RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Completed Actions 2009
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Actions from RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Actions closed in 2009.
Action ID | Priority | Experiment(s) | Owner | Description | Status | Completed date |
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A-20080716-01 | Medium | All | Stephen Burke | Collect the CASTOR documentation that exists into one CASTOR "user manual". | Done. | 14/01/2009 |
A-20081126-02 | ATLAS | Brian Davies | Feedback ATLAS source service class for FTS. | Done. | 14/01/2009 | |
A-20081112-03 | CMS | Chris Brew | Track clearing out CMS CSA07 test data. | Done. | 21/01/2009 | |
A-20081119-04 | LHCb | James Thorne | Try and remove gdss163 and gdss223 from LHCb ganglia. | Done. | 21/01/2009 | |
A-20090114-02 | MICE | James Thorne | Send link to planning page and CASTOR documentation to Paul Kyberd and Matt Viljoen | Done. | 21/01/2009 | |
A-20090114-04 | All | David Corney | Confirm that the meeting format is still useful to the experiments and Tier1 staff. | Done. Agenda updated. | 21/01/2009 | |
A-20081119-02 | All | Andrew Sansum | Put current planned dates for move to new machine room on the wiki. | Done. | 28/01/2009 | |
A-20081210-01 | Bonny Strong | Archive/remove CASTOR announcements page. | Done. | 28/01/2009 | ||
A-20090114-01 | H1 | James Thorne | Invite David Sankey to attend meeting for H1. | Done. | 28/01/2009 | |
A-20090114-03 | ILC | Shaun de Witt | Investigate zero-length files problem that Jan is experiencing with his jobs. | Shaun has list of files. Due to timeouts. Done. | 28/01/2009 | |
A-20090121-01 | All | James Thorne | Set up a planning page for each experiment. | Done. | 28/01/2009 | |
A-20090121-03 | LHCb | Andrew Sansum | Ask Gareth Smith to contact LHCb to find out what needs to be done regarding batch queues etc. before CASTOR outages. | Done. | 28/01/2009 | |
A-20081126-07 | CMS | Chris Brew, James Jackson, Matt Hodges | Co-ordinate batch queue access for testing. | Closed. | 11/02/2009 | |
A-20090121-04 | David Corney | Ask Gareth Smith to attend meeting. | Closed. | 11/02/2009 | ||
A-20090128-01 | ATLAS | Brian Davies | Obtain ATLAS CASTOR plans and update the ATLAS planning page on the wiki. | Closed. | 11/02/2009 | |
A-20090128-02 | All | Andrew Sansum | Check with Tim the availability of tape robots and tape servers for move to new machine room. | Closed. | 11/02/2009 | |
A-20081126-04 | Low | ATLAS | Brian Davies | SRM CP vs Globus URL copy: efficiency of file transfers to tier2s. Still a problem? | Ongoing. Waiting for change to new FTS version. Done. | 25/02/2009 |
A-20081210-02 | Matt Viljoen | Work out how much effort and tape overhead is required to set up a tape pool for each "very small" VO. | There may be accounting issues when working out how much tape a VO is using if sharing tapes. Done. | 25/02/2009 | ||
A-20090121-02 | ALICE | Chris Kruk | Kickstart for ALICE CASTOR/xrootd disk servers. | Done. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090211-01 | All | Andrew Sansum | Talk to Matt to discuss FTS thrrottleback when CASTOR is degraded/broken. | Done. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090211-02 | ATLAS | James Thorne | Add Graeme Stewart to meeting request and reminder list. | Done. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090211-03 | LHCb | Shaun De Witt | Follow up on "non-deleted" files on gdss334 (84 of 95 files shouldn't be there). | Done. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090211-04 | LHCb | Raja Nandakumar | Send shaun a list of files to keep on gdss334. | Done | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20080130-05 | Medium | All | James Thorne | Track/progress exercising of arrays to mitigate against problems with disk servers when put into production. | Ongoing, impact is quite large: 6% on writes and 15% on reads. Suggested that we enable daily verifies as they do at CERN. Closed. | 25/02/2009 |
A-20090225-01 | MINOS, T2K | Shaun de Witt | Speak to Nick about the problems of being in more than one VO with same certificate and use of CASTOR. | Closed. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090225-03 | All | Andrew Sansum | Ask Gareth Smith to clarify with the experiments the requirement to close (or not) the batch queues to allow them to drain before a CASTOR intervention. | Closed. | 25/02/2009 | |
A-20090311-02 | ALICE | Derek Ross | Email Cristina the CPU and disk allocations for ALICE to clarify the current status. | Closed. | 18/03/2009 | |
A-20090318-01 | MICE | Jens Jensen | Check publishing for MICE as they're getting errors when copying to CASTOR. | Closed. | 08/04/2009 | |
A-20090311-01 | All | Experimennt reps. | Gather experiments' requirements for CASTOR during data taking and feed back to Matt Viljoen. | Closed. | 22/04/2009 | |
A-20090408-01 | Medium | ATLAS | Shaun de Witt | Follow up with Norman to investigate when ATLAS may/will want to take up CASTOR 2.1.8 for use of xrootd interface. | Closed. | 22/04/2009 |
A-20090429-01 | Medium | ALICE | James Thorne | Add Lee Barnby to distribution list and meeting. | Done. | 06/05/2009 |
A-20090429-03 | Medium | LHCb | Martin Bly | Ensure LHCb batch ques are drained for intervention on 18/19 May and paused for 12 May. | Closed. We shouldn't have this sort of action on this list. | 06/05/2009 |
A-20081210-03 | Low | All | James Thorne, James Jackson | Run James J's benchmarking on new 3ware firmware. | Ongoing. Asked James J. either to run the tests or let James T. have the tests and instructions. | 20/05/2009 |
A-20090506-01 | High | CMS | Shaun de Witt | Change CMS gridmap file mappings for cmsprg to pcms001. | Done. | 20/05/2009 |
A-20090506-02 | High | All | Matt Hodges | Speak to Derek regarding pool account to CASTOR mapping issue before any further CE upgrades. | Done. | 20/05/2009 |
A-20090521-01 | Medium | LHCb | James Thorne | Confirm whether file sizes are limited by ulimit to 4GB on WNs. | They are not limited by ulimit. Closed. | 27/05/2009 |
A-20090521-01 | Medium | ILC | Derek Ross | Enable 2GB queue for ILC. | Done. | 27/05/2009 |