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EGI-InSPIRE:UK-QR6
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| Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| QR6 | NGI_UK | STFC | Claire Devereux |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
| Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19/9/11 | Lyon | EGI CSIRT Face to Face | CSIRT Team | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=611 |
| 22/9/11 | Lyon | Security Training | - | see EGI TF Indico pages |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
| Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20/9/11 | Lyon | OTAG | 2 | http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=121319 |
| 19/9/11 | Lyon | OMB | 2 | http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=121319 |
| 20/9/11 | Lyon | Globus Integration Workshop | 2 | - |
| 20/9/11 | Lyon | Unicore Integration Workshop | 1 | - |
| 17-19/10/11 | Padova, Italy | EMI All Hands Meeting | 2 | http://www.eu-emi.eu/ |
| 14/9/11 | CERN | WLCG GDB | 1 | - |
| 12/10/11 | CERN | WLCG GDB | 2 | - |
| 15-16/9/11 | CERN | GridPP 27 Conference | 6 | http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp27/ |
| 19-22/9/11 | Lyon | EGI Technical Forum | 14 | http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=121319 |
| fortnightly | CERN | HEPIX IPv6 | 1 | - |
| 26-27/9/11 | SARA | LHC ONE | 1 | http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=149042 |
| 28/8/11 | Edinburgh | Turing Festival | 1 | http://www.turingfestival.com/ |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
| Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
|---|
2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
During the past quarter we have been completing the process of creating the NGI_UK. This has just been fininshed and the creation NGI_UK broadcast has been sent.
2.2. Main Achievements
IPv6 Test Cluster deployment at Glasgow for distributed test bed, underway. LHCONE investigation for the UK @ Glasgow EMI DPM at Durham installed and functional Installed CVMFS and debugged few outstanding problems @ Manchester and an upgrade
UKI ROC -> NGI transition, Glasgow running the preliminary testbed and then full migration. Examining job failure profile with an intent to reduce operational manpower requirements in the long term
A number of deployment problems with EGI services and more general infrastructure such as network problems have been debugged in Manchester. The sets of procedures from the debugging and commands used have been described for the benefit of other sites in the northgrid blog
http://northgrid-tech.blogspot.com/
The CVMFS/upgrade work at Manchester is described in 2 blogs and wiki page
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/UK_CVMFS_Deployment
Manchester has started an active collaboration with the DPM developers to test some solutions much in advance to help them get through the process more quickly. it is thought that the help of an experienced system administrator will increase the chances of getting things in the releases.
Manchester is also part of the stage rollout process for the site-BDII and top-BDII. This task is just starting.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
| Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
|---|---|
| Heavy deployment problems with the DPM head node reliability | Started a collaboration with developers directly |
| Durham staffing problem + technical problems | helped get site back online remotely |
| RAL T1 publishing incorrect resource metrics | revised publishing in testing, should be fixed shortly |