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CERN, bat 2 R-014
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Production and PASTE Meeting, 9th March 2010, CERN
Chair: A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes: S.Paterson
CERN: J.Closier, E.Lanciotti, Z.Mathe, S.Paterson, V.Romanovski, R.Santinelli, A.C.Smith, F.Stagni
Phone: V.Fernandez, R.Nandakumar, M.Sapunov, A.Tsaregorodtsev
Apologies: P.Charpentier
0. Ongoing Action List
#10907 - Steer the CPU related activities in DIRAC, move to the HEP CPU units - Ricardo is pursuing the implementation of the new units.
#11163 - Site summary pages - Federico is confident that a prototype will be ready for the T1 jamboree, Matvey commented that a skeleton of the page is ready.
#13348 - Update downtime calendar to use GOCDB interface - Ongoing.
#13406 - Testing data access with xrootd protocol - just pending the v5r1 release.
#14213 - Web Portal Notifications handling - Ongoing.
1. Production Status Report
- LogSE
Joel commented that the new LogSE is available. Andrew mentioned that recent changes from Ricardo have broken the SE code and are difficult to spot due to lots of whitespace begin removed. Andrei wondered whether GridFTP can be installed on the LogSE to allow us to use this for future direct submission using CREAM CEs.
- Current productions
Most productions from last week have proceeded smoothly, 2 produced very small files that make merging to a given size quite difficult, these will be updated by hand. Roberto mentioned that Oracle stream replication was failing for a user added by hand at RAL. An intervention at CERN caused delays to the replication of information to PIC, spotted by the SAM test. Castor was updated at CERN yesterday, this went smoothly. Joel mentioned that the issue of providing an SQLDDDB version was raised at the Core software meeting and will be provided in the future, the request page should also take this into account.
2. DIRAC Release Update
- DIRAC v5r1 prerelease
The v5r1 release is still being prepared. Pre-release 3 is being prepared now and a full round of testing will be started.
3. DIRAC Tasks
- Infrastructure monitoring (SAM,SLS,Dashboard)
Several tests will be updated to use DIRAC components such that there is parity with production activities.
- Framework status
The system administrator was polished in preparation for the new web interface for this.
- Bookkeeping status
Zoltan started to write user documentation.
- WMS status
Only a few minor bug fixes since last week.
- Production Management status
Alexey has been working on the improvements to the request page. In order to run productions there are many many versions of packages that have to be specified (e.g. SQLDDDB, AppConfig, DecFiles, DDDB tags, CondDB tags). If this can be reduced (e.g. via not using v* in requirements files) it would greatly improve the production definition procedure.
- VO-boxes
The source of the VO-box document has been found and Andrei is updating it.
4. AOB
Raja raised the point from last week regarding SQUID software distribution, Andrei will add something about this in the VO-box document.
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