WLCG Operations Coordination Minutes, May 2, 2024

Highlights

Agenda

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1411424/

Attendance

• local:
• remote:
• apologies:

Operations News

Special topics

HammerCloud status and plans

htgettoken + HashiCorp Vault as a Service for Managing Grid Tokens

Middleware News

• Useful Links
  • WLCGBaselineTable
• Baselines/News
  • While the UMD-5 for EL9 is not ready yet, the BDII auxiliary rpms
    have been made available from the WLCG repository
    • For EL9 and EL8
    • The BDII itself is available from EPEL

Tier 0 News

Tier 1 Feedback

Tier 2 Feedback

Experiments Reports

ALICE

ATLAS

CMS

• overall smooth data taking and computing operations
  • core usage between 310k and 580k cores
  • due to HPC/opportunistic contributions
  • almost all production activities now Run 3
  • back to a more usual production/analysis split of about 3:1
  • various monitoring outages the last weeks.
• work on SRM to REST migration for tape endpoints continues
  • four done / four remaining
• phasing out SRMv2/GSIftp/gridFTP at sites
  • 20 done / 20 remaining
• three remaining DPM sites to migrate
• token migration progressing steadily
• waiting on python3 version/port of HammerCloud
• we will ask sites to remove x86-64-v1 microarchitecture worker nodes with the end of SL7, i.e. June 30, for CMS (five sites, less than 100 Worker nodes)

LHCb

Task Forces and Working Groups

Accounting TF

Migration from DPM to the alternative solutions

Information System Evolution TF

IPv6 Validation and Deployment TF

Detailed status here.

Monitoring

Network Throughput WG

WG for Transition to Tokens and Globus Retirement

Action list

Specific actions for experiments

Specific actions for sites

AOB