RAL Tier1 weekly operations Overview 20090713
Contents
Overview of Milestones and Metrics
Key High Level dates
- LHC schedule delayed 3 weeks. We now expect first beam in October and first collisions some time in November.
- There will be no formal change in WLCG planning for data taking until the WLCG workshop on 9th July however in the light of
the above delay we will delay our freeze date to 31st August.
- Data taking then expected to continue (with a 2 week stop for Christmas) through much of 2010. Alternative scenarios are being discussed.
Key Metrics
| Owner | Description | Target | Achieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gareth Smith | Overall Tier-1 SAM Availability (last week) | 93% | 0% |
| Gareth Smith | Alice SAM Availability (Jun) | 97% | 73% |
| Gareth Smith | ATLAS SAM Availability (Jun) | 97% | 71% |
| Gareth Smith | CMS SAM availability (Jun) | 97% | 71% |
| Gareth Smith | LHCB SAM availability (Jun) | 97% | 67% |
| Andrew Sansum | Fraction of Tier-1 Staff in Post (Jun) | 93% | 103% |
| Gareth Smith | Number of days where called out (last spreadsheet full week) | 3 | 2 |
| Matt Hodges | Percentage met of UB allocation of disk (May) | 100% | 91% |
| Matt Hodges | Job Efficiency (May) | 85% | 81% |
| Matt Hodges | Farm Occupancy (May) | 85% | 43% |
| Matt Viljoen | Number of >Severe CASTOR Incidents (Jun) | 6 | 2 |
Availability was poor in June owing to the move of the Tier-1 to R89.
Key Production Milestones
Expected to be in mytasks this week.
R89 Migration Summary
Is complete except for some final configuration as the non-HEP robot is attached to the HEP robot
High Level Schedule
Final Update Window Mon 13/07/09 Wed 26/08/09 Tier-1 Stability Period (2) September LHC First beam October? LHC Collisions November?
Note that:
- Final update window is now extended to end of August.
- WLCG aiming for stability by the end of August
Disaster Management
Swine Flu (H1N1) is being handled in the Tier-1 Disaster Management System (currently level 2)
Swine Flu Response Plan
See: https://wiki.e-science.cclrc.ac.uk/web1/bin/view/EScienceInternal/TierOneSwineFlu
Purchasing and Finance
- GRIDPP finalising spend plan
- Commencing current disk and CPU tenders (Dave Corney leading). Target date for disk delivery is end of December. First meeting of HAG has occurred. Expect to have disk paperwork ready next week.
Staffing
- One experiment support post accepted and expected to start in August. Second experiment support post, ready to make offer.
- PPS recruitment re-approved.
- YII post expected in July
PMB Experiment Reports
ATLAS
CMS
LHCB
1) Many Grid sites (Tier-2s so far) banned because they have been aborting pilots. Sites banned in the UK are Brunel and RAL-HEP. Possible bad publishing of information in the bdii, but investigations going on.
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Outlook: 1 Billion event (minimum-bias) production proceeding - about 845 million events produced so far, at a rate of about 50 million events per day. User analysis as usual.
Hardware Deployment Report
None
Team Reports
Fabric
RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20090713
Grid Services
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_Grid_20090713
CASTOR
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor_13/07/2009
Database
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Report_13/07/2009
