GridPP at the January 2016 HEP SYSMAN meeting

The January 2016 HEP System Managers meeting took take place at the University of Manchester on Friday 15th January 2016, and GridPP was well-represented as usual. There was also a Ganga mini-workshop the day before to introduce everyone to the latest release of the Python-based job submission interface that looks to be making life easier for users to interface with the grid.

The talks

• WLCG workshop: Storage overview
  S. C. Skipsey, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• Puppet, Foreman and HEP-puppet
  R. Frank, L. Krezkow, and K. Mohammad, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• Network Monitoring at Glasgow
  D. Crooks, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• Monitoring with InfluxDB and Grafana
  A. D. Lahiff, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• WLCG workshop: Info sys, accounting, benchmarking
  A. Forti, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• HTcondor progress and discussion
  K. Mohammad, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• The GridPP CernVM
  T. Whyntie, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.
• Early access to innovative hardware for prototype development at RAL
  A. Djaoui, HEP SYSMAN January 2016, 15 Jan 2016.

Useful links

• January 2016 HEP SYSMAN – meeting details;
• January 2016 HEP SYSMAN – Indico page;
• Pre-meeting Ganga workshop – Indico page and slides.