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| Lisbon, Portugal | |||
| IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference | |||
| 50 | |||
| The 2012 IBERGRID conference was organized by LIP in Lisbon, Portugal. The main topics of IBERGRID 2012 Conference were: Infrastructures, Services and Operations, Innovation in the provision of IT services: virtualization and cloud computing, Data Management and Storage Systems, IT Management and Green Computing, EGI and WLCG Grid Computing Activities, Digital Repositories and Preservation,Community Oriented Services, User and Applications, Technology Transfer to Society. This is the annual meeting gathering IBERGRID operators and user communities to reassess the past activities, debate problems and define joint strategies. Conference URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012 | |||
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| | | 4-5 Nov 2012 | ||
| | | CERN | ||
| | | CMS Offline and Computing Week | ||
| | | 1 | ||
| | | * IFAE: Followup of the CMS computing activities and its impact on the Tier1 operations and plans, https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=171869 | ||
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| 7-9 Nov 2012 | |||
| Lisbon, Portugal | |||
| IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference | |||
| 50 | |||
| Conference Programe URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012/index.php?option=2 | |||
* BIFI-UNIZAR | |||
# A. Giner et al, Hadoop Cloud SaaS access via WS-PGRADE adaptation | |||
* CAFPE-GRANADA | |||
# Julio Lozano-Bahilo, Pierre Auger Collaboration on Grid | |||
* CESGA: | |||
# A. Simon et al, New deployments on EGI Verification and Staged Rollout processes | |||
# A. Simon et al, EGI Fedcloud Task Force | |||
* CIEMAT | |||
# A. Delgado et al, Synchronization and Versioning of Cluster Configuration with Csync | |||
# M. Cárdena Montes et al, New Computational Developments in Cosmology | |||
* IFCA | |||
# P. Orviz et al, Production change management using Puppet, Git, Jenkins and Gerrit | |||
# E. Fernandez et al, IberCloud: federated access to virtualized resources | |||
# E. Fernandez, IberCloud Symposium: Theory and practice | |||
* IFIC | |||
# M. Kaci et al, Response of the Iberian Grid Computing Resources to the ATLAS activities during the LHC data-taking | |||
# M. Kaci et al, Data Management and Data Processing within a Grid Computing Model for AGATA | |||
* IFISC-GRID | |||
# A. Tugores and P. Colet, Poster: Integration of Web4Grid with intranet at CSIC | |||
# A. Tugores and P. Colet, Poster: Efficient file management | |||
* LIP | |||
# G. Borges et al, IBERGRID: Deploying User Oriented Services | |||
# G. Borges et al, IBERGRID Infrastructure Status | |||
# J. Gomes et al, Clustering TopBDII systems with dynamic round-robin DNS | |||
# G. Borges et al, Operations Management discussions | |||
* PIC | |||
# V. Méndez, Running in Federated Clouds with DIRAC | |||
* UNICAN | |||
# C. Blanco et al, WRF4SG: A Scientific Gateway for the Weather Research and Forecasting model community | |||
* UB | |||
# R. Graciani, Dirac Tutorial | |||
* UMINHO-CP | |||
# V. Oliveira, Even Bigger Data: Preparing for the LHC/ATLAS Upgrade | |||
* UPV | |||
# I. Blanquer et al, Requirements of Scientific Applications in Cloud Offerings | |||
# M. Caballer et al, Towards SLA-driven Management of Cloud Infrastructures to Elastically Execute Scientific Applications | |||
* USC | |||
# V. Fernandez, User access to CVMFS software repositories on Ibergrid | |||
|- | |||
| 16 Nov 2012 | |||
| Madrid (Spain) | |||
| BigData Spain 2012 | |||
| 1 | |||
| | |||
* IFISC-GRID: Programme available at http://www.bigdataspain.org/en/ | |||
|- | |||
| 28-29 Nov 2012 | |||
| Bilbao (Spain) | |||
| RedIris Network | |||
| (~ 20) | |||
| Annual workshop organised by NREN. Followup of technical issues related to network, programme available at http://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2012/ | |||
* IFAE: Presentation from PIC on the plans from LHC to exploit the new high performance network infrastructure Rediris-Nova through LHCONE | |||
* IFIC | |||
* RedIRIS | |||
* USC | |||
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| | | 13-14 December 2012 | ||
| | | CERN | ||
| | | LHCONE Point-to-Point Service Workshop | ||
| | | 1 | ||
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* IFAE: Network workshop focused on the technical details of the deployment of a dedicated high performance network infrastructure to connect Tier2s and Tier1s, https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=215393 | |||
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| | | 28-30 Jan 2013 | ||
| | | Amsterdam | ||
| | | Evolving EGI Workshop and co-located e-FISCAL Workshop | ||
| | | 1 | ||
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* CESGA: Programme available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130130 | |||
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===1.3. PUBLICATIONS=== <!--List all publications as bullet points, detailing: Publication title, author(s), journal title, number/issue, date. Also mention any articles published further to interviews given by members of your activity.--> | ===1.3. PUBLICATIONS=== <!--List all publications as bullet points, detailing: Publication title, author(s), journal title, number/issue, date. Also mention any articles published further to interviews given by members of your activity.--> | ||
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! align="left" | Authors ''<br>1.<br>2.<br>3.<br>Et al?'' | ! align="left" | Authors ''<br>1.<br>2.<br>3.<br>Et al?'' | ||
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| | | Superconducting Vortex Lattice Configurations on Periodic Potentials: Simulation and Experiment | ||
| | | J. Superconducting Novell Magnetism. | ||
| | | | ||
| | * Year 2012 | ||
* Vol.: 25 | |||
* pp.: 2127–2130 | |||
* DOI: 10.1007/s10948-012-1636-8 | |||
| | |||
# M. Rodríguez-Pascual | |||
# A. Gómez | |||
# R. Mayo-García | |||
# D. Pérez de Lara | |||
# E.M. González | |||
# A.J. Rubio-Montero | |||
# J.L. Vicent | |||
|- | |||
| Dimensioning storage and computing clusters for efficient high throughput computing | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042040 | |||
| | |||
# E. Accion | |||
# A. Bria | |||
# G. Bernabeu | |||
# M. Caubet | |||
# M. Delfino | |||
# X. Espinal | |||
# G. Merino | |||
# F. Lopez | |||
# F. Martinez | |||
# E. Planas | |||
|- | |||
| Monitoring techniques and alarm procedures for CMS Services and Sites in WLCG | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042041 | |||
| | |||
# J. Molina-Perez | |||
# D. Bonacorsi | |||
# O. Gutsche | |||
# A. Sciabà | |||
# J. Flix | |||
# P. Kreuzer | |||
# E. Fajardo | |||
# T. Boccali | |||
# M. Klute | |||
# D. Gomes | |||
# R. Kaselis | |||
# R Du | |||
# N Magini | |||
# I Butenas | |||
# W Wang | |||
|- | |||
| CMS Data Transfer operations after the first years of LHC collisions | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042033 | |||
| | |||
# R. Kaselis | |||
# S. Piperov | |||
# N. Magini | |||
# J. Flix | |||
# O. Gutsche | |||
# P. Kreuzer | |||
# M. Yang | |||
# S. Liu | |||
# N. Ratnikova | |||
# A. Sartirana | |||
# D. Bonacorsi | |||
# J. Letts | |||
|- | |||
| Providing global WLCG transfer monitoring | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032005 | |||
| | |||
# J. Andreeva | |||
# D. Dieguez Arias | |||
# S. Campana | |||
# J. Flix | |||
# O. Keeble | |||
# N. Magini | |||
# Z. Molnar | |||
# D. Oleynik | |||
# A. Petrosyan | |||
# G. Ro | |||
# P. Saiz | |||
# M. Salichos | |||
# D. Tuckett | |||
# A. Uzhinsky | |||
# T. Wildish | |||
|- | |||
| Service monitoring in the LHC experiments | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032010 | |||
| | |||
# Fernando Barreiro Megino | |||
# Vincent Bernardoff | |||
# Diego da Silva Gomes | |||
# Alessandro di Girolamo | |||
# José Flix | |||
# Peter Kreuzer | |||
# Stefan Roiser | |||
|- | |||
| CMS resource utilization and limitations on the grid after the first two years of LHC collisions | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032012 | |||
| | |||
# Giuseppe Bagliesi | |||
# Kenneth Bloom | |||
# Daniele Bonacorsi | |||
# Chris Brew | |||
# Ian Fisk | |||
# Jose Flix | |||
# Peter Kreuzer | |||
# Andrea Sciaba | |||
|- | |||
| Performance studies and improvements of CMS distributed data transfers | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032040 | |||
| | |||
# D. Bonacorsi | |||
# J. Flix | |||
# R. Kaselis | |||
# J. Letts | |||
# N. Magini | |||
# A Sartirana | |||
|- | |||
| Towards higher reliability of CMS computing facilities | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032041 | |||
| | |||
# G. Bagliesi | |||
# K. Bloom | |||
# C. Brew | |||
# J. Flix | |||
# P. Kreuzer | |||
# A. Sciabà | |||
|- | |||
| The benefits and challenges of sharing glidein factory operations across nine time zones between OSG and CMS | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032103 | |||
| | |||
# I. Sfiligo | |||
# J. M. Dost | |||
# M. Zvada | |||
# I. Butenas | |||
# B. Holzman | |||
# F. Wuerthwein | |||
# P. Kreuzer | |||
# S. W. Teige | |||
# R. Quick | |||
# J. M. Hernández | |||
# J. Flix | |||
|- | |||
| Automating ATLAS Computing Operations using the Site Status Board | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032072 | |||
| | |||
# Andreeva J. | |||
# Borrego Iglesias C. | |||
# Campana S. | |||
# Di Girolamo A. | |||
# Dzhunov I. | |||
# Espinal Curull X. | |||
# Gayazov S. | |||
# Magradze E | |||
# Nowotka M. M. | |||
# Rinaldi L. | |||
# Saiz P. | |||
# Schovancova J. | |||
# Stewart G. A. | |||
# Wright M. | |||
|- | |||
| Major Changes to the LHCb Grid Computing Model in Year 2 of LHC Data | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032092 | |||
| | |||
# L. Arrabito | |||
# V. Bernardoff | |||
# D. Bouvet | |||
# M. Cattaneo | |||
# Charpentier | |||
# P. Clarke | |||
# J Closier | |||
# P. Franchini | |||
# R. Graciani | |||
# E. Lanciotti | |||
# V. Mendez | |||
# S. Perazzini | |||
# R. Nandkumar | |||
# D. Remenska | |||
# S. Roiser | |||
# V. Romanovskiy | |||
# R. Santinelli | |||
# F. Stagni | |||
# A. Tsaregorodtsev | |||
# M. Ubeda Garcia | |||
# A. Vedaee | |||
# A Zhelezov | |||
|- | |||
| Status of the DIRAC Project | |||
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | |||
| 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032107 | |||
| | |||
# A. Casajus | |||
# K. Ciba | |||
# V. Fernandez | |||
# R. Graciani | |||
# V. Hamar | |||
# V. Méndez | |||
# S. Poss | |||
# M. Sapunov | |||
# F. Stagni | |||
# A. Tsaregorodtsev | |||
# M. Ubeda | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | The Integration of CloudStack and OCCI/OpenNebula with DIRAC | ||
| | | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | ||
| | | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032075 | ||
| | | | ||
# Víctor Méndez Muñoz | |||
# Víctor Fernández Albor | |||
# Ricardo Graciani Diaz | |||
# Adriàn Casajús Ramo | |||
# Tomás Fernández Pena | |||
# Gonzalo Merino Arévalo | |||
# Juan José Saborido Silva | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Trying to predict the future – resource planning and allocation in CMS | ||
| | | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | ||
| | | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042035 | ||
| | | | ||
# Kenneth Bloom | |||
# Ian Fisk | |||
# Peter Kreuzer | |||
# Gonzalo Merino | |||
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT == <!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--> | == 2. ACTIVITY REPORT == <!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--> | ||
===2.1. Progress Summary=== | ===2.1. Progress Summary=== | ||
# Follow up security issues with IBERIAN sites according to what is reported in the security dashboard. | |||
# Follow up the monthly A/R report for IBERIAN sites failing the threshold. | |||
# Follow up of the status of IBERIAN sites in GSTAT. | |||
# Follow up with sites which were publishing accounting data with unknown UserDNs. | |||
# Follow up with sites that had to republish accounting data, and coordinate with the Accounting Repository staff for the republishing of large amounts of data. | |||
# Follow up site's UMD upgrade within IBERGRID. NGI GGUS tickets were opened to sites requesting upgrade plans. Tickets were reviewed on a weekly basis. | |||
# Follow up all questions from IBERIAN sites regarding the upgrade to UMD (doubts, issues, questions). | |||
# Dissimination of the UMD upgrade calendar and of the imposed policies to follow up the implementation of such calendar. | |||
# Providing information about Ibergrid NGI documentation, http://ibergrid.lip.pt/ | |||
# Provide information about Federation of NGI services and central coordination for Portugal and Spain, https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations_Surveys#Federation_of_NGI_services_and_central_coordination | |||
# Coordination for the migration of important regional services (R-Nagios, VOMS, LFC, WMS and Top-BDIIs). | |||
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===2.2. Main Achievements=== | ===2.2. Main Achievements=== | ||
# GGUS/Ibergrid-RT integration finished: Ibergrid's helpdesk launched into production on January 30th, since all the testing and integration with GGUS have been successfully accomplished. | |||
--> | # Moving from EVO to SeeVogh application to organize the Ibergrid Operations meeting. Currently, these meetings are organizing every Monday morning. | ||
# A systematic 100% A/R (6 months in a row) for the TopBDII service (after the implementation of the TopBDII HA mechanism). | |||
# Major UMD upgrades for services operated by the NGI were successfully carried out with minimum interference in users activity (including R-NAGIOS). | |||
# All the Ibergrid sites were following the calendar for UMD migration and all the tickets regarding unsupported gLite middleware were closed. | |||
# Solving GGUS ticket: #90450 "NGI_IBERGRID - core services grouping action" - It was created "NGI_IBERGRID_SERVICES" group service on GOCDB, https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=View_Object&object_id=120331&grid_id=0 | |||
# Solving the issue with Nagios WN probes on Scientific Linux 6 OS. The package "grid-monitoring-probes-org.sam" was updated on the Ibergrid Regional Nagios. It can be found more information on the following link, https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-2999. One Ibergrid site was affected by this issue and in consequence, they get the 0% in the A/R reports for September and October. | |||
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=== 2.3. Issues and mitigation === | === 2.3. Issues and mitigation === | ||
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| | | There was an issue related with fetch-crl crond on the Ibergrid Regional Nagios and it was not able to generate a new proxy and submit the Nagios probes during 9 hours on the 31/12/2012. | ||
| | | Recomputation of A/R was requested and performed in | ||
* https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=90037 | |||
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| Issue Description || Issue mitigation | | Issue Description || Issue mitigation | ||
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QR11 | NGI_IBERGRID | LIP & CSIC | Esteban Freire (CESGA), Alvaro Simón (CESGA) |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
Note: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed.
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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7-9 Nov 2012 | Lisbon, Portugal | IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference | 50 | The 2012 IBERGRID conference was organized by LIP in Lisbon, Portugal. The main topics of IBERGRID 2012 Conference were: Infrastructures, Services and Operations, Innovation in the provision of IT services: virtualization and cloud computing, Data Management and Storage Systems, IT Management and Green Computing, EGI and WLCG Grid Computing Activities, Digital Repositories and Preservation,Community Oriented Services, User and Applications, Technology Transfer to Society. This is the annual meeting gathering IBERGRID operators and user communities to reassess the past activities, debate problems and define joint strategies. Conference URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012 |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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4-5 Nov 2012 | CERN | CMS Offline and Computing Week | 1 | * IFAE: Followup of the CMS computing activities and its impact on the Tier1 operations and plans, https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=171869 |
7-9 Nov 2012 | Lisbon, Portugal | IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference | 50 | Conference Programe URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012/index.php?option=2
|
16 Nov 2012 | Madrid (Spain) | BigData Spain 2012 | 1 |
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28-29 Nov 2012 | Bilbao (Spain) | RedIris Network | (~ 20) | Annual workshop organised by NREN. Followup of technical issues related to network, programme available at http://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2012/
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13-14 December 2012 | CERN | LHCONE Point-to-Point Service Workshop | 1 |
|
28-30 Jan 2013 | Amsterdam | Evolving EGI Workshop and co-located e-FISCAL Workshop | 1 |
|
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
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Superconducting Vortex Lattice Configurations on Periodic Potentials: Simulation and Experiment | J. Superconducting Novell Magnetism. |
|
|
Dimensioning storage and computing clusters for efficient high throughput computing | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042040 |
|
Monitoring techniques and alarm procedures for CMS Services and Sites in WLCG | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042041 |
|
CMS Data Transfer operations after the first years of LHC collisions | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042033 |
|
Providing global WLCG transfer monitoring | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032005 |
|
Service monitoring in the LHC experiments | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032010 |
|
CMS resource utilization and limitations on the grid after the first two years of LHC collisions | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032012 |
|
Performance studies and improvements of CMS distributed data transfers | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032040 |
|
Towards higher reliability of CMS computing facilities | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032041 |
|
The benefits and challenges of sharing glidein factory operations across nine time zones between OSG and CMS | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032103 |
|
Automating ATLAS Computing Operations using the Site Status Board | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032072 |
|
Major Changes to the LHCb Grid Computing Model in Year 2 of LHC Data | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032092 |
|
Status of the DIRAC Project | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032107 |
|
The Integration of CloudStack and OCCI/OpenNebula with DIRAC | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 032075 |
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Trying to predict the future – resource planning and allocation in CMS | Journal of Physics: Conference Series / International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2012 (CHEP2012) | 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042035 |
|
2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
- Follow up security issues with IBERIAN sites according to what is reported in the security dashboard.
- Follow up the monthly A/R report for IBERIAN sites failing the threshold.
- Follow up of the status of IBERIAN sites in GSTAT.
- Follow up with sites which were publishing accounting data with unknown UserDNs.
- Follow up with sites that had to republish accounting data, and coordinate with the Accounting Repository staff for the republishing of large amounts of data.
- Follow up site's UMD upgrade within IBERGRID. NGI GGUS tickets were opened to sites requesting upgrade plans. Tickets were reviewed on a weekly basis.
- Follow up all questions from IBERIAN sites regarding the upgrade to UMD (doubts, issues, questions).
- Dissimination of the UMD upgrade calendar and of the imposed policies to follow up the implementation of such calendar.
- Providing information about Ibergrid NGI documentation, http://ibergrid.lip.pt/
- Provide information about Federation of NGI services and central coordination for Portugal and Spain, https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations_Surveys#Federation_of_NGI_services_and_central_coordination
- Coordination for the migration of important regional services (R-Nagios, VOMS, LFC, WMS and Top-BDIIs).
2.2. Main Achievements
- GGUS/Ibergrid-RT integration finished: Ibergrid's helpdesk launched into production on January 30th, since all the testing and integration with GGUS have been successfully accomplished.
- Moving from EVO to SeeVogh application to organize the Ibergrid Operations meeting. Currently, these meetings are organizing every Monday morning.
- A systematic 100% A/R (6 months in a row) for the TopBDII service (after the implementation of the TopBDII HA mechanism).
- Major UMD upgrades for services operated by the NGI were successfully carried out with minimum interference in users activity (including R-NAGIOS).
- All the Ibergrid sites were following the calendar for UMD migration and all the tickets regarding unsupported gLite middleware were closed.
- Solving GGUS ticket: #90450 "NGI_IBERGRID - core services grouping action" - It was created "NGI_IBERGRID_SERVICES" group service on GOCDB, https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=View_Object&object_id=120331&grid_id=0
- Solving the issue with Nagios WN probes on Scientific Linux 6 OS. The package "grid-monitoring-probes-org.sam" was updated on the Ibergrid Regional Nagios. It can be found more information on the following link, https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-2999. One Ibergrid site was affected by this issue and in consequence, they get the 0% in the A/R reports for September and October.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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There was an issue related with fetch-crl crond on the Ibergrid Regional Nagios and it was not able to generate a new proxy and submit the Nagios probes during 9 hours on the 31/12/2012. | Recomputation of A/R was requested and performed in |