MinutesITBMay15

Introduction

• Attendees: Suchandra, Michael Thomas, Tony, Rob Quick, Abhishek, Xin, Anand, Karthik, Britta, Steve, Neha, Tim C, Gabrielle, Jeff Porter
• Apologies: Rob Gardner
• Coordinates: Thursday, 2:30pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MeetingMinutes
• OSG 0.8/ITB 0.7 background
  • ReleaseDocumentation

VDT Updates/Release (Tim)

• VDT 1.10.1 released yesterday day
• Final numbered version
• Will be lettered updates but those can be made using pacman updates to current version
• CEMon should work with this update
• VDT 1.10.1a update:
  • Probably going in next week
  • Will have small tweak to voms-proxy-info
• Mysql update for gratia in a later update to VDT 1.10.1

• Updates:
  • FNAL -- tomorrow morning for a few hours
  • Anand -- CIGI already updated, validating and configuring
  • BNL -- Working on dcache, will update CE afterwards
  • LBNL -- CE updated, worker nodes will be update
  • CIT_CMS_T2 - updating this afternoon
  • OU - Updating monday

Site Reports

• FNAL_ITB
  • No issues
• BNL_ITB
  • Running into problems with dcache update
  • new server startup script fails even if pnfs mount succeeds
  • Problem with gratia dcache accounting code and start up failure
• UC_ITB
  • Doing updates this afternoon
• OU_HEP_ITB
  • Reported error with certificates not getting updated
  • Syslog-ng issue will check with new release (1.10.1 updated syslog-ng)
• CIT_CMS_T2
  • Problem with LIGO -- remote_initial_dir related issue
• CIGI_ITB
  • No issues
• LBNL
  • Ubuntu securities/certs issued affected uptime
  • OSG_GRID wasn't defined on CE
  • Condor issue with local universe
  • Bestman validation revealed an incorrect configuration parameter

Site Validation Table (Jeff)

• Validation Table
• Will look at bdii/cemon validation after sites update
• Interop validation will start when bdii/cemon issue verified as being fixed

VO Validation (Abhishek)

• ATLAS will validate on UC_ITB
• CDF will validate next week
• CIGI validation ongoing
• DZero, Fermilab, Nanohub, SBGrid, STAR, Engage, SDSS/DES validation ongoing
• SDSS had problem with fermigrid
• Compbiogrid will not validate
• Opportunistic storage will be starting now:
  • Testing will start shortly
  • Will try to test as much as possible within the given
  • Trying with FNAL
  • CIGI ran into problems with BNL/UC_ITB
  • Bestman testing: * CDF, SDSS tied to dcache * Engage, SBGrid may have time to test against bestman * CIGI would be willing to test bestman
• VO deadline on May 27th

Documentation

• Suchandra will create documentation report/table on Monday
• Will review documentation table and review assignments next week
• Steve will update full privilege mode documentation

AOB

-- SuchandraThapa - 24 Apr 2008