PASTE meeting

Tuesday 30 Mar 2010, 09:30 → 13:15 Europe/Zurich

2-R-014 (CERN)

Andrei Tsaregorodtsev

CERN, bat 2 R-014 To join the telephone conference, click here: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0165202 To dial in to the conference: a. Dial +41 22 7676000 b. Enter access code 0165202

Production and PASTE Meeting, 30th March 2010, CERN

Chair:  A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes:  S.Paterson

CERN: J.Closier, Z.Mathe, R.Nandakumar, S.Paterson, M.Rashid, R.Santinelli, F.Stagni

Phone: E.Lanciotti, A.Tsaregorodtsev

Apologies:   P.Charpentier, R.Graciani, V.Romanovski, M.Sapunov, A.C.Smith


0. Ongoing Action List

#11163 - Site summary pages - Federico is receiving feedback about the site summary prototype and formulating a plan of action.
#11223 - Demonstrate pilot submission through the CREAM CE - the next step is to integrate the CREAM CE submission in the WMS pilot agents submission framework.
#12165 - Formulate hardware metrics and actions for VO-box lemon sensors -  Ongoing.
#12383 - LHCb resources status monitoring as SAM sensor - Ongoing.
#13405 - Keeping Real Data on disk at CERN - Ongoing.
#13406 - Testing data access with xrootd protocol - Andrew has managed to read data through xrootd at CERN.
#13407 - Detection of the platform and capability - Joel mentioned that SAM tests are working. Testing is ongoing.


1. Production Status Report

- Current productions
The real data workflows are commissioned, there was a slight problem with the latest DIRAC release, one sub-system tag was not included for a minor fix.  This will be released immediately after the meeting.


2. DIRAC Release Update

- LHCb/DIRAC v5r2p2
Discussed above.

- Externals v5r1 release
The v5r1 externals are still being prepared, this should be completed soon.


3. DIRAC Tasks

- Infrastructure monitoring (SAM,SLS,Dashboard)
Roberto mentioned that a new lemon sensor is available for non-DIRAC related sensors.  If SAM tests are not submitted after a couple of hours this sends an SMS.

- ResourceStatus System status
Discussed above.

- Framework status
A couple of minor bug fixes were added in the plotting tools.  Adri will incorporate this in the accounting plots.

- Bookkeeping status
Zoltan summarised that the GUI colours were reverted to avoid clashes reported by users. The addition of files with zero events is now possible. 

- VO-boxes
The installation of the VO-boxes is pending

- Web Portal
Matvey is preparing some fixes for the site monitoring page.


4. AOB

Joel mentioned has not yet reproduced the error at NIKHEF with hard-coded AFS paths and is waiting for a response from Jeff about how this is installed.

Roberto conveyed that there was an IT/LHCb coordination meeting and they were wondering about the repeated bqueues call from the time left utility. The fix for that was certainly committed.  The cause of the '0' for the GID at NIKHEF was the LFC problem as reported on the mailing lists.
 

09:30 → 10:00 Ongoing actions

The task list is available via the Savannah DIRAC group ( Task List ). If you are not already registered please do so at the Savannah page. In order to streamline the time spent during PASTE on the actions list only tasks in the status 'ToBeDiscussed' will be discussed there. In case some actions fall by the wayside they will automatically be updated to this status. Therefore the action assignees should take care to update this. For ongoing actions it is advantageous to report any progress in the Savannah tasks each week.

10:00 → 10:30 Production issues

- Current productions

10:30 → 10:50 DIRAC Release Update

- LHCb/DIRAC v5r2p2 - Externals v5r1 release

10:50 → 11:20 DIRAC tasks

- Infrastructure monitoring (SAM,SLS,Dashboard) - ResourceStatus System status - Framework status - Bookkeeping status - WMS status - DMS status - Production Management status - VO-boxes - Web Portal - Services deployment ( hardware, configuration ) - Documentation

11:20 → 11:30 AOB