PASTE meeting

Tuesday 11 May 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, 11th April 2010, CERN

Chair:  A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes:  F.Stagni

CERN: J.Closier, Z.Mathe, S.Paterson, M.Rashid, R.Santinelli, F.Stagni, A.C.Smith, S.Perazzini (production shifter)

Phone:  M.Sapunov, A.Tsaregorodtsev, E.Lanciotti, R.Nandakumar



0. Ongoing Action List

Updated in Savannah task list.


1. Production Issues

Stuart commented that is necessary to have a protection at the bookkeeping level to avoid users (and productions) to look for files that should not be used. A solution has been discussed in the meeting.

2. DIRAC Release Update

- Upcoming v5r4 release
The pre-release is in certification. Some more changes has to be put in the next pre-release, especially for the new workflows which have been commissioned. These new workflows will be anyway tested locally by Stuart (there are no raw files for testing the production in the certification system). The pre-release will be put in certification just after the meeting.

A proposal has been made by Andrew to start the certification systems from scratch every time (DBs included). Andrei thinks this point is valid, and will think about it.

3. DIRAC Tasks

- DMS status
  The new stager, which was in the previous release, was not used up to now. Andrew asked for it to be used from the upcoming release.
- Documentation
  Federico commented that a couple of links should be added as direct links to the "help" section of the DIRAC portal: the shifter's guide, and instructions on how to renew certificates.


4. AOB

- Tomorrow is the last day to submit the CHEP abstracts. Andrew is writing the last pending one.
- volhcb17.cern.ch is still not a production instance: Andrew commented that accounting does not work, Federico commented that also some RSS links are missing.

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

10:30 → 10:50 DIRAC Release Update

- LHCb/DIRAC v5r4 release status

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