GridPP VO Incubator

This page is for monitoring the progress of new(ish) GridPP VOs.

• PoC - Point of Contact

All new VOs

These tasks will need to be completed for all

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-GEN-001	Deploy test software to RVO CernVM-FS repositories.	Duncan, Daniela, Gareth, Alessandra, Ewan	2015-05-26	Open	N/A	New users in the Regional VOs will need to run test jobs using software in the RVO CernVM-FS repositories. This test software will need to be uploaded by the RVO admins. Instructions for doing this can be found here. Tested for vo.londongrid.ac.uk (--Daniela)
VOI-GEN-002	Write up the VO registration procedure	Tom	2015-05-31	In progress	N/A	Guide started here - comments and feedback appreciated.

DEAP3600

PoC: Jeremy Coles (JC)

• Update requested February 2016.
• No response as of 21st March 2016
• 24th May: Awaiting main local user at RHUL to begin activities.

vo.DiRAC.ac.uk

PoC: Jens Jensen, Brian Davies

• 03/05/16: Durham have now moved 940TB in 6 months. Expect ~2.5PB in total from Durham.

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-DIRAC-001	Set up VO in GridPP	JJ	2015-04-30	Closed
VOI-DIRAC-002	Register DiRAC with EGI	JJ	2015-05-31	Closed		[1]
VOI-DIRAC-003	Write up DiRAC site setup document	LH	2015-08-31	Closed		Version 1.3 circulated to DIRAC-USERS
VOI-DIRAC-004	Re-evaluate data packaging method	JJ	2015-11-30	Closed	2016-01-31	Lydia re-engineered the packaging, focusing on tar, after extensive testing with GridPP
VOI-DIRAC-005	Restart transfers with new method (VOI-DIRAC-004)	LH	2015-12-10	Closed	2016-01-31	Successful large data transfer over new year 2016, http://gridpp-storage.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/update-on-vodiracacuk-data-mopvement.html slight error in script (leading to some failures) being updated
VOI-DIRAC-006	Get Leicester ready for transfer	JJ	2015-11-30	In Progress		Currently (March '16) debugging script
VOI-DIRAC-007	Request or requirement for ACL between sites.	BD	2015-11-30	In Progress		Awaiting to here if it is a request or a requirement to keep data access separate between DIRAC sites. If needed new voms roles and castor setup may need to be enabled. 03/05/16 update: VO does indeed need separation. requires voms-proxy usage on transfers and groups to be enacted in voms/. Also needs setting namespace configuratiuon to separate different users. 23/05/16 Now plan ( if acceptable to VO) to explicitly amend gridmapfile to assign specific DNs associated with each site to their own uid within castor. 28/06/16 This is acceptable to VO. 05/07/16 Awaiting deployment by T1.
VOI-DIRAC-008	Identify next (third) DiRAC site	LH	2016-03-22	Open		28/06/16 LH contacted to find out who contacts at other sites ( BD points out that these are Cambridge and ECDF so may know them or their colleagues from GridPP 05/07/16 Contact at hpc.cam.ac.uk is Stuart Rankin. Contact for DAMTP may well be Juha Jäykkä. (Need to confirm this second conatct with LH.)

EUCLID

PoC: Andrew Lahiff (AL)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-EUC-001	Enable /cvmfs/euclid.in2p3.fr on RAL worker nodes	AL	2016-02-24	Open		[2016-04-01] Now works on a test worker node. Unable to deploy changes to all worker nodes due to an issue with Aquilon. [2016-04-13] No longer have access to Edinburgh stratum 1. [2016-05-24] No change, but seems to be not needed yet.
VOI-EUC-002	Setup /cvmfs/euclid-uk.egi.eu repository	CC	2016-02-26	Open		[2016-05-25] Not needed yet.
VOI-EUC-003	Setup accounts on RAL UIs	AL	2016-02-26	Closed	2016-05-05	All users who requested accounts have access to our UIs.
VOI-EUC-004	Run jobs at RAL	AL	2016-02-26	Closed	2016-05-10	Tom Kitching has successfully run jobs.

GalDyn

• PoC: Tom Whyntie (TW)

• UCLan: Adam Clarke (AC)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-GAL-001	Assist GalDyn users with CernVM creation and testing.	TW	2015-02-18	Closed	2015-02-18	GalDyn users have successfully instantiated CernVMs for accessing the grid.
VOI-GAL-002	Assist GalDyn users with running test jobs on the Imperial DIRAC instance.	TW	2015-02-23	Closed	2015-02-23	GalDyn users have successfully run test jobs on the Imperial DIRAC instance via a GridPP CernVM.
VOI-GAL-003	Assist GalDyn users with compiling user software on the CernVM.	TW	2015-03-08	Closed	1016-02-15	The code compiles and runs, but needs to be put in a grid/CernVM-FS-friendly format.
VOI-GAL-004	Create the GalDyn CernVM-FS repository	TW, CC	2015-05-05	Closed	2015-05-05	New CernVM-FS repository galdyn.egi.eu has been created on the RAL Stratum-1 for the GalDyn VO.
VOI-GAL-005	(Re)new grid certificate for AC	AC	2015-02-22	Closed	2015-03-15	UK CA managed to renew the old certificate. Work on hold - user preparing for PhD viva!

LIGO

PoC: Catalin Condurache (CC)
LIGO: Paul Hopkins (PH)
Other people: Andrew Lahiff (AL)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-LIGO-001	Create the LIGO CernVM-FS repository	CC	2014-12-01	Closed	2015-02-15	New CernVM-FS repository ligo.egi.eu has been created on the RAL Stratum-1 for the LIGO VO.
VOI-LIGO-002	Assist LIGO users with using Condor + nordugrid to access ARC-CE@RAL.	AL, CC	2015-12	Closed	2016-02-12	Test jobs submitted from LIGO Condor instance to ARC-CE service at RAL were successful.
VOI-LIGO-003	Plan to run proper analyses jobs using scientists involvement	PH, CC	2016-02-12	Open		[2016-05-24]Still chasing scientists to run analyses jobs. Some promises.
VOI-LIGO-004	Get file storage working via the GridPP CernVM.	PH, CC	2016-02-24	Closed	2016-03-08	PH managed to get file transfers working with the GridPP CernVM using bridged networking and getting the VM registered on the university network.

LOFAR

PoC: George Ryall (GR), from April 2016 - Alex Dibbo (AD)
21/03/16: LOFAR should be in a posetion to perform an analysis run on a limited number of VMs with real data in the next few weeks. (GR) 25/05/16: Note that LOFAR is a VO supported under 'STFC' not GridPP. Communication with SCD cloud users is good. A recent issue with the cloud storage/CEPH has led to less recent activity.

LSST

PoC: Alessandra Forti (AF)
Other people: Joe Zuntz (JZ), Andy Washbrook (AW), Ewan McMahon (EM), Steve Jones (SJ), Catalin Condurache (CC), Daniela Bauer (DB), Marcus Ebert (ME), Kashif Mohammad (KM), Dan Traynor (DT), Andrew Lahiff (AL), Gareth Roy (GR), Matt Doidge (MD)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Last update	Notes
VOI-LSST-001	Ganga direct job submission using Northgrid	AF, JZ	2015-01-31	Closed	2015-12-11	Do direct job submission testing using northgrid infrastructure and ganga
VOI-LSST-002	Get European users on the LSST VOMS server at FNAL	AF, JZ	2015-02-28	Closed	2015-12-11
VOI-LSST-003	Enable LSST at sites	AF, AW, EM, SJ	2015-06-30	Closed	2015-12-11	Get the correct configuration. Sites get the info from Operations portal which has some obsolete information about VOMS. We should ask to fix it.
VOI-LSST-004	Find which LSST CVMFS stratum0 is usable by us	AF	2015-08-10	Closed	2015-12-11	3 instances, in France, OSG and FNAL. Chosen FNAL
VOI-LSST-005	Get the repository at FNAL and replicated at RAL	AF, CC	2015-08-25	Closed	2015-12-11	Repository automatically mounted at EGI sites as part of OSG EGI agreement, but was not replicated on any EGI stratum1. https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=115335
VOI-LSST-006	Run jobs using LSST CVMFS using direct job submission and ganga	JZ	2015-09-30	Closed	2015-12-11	Joe uploaded the software and used it to run jobs with direct job submission using lsst VO
VOI-LSST-007	Enable LSST on Dirac	AF, DB, AW, EM, SJ	2015-09-30	Closed	2015-12-11	Got the Dirac pilot DN assigned to the pilot role on VOMS, enabled the VO on Dirac, enabled pilot at sites, tested submission and fixed misconfigured sites. JIRA 1) https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-22 2) https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=117585 3) https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=117586
VOI-LSST-008	Test Ganga Dirac setup	AF		Closed	2015-12-11	1) https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-22 2) https://github.com/ganga-devs/ganga/issues/45 3) https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-29 since gfal_util doesn't work instead of debugging it I've started to look into the dirac file catalogue clients, which have better compatiblity chances on top of having the file catalogue. See VO-LSST-014
VOI-LSST-009	voms-proxy-init EMI-3 not working	AF, DB		Closed	2015-04-05	FNAL upgraded the VOMS to a EMI-3 clients compatible version. Ticket https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=117587 closed. Ticket for VOMS developers: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114044 closed.
VOI-LSST-010	Update the Operations portal with correct VOMS info	AF		Closed	2015-01-05	LSST US managers added voms1 and voms2 to the ops portal. http://operations-portal.egi.eu/vo/view/voname/lsst
VOI-LSST-011	Long lived proxies	AF		Closed	2016-04-05	Ticket with FNAL RITM0302478 was closed after we moved to dirac and we could run jobs longer than 24h with the renwal mechanism.
VOI-LSST-012	Check with NERSC how to use gridftp, authentication and authorisation mechanisms	JZ, ME, AF		Closed	2016-01-11	NERSC account required to do the transfers. Marcus has now an account.
VOI-LSST-013	Test gridtp transfers with NERSC	JZ, ME		Closed	2016-01-25	Data copied from NERSC with globus-url-copy
VOI-LSST-014	Investigate Dirac file catalogue usage	AF, JZ		Closed	2016-02-22	https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-30 More info in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diracgrid-forum/sclcLrQBPFY. Files transferred to Manchester with correct directory naming scheme is working. See VOI-LSST-015.
VOI-LSST-015	Spread the LSST data on different sites	AF		In progress	2016-02-09	https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-31 All data on a test SE instance for 20,000 foreseen jobs. Currently only 3 SEs (Ed, Man, Liv) enabled and mostly on older hardware. Replication will also allow to solve the registration problem by copying to a subdirectory <storage_path>/lsst/lsst. First leg of the distribution done. All files copied to Manchester.
VOI-LSST-016	Move to use gridpp VO because GridPP management requested to run an analysis with any "means possible"	AF, JZ, RF, DB, KM		Closed	2016-04-05	We went back to LSST and dirac
VOI-LSST-017	Edinburgh LSST data access	ME		Closed	2016-02-08	The local time out problem with the data access was solved and data is available now for jobs and transfers without timing out
VOI-LSST-018	Adapt Joe's ganga and bash scripts to submit to dirac and use the dirac file catalog clients instead of gfal_utils.	AF		Closed	2016-04-05	AF adapted Joe's scripts and have been running most of the first part of data. The new data will be processed with a completely revised ganga script after the involvement of ganga developers.
VOI-LSST-019	Run a larger sample of jobs (effectively 2500)	AF, JZ		In progress	2016-05-24	https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP-33 run another batch of 5000 jobs but mostly had a timeout problem when downloading the input. It is not clear if the problem is from the DFC or the storages. We hope the new ganga client can get better error codes and solve this more easily. Ticket for this https://github.com/ganga-devs/ganga/issues/343.
VOI-LSST-020	Implement JZ workflow in plain dirac cli	ME		In Progress	2016-03-01	dirac cli is implemented in scripts and usable for job submission and getting OutputSandbox using a given input file list, a test running over 1000 input files was successful, needs to be tested for overall analysis usage by JZ
VOI-LSST-021	Copy new data from NERSC to one of the storage elements and register them in the DFC	JZ, AF		Closed	2016-04-30	Data have been copied to Liverpoool and registered.
VOI-LSST-022	Test gfal and dirac utils on NERSC	ME, JZ		Closed	2016-04-29	Dirac UI can be installed in the user's $HOME on the data transfer machines at NERSC (RH6 OS installed) and then directly be used to transfer the data and register the files in the catalogue in a single step.
VOI-LSST-023	Enable LSST at RAL, QMUL, Glasgow	AF, DT, AL, GR		In progress	2016-04-05	Tickets opened for sites: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=120352 https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=120351 https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=120350
VOI-LSST-024	Debug Lancaster failures	AF, MD		Open	2016-05-24

LZ

PoC: David Colling (DC)

All Monte Carlo for the TDR was generated using Dirac and shell scripts. Only a few extra TDR jobs being run to fix holes. After TDR next step is to have full gaudi simulations.

LZ has been successfully running large scale simulations at Imperial.
Currently the following CEs are enabled for LZ, but anything apart from Imperial needs testing (and Sheffield needs pilot roles):
Imperial: ceprod05.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk:8443/cream-sge-grid.q, ceprod06.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk:8443/cream-sge-grid.q, ceprod07.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk:8443/cream-sge-grid.q, ceprod08.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk:8443/cream-sge-grid.q
Brunel: dc2-grid-21.brunel.ac.uk:2811/nordugrid-Condor-default
RALPPD: heplnv146.pp.rl.ac.uk:2811/nordugrid-Condor-grid, heplnv147.pp.rl.ac.uk:2811/nordugrid-Condor-grid
Sheffield: lcgce1.shef.ac.uk:8443/cream-pbs-lz

dune

PoC: Elena Korolkova/Matt Robinson

dune vo has been registered with egi portal:https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=122268
The vo was setup in Sheffield and checked. Job submission works.
This is an existing vo with voms server in fnal:https://voms.fnal.gov:8443/voms/dune/

PRaVDA

• PoC: Mark Slater/Matt Williams (MS/MW)

• End User: Tony Price (TP)

• Update requested 3rd Feb., 19th Feb. 2016 by TW. TP replied 2016-03-21 - they have been busy building the actual device!

• TP in the process of changing roles. Need to finalise the new end user.

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
VOI-PRA-001	Get PRaVDA up and running with DIRAC and Ganga.	MS/MW	2015-10-01	Closed	2016-03-21	TP has successfully got simulations running using DIRAC and Ganga.
VOI-PRA-002	Issues with DIRAC, Ganga and LFN names when copying data back.	MS/MW	2015-03-21	In progress		MS/MW assisting on the Ganga side.
VOI-PRA-003	TP changing roles. Need to make contact with new end user.	MS	2016-05-23	In progress

SNO+

• PoC: Pete Gronbech (PG)

• SNO+: Matthew Mottram (MM)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Last update	Notes
VOI-SNO+-001	Check on progress via GridPP-Support list.	PG	2016-02-17	Closed	2016-03-10	See VOI-SNO+-003 - success, closing this for now.
VOI-SNO+-002	MM to join GridPP Storage meeting	PG	2016-02-24	Closed	2016-02-24	MM joined the meeting to discuss requirements and various options. See minutes.
VOI-SNO+-003	MM to transfer files out of the SNO+ cavern via an FTP server.	PG	2016-02-17	Closed	2016-03-10	Success after fantastic support/discussion on the GRIDPP-SUPPORT mailing list.
VOI-SNO+-004	Check on progress via GridPP-Support list (16thMay).	PG	2016-05-31	On-going	2016-05-23	Help requested for setting up Condor submission tools. Dialogue started on the mailing list.

SuperNEMO

• PoC: Pete Gronbech (PG)

• SuperNEMO: Ben Morgan (BM)

Action ID	Action description	Owner	Target date	Status	Last update	Notes
VOI-SuperNEMO-001	Check on progress via GridPP-Support list	PG	2016-02-17	On going	2016-02-17
VOI-SuperNEMO-002	Resurrect the SuperNEMO VO.	PG	2016-02-17	Open	2016-03-22
VOI-SuperNEMO-003	Establish the feasibility of using the Ganga interface to the Atlas Metadata Interface (AMI)	PG, MS	2016-02-24	On going	2016-03-22
VOI-SuperNEMO-004	PG asked if more help required (10th April)	PG	2016-05-31	On going	2016-05-23	UK SuperNEMO are having a meeting in May so will get back with an update then.

UKQCD

PoC: Jeremy Coles (JC)

• Update requested February 2016.
• Update 21st March: "Hoping to do more with the gridpp resources".
  • Preliminary result in conference proceedings - "Investigating Some Technical Improvements to Glueball Calculations" e-Print: arXiv:1511.09303.
• 24th May: Will try and leverage some of the international lattice data grid stuff. Nothing immediate planned.