GridPP VO Incubator

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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 Closed 2016-08-23 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 Closed 2016-08-23 Guide started here - comments and feedback appreciated. Use gridpp guide.

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.
  • 23rd Aug: DEAP3600 will generate around 10TB of (calibrated) data per year for 5 years, starting this year I think. The original (much larger) raw data are backed up on tape in Canada, but the calibrated data are not. For reasons of backup and access, we were hoping it would it be possible to get these 50TB calibrated data stored at the Tier0 at RAL.

The model would be only to use RAL for custodial data storage and to copy data as needed to Tier2 sites such as RHUL for analysis. There will also be around 60 TB (possible x 2 generations) of MC which will be kept only at a Tier2 because it can be regenerated in case it is lost.

  • 25th Sept 17: No current activity. Query sent.

vo.DiRAC.ac.uk

PoC: Jens Jensen, Brian Davies

All Closed actions can be found on the Vo.DiRAC.ac.uk_archived_actions page.

Action ID Action description Owner Target date Status Date closed Notes
VOI-DIRAC010 Track Data transfer from further Sites BD 2016-11-29 Open Following vo.dirac.ac.uk transfer working group meeting. dirac have identified initial data from non Durham sites which need to be transferred. ( ~700TB per site this needs verifying.)

07/02/17 First test transfers from Cambridge and Leicester now succeeding.

23/05/2017 Edinburgh now transferring ~2TB/day. Durham testing recall from RAL to Durham.

25/09/2017 In last three months, Cambridge/Edinburgh/Leicester have transferred 49/114/2633 files; equating to volumes of 6.5/10.4/41.6 TB of data. Issue raised at GRIDPP39 for mechanism of how to update data needs to be investigated.


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. [2017-02-28] Giuseppe Congedo given write access to the Scotgrid CVMFS repository so he can run his code on UK grid sites.
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.
VOI-EUC-005 Ganga + HTCondor on RAL Tier-1 AL/TW 2016-11-15 Closed 2016-11-17 Giuseppe Congedo (Edinburgh, EUCLID/GridPP has, after an issue with running Ganga on the NFS-based Tier-1 cluster, got going with the UserGuide (now based on Ganga). Thanks to AL + Ganga team for support and prompt responses to ensure as smooth operation as possible.

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!
VOI-GAL-006 Creating an account for a UCLan student on the Lancaster cluster TW/Robin Long (Lancaster) 2016-09-15 Defunct The student (visiting from China) will pick up Adam's work on grid deployment for an upcoming paper. They will have a UCLan computing account but an account on the Lancaster cluster would further speed things up. Under discussion. 2016-11-16: TW emailed Victor D (group head) for an update.
VOI-GAL-007 Recontact GalDyn once new student starts Matt D 2017-09-27 Open Victor D from GalDyn was contacted and Victor was interested in continuing the GridPP work. Waiting on a new student to start to take up the work. Will contact GalDyn towards the end of October to build some momentum.

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.
VOI-LIGO-005 Enable the OSG VO on RAL CEs and batch system. AL 2017-05-06 Closed 2017-05-23 Job successfully being submitted to RAL, but have requested that single-core pilots are used rather than multi-core pilots, as LIGO are only running single-core jobs. We don't need to do anything else however.
VOI-LIGO-006 Get access to LIGO data via secure CVMFS working on RAL workernoes CC,AL 2017-06 Open

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

The LSST UK page.
All Closed action items can be found in the LSST_archived_actions page.

PoC: Alessandra Forti (AF)
Other people: Joe Zuntz (JZ), Andy Washbrook (AW), 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), Peter Love (PL), Pavlo Svirin (PS), Rob Currie (RC)

Action ID Action description Owner Target date Status Last update Notes


VOI-LSST-026 USLSST Panda job submission: extend to other sites. AF, PL, PS Open 2017-09-26 First tests:
Working: RALPP, Liverpool, QMUL, Glagow
Not working: Oxford and Brunel (wrong queue used), IC (didn't enable multicore for small VOs. It is now enabled but need better configuration in panda), ECDF (storage problems, still to be revised).
Pavlo will start again testing this week. There has been a general slow down over the summer.
VOI-LSST-027 Help UK users to run Joe's ganga workflow RC Open 2017-09-26 Edinburgh and Southampton users are using the ganga workflow. Rob as has been helping them with it. However ganga/gridpp doesn't work anymore out of the box since Tom left. Documentation needs updating.


LZ

In Production: GridPP LZ page.

dune

In production: Link to the GridPP DUNE page.

na62.vo.gridpp.ac.uk

In production: NA62 Monitoring server.
They welcome more sites supporting them.
October 2017: NA62 wants to use resources at CERN, which requires the GridPP DIRAC to submit to HTCondor. This requires major changes to DIRAC server and liaising with CERN to get NA62 enabled correctly. In progress.

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.
  • 20th Feb: Asked TP about status - currently processing data so need of simulations reduced. Will pick up again when more simulation required.
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 Closed 2015-08-01 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 Closed 2017-02-20 End user did not make contact. TP still working with them so will use him as PoC for the moment
VOI-PRA-004 Waiting on data processing to be completed and more simulations to be required. MS 2017-02-20 Closed 2017-11-06
VOI-PRA-005 Got an update from TP. Pravda are still wanting to do more work on the grid but at present there is no manpower. Will check again in a few months. MS 2017-11-06 In Progress

SKA Regional Centre

Action ID Action description Owner Target date Status Last update Notes
VOI-SKA-001 LOFAR tests for SKA with DIRAC RJ/AM 2017-12-31 Open 2017-10-10 LOFAR application now running from cvmfs at LCG.UKI-NORTHGRID-MAN-HEP.uk, with input jobs matched to input data in GridPP DIRAC File Catalog, stored on DPM. Working on mass input of data from Groningen via grid jobs (wget with password then DIRAC data management commands)
VOI-SKA-002 LOFAR tests for SKA on DIRAC/OpenStack AM 2017-12-31 Done 2017-10-18 GridPP DIRAC SAM tests for skatelescope.eu run at DataCentred. Manchester storage associated with DataCentred in GridPP DIRAC so it matches SKA/LOFAR jobs.
VOI-SKA-003 Add more sites with skatelescope.eu VO / GridPP DIRAC AM 2017-12-31 Open 2017-10-03 QMUL joins Manchester, Imperial, Cambridge in passing SAM tests and providing storage. More volunteer sites welcome: need 10-20TB on grid storage that is set up in GridPP DIRAC.
VOI-SKA-004 File replication across 100Gb/s JBO to London link AM 2018-01-31 Open 2017-10-31 Plan: set up endpoint machines as DIRAC SEs; do DIRAC file replications between them, over the 100Gb/s link registered in the DIRAC Replica Catalogue. Use DIRAC DMS for this directly at first, then use DMS to schedule RAL FTS for this.

snoplus.snolab.ca

In production

  • PoC: Pete Gronbech (PG)
  • SNO+: David Auty (DA)
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 Closed. Will be reopened if there is demand. 2017-06-06 Help requested for setting up Condor submission tools. Dialogue started on the mailing list. See also: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119167

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.
  • 22nd August: No recent activity or planned activities.
  • 25th Sept 17: No further work planned.
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