Minutes ITBMay 27

Introduction

• Attendees: Jeff, Ted, Burt, Anand, Abhishek, Steve, Suchandra, Xin, Tim
• Apologies: Horst, Karthik
• Coordinates: Tuesday, 4:00pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MeetingMinutes

Software Status

• VDT update planning (Tim)
  • hope to cut release tomorrow which includes
    • update to glexec appears to be ready - still testing it * Steve asked about symlink on 64 bit machine, He tested it and found that it is Not fixed.
    • bestman updates
    • gratia probes updates
  • GIP patches (e.g. for pbs) aren't in yet but should be sent to vdt team tonight or tomorrow. Can release wait?
• Configure-osg.py
  • Is it ready as the configuration tool for release with OSG-1.0?
  • Should configure-osg.sh be officially deprecated?
  • Suchandra plans on including links to configure-osg.sh docs in main documentation

Site/Service Validation Status (Jeff)

• Validation Table
  • Interoperability: Trying to overcome manpower vacuum last week, just now able to excersize some of the ITB compute elements
    • some problems not finding wn-client softarefor globus file transfer
    • some ITBs (CIT & Purdue) appear to not support ops VO
    • may be an operational issue with BDII flushing data at a faster rate than CEMon updates
    • storage elements test had some problem at fermigrid, while UC & BNL SE's didn't support OPS VO
  • SE validation table
    • RSV probe requires update for directory name change
    • FNAL-SE validated other categories successfully.
    • BNL found problems with Replica manager reported to Storage Group
    • UC will continue validating gratia & report later in the week
    • LBNL - most columns are not applicable to Bestman, though it is passing nightly tests. Working on GIP configuration

VO Validations (Abhishek)

• Green lights from 7 of the 12 participating VOs.
  • DZero (1 of the 7) & LBNL are still debugging what looks like a site-specific (non-OSG) issue
• Atlas and CMS are limiting tests to their own ITB sites and will likely sign off soon
• Engage and SBGrid appear satisfied but may or may not still test opportunistic storage
  • Jeff and Abhishek think they should try to finish up by Thursday's meeting
• CDF
  • successfully tested SE on 3 of 4 with the essential problem having been a fnal/kerberos non-osg bug.
  • successfully tested CE on 3 of 5 sites and will hopefully wrap up Validation this week

Documentation

• Review Status

AOB

-- JeffPorter - 27 May 2008