061019-dteam-minutes

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GridPP deteam meeting 17/10/2006

Olivier van der Aa Greig Cowan Jamie Ferguson Philippa Strange Jeremy Coles Graeme Stuart

Team Member updates

Greig: - Transfer tests between ed-man. tomcat dying at ral. Rates where high but no indication if tomcat dying is due to the high rate. - dCache testing of the new version. Main changes are: voms, close_wait solved. JC, will it go to the pps ? GC, dCache is separate from the lcg validation because they have their release validation procedure. - JC: how are the other sites handling the dCache. There is a concern about the stability of SE.

Olivier: - Worked on site availability. Computing delivered/potential. - Helping to solve Apel accounting problem at RHUL - Chase up lhcb running in London. QMUL currently out of the production mask. - Helping Duncan at Brunel.

Jamie: - Problem with the filetransfer script due to tomcat restart. - RALPPD-RHUL 18 hours, will finish at 12h. Successful. Trying to understand why it did not work for man - Lancaster, is using srmcp. JC: UCL-HEP just has outbound. Olivier will chase that issue (ACTION: Olivier follow-up transfer tests) - JC: Jamie is there for 6.5 days. What is the priority: get Glasgow dpm up and running. Make sure the script is ok. - GS: After Jamie is gone I am ready to lead more the transfer tests. - JF: I have send an email to each site to have some explanation. JC: we will discuss this at the meeting tomorrow.

Graeme: - Working on the cluster. Problem with the OS delivered now solved. - Tried to run jobs via the admin and it did not work - JC: did you have a try of the disk tests tool. GS: Have done it on the Hitachi disk and seems ok. We did the test for one week. Rate was very good > 100MB/s

Philippa: - TPM schedule appear to have changed. We are backup this week. Next shift is nov 18 T8. T7 11 Dec and 1 jan.

Jeremy Coles: - Interviews for someone working on pps. Nobody that applied has knowledge of grid. - Another interview for the security post.

Action Review: - D-060609 closed - D-060815 closed - D-060830 Started - D-061010-1 : about the transfer tests - D-061010-3: closed - D-061010-5: closed

Actions

Action: - Olivier check that the new cic portal gives less results and is easier to fill in. - Olivier follow-up transfer tests at UCL.

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