EGI-InSPIRE:Ibergrid-QR8

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Quarterly Report Number	NGI Name	Partner Name	Author
QR8	Ibergrid	LIP & CSIC	Álvaro Simón García, Esteban Freire García (CSIC)

1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
28-Jan to 1-Feb	LBL Berkeley (USA)	LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting	1	ifae/pic: Follow up of activities of the networking group for the LHC. The architecture of the new LHCONE dedicated network extended to Tier2s is being decided now. https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=160533
13-14 February	Brussels	Cloud Scape IV	2	IAA-CSIC: With over 100 participants from the scientific community, industry, standards organizations and policy makers, representatives from 50 EC-funded projects, over 300 tweets, 45 new online community members since the event, and the event streamed live on the SIENA Channel, Cloudscape IV lived up to all expectations and continued its successful four-year run, http://www.sienainitiative.eu/Pages/Static.aspx?id_documento=2543465f-ee8c-472c-8720-de8f7f5204cb
15th February	EVO meeting	EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment meeting	2	RedIRIS: The main purpose of the meeting was to establish the granularity of the threats and get the threat selection under way, including allocating work, https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=816
23th March	EVO meeting	EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment meeting	2	RedIRIS: The main aim of this meeting was to finalize the list of threats as much as possible and decide how to further proceed.
26-30 March	Garching, Munich	EGI Community Forum 2012	~ 19	Participation from several IBERGRID institutes with contributions in different sessions: BIFI-UNIZAR: Gateways development and relationships with SCI-BUS project. CESGA: Contribution with the sessions "MPI in EGI", https://www.egi.eu/indico/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=220&confId=679 , and "Hybrid Cloud-based Grid Infraestructure: Experience & Future", https://www.egi.eu/indico/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=77&confId=679 CETA-Ciemat: Contribution with the session "gridCake & gridCamp: Making the Grid easier", https://www.egi.eu/indico/contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=33&contribId=76&confId=679 IFISC-GRID: Contribution with the session "Web4Grid, web interface for grid jobs" presenting a Web interface for generic grid jobs, Web4Grid, https://www.egi.eu/indico/contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=33&contribId=59&confId=679 PIC: Contribution with the session “VO Support WG proposal” in the Resource Centre Forum (workshop), https://www.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=6&tab=contribs&confId=679
10-13 April	Bern	EuroSys 2012	1	IAA-CSIC: EuroSys has become a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software research and development, including implications related to hardware and applications, http://eurosys2012.unibe.ch/program/conference
17-19 April	DESY, Zeuthen (Germany)	6th International dCache Workshop	3	CIEMAT-LCG2: A lot about new dCache functionalities (2.2.0) was learned, http://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5289 ifae/pic: Yearly meeting of the dCache system, the one used at PIC to provide Mass Storage Services. A talk was given by PIC related to monitoring, “PIC: Nagios probes”, https://indico.desy.de/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=5289
20th April	EVO meeting	EGI Security Assessment group meeting	2	RedIRIS: The main aim of this meeting was to discuss threats with deviating opinion on risk and plans for final report.
23-24 April	Bologna	EGI-CSIRT Face to Face meeting	1	RedIRIS: Review of the actions and task force which EGI-CSIRT is involved, besides a couple of hands-on were given during the meeting, one about forensic analysis and the second one about handling incidents using RTIR. https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=812.
23-27 April	Prague	HEPIX Spring 2012 Workshop	1	ifae/pic: Contribution “PIC Site Report” and attendance to the whole HEPIX workshop. https://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=16&sessionId=1&confId=160737
25 April	CERN	Many-core architectures for LHCb	1	ifae/pic: Follow-up of the LHC experiment software framework evolution to make efficient use of many core processor architectures. https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=184092

1.3. PUBLICATIONS

Publication title	Journal / Proceedings title	Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to	Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al?
DRI: Data and Job Management on the Grid	EGI Community Forum 2012 (26-30 March 2012). Poster.	http://cf2012.egi.eu/exhibition/posters_and_demos.html	José Miguel Franco Valiente, César Suárez Ortega, Manuel Rubio Del Solar, Jorge Sevilla Cedillo
Web Interface for Generic Grid Jobs	Computing and informatics	Vol 31, 2012, No.1 p173-186	Antònia Tugores, Pere Colet

2. ACTIVITY REPORT

2.1. Progress Summary

1. LCMAPS message report sent to SA1 coordinators, and introduced in RT ticket: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=1983
2. Internal survey to the Ibergrid sites about evaluation of the quality of services and tools at disposal of the site administrators. Analysis and discussion of the survey results in the weekly Ibergrid Operations meeting.
3. New operations Wiki: http://ibergrid.lip.pt.
4. Analysis of the 1st EGI review report.
5. Push sites to implement VOMS redundancy for the Ibegrid VOs
6. Implementation of the TopBDII HA proposal in NGI_IBERGRID. Process is being tracked via GGUS ticket: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=74883

2.2. Main Achievements

1. Two new sites were joined to the infrastructure: ARAGRID-CIENCIAS and RC-GISELA-CETA.
2. It has been installed a dedicated WMS to support the Ibergrid VOs.

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description	Mitigation Description
UOGRID site is still suspended.	This site entering in suspension status after 1 month of downtime during the last QR5.
There was several issues related with the Ibergrid Regional Nagios: There was an external issue related with the connection between RedIris and the Galicia centers), which affected to the Ibergrid Regional Nagios. The incident had place on 08/09/2011, and it took from 01:00 AM CEST to 13:00 PM CEST. GGUS ticket #74146 was open in order to do not take into account that period in the A/R metrics. There was an external issue related with the top-bdii configured in the R-Nagios, which affected to the Ibergrid Regional Nagios. The incident had place on 19/09/2011, and it took from 22:00 PM CEST to 12:00 AM CEST (20/09/2011). GGUS ticket #74652 was open in order to do not take into account that period in the A/R metrics. It was necessary to reinstall the Ibergrid Regional Nagios, due to an issue related with the Mysql. GGUS ticket #75701 was open in order to do not take into account that period in the A/R metrics.