MinutesJan24

Introduction

• Attendees: Neha, Suchandra, Jeff, Anand, Marsha Teckenbrock, Burt, Xin, Chris Green, Tom, Rob Quick, Horst, Anne, Jay, Gabrielle
• Apologies: none
• Coordinates: Thursdays, 2:30pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MeetingMinutes
• OSG 0.8/ITB 0.7 background
  • ReleaseDocumentation

Documentation (Anne)

• Documentation group has a few questions on twiki and website:
  • Where do people enter the opensciencegrid.org or do people use the opensciencegrid.org site?
  • Does anyone go to main page of twiki?
• Anne and Marsha would like any further suggestions or comments
• Anne and Marsha may try bringing this up in site admins meeting or osg users mailing list

Gratia report (Chris)

• Wed. meeting didn't address everything so a followup meeting might be scheduled
• Discussed BNL's requests:
  • Several ways to address requests (queues in batch systems tha support this, etc.)
  • No generic way to do this but probes on gatekeeper can be modified to label things differently based on resource
• Report that took several hours to generate required generating summary tables (a bit of a red herring due to the initial processing required to scan all records and generate summary table)
• Need to collaborate with RSV team to determine the best way to coordinate efforts -- will be taken up in accounting meeting
• Gratia project is collecting requirements for future releases, interested parties should send requirements asap so that they can be considered

Interoperability (Burt)

• Biweekly meetings occurring with EGEE
• Discussed operational testing issues
• Burt will put up meeting minutes later
• Short to medium term: SAM testing on ITB sites
• G-lite software is being tested off and on as patching occurs
• Want to move beyond testing ops test and test VO software
  • CMS will try testing on FNAL ITB site
  • Other VOs encouraged to try testing as well
• Request to have ITB representative in the EGEE production bdii * Request so that production jobs can be sent to ITB site * Burt will get clarification since opposite request made previously

Dcache testing/release (Ted)

• Site report:
  • UC_ITB
    • installed dcache 2.1.2 release, ran into problems with client tools
    • working on resolving client tool issues with Neha
  • LBNL
    • installed dcache 2.1.2 release
    • ran into problems validating but working with Neha on fixing this
  • BNL
    • will install next week
• VTB meeting next week will go over further testing of ITB dcache installations
• Yesterday's release has fixes for space reservations
• Email sent to osg-integration list on using space reservations
• Documentation on validating space reservations will be posted
• Neha wrote test suite for fermi clients, will make this available
• Testing focused on new patch, that fixes replica manager
• If everything looks good, RC2 candidate based on replica manager patches will be released

VDT update procedure

• Terrence and Alain couldn't make this

WS-GRAM testing (Jeff)

• See WSGramValidation for summary information
• Server handles scaling well so far
• Problems appeared on client load and client settings
• Next steps include is VO validation

AOB

• CEMon team is about ready to work on packaging new CEMon release
  • Wants ITB/VTB help in testing
  • Would like to start packaging next week
  • Would to have release tested and in osg 1.0
  • New release include storage and other information but infrastructure is the same
  • UC, BNL and Burt/Tony will provide some help for this