Tech Meeting Minutes 20110203

From ScotGrid

Present: Mike, Wahid, Andy, David, Sam, Mark, Peter, Stuart

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=124910

Backlink: http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ScotGrid_Technical_Meetings

Hot Topics

• Durham
  • Power shut down not going ahead this weekend (5th Feb)
  • Maintenance work going ahead
  • Cream CE to go ahead
  • ILC Issue fixed
  • Bio-Med Cleared
  • Security Patching

• Edinburgh
  • LHCb 400 - 500 jobs running
  • Accounting missing for accounting APEL error
  • Power Work at the weekend due (12th Feb)
  • Downtime Scheduled for the weekend (5th)

• Glasgow
  • WMS Investigation ongoing
  • All available storage back on line.
  • LHCb transfer Issue resolved

• GGUS Tickets Open:

• • High rate of phenogrid job failures
  • Durham: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66928
  • Edinburgh: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66942
  • Glasgow: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66929

• • Edinburgh maybe able to close this ticket as Pheno VO no longer supported on the site.

However Edinburgh are willing to re-instate this VO if requested.

• • Clean of MCDISK space token and supply of syncat.xml dump of storage
  • Durham: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66918
  • Edinburgh: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66918
  • Glasgow: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66916

• GGUS Tickets Resolved:

• • Edinburgh: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66822

Resolved

• • Durham: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=65923 (ILC authentication) Resolved
  • Glasgow: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66080 (looks solved) Resolved
  • Glasgow: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=66203 (LHCb uploads) Resolved

Action Review

• Durham
  • Auto restart of daemons and central syslog are on the task list.
  • Need to do CREAM CE (5th Feb)

• Glasgow
  • RAL - Glasgow Network Speed Confirmation test. To be conducted on Tues 8th of Feb. (David Crooks/Mark Mitchell)
  • Internal LAN bench marking. (David Crooks/Mark Mitchell)
  • NAT Upgrade to support DSACK/SACK (David Crooks/Mark Mitchell)
  • Network Monitoring Enhancements (David Crooks/Mark Mitchell)

AOB

• Next meeting: Feb 10, http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=126109, Graeme will chair.