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* Tom Whyntie has requested (and been granted) access to the GridPP VO to get some pipelines working for large-scale processing and analysis of MRI scans associated with the [http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/ UK Biobank project].
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* All VOs in the incubation page being prompted for updates by the end of November (required input for OC documents).
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* QMUL (Steve L) is following up on the biomed MoU. GridPP want to be cited in research papers for the support our resources/sites provide.
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Revision as of 17:21, 20 November 2017

Bulletin archive


Week commencing Monday 20th November 2017
Task Areas
General updates

Monday 20th November

  • CHEP 2018 abstract submission is open.
  • Germany is leaving EGI from January 2018. GGUS will continue to be provided for WLCG.
  • TB-SUPPORT/general discussions:
    • ATLAS PanDA Queue consolidation - UCORE. The VAC question....
    • GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage management
    • CERN Mattermost chat - concept and groups
    • LHCb multi-thread user jobs
    • Mounting EOS outside of CERN. (See this article).
  • The next LHCOPN/LHCONE meeting will be at RAL 6-7th March 2018.
  • There is a CERNVM users workshop 30th Jan to 1st Feb.


Monday 13th November

  • WLCG T2 availability & reliability for October 2017


Monday 6th November


WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page

Tuesday 21st November

  • The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 7th December. Do we have any topics we would like covered?

Tuesday 7th November

  • The WLCG ops coordination meeting last week (agenda | minutes had as highlights the topics:
    • Security Operations Center WG Workshop/Hackathon
    • Review of EL7 migration plans
    • Providing reliable storage: presentation by BNL


Monday 23rd October

  • The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 2nd November.

Tuesday 10th October

  • There was an ops coordination meeting last Thursday 5th October: Agenda | Minutes.
    • There is one action for us to follow-up: "Collect plans from sites to move to EL7". We could make use of the Batch Systems table.


Tier-1 - Status Page

Tuesday 21st October A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here

  • Re-distribution of data in Echo onto the 2015 capacity hardware is now complete. There are now 8PBytes of usable space in Echo. However, there is some data re-balancing to be done before upping the quotas so the VOs can make use of the extra space.
  • Castor was be unavailable for a few hours on Tuesday 14th Nov for patching of the nodes.
  • The LHCb Castor SRMs were successfully updated on Wednesday 15th Nov. This new version (2.1.16-18) respects the user-specified bringOnline timeout rather than ignoring it and defaulting to 4 hours. It is planned to upgrade the other SRMs on Tuesday 5th December.
  • Both Production and Test FTS services have IPv6 enabled (i.e. are now dual-stack).
Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes

Wed 15 Nov

  • More xcache progress at some sites; less at others who may be blocking on dependencies or be busy with Other Things(tm)
  • Some interest in following the non-X.509 authentication/authorisation

Wed 08 Nov

  • Not (very) modest at all progress on xcache testing... from Chris at RALPP

Wed 01 Nov

  • (very) modest progress on xcache testing...
  • Except that RALPP has it fully working for dCache - hope to get full report next week

Tuesday 3rd October

  • Looking for small DPM ATLAS site to possibly test xrootd caching
  • Tracking upgrade of SEs to new what will be new baseline versions. (dCache sites updated; 6/14 DPM up-to-date)
  • Alastair D. to give T2 site storage evolution talk 4/10/17 at gridpp-storage meeting


Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA

Tuesday 14 Nov

  • Single processor LHCb stoppable Monte Carlo VMs running in a mixture with fixed length 8 processor ATLAS VMs and single processor GridPP VMs. Please get in touch if you are running Vac and want to try this.

Tuesday 3 Oct

  • Productions tests of Vac 03.00pre at Manchester.


Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06

Tuesday 24th Oct


Monday 16th January

  • The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.

Monday 14th November

  • Alessandra has written an FAQ to extract numbers from ATLAS and APEL avoiding the SSB.

Monday 26th September

  • A problem with the APEL Pub and Sync tests developed last Tuesday and was resolved on Wednesday. This had a temporary impact on the accounting portal.
Documentation - KeyDocs

Tuesday 14th Nov 2017

A significant change to VOMS records has been detected, and this may result in the release of a new Approved VOs document (to be announced). The change results from the apparent sudden retirement of all CNAF voms servers, which may or may not be "real". I'll check (sjones). The change concerns three VOs: ipv6.hepix.org, planck and enmr.eu. Sites supporting those VOs should check TB_SUPPORT over coming days to see if the changes are real.

Tuesday 26th Sept 2017

  • Safari on macOS autogenerated client certificates fix put into production last week.

Tuesday 19th Sept 2017

  • Bug in Safari on macOS causes random Apple generated client cert to be presented to www.gridpp.ac.uk using a CA we don't know about. The connection is then rejected by Apache. Other browsers ok since we request but do not require that they supply a certificate. Workaround produced by (a) installing the Apple CA root and intermediary CA and (b) whitelisting UK e-Science DNs (+ CERN? Others?) in the HTTPS Wiki plugin. Tested but not yet in production.

Tuesday 5th Sept 2017

New Approved VO. SKA European regional data centre, skatelescope.eu

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs

This VO is ramping up and has requested support. Andrew McNab is the contact person for GridPP.

General note

See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.

Interoperation - EGI ops agendas Indico schedule

Monday 20th November

  • There was an EGI Operations Meeting today: Agenda.

Monday 9th October

  • MW
    • UMD 4.6 in November
      • UI, CREAM, ARGUS
      • If not before in 4.5.1
    • UMD Preview update on 22/9
      • not rooted 4.7.0 has a bug, wait for update
      • CREAM version in Preview, please test if applicable (leading to release as noted above)
  • Ops
    • cASO (OpenStack Accounting extractor) update: 100%IT done (GGUS ticket 130665)
    • A/R nothing to report
    • Computation Power
      • Sites check data by end of the month
    • EMI WMS
      • mice noted as being enabled on DIRAC
    • IPv6 Readiness
      • Would be useful for us to provide a report
    • webdav probes
      • If you're advertising a webdav endpoint, make sure it's in the GOC DB
    • Storage accounting deployment
      • Enable by 30th October; tickets to follow. Note that per broadcast new data currently not showing, please ticket on errors in logs only


Monitoring - Links MyWLCG

Tuesday 4th July

  • There were a number of useful links provided in the monitoring talks at the WLCG workshop in Manchester - especially those in the Wednesday sessions.

Monday 13th February

  • This category is pretty much inactive. Are there any topics under "monitoring" that anyone wants reported at this ops meeting? If not we will remove this section from the regular updates area of the bulletin and just leave the main links.

Tuesday 1st December


Tuesday 16th June

  • F Melaccio & D Crooks decided to add a FAQs section devoted to common monitoring issues under the monitoring page.
  • Feedback welcome.


On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota

Monday 20th November

  • Generally quiet. There are three outstanding tickets: low availability at Birmingham, one at Liverpool which might just have gone green, and out-of-date IGTF CAs at Sheffield.
Rollout Status WLCG Baseline

Monday 20th November



Historical References


Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota

Monday 30th October

  • EGI SVG ALERT [TLP:WHITE] Up to 'CRITICAL' risk, kernel exploit CVE-2017-7184 and others [EGI-SVG-CVE-2017-7184]
  • Upcoming meetings
    • Details and registration for SOC WG Workshop in December: Advert Indico

Monday 23rd October

  • Nothing to report

Tuesday 10th October

  • ...


Tuesday 3rd October

  • EGI SVG ADVISORY [TLP:WHITE] 'HIGH' risk Linux kernel local root vulnerability CVE-2017-1000253


Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar development dashboard | GridPP VOMS

- This includes notifying of (inter)national services that will have an outage in the coming weeks or will be impacted by work elsewhere. (Cross-check the Tier-1 update).

Monday 20th November

  • perfSONAR: No news.
  • GridPP DIRAC: DPM & xrootd version. Upgrade due 16th November.
  • RIPE ATLAS probes: Status & tests TBC
  • The next LHCOPN/LHCONE meeting will be at RAL 6-7th March 2018. The UK position on LHCONE is being reviewed. RAL T1 will (likely) connect via the LHCOPN in the coming months. T2s watch this space!


Monday 23rd October

  • The LHCOPN/ONE meeting took place last week at KEK, co-hosted with the HEPiX Fall meeting.
    • You can find a short report of the meeting here.
    • All the slides presented are available in the agenda.

Tuesday 4th July

  • Pete C is preparing another networking forward look document. Note that figures presented in the Manchester workshop were for a Tier-2 (not always a single site).

here

  • Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!


Tickets

Monday 20th November 2017, 11.15 GMT

Matt's off ill today, so here's the link to all the tickets.

Tools - MyEGI Nagios

Monday 20th November

Tuesday 18th July

  • Following our ops discussion last week, Steve will focus his tests on supporting the GridPP DIRAC area and decommission the other tests.


VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table

Monday 20th November

  • Tom Whyntie has requested (and been granted) access to the GridPP VO to get some pipelines working for large-scale processing and analysis of MRI scans associated with the UK Biobank project.
  • All VOs in the incubation page being prompted for updates by the end of November (required input for OC documents).
  • QMUL (Steve L) is following up on the biomed MoU. GridPP want to be cited in research papers for the support our resources/sites provide.


Site Updates

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Meeting Summaries
Project Management Board - MembersMinutes Quarterly Reports

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GridPP ops meeting - Agendas Actions Core Tasks

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RAL Tier-1 Experiment Liaison Meeting (Wednesday 13:30) Agenda Meeting takes place on Vidyo.

Highlights from this meeting are now included in the Tier1 report farther up this page.

WLCG Grid Deployment Board - Agendas MB agendas

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NGI UK - Homepage CA

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Events
UK ATLAS - Shifter view News & Links

Atlas S&C week 2-6 Feb 2015

Production

• Prodsys-2 in production since Dec 1st

• Deployment has not been transparent , many issued has been solved, the grid is filled again

• MC15 is expected to start soon, waiting for physics validations, evgen testing is underway and close to finalised.. Simulation expected to be broadly similar to MC14, no blockers expected.

Rucio

• Rucio in production since Dec 1st and is ready for LHC RUN-2. Some fields need improvements, including transfer and deletion agents, documentation and monitoring.

Rucio dumps available.

Dark data cleaning

files declaration . Only Only DDM ops can issue lost files declaration for now, cloud support needs to fill a ticket.

• Webdav panda functional tests with Hammercloud are ongoing

Monitoring

Main page

DDM Accounting

space

Deletion

ASAP

• ASAP (ATLAS Site Availability Performance) in place. Every 3 months the T2s sites performing BELOW 80% are reported to the International Computing Board.


UK CMS

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UK LHCb

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UK OTHER
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To note

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