EGI-InSPIRE:Ibergrid-QR11
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Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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QR11 | NGI_IBERGRID | LIP & CSIC | Esteban Freire (CESGA), Alvaro Simón (CESGA) |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
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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:
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
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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/
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13-14 December 2012 | CERN | LHCONE Point-to-Point Service Workshop | 1 | * 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 |
28-30 Jan 2013 | Amsterdam | Evolving EGI Workshop and co-located e-FISCAL Workshop | 1 | * CESGA: Programme available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130130 |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
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Superconducting Vortex Lattice Configurations on Periodic Potentials: Simulation and Experiment | J. Superconducting Novell Magnetism. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
- 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.
- Provide information about the sustainability status of the NGIss (Portugal and Spain) after May 2014 and about the EGI Global operations services.
- Collect and report experience about national VOs running on EMI WN
- Collect and provide information about the IBERGRID and site-specific resource allocation policies
- Dissimination of the UMD upgrade calendar and of the imposed policies to follow up the implementation of such calendar.
- 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).
- Coordination for the migration of important regional services (R-Nagios, VOMS, LFC, WMS and Top-BDIIs)
- Follow up the monthly A/R report for IBERIAN sites failing the threshold.
- Follow up security issues with IBERIAN sites according to what is reported in the security dashboard,
- Follow up of the status of IBERIAN sites in GSTAT
- Decommission procedure for BIFI-IBERGRID and UMINHO-CP in progress
2.2. Main Achievements
- 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).
- The majority of the sites are following the calendar for UMD migration. Currently only 5 sites have opened tickets regarding unsupported gLite middleware.
- Implementation of a monthly review of security issues by the regional security staff.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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Some sites in the IBERIAN region are requesting the use of relocatable tarballs for UIs and WNs. This is a know issue which is already being followed by EGI Operations through: | The problem is still not solved |
CESGA is affected by a SAM issue (nagios binary compatiblity with SL6+) and as a consequence, it had 0% A/R in September and October | A new binary is upgraded in the regional IBERGRID SAM instance. Recomputation of A/R has been requested in
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