Hi all,
Minutes of the meeting on Friday 17th January are attached, and I'll
add them to the Indico page.
Cheers,
Adam
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Andrew McNab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please note that the event "GridPP Technical Meeting" will start on 16 Jan 2015 11:00:00 (Europe/London).
> It will take place at Virtual Only.
>
> You can access the full event here:
> http://indico.cern.ch/e/367091
>
> Best Regards.
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GridPP Technical Meeting 2015-01-16
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http://indico.cern.ch/event/367091/
Present: Simon Fayer, Adam Huffman, Duncan Rand, Andrew Lahiff, David
Colling, Gareth Roy, Kashif Mohammed, Pete Gronbech, Raul Lopes, Wahid
Bhimji, Andrew McNab, Ewan MacMahon
1. Clouds and VMs
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ATLAS
CMS
Andrew:
Jelena at RAL testing analysis jobs on different clouds
Not much production work at the moment, so harder to test that
David:
Scale testing at CERN
LHCb
Using OpenStack at CERN, now running flat-out
Running much longer jobs, to avoid time wasted with VM turnover
Deployed new pilot framework
Still running VMs on clouds and Vac sites
Started running on EGI FedCloud via OCCI
GridPP jobs can now run on CERN OpenStack
STFC
Andrew:
OpenNebula cloud being used for Tier 1 and other STFC testing
Testing batch system expansion to use cloud resources and shrinkage
when cloud busy (using HTCondor daemons)
Not open for external users yet
IC
Not much to report
Andrew McNab using IC OCCI interface for testing
Manchester
Andrew McNab
Vac and Vcycle changes to minimise site admin remotely
Boot image fetched remotely and provided automatically by Vcycle
Looking at Vcycle accounting and wider accounting of cloud usage
Some risk of double counting
Will test this at IC
Oxford
Ewan:
Vac being enabled for CMS and APEL accounting being configured
Adding to site entry in GOCDB should be sufficient for accounting
Kashif:
OpenStack now running with Neutron and working on OCCI
2. Storage
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Wahid:
pre-GDB on storage protocols
See pre-GDB summary slides
https://indico.cern.ch/event/319743/session/1/contribution/2/material/slides/1.pdf
ATLAS still relying on SRM for deletions, for example
There should be a summary of what sites need to offer to support a
particular experiment
3. Networking
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Duncan:
IPv6 F2F meeting at CERN next week
4. HEP Software Foundation
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Andrew McNab will talk about how they can help with small projects
like Vac and Vcycle
e.g. lack of ability to disseminate technical notes currently
5. Security
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6. AOB
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