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GridPP Technical Meeting 2013-11-22
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Present: David Colling, Simon Fayer, Raja Nandakumar, Wahid Bhimji, Robert Frank, Andrew
McNab, Adam Huffman, Andrew Lahiff, Duncan Rand


1. CMS - Andrew Lahiff
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- HLT: testing the ramp up of running jobs

  - been taking 1 1/2 hours to reach couple of thousand jobs

  - testing ongoing

- Setup CMS Evolution tenant at CERN Private cloud

- Andrew L. now running CMS jobs on GridPP cloud

  - Adam will test job suspension


2. LHCb - Andrew McNab
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- another iteration of contextualization

- more updates to Vac;  not ready for sites to try out yet

- Mario working on GridPP cloud again


3. GridPP cloud - Adam
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- no changes


4. Storage - Wahid
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- mostly discussing hardware recently

- enabling webdav for Rucio sites, for ATLAS

- David: is there hierarchical access for WebDAV? (redirectors)

  - Wahid: not yet; being worked on elsewhere; for ATLAS, intention
    that there will be some way of handling this in Rucio

- Simon's prototype redirector - mention this to Oliver Keeble


5. AOB
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- hardware arrangement with Dell

- cloud meeting at Francis Crick Institute next week

- cloud pre-GDB coming up in January

- Tony Wildish's testbeds on demand - David will ask him to speak 
  at the next meeting