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. Operations/Platform Deployment Survey was distributed between the Ibergrid Sites, then the results were collected and the summary was introduced in the EGI wiki on the following link, https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations/Platform_Deployment_Survey.
2. Added a third primary DNS from RedIRIS site to the TopBDII HA mechanism. This third primary DNS, elsuper.rediris.es, was put on production during March 2012.
3. Made a report with the different TOP-BDIIs used by the Ibergrid sites in their services.
4. Closed the GGUS tickets which had been open to the Ibergrid sites to configure the VOMS redundancy for the Ibergrid VOS (GGUS tickets from #76214 hasta to #76232).
5. Open the GGUS tickets from #81617 to #81625 to the Ibergrid sites to support the Ibergrid macro VOs and the VOMS redundancy for these VOs correctly.
6. Working in the RT-GGUS integration and in the User support shifts. GGUS, Security, and General Support queues in the Ibergrid RT ticket system. Created two new email addresses, helpdesk@ibergrid.eu address to submit tickets to the Ibergrid RT ticket system, and ibergrid-support@listas.cesga.es is a mailing list to be used for the communications between the user support shifts teams.
7. Decommission the SWE helpdesk. GGUS is no longer working with SWE helpdesk. Now, when a ticket is opened to a site in the Ibergrid NGI, a notification is sent to the ibergrid-tickets@listas.cesga.es mailing list, and an additional notification is submitted to the site-administrators for the site via the site support email declared in GOCDB.

2.2. Main Achievements

1. Enforcement of the TopBDII HA mechanism at local sites.
2. 100% A/R in February, March and April 2012 for the TopBDII service (after the implementation of the TopBDII HA mechanism).
3. A new site was joined to the Ibergrid infrastructure: CETA-GRID.

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description

Mitigation Description

There was several issues related with the Ibergrid Regional Nagios: The request on the VOMS OPS server for the digital certificate that it is being used to submit the Ibergid Nagios tests expired the Friday 30th March at night, and it was restarted the Saturday 31th March in the morning. GGUS ticket #80793 was open in order to do not take into account that period in the A/R metrics, but the re-computation was rejected since the impact was very low (less than 1.5%). There was an external issue related with the connection between the Spanish and Portuguese NRENs to the GÉANT network, which affected to the Ibergrid Regional Nagios. The incident had place on 04/12/2012, and it took from 17:00 PM CEST to 04/23/2012 at 14:00 PM CEST. GGUS ticket #81227 was open in order to do not take into account that period in the A/R metrics.