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1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

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1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Quarterly Report Number NGI Name Partner Name Author
QR 11 NGI_UK STFC Denise Small and Claire Devereux
Date Location Title Participants Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
27 November 2012 QMUL London Impact and Dissemination 1 http://www.nsccs.ac.uk/UM2012.php
17 - 18 December 2012 FNAL Chicago WLCG Security Coordination Meeting 1 Discussed all operational and policy issues. https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=221987
16-17 January 2013 Rome Security for Collaborating Infrastructures 1 organised and chaired. Produced final version 1 of the document describing the requirements and best practices and considered self assessments against these criteris. http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=227273
12 December 2012 Imperial College NSCCS User Meeting 1 http://www.nsccs.ac.uk/UM2012.php
14 January 2013 STFC RAL UK NGI Meeting to discuss sustainability and plan post EGI Inspire 1 https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130128

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date Location Title Participants Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
1 December 2012 Manchester Integrated cluster management Atlas 2
10-12 December 2012 CERN Atlas Software and Computing T1/T2/T3 Jamboree 1
14-16 January 2013 Rome EU Grid PMA Meeting 1 Representing interests of EGI and WLCG as a Relying Party https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130128
29-30 January 2013 Amsterdam Evolving EGI Workshop 2 Attended to represent and discuss global security tasks https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=1252
28-30 January 2013 Amsterdam EGI Futures and co-located eFiscal Workshops 6 https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130128


1.3. PUBLICATIONS

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2. ACTIVITY REPORT

2.1. Progress Summary

2.2. Main Achievements

Procurement of resources to meet 2013 WLCG MoU commitments on track. Hardware delivery partially complete. Upgrade of batch farm to EMI-2 complete, more generally EMI-2 rollout on all services close to completion. FTS 3 testing continues. Test queues available for SL6 on batch farm. CVMFS Stratup-0 available for small VOs – currently working with NA62 and Mice. Change to batch farm configuration, hyperthreading now switched on and running more jobs than cores (cpu normalisation/accounting appropriatly adjusted). Preperation to upgrade Tier-1 network backbone underway and likely to be scheduled for early Q2.

Imperial College has continued to maintain and develop the UK 'state of the nation' web-pages (http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/state_of_the_nation.html and http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout_emi2.html) tracking the roll out of EMI services in the UK. We submitted an EMI2-CREAM staged-rollout report and elsewhere in London UKI-LT2-Brunel submitted an EMI2-WN staged rollout report. We've also been helping UK sites to transition away from Glite to EMI. We have been contributing to the ROD rota. Now that an EMI tarball has become available we have been testing this at our site and sent feedback to the developer.

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description Mitigation Description
Two major power incidents at STFC RAL caused considerable disruption and in the second case hardware damage and severely impacted availability (SiRs available) All services were brought back up efficiently and the incident confirmed procurement was possible at very short timescales
Stability problems with the (EMI-2) top level BDII trying an upgrade to SL6 to see if that addresses the issue