GridPP Technical Meeting

Friday 8 Dec 2017, 11:00 → 12:50 Europe/London

Virtual Only

Andrew McNab (University of Manchester), David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Fortnightly meeting for technical topics looking further ahead than the weekly ops meetings on Tuesdays. There are also dedicated storage group meeting on Wednesdays. Each topic can go beyond the nominal 5 minute slot whenever necessary.

Notes from GridPP technical Meeting

Compute

Tier 2 VAC registration in GOCDB seems to work and IC will circulate instructions and Glasgow will try it out.

 

Storage

Xrootd cache is being tested. We will have Alistair's talk afterChristmas.

 

Security.

David gave a summary of the security working working groups. There is a SOC meeting next Mon/Tuesday https://indico.cern.ch/event/676160/ there is a PIN but you need to ask David Crooks for this.

 

AoB

• GPUs should we have a UK workshop? Chris will  organise this in Feb/March.
• CAP are looking at having a general town meeting on computing. 
• The next HEPSYSMAN next 16 Jan in Glasgow looking for talks

 

 

11:00 → 11:20 Vac/vcycle registration

Speakers: Daniela Bauer (Imperial College (GB)), Simon Fayer (Imperial College (GB))

11:20 → 11:25 Tier-2 Evolution: Jobs in VMs

11:25 → 11:30 Tier-2 Evolution: Storage

Speakers: Alastair Dewhurst (STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)), Samuel Cadellin Skipsey

DynaFedCVMFS20171130.pdf

11:30 → 11:35 Development of GridPP services

e.g. the GridPP DIRAC service

11:35 → 11:40 Other updates from the Storage Group

11:40 → 11:45 Networking including IPv6

11:45 → 11:50 Security

Speaker: Ian Neilson (STFC RAL (GB))

11:50 → 11:55 AoB