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On John's first point, the table of Tier-2 allocations for experiments is
publicly available and you can get it here:
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier2/Tier-2_Experiment_Shares_v1.1.doc
We (GridPP deployment team) can start checking whether sites are supporting
VOs that they have allocated against in this table. In addition perhaps
users who notice a site missing can approach the relevant Tier-2 coordinator
to find out when I site will support a given VO.
Longer term we need some feedback route from those running the VO work (data
challenges) to indicate problems being experienced - something that was
mentioned at the meeting yesterday. It isn't yet clear how users will make
use of helpdesks to resolve problems (EGEE is opting for FZK as a central
contact point - http://www.ggus.org - see Ian SR's earlier mail) but one can
imagine feeds from these populating a VO reports page within the GOC
database. This page (which may also contain general comments from the users
- perhaps posted onto their own pages with an RSS feed) can then be searched
by site administrators to see if a problem has been reported with their site
(including non-compatible middleware versions). Simultaneously, any specific
problems reported via a helpdesk will be filtering through to the
administrator's mailbox. The process should work similarly where sites
experience problems with a given VO installation (or lack of one) and need
to highlight these to a VO (installation) contact.
Regards,
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gordon, JC (John)
Sent: 01 October 2004 11:53
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Minutes of today's Deployment Meeting
Frederic, I think we should coordinate things within the UK. The Tier1 (and
EGEE ROC) is providing support for UK sites and you all have a Tier2
coordinator.
Can I suggest:-
a) you, or some other UK Atlas person, prioritise a hit list of UK sites you
would like included. Steve Lloyd has a table of which sites wish to support
which experiments and at what level - I think it was shown at GridPP11. The
T2 coordinators can then give you feedback on their status.
b) get them registered in the main LCG BDII through the Tier1, not just the
Atlas one. I think almost all sites are in LCG now so the issue is the level
of their resources deployed. This affects their ability to contribute to
your DCs.
c) Some UK Atlas person should take responsibity for getting the Atlas
software installed. A non-UK person is not so motivated. A FAQ on the GridPP
web would be good.
John
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frederic Brochu
>Sent: 01 October 2004 10:00
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Minutes of today's Deployment Meeting
>
>
>
>The main problem as far as we are concerned is to get more UK
>sites included into ATLAS production, as it means harassing 3
>different people (1 for the registration in ATLAS BDII, 2 for
>the deployment of the ATLAS
>software) and these people had no back up. I envy LHCB where
>the resources were proactively searched for by Ricardo.
>
>But this is just one of the many ATLAS-related problems we met
>during DC2 phase 1.
>
> Cheers,
> Frederic
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