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Monday 16th April

• UMD3 is being retired on April 30 
• EGI ops meeting: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-04-09
• canvas sites to ascertain when they want to spend money and determine how disk will be phased out.

Tuesday 20th March

• The deadline for GridPP40 registration is 3pm today.

Monday 5th March

• For the WLCG-HSF workshop: ideas, plans or proposals for technology watch activities requested. Please let Helge et. al. know by Monday 19 March. They would particularly appreciate proposals in the form of a single PowerPoint slide.
• GridPP technical meeting this Friday will focus on CentOS7. (Here is a link to 2nd March agenda for Vidyo details).
• WLCG baseline for Singularity - 2.4.2
• Need for JISC list VO-ADMINS.
• WLCG T2 availability & reliability - January 2018

Monday 26th February

• WLCG-HSF Workshop in Naples
• Minutes of the weekly WLCG weekly ops meeting are available here.
• Alessandra: Mentioned here grid enabled GPU behind an ARC-CE implementation.
• GalDyn and GridPP. Would like to submit work to DiRAC and make use of GridPP resources.
• GridPP40 registration is open.
• Rajan: SL7 UI Machine

Monday 16th April

• There was a meeting on 12th. Agenda | Minutes.
  • Balazs Konya is new in the role of WLCG Middleware Officer.
  • Next meeting 7th June.
  • Delay for submission of GGUS tickets for recalculation should be respected. It is 10 days after monthly drafts of the availability reports are sent around by WLCG project office. If the GGUS tickets are not submitted respecting 10 days delay, they are not accepted.
  • A/R recalculations will be accepted if they are relevant to the site MoU commitment or concern time ranges of sufficient length.

Monday 5th March

• The agenda and minutes from the WLCG ops coordination meeting last week are available.
• Special topics were: CNAF recovery update; SAM recalculation policy draft discussion and Progress on WLCG Storage Space Accounting Prototype including tape metrics.

Tuesday 27th February

• Next WLCG Operations Coordination meeting will take place this Thursday 1st of March starting at 15:30 CEST.

Tuesday 10th April Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 4th April is here.

• The Castor intervention scheduled for 1st March that was cancelled owing to staff availability in the poor weather was successfully carried out on the 27th March. (This was an update to the back-end databases).
• An update to CEPH is being applied to Echo. This is a bugfix for the 'backfill' bug. This means it will be easier to add new hardware (new capacity) into Echo.
• The problems with data flows through the site firewall being restricted is still present. New firewall equipment has been delivered and is scheduled for installation in a few weeks time.

Wed 04 Apr

• Report from WLCG workshop in Naples

Wed 28 Mar

• Report from Data Centre World expo

Wed 14 Mar

• Reports from LHCOPN and UKT0 meetings
  • RAL joining LHCONE
• Agenda for GridPP40 revisited - again

Tuesday 10 Apr

• Vac 3.0 and Vcycle 1.0 released: see GridPP40 talk for details. In particular, it is now possible to add all the GridPP DIRAC VOs to a Vac or Vcycle site with three lines of configuration.

Tuesday 3 Apr

• Vac 02.00.03 released with a workaround for CernVM bug CVM-1501, which is due to a bug in Cloud Init 0.7.5 which CernVM 3 has used since Thursday of last week. VM creation fails due to malformed EC2 meta-data URLs.

Tuesday 27 Mar

• Vac 3.0pre publishing capacity info and VO shares to GOCDB

Tuesday 20 Mar

• Working Puppet configuration for Vac 3.0pre

Tuesday 6th February

• HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. GridPP benchmarking page

Tuesday 30th January

• Please keep updating the GridPP benchmarking page.

Tuesday 24th Oct

• A talk on end-to-end validation of any site's APEL accounting was presented at the WLCG Accountuing Taskforce meeting, 19th Oct. There slides exist here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/673843/contributions/2756986/attachments/1542818/2420233/blackBoxAccTesting.pdf

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.

• APEL status: An issue at Sheffield?

Tuesday 6th March 2018

The DTEAM VO has now changed its VOMS server. Please see alert notice here: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs

Tuesday 22nd Jan 2018

CHANGE TO APPROVED VOs

• New Approved VO

A VO, solidexperiment.org, has been included in the GridPP Approved VOs document. Sites are requested to support this experiment, resources permitting.

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

• In the Ops Portal, LHCb mentions a new cvmfs mount, /cvmfs/lhcb-condb.cern.ch

• A voms server for magic, voms02.pic.es, has an updated DN.

Tuesday 9th Jan 2018 Changes to Approved VOs.

a) VOMS servers for planck, ipv6.hepix.org and enmr are now restored to as they were before the flooding at CNAF. b) The DN of a VOMS server for magic has changed.

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

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.

Tuesday 6/3

• Next meeting on Monday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3639/

Tuesday 27th February

• The next EGI OMB is on Thursday 1st March at 10:00 CET.

Tuesday 30th January

• The next EGI OMB is this Thursday 2nd February.
  • we need someone to attend....

Tuesday 23rd January

• There was an EGI Operations Meeting last Monday: Agenda

• Middleware
  • Long list of updates in UMD 4.6
  • UMD3 deprecation - start using UMD4 as soon as possible
  • Products missing, let them know - this is a heads up

• Operations
  • New weights in A/R
  • "Several sites are still missing the necessary information for computing the weights: check on VAPOR the values published by your sites in order to properly publishing in the GLUE2 schema the number of logical CPUs and the Hep-Spec06 benchmark."
  • http://operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor/resources/GL2ResSummary
  • IPv6
  • https://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=IPV6_Assessment
  • webdav probes in production
  • "During the January OMB we are going to discuss the inclusion of the probes in the operators and in the critical profile" [may be superceded]
  • Storage accounting deployment
  • "IMPORTANT: be sure to have installed the star-accounting.py script v1.0.4"

• Next meeting: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3564/

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

• Sites are kindly invited to update the monitoring status page at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Site_monitoring_status

Tuesday 16th June

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

Monday 5th March

• AM->GS. A quiet week last week.

Monday 29th January

• There were a couple of alarms which showed up on the dashboard, but not on the corresponding nagios.
• DB got fed up with Imperial failing the job-cancel test for CREAM -- the CE is just busy and returns the cancelled state about 30 s after the test 'fails' -- so she filed a ticket questioning the usefulness of the test: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=133004.

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.

Monday 20th November

• IPv6: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status (up-to-date as of November)
• Batch systems and WN moves to SL7/CentOS7: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Batch_system_status (added column for date of last update)

Historical References

• Staged Rollout pages (now separated into EMI1 & 2), and the page listing the deployed versions is extractable from the bdii, so they should all be reasonably up-to-date:
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout.html
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout_emi2.html
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/state_of_the_nation.html

Tuesday 20th March

Communication challenge took place on Wednesday 14th March.

Monday 5th March

• memcached exploits and ...
• WISE meeting last week
• WLCG/HSF Workshop Security session: https://indico.cern.ch/event/658060/sessions/266391/#20180328

Tuesday 6th February on 2018

• Update on Meltdown/Spectre
• Security Team meeting this afternoon

- 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 19th February

Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are here. Current OS versions here.

Monday 5th February

• 'Campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop' in October 2016, had this agenda. Note particularly the Imperial and Cambridge overviews.
• There is a JISC document which seeks to help set expectations for what the network can deliver.

Monday 22nd January

• Registration is open for the next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: RAL, Abingdon UK, 6-7 March 2018.

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!

Monday 20th November

• The WLCG dashboard is available here: http://dashboard.cern.ch/.
• Please review the results on Steve's test pages.

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.

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.

• Impact
  • Citation policy (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/acknowledging.html)

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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.

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