130 likes | 205 Views
Introduction. John Gordon, STFC GDB meeting @CERN January 11 th 2012. Since the Previous Meeting. The Higgs was discovered! All our hard work justified . GDB meetings in 2012. Continue with the second Wednesday Rooms booked Jan 11 th – start at 1300 – devote to TEG?
E N D
Introduction John Gordon, STFC GDB meeting @CERN January 11th 2012
Since the Previous Meeting • The Higgs was discovered! • All our hard work justified
GDB meetings in 2012 • Continue with the second Wednesday • Rooms booked • Jan 11th – start at 1300 – devote to TEG? • March 21st, • April 18th – avoids Easter Week • May is 2 weeks clear of CHE • January 11 • February 8 • March 21 • April 18 • May 9 • June 13 • July 11 • August 8 • September 12 • October 10 • November 14 • December 12
Forthcoming Events • TEG F2F, Amsterdam, 23-26th January 2012 • LHCOPN/LHCONE, LBL, 30-31 January 2012 • ISGC, Taipei, 26 February - 2 March 2012 • OGF 34, Oxford 11-14 March • EGI User Forum, Munich, 26-30 March • Also EMI Technical Forum • HEPiX Spring Meeting, Prague, 23-27 April 2012 • WLCG Workshop, NYC, 19-20th May 2012 • CHEP2012, NYC, 21-25th May 2012 • EGI Technical Forum, Prague, September 2012 • HEPiX Fall Meeting, IHEP, October 2012
GDB Issues • MU Pilot Jobs (TEG) , • SCAS, Argus, gLExec (TEG) • CREAM • Virtualisation • Installed capacity • OPN, LHCONE • CVMFS • Information Service • Supported WMS? • Site Dashboard? • glite-cluster
CVMFS Deployment Update. • New CERN IT Stratum Zero service live. • All Stratum 1s now using this stratum zero. • Incident over Xmas break. • RAL had not been advised to migrate to IT stratum zero before xmas. • PH stratum failed at new year. • RAL migrated to IT Stratum one at this point. • SLS probe now being developed to check stratum one consistency. • IT maintained CVMFS install machines: • A new cvmfs server update was installed within CERN IT just before xmas. • The update addressed some requirements for running within IT. • Testing underway. GDB Jan 11th 2012, Steve Traylen
Middleware Requirements • DEADLINE 15 January • To submit new middleware requirements by January 15 2012. The call for requirements concerns all the deployed middleware stacks that are currently supported in EGI - ARC, gLite, GLOBUS and UNICORE. • To EGI, directly or through your NGI. WLCG Desy 2011 Day 1 Summary
SLURM • In a survey by EGI a significant number of sites said that they would be interested in the middleware supporting the SLURM batch system. • https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/faq.html
February • TEG Day 7th Feb. • TEG Summary@GDB • Site Dashboard • Other Site Issues
Vidyo? • So how has this gone? • No CERN Credentials? • Audio? • Video? • Phone Bridge? • Chat? • File Sharing • PIN • Do we use it again?
Today • Information Services • IPv6 • Middleware • RFC Proxies • chroots
GDB Chair • Process: • Search committee of 4 national members of the GDB • Ask for proposals for candidates • Candidates don't have to be members of the GDB • Term as chair is 2 years, can be extended by 2 year periods • Proposed timescale: • Find the search committee by January GDB • Accept proposals until March • Vote in the March GDB • Hand over in May (or by agreement) • Now: • Search committee - myself, John, + 2 volunteers! (please !) • You can already propose candidates for the chair to me...