MinutesITBApr24

Introduction

• Attendees: Arvind, Suchandra, John Weigand, Gabrielle, Karthik, Parag, Jeff, Burt, Michael Thomas, Tanya, Xin, Britta, Anand, Abhishek, Rob Gardner
• Apologies:
• Coordinates: Thursdays, 2:30pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MeetingMinutes
• OSG 0.8/ITB 0.7 background
  • ReleaseDocumentation

VTB/ITB site list

• ITB Sites List
• VTB Sites List
• Validation Table

Configure-osg (Suchandra)

• Updating configure-osg with new release
• Several bug fixes
• Will extract gip cluster and storage information more reliably

VO Testing preparation

• Got responses from several VOs
• Trying to get CIGI and SBGrid to participate
• Site Reports:
  • BNL - CE ready, Dcache will be up tomorrow
  • UC_ITB - CE ready, Dcache will be ready tomorrow
  • CIT_CMS_T2 - Will update with vdt 1.10.0a update, has dcache and squid ready
  • CIGI_ITB - Will update with vdt 1.10.0a update
  • OU_HEP_T2 - Ready for testing, DOSAR already validated
• Opportunistic Storage
  • Trying to get CMS, dzero, cms, ligo, cigi to participate as users
  • CMS, ATLAS, and a few other VOs may participate as providers
  • Storage policies dependent on site (e.g. whether VOs get space allocated or a pool is provided for all VOs)
  • Dominant use case -- long term storage of large amounts of data

Validation

• CEMon Validation results
  • CEMon problems on BNL resolved
• Gratia
  • Large contribution from UCSD_CMS_T2
  • Server will be up on 8885 for sanctioned ITB sites
  • Suchandra will send sanctioned list to Gabriele
• Storage * Storage group will be updating validation instructions next week

Clearing ITB data collection services (RobQ?)

• VORS and BDII lists will be updated to match current ITB list

Bugs/Todo

• Jeff is looking at a pbs gip issue with Brian
  • Corrected by Brian
• CEMon
  • Duplicated entries seen
  • Burt will be contacted and to see if the problem is CEMon or

AOB

• ITB meeting will occur in VTB timeslot next week due to Sites Coordination meeting on Thursday

-- SuchandraThapa - 24 Apr 2008