Past General Bulletins

Tuesday 21st May 2019

• HEPSYSMAN is this week, folks can still attend remotely: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
• There was a WLCG Operations Coordination meeting last week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/820489/
• The Cambridge CREAM CE is the next one to go: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=141241
• Anything else?

Tuesday 14th May 2019

• Registration is still open for the HEPSYSMAN + SECURITY DAY meeting next week (booking deadline 5pm tomorrow), the Security Day training is especially important: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
• The DIRAC users workshop is at Imperial this week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/756635
• Last week there was the GDB at the EGI conference - of particularly note is the CREAM migration talk: https://indico.cern.ch/event/739878/
• WLCG Operations Coordination meeting this Thursday 16th: https://indico.cern.ch/event/820489

Tuesday 30th April 2019

• GridPP 42 was last week, any thoughts or comments? https://indico.cern.ch/event/780766/
• Related, Dave B has sent out a "consulation" for GridPP43
• There was a technical meeting on the future of DPM in the UK shortly before Easter https://indico.cern.ch/event/813140/
• The summer HEPSYSMAN + SECURITY DAY is scheduled for the 23rd-24th of May: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
• Vis-a-vis the thread on TB-SUPPORT started by Simon - how many more of the "old ways of doing stuff" can we drop?

Tuesday 9th April 2019

• Any comments from ISGC?
• ISGC also hosted the April GDB
• Last week also had the IRIS FTF.
• Any other meetings or announcements I missed?
• Most importantly - remember to tell Alastair what you want for your tea at the GridPP42 collaboration dinner.

Tuesday 02 April 2019

• Fermilab VOMS Changes
• https://indico.cern.ch/event/762505/overview 9-11 April
• CERN AFS phasing out
• XCache ready in Birmingham
• Site Storage & Satisfaction Survey
• Anything Else

Tuesday 27th March 2019

• HOW HSF/OSG/WLCG workshop last week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/759388/
• Reminder that GridPP42 registration closes next week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/780766/
• Do people have anything they'd like to added to the agenda? Although you might need a shoehorn to fit anything in.
• Provisional technical meeting this Friday@11am on HTCondor, and one is planned on EOS experiences soon(tm).

• Anyone have anything else?

Tuesday 12th March 2019

• https://indico.cern.ch/event/739876/
• https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4321/
• EGI A/R Report http://argo.egi.eu/lavoisier/site_reports?ngi=NGI_UK&report=Critical&accept=html
• Any other updates

Tuesday 5th March 2019

• Atlas Site Jamboree is currently ongoing: https://indico.cern.ch/event/770307/
• Anyone have any other general updates?
• GDB Next week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/739876/
• WLCG Ops meeting this Thursday: https://indico.cern.ch/event/803145/

Monday 18th February 2019

• GTF is about to release a regular update to the trust anchor repository (1.96) on Monday, FEB 25th 2019. See the ticket for more information.
• CernVM Users Workshop 2019 will take place from 3 June to 5 June 2019 at CERN.
• Notes from the Monday WLCG operations meeting are available.
• Talks from the GDB last week are now on the agenda page.

Tuesday 12th February

• DPM release - 1.11
• Approved VOs: changes to BIOMED and ENMR
• Simon: VAC with VM condor VM to support local batch jobs?
• There is a GDB this week - agenda.
• NGI Argus/Central Banning config (see DC message).
• There was a WLCG ops meeting yesterday. Minutes are available.
• HOW19 registration (early bird rate has ended). HSF-OSG-WLCG joint workshop.
• A/R explanations for January: QMUL power outage; Bham now on EOS so SE tests fail; ECDF 80% LHCb??

Tuesday 5th February

• The EGI RP/RC A/R Report for January 2019 is available. UKI overall fine. Bham and RAL-LCG2 may wish to examine their results.
• A reminder.... Please could everyone think about their WLCG (and beyond) engagements and commitments and put anything of note in the wiki table here.
• Notes from yesterday's WLCG ops meeting are available. Issues at RAL noted by LHCb.
• It is CMS week this week.
• In case missed here is Elena's ATLAS update:
  • https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=138033: singularity jobs failing at RAL. A job that Alessandra submitted still has a problem with the home directory. Ral is trying to fix it.
  • There was a power lost to a rack and the two storage nodes in it in Lancaster over weekend which cause a problem to ATLAS jobs. This was fixed on Monday.
  • Raul asked for srmless atlas transfers for Brunel. Elena is changing transfer configuration in AGIS but the jobs are still failing. Peter will look into this.
  • There was a discussion on lightweight ATLAS Grid sites @ADC weekly last week. Sheffield, Cambridge, Brunel, Durham, Bham and Sussex should become diskless sites.
• There is an ongoing discussion about LSST jobs on GridPP resources that may be of wider interest. Their VOMS was down so the question was raised about using GridPP VOMS or setting up another VOMS in the UK to read its data from the SLAC instance.
• The 9th DIRAC Users Workshop will be held in London 14. - 17. May 2019. Here is the registration link.
• December's WLCG A/R final report is available at via this link.
• The figures for January 2019 are now available and updates from 3 sites requested:
  • ALICE
  • ATLAS
  • CMS
  • LHCb
• Simon G asks: VAC with VM condor VM to support local batch jobs? Has anyone done it??
• EGI has started an HTCondor integration process and captures progress here: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139377.
• End of Support for CREAM-CE: The CREAM working group has announced that official support for the CREAM-CE component will cease at the end of the EOSC-hub project, i.e. in Dec 2020. The CREAM working group will be providing full support until the end of 2019, including one minor release already scheduled. During 2020 only security updates will be released.