Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2012-08-28

General News

• ADC and ATLAS Computing News [20120821]
  • Special XP_Higgs production (2.3M events) almost done - a few stuck jobs in MWT2
  • New request for another 1M XP_Higgs events - about 9k cpu-days
  • ADC Weekly meeting
  • Good week last week - 1.1 fb^-1 collected. Total ~13 fb^-1 delivered.
  • Longer MC Production report https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=1&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=205704
  • AMOD Report
    • Tue: AFS-based ATLAS svn repos inadvertently wiped by sysadmin
    • Problems with TRIUMF LFC registration and FTS backups (proxy expiration) from weekend mentioned
    • New Panda server diagnostics added to SLS for shifter. Monitor registrations in DQ2 and LFC.
    • DDM central catalog load balancing not functioning correctly over the weekend
    • Some T1's suffering from space tokens filling up
  • Reports sent in for CA-VICTORIA-WESTGRID-T2 and CA-SCINET-T2 for T2D performance https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?subContId=0&contribId=4&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=205704
  • US LFC migration
    • Plan to migrate all 9 MySQL LFCs (T2/T3) into BNL by end September
      • ust2lfc.usatlas.bnl.gov
      • Multiple head nodes behind F5
      • Oracle backend
    • T2 admin has ability to request the LFC dump via http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/dq2/lfcdumprequests/index
      • The request is automatically processed and produces the dump in sqlite format
      • The dump is registered to DDM as a dataset and subscribed to a requested site
      • Script to be adopted by CERN LFC for general usage?

• CA Cloud Squad Actions [20120626]
  • User DaTRI requests approved / processed (last week)
    • NumRequests: 9, NumDatasetsInRequests: 308, NumSubscribedDatasets: 306, SummarySizeOfAllDatasets(GB): 1090
  • Declared Downtimes
  • HammerCloud autoexclusions

• • other cloud squad related savannah and / or ROC ggus tickets [20110705]
    • panda monitor for PD2P activity within clouds (default view (last 7 days) units = datasets)
• Open Issues and Ongoing Discussions
  • Sites should be providing the April 2012 storage pledge.
    • http://gstat-wlcg.cern.ch/apps/capacities/sites/ http://gstat-wlcg.cern.ch/apps/pledges/resources
  • HammerCloud [20120214]
    • [20120214] Ongoing tests with McGill https://twiki.atlas-canada.ca/bin/view/AtlasCanada/McGill_Feb2012
    • [20110531] Ongoing tests with Victoria https://twiki.atlas-canada.ca/bin/view/AtlasCanada/CA_Cloud_Apr2011#Additional_Victoria_WG1_testing
    • HammerCloud tests of TRIUMF completed via panda to compare direct i/o via dcap, FileStager and full file copy
      • https://twiki.atlas-canada.ca/bin/view/AtlasCanada/TRIUMF_Aug2010
      • follow-up required to determine which modifications can be added to Panda schedconfig so as to enable the more efficient FileStager method of data input
    • HammerCloud tests of CA clouds sites is planned to be resumed soon to help measure site performance and identify any site setup bottlenecks [2010803]
      • TWiki Link: https://twiki.atlas-canada.ca/bin/view/AtlasCanada/CACloudOct2010

• Security News [20120801]
• gLite/EMI News [20120801]
  • EGI CSIRT ADVISORY [EGI-ADV-20120801] concerning gLite 3.2 middleware components no longer supported on 01 August 2012.

• ROC_Canada News [20120710]
  • Current shift - Andrew Wong 7-10 Aug, 2012
  • Next Week - Sergey Chelsky

• WLCG and General Computing News [20120221]

SSB Results

• Critical tests for each site in the Site Status dashBoard are available at the links below
  • Australia-ATLAS
  • CA-MCGILL-CLUMEQ-T2
  • CA-SCINET-T2
  • CA-ALBERTA-WESTGRID-T2
  • CA-VICTORIA-WESTGRID-T2
  • SFU-LCG2
  • TRIUMF-LCG2

SSB PanDA Test Queue Availability (month) - this metric, measured for the analysis queues, defines the site status for data preplacement as alpha (T2D and avail > 90%), bravo (T2 and avail > 90%) or charlie (< 90%).

SAM Results

• site service status via Gridview - Please check your site

• April 2012 Detailed Site Information (valid until 20120430):
  • TRIUMF-LCG2
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)
  • Australia-ATLAS
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)
  • CA-ALBERTA-WESTGRID-T2
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)
  • CA-SCINET-T2
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)
  • CA-VICTORIA-WESTGRID-T2
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)
  • SFU-LCG2
    • OPS (this month)
    • ATLAS (this month)

APEL Accounting

• ACTION ITEM FOR SITES: Sites please regularly check and confirm that your historical APEL data has been published and looks correct when comparing with batch system utilization
  • See example steps circulated by D. Qing (20100406)
    • account09.c
  • See EGEE Accounting Portal (Canada)
  • See EGEE Accounting Portal (Australia)

• • Links
    • [1] http://wiki.hellasgrid.gr/wiki/bin/view/HellasGrid/GOC/MONToAPEL
    • [2] http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/glite-APEL

APEL Publishing Status

APEL Accounting Results

APEL Synchronization Test Links

• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/TRIUMF-LCG2_Sync.html
• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/Australia-ATLAS_Sync.html
• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/CA-ALBERTA-WESTGRID-T2_Sync.html
• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/CA-VICTORIA-WESTGRID-T2_Sync.html
• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/CA-SCINET-T2_Sync.html
• http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/rss/SFU-LCG2_Sync.html

Site Reports

Alberta

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

SFU

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

Victoria

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

Toronto

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

McGill

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

TRIUMF

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

Australia-ATLAS

Recent Issues

• summary of this weeks Savannah bugs and GGUS tickets for site:

Outstanding Issues

Production

Summary

• NOTE: ARDA ProdSys Dashboard has stopped being used by ADCoS team due to information updating issues with the interface. The historical job usage information is to appear separately within ARDA and is being validated. This will be used in the future for information presented here.

• Within the CA Cloud and Worldwide (Panglia View):

• Alternate Views (Source link for last 7 days):
• http://dashb-atlas-prodsys.cern.ch/dashboard/request.py/summary?cloud=TRIUMF&grouping=site&grouping=cloud&end-date=2012-04-01%2020:59:59&start-date=2012-04-07%2020:00:00

-- LeslieGroer - 2012-08-28