MinutesAug9

Introduction

Minutes of the Integration meeting, Aug 9, 2007

• Last meetings: MinutesAug2
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• Coordinates: 2:30pm Central, 1-510-665-5437 1212

Attending

• Meeting attendees: Rob, Suchandra, Charles, Michael, Jeff, Anne, Alain, Ted, Arvind, Alan, Anand, Charles B, Tanya, RobQ, Xin, JohnW, Steve, Stu
• Apologies: none

VDT/VTB testing (Suchandra)

• 4 VTB sites (UC, FNAL, LBNL, Caltech)
• Suchandra notes there have been a minor change to the VTB packages. One more change to handle CA certificate update package? Alain notes there is an rpm for these, and a once-a-day mechanism to check. This means you don't need to use pacman to do this - then you'll never be behind. But what happens if you do a Pacman update? Suggest putting the vdt updater in as a default.
• Suchandra would rather this go into configure-osg.
• What other packages were missing? osg-site-validate, and the gratia metric probe.
• UC, LBL, CIT

ITB Deployment Readiness (RobQ)

• UC, FNAL (gridex jobs failing), IU (gridex jobs succeeding), FNAL test install (condor-dev)
• Would like change to configure-osg: change to pre-config addresses.
• Rob needs to get into the RT system.
• GUMS to be installed and tested (Alan).
• Gratia collector is broken for the ITB (replication is not working). A new instance will be set for the ITB.
  • The replication feature is broken in the current VDT.
  • Is the Gratia collector required in a CE install? Chris Green things not. (A couple of sites, UCSD and Cornell, have discussed having their own, and forwarding.)
• BDII - will pair down to the.
• Need a pacman package for VOMRS.
• ITB 0.7 release web: ReleaseDocumentation
• Schedule: one more VTB rev, one more ITB rev. Will send email.

ITB Validation (Jeff)

• ValidationTestbed
• Need to setup equivalent of SiteValidationTableITB052
• Jeff will get this setup for ITB 070, and will bring Charles up to speed.
• Will work on service validation links.
• Need to check site names in the table.
• Move to 0_7 web.

RSV (Arvind)

• http://peart.ucs.indiana.edu/docs/osg/vdt-package.html
• A little behind - pieces of the collection / scheduling infrastructure are not quite ready. On VDT pieces, a new person is coming up to speed, expect to be done in a week.
• Get into touch with Jeff.

VOMS and VOMRS (Tanya)

• Is providing documentation.
• We need to get another site outside of Fermilab to test.

GUMS

• John Hover will work on documentation changes. Jay will update in the near term.
• TTU, UC, CIT at least, will be testing.

OSG SE: SRM/dCache (Ted)

• Links are on the webpage for ITB testing for SRM-dCache.
• Alan will get the bestman links into the ITB page.

Documentation (Anne)

I need some feedback for me to move ahead. See my emails of 8/6 3:07 and 8/8 4:16pm. Main issues:

• reviews of my proposed changes to several docs in release doc table
• page template (blank? add search?) leave it for now
• Will put search functionality on each page. Try out.
• doc-by-function table -- proceed as in DocumentationSiteFunctionTable, or better way?
• Charles Bacon - notes that in Globus project experience you need good underlying structure. Impose order from the top down.

Also:

• can I go into ITB 070 docs and alter/replace them at this stage? Yes
• can you suggest a site admin to consult on Documentation/AdminDocCE?
• ditto (but VO admin) for Documentation/VoManageDocHub

*Provid

WS gram testing update (Suchandra)

• A lot of benchmarks performed in the last week. gt4 out-performing gt2, significantly, but checking results.

ITB Site readiness (Site admins)

TO UPDATE:

• FermiGrid
  • Up now, and will pacman-update tomorrow, SE will be dcache 1.7 (existing).
• BNL is setting up a ITB testbed (gateway, 5 worker nodes, 50GB dcache SRM)
  • hardware set up and waiting for software
  • SRM testbed ready by end of next week, 16 TB Sun thumper (still working on this); will also worker nodes.
• UC
  • Ready to go - mid week.
  • Will setup dcache srm; reconfigure pbs to use compute nodes.
• CIT
  • Next week. One gk, 5 wn, FC4.
• LBNL
  • VTB site will be re-used as ITB site; 1 gk and three wn. Potentially another cluster?
• OU
  • ITB cluster - 8 node, 1 gk. Ready - tomorrow, or monday.
• TTU
  • 1 gk, 2 dual cpu nodes; srm-bestman (VDT, no ITB cache): done . Ready tomorrow.
• IU
  • 1 gk, no wn.
• CIT-CMS
  • Will put up a ITB site; install on top of production 240 batch slots with default priorities. Will dedicate 8-12 slots for ITB. Next Friday at earliest.
  • Will put in CE hw in place tomorrow; GUMS install.

Carry over from last meeting

• Storage verify script. This was done by John R in the past; Arvind will check with RobQ.
• Is this replaced by the srm-tester? (Note there is no storage testing in RSV - this will be in the next round.)

New action items

• See the above.

-- RobGardner - 07 Aug 2007