Dear site admins

Maarten Litmaath wrote to WLCG representatives today to ask for  
support in completing a *very short* questionnaire on multi-user pilot  
jobs. It is important that each site reads the summary wiki page https://wlcg-tf.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Multi_User_Pilot_Jobs 
  (if you do not have a certificate / can not access the page then let  
me know) and responds by 25th January at the latest. The questionnaire  
is at the end of that page (copy & paste the last section to a mail  
message to fill out your reply).

Please could each site reply to me directly ([log in to unmask])  
with their responses. I will review the status of this request and  
start chasing sites at and after the next Deployment team & Sites  
meeting (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71488) on  
Tuesday 19th January.

I'll also use this as an opportunity to ask if there are additional  
sites willing to deploy SCAS + glexec which is currently in staged  
rollout. Our plan was for one installation per Tier-2 but for various  
reasons the deployments are not yet all fully ready for testing. This  
work is important to allow further progress to be made and any help  
here will be much appreciated. The status across countries will be  
reviewed at a GDB this week (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=72046 
).

Many thanks,
Jeremy








Maarten's request:

Dear T1 representatives,
in December the WLCG MB asked the WLCG Technical Forum (TF) to provide
recommendations on the use of multi-user pilot jobs, in particular on
the deployment and configuration of glexec and its usage by the  
experiment
frameworks.

A working group in the TF has resulted in a document that describes what
pilot jobs are, their benefits, disadvantages and other aspects that  
sites
and experiments may need to be aware of, ending in a questionnaire for
site admins.

The document is available as a Wiki page:


https://wlcg-tf.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Multi_User_Pilot_Jobs


To view that page the browser needs to have an IGTF certificate loaded.

Please have each of your sites carefully read the document and respond
to the questionnaire.  Collect the responses and send them to me in
plain text, DOC or PDF.

We have been advised to allow 2 weeks for this process, since it may not
be possible for some sites to decide on security matters much faster.
In any case, please provide the responses from as many sites as possible
by January 25 or earlier.

Thanks,
  	Maarten (TF chair)