres. - Working on the gLite submitter. Submission of a job that builds a component verified. Submit and get status operation implemented. Next steps are retrieving the output. - Andre' at CNAF yesterday, kickoff the unicore-submitter work. Andre' currently checking whether he's able to have access to a unicore deployment that is suitable for the testing. - Little modification to the service interface, discussing with Lorenzo about that. Deliverables ------------ - Started DSA2:4. Milestones ---------- - Nov 30th List of requirements to SA1 Further delayed. Foreseen Feb 13th. - Nov 30th VDT Furter delayed. - Jan 16th Deployment of NMI submitter for testing Delayed. Postponed due to deliverable emergency. A glite-submitter and an nmi-submitter will be available for testing after the delievrable is completed. New Applications ---------------- - Installed a worker node at CNAF with GPFS, and attached to the nmi pool. Needed to buld storm. A build submitted.
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d) JRA1- Mainly working on cross-site submission, new machine needed as local submit node
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e) JRA2Deliverables Working hard on M12 deliverables. JRA2 has to produce two M12 deliverables. Internal review version is expected to be ready for the AHM. Implementation started to work on improving the searching capabilities of test tool registration process started to work on CLI implementation, especially the listing of available plugins, on demand download functionality of plugins, interpreting the workflow xml
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Next All-Hands meetingThe meeting will take place on Feb 18-20 with the usual format (afternoon, full day, morning). I will prepare a preliminary agenda to be discussed as soon as we come back from holidays. Please send me any ideas and proposals for disscussion, taking into account that we will dedicate most of the time to the review organization Agenda at: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=50799
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ETICS USIS (User Satisfaction Improvement Strategy)Improving user satisfaction about usage of the ETICS services is critical. ETICS is often perceived as slow and difficult to use. This is due to a number of factors: 1) Need for technical improvements in speed and usability 2) Disinformation or third-party rumours 3) General resistance to adopt 'procedures' We need to understand what to focus on and have a plan to address this issue as a combination of technical enhancements, training and dissemination. Where to start?
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AOB
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