Introduction

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Introduction

John Gordon, STFCGDB meeting @CERN January 11th 2012

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Since the Previous Meeting

• The Higgs was discovered!• All our hard work justified

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• Continue with the second Wednesday • Rooms booked• Jan 11th – start at 1300 – devote to TEG?• March 21st, • April 18th – avoids Easter Week• May is 2 weeks clear of CHE

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GDB meetings in 2012

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• January 11 • February 8 • March 21• April 18• May 9 • June 13

• July 11• August 8• September 12• October 10• November 14• December 12

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• TEG F2F, Amsterdam, 23-26th January 2012• LHCOPN/LHCONE, LBL, 30-31 January 2012 • ISGC, Taipei, 26 February - 2 March 2012• OGF 34, Oxford 11-14 March• EGI User Forum, Munich, 26-30 March

– Also EMI Technical Forum• HEPiX Spring Meeting, Prague, 23-27 April 2012• WLCG Workshop, NYC, 19-20th May 2012• CHEP2012, NYC, 21-25th May 2012• EGI Technical Forum, Prague, September 2012• HEPiX Fall Meeting, IHEP, October 2012

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Forthcoming Events

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• MU Pilot Jobs (TEG) , • SCAS, Argus, gLExec (TEG)• CREAM • Virtualisation • Installed capacity• OPN, LHCONE• CVMFS• Information Service• Supported WMS?• Site Dashboard?• glite-cluster

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GDB Issues

CERN IT Department

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerlandwww.cern.ch/

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PES CVMFS Deployment Update.• New CERN IT Stratum Zero service live.

– All Stratum 1s now using this stratum zero.• Incident over Xmas break.

– RAL had not been advised to migrate to IT stratum zero before xmas.

– PH stratum failed at new year.• RAL migrated to IT Stratum one at this point.

– SLS probe now being developed to check stratum one consistency.

• IT maintained CVMFS install machines:– A new cvmfs server update was installed within CERN IT

just before xmas.– The update addressed some requirements for running

within IT.• Testing underway.

GDB Jan 11th 2012, Steve Traylen

CERN IT Department

CH-1211 Geneva 23

Switzerlandwww.cern.ch/

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PES Middleware Requirements

• DEADLINE 15 January• To submit new middleware requirements by

January 15 2012. The call for requirements concerns all the deployed middleware stacks that are currently supported in EGI - ARC, gLite, GLOBUS and UNICORE.

• To EGI, directly or through your NGI.

WLCG Desy 2011 Day 1 Summary

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• In a survey by EGI a significant number of sites said that they would be interested in the middleware supporting the SLURM batch system.

• https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/faq.html

SLURM

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• TEG Day 7th Feb.• TEG Summary@GDB• Site Dashboard• Other Site Issues

February

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• So how has this gone?• No CERN Credentials?• Audio?• Video?• Phone Bridge?• Chat?• File Sharing• PIN• Do we use it again?

Vidyo?

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• Information Services• IPv6• Middleware• RFC Proxies• chroots

Today

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WLCG Workshop, May, NYC

GDB Chair• Process:

– Search committee of 4 national members of the GDB– Ask for proposals for candidates– Candidates don't have to be members of the GDB– Term as chair is 2 years, can be extended by 2 year periods

• Proposed timescale:– Find the search committee by January GDB– Accept proposals until March– Vote in the March GDB– Hand over in May (or by agreement)

• Now:– Search committee - myself, John, + 2 volunteers! (please !)– You can already propose candidates for the chair to me...