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Grid
Deployment Board (GDB)
Web - Wiki - Agendas - Minutes
13 May 2009 – GDB Meeting – Agenda
GGUS Structure and Workflow Changes – M.Dimou presented the
latest improvement in the GGUS user support system and the changes in the
EGEE support procedures.
Updates on Storage - R.Graciani Diaz presented the LHCb tests
and G.Lo Presti the SRM Usage Statistics.
SL5 Requirements – P.Mato presented the Experiment requirements
for SL5 deployment and A.Graeme his experience in memory usage in SL5 64
bits mode.
Experiments Data Flows and Use Cases – ATLAS, CMS and LHCb
presented the data flows and requirements coming from the use cases
described in their Computing Models and that they expect to be supported by
the WLCG Sites. .
In addition there were updates on
the Pilot Jobs and CREAM CE status and progress.
12 May 2009 – Pre-GDB Meeting – Agenda
Support for WLCG after EGEE - Each Tier-1 Site presented their
plans for supporting the WLCG Operations after the end of the EGEE project.
I.Bird presented the WLCG requirements and J.Knobloch the status and
outlook of the EGI initiative.
8 April 2009 – GDB Meeting – Agenda
STEP09 Preparation – The four LHC Experiments presented their
plans for the STEP09 tests in preparation for data-taking in 2009.
Security Service Challenge Results- S.Gabriel presented the
preliminary results on the security challenge that was run in March 2009.
Authorization Service and Identity Management – The status and
progress of the EGEE Authorization Service were presented and
discussed. As well as the level of
assurance and management of users identity.
Distributed Mionitoring – EGEE and OSG presented their tools
and operations for distributed monitoring of the respective grid
infrastructures.
In addition there were updates on
the SRM V2.2, Pilot Jobs and Middleware status and progress
11 March 2009 – GDB Meeting – Agenda
CREAM CE Presentations – Several presentations covered the
status of the development, testing, performance and deployment of the CREAM
CE. And ALICE presented their initial experience using the CREAM CE.
Multi-node Pilot Jobs Presentations - Several presentations
covered the status of the development, testing, performance and deployment
of the SCAS system. ATLAS and CMS presented their initial experience using
Multi-node Pilot Jobs.
Installed Capacity Reports – S.Traylen presented the activity
of publishing information in order to provide the WLCG management with a
view of the total installed capacity and resource usage by VOs at sites.
In addition there were updates on Porting WN to SL5 64 Bits and Middleware status and progress.
8 June 2009 – Minutes
RAL Power Outage
- A main outage of the RAL Tier1 (RAL-LCG2) will take place over a period
of a couple of weeks at the end of June and early July. A detailed blog of
the scheduled outages for component services is available. Link
18 May 2009 – Minutes
GLite 3.1 Update 46
Release – Update 46 includes DPM
and LFC 1.7. DPM
1.7 includes changes needed for correct publishing of installed storage
capacity at sites using this SE. Therefore all WLCG sites are strongly
encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. This update also included
updates to the VOMS client. This was not originally intended, but RPM
dependencies made it necessary.
GLite 3.2 Moving to
Pre-Production - The gLite 3.2 UI (on 64 bit SL5) will be moving to the
PPS this week.
11 May 2009 – Minutes
Sites Should Test SCAS/glExec - Tier1s and bigger Tier2s are encouraged by the WLCG management
board to deploy SCAS/glExec for testing in a production environment, to be
done through the pilot installation the SCAS team. There is an interesting
post on the GridPP blog concerning High Availability LFC. Link
4 May 2009 – Minutes
CREAM CE for CMS - Request to sites supporting CMS to deploy CREAM CEs in production,
or to enable CMS in the existing ones if this is not the case, to support
the CMS CREAM pilot which has decided to focus activity in a new instance
of WMS-ice deployed at CNAF pointing to production cream CEs.
CE Information - VO related info published by YAIM
for CEs maybe incorrect, only for new installations (new CEs), read release
notes for update 45 to gLite 3.1 sites without 64 bits capability have to
stay with gLite 3.1 for now; no plans at the moment to deprecate gLite 3.1,
depends on how long need to be supported before all hw at the sites moves
to 64 bits.
27 April 2009 – Minutes
Issues with 64 Bits
WNs - Sites in the UK and in South East Europe highlighted the fact
that they will rely on strictly 32 bit hardware for some time. As such the
final demise of gLite 3.1 as being the last 32 bit release is very
significant to them.
20 April 2009 – Minutes
GLite Update 44 Released - gLite 3.1
update 44 with CREAM-CE released to Production and is especially useful for
CMS and ALICE.
6 April 2009 – Minutes
RSS Feed for Downtime Modifications - ATLAS
requested for the RSS feed to be updated if a downtime is modified, and the
modification itself logged. GLite releases are on schedule. There are now
reference cards for gLite services.
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General News and Main Events
LCG Meetings - Calendar
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9-10
July 2009
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WLCG
STEP'09 Post-Mortem Workshop - CERN.
Agenda
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8
September 2009
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Grid
Deployment Board (GDB) - CERN.
GDB
Agenda
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21-25
September 2009
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EGEE
2009 Conference – Barcelona
Web Site
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14
October 2009
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Grid
Deployment Board (GDB) - CERN.
GDB
Agenda
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Management Board (MB)
Web - Wiki - Members - Agendas - Minutes
9 June 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
ALICE SAM Tests Results – P.Mendez-Lorenzo commented
the SAM results for May and explained the usage of SAM and the dashboard in
ALICE.
ATLAS SAM Tests Results – A.Di Girolamo commented the SAM
results for May and explained the usage of SAM and the dashboard in ATLAS.
LHCb SAM Tests Results – R.Santinelli commented the
SAM results for May and explained the usage of SAM and the dashboard in
LHCb.
26 May 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
LCG Operations Report – H.Renshall presented a
summary of status and progress of the LCG Operations.
Tier-1
Tape Metrics – Progress and status on
using SLS for Tapes Metrics at the WLCG Tier-1 Sites.
SL5
and glExec at the GDB – J.Gordon summarized the
presentations and discussions that had taken place and the previous GDB
Meeting about SL5 and the glExec deployment.
12 May 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
EGI
Preparation – I.Bird summarized for the
MB the ongoing discussions about the preparation of the EGI initiative as a
follow-up to the EGEE project and infrastructure.
LCG Operations Report – H.Renshall presented a
summary of status and progress of the LCG Operations.
WLCG Technical Forum - The need of a WLCG Technical
Forum has already been agreed in previous meetings by the MB. I.Bird
proposed goals, mandate and membership of such Technical Forum. The Forum
should produce documents for discussion in the GDB, and for endorsement by
the WLCG MB.
28 April 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
LCG Operations Report – D.Duellmann presented a
summary of status and progress of the LCG Operations. The daily meetings
summaries are available :Link
C-RRB Meeting Summary - I.Bird
summarized the C-RRB meeting that took place in the morning: The updated
requests were presented as discussed. As well as a C-RSG preliminary report
that concluded that 2008/9 pledges should be sufficient for 2009/10.
GDB and Technical Forum Mandates – The MB
discussed and clarified the roles and scopes of the GDB and of the new WLCG
Technical Forum.
21 April 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
ALICE 2009Q1 QR
Report - Y.Schutz presented the 2009Q1 quarterly report for the ALICE
software and services.
Update High Level
Milestones - The MB reviewed and commented the future milestones in the
WLCG High Level Milestones dashboard.
LCG Operations Report – O.Barring presented a summary
of status and progress of the LCG Operations. The daily meetings summaries
are available :Link
14 April 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
CMS 2009Q1 QR Report
– M.Kasemann presented the 2009Q1 quarterly report for the CMS software and
services. And their planes for 2009.
LHCb 2009Q1 QR
Report – U.Marconi presented the 2009Q1 quarterly report for the LHCb
software and services. And their planes for 2009.
LCG Operations Report – H.Renshall presented a
summary of status and progress of the LCG Operations. The daily meetings
summaries are available :Link
7 April 2009 – Agenda, Minutes
Experiments
Requirements for 2009/10– The MB discussed the requirements distributed
by the Experiments. I.Bird summarized what will be reported to the upcoming
RRB meeting.
LCG Operations Report – J.Shiers presented a summary
of status and progress of the LCG Operations. The daily meetings summaries
are available :Link
ATLAS 2009Q1 QR
Report – D.Barberis presented the 2009Q1 quarterly report for the ATLAS
software and services. And their planes for 2009.
Users Analysis
Support - M.Lamanna reported on the progress in Support for User
Analysis in IT/GS, and as a follow up of the analysis support session at
the WLCG Workshop.
Architects Forum (AF)
Minutes
- Web
14 May 2009 - Minutes
Build Servers for
Experiments – Discussion and clarification on how to improve the communication
channels with IT Department for issues related to the IT build servers
(lxbuild).
Update on SL5 -
Reviewed all additional pending issues for the SLC5 migration of the
Applications Area software.
Workshop on
Multi-core and Virtualization - Preparation of the Workshop on adapting
applications and computing services to multi-core and virtualization.
16 April 2009 - Minutes
ATLAS Migration to
SVN - Update of the ATLAS status and plans for the migration from the
CVS code repository to the SVN one.
Agreed on LCGCMT_56a
Contents - Discussed and agreed the contents for the proposed new
configuration (LCGCMT_56a).
Issues with SLC5
Migration - Reviewed additional pending issues for the SLC5 migration
and how to improve communication. Missing recent update on the concrete
plans of deployment of it at CERN.
ATLAS 64 bits Apps
Footprint - ATLAS reported a significant reduction of the virtual
memory needs for 64 bit binaries such that they can run 64 bit applications
on the Grid.
2 April 2009 - Minutes
Migration from CVS
to SVN - Discussion on the CVS to SVN migration of experiments code
repositories. Changes in the priorities and plans from the experiments due
to the new LHC schedule.
SLC5 Migration
Issues - CERNLIB libraries has been re-compiled and tested by ATLAS.
New failures of the FIO provided SLC55 lxbuild nodes for the nightly build
service(s). Slow responsiveness. Released new version of gLite for SLC5 (64
bit)
Virtualization
Workshop - A lot of interest and nice feedback for both multi-core and
virtualization R&D activities at CHEP. Starting to prepare the workshop
on adapting applications and computing services to multi-core and
virtualization.
19 March 2009 - Minutes
Geant4 Patch
Released - A new Geant4 patch for 9.2 was released last Monday. CMS was
waiting for it. Both ATLAS and CMS are now aligned to the same version of
Geant4.
SLC5 Migration
Issues - One of the biggest problems for the SLC5 migration is being
the slow acquisition and correct configuration of the lxbuild nodes. The
CERNLIB libraries need to be re-compiled with -fPIC to avoid the problem
with SELinux detected by ATLAS.
Experiment SLC5
Migration Status - CMS is prioritizing on the 64 bit version first.
LHCb is running SLC5 native code on the nightly builds. ATLAS is also currently
integrating on the nightly builds. ALICE already migrated.
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