Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2013-04-30

General News

• ADC and ATLAS Computing News [20130430]
  • ADC Weekly meeting
  • Pilot Factories
    • Plan to decommission old voatlas215 pilot factory at CERN on Thursday, May 2nd.
    • Cloud squads and site admins should pay attention to pilot flow at their respective sites.
  • Frontier and Squids
    • Decommission old monitoring box by May 21
      • All sites need to update ACLs and firewalls (instructions at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/T2SquidDeployment#Switch_to_WLCG_Squid_Monitoring )
      • New monitoring box available at http://wlcg-squid-monitor.cern.ch
      • Switch SSB monitoring page to new server on May 21 (25 sites done, 81 to go)
    • KIT (DE) will no longer provide Frontier service (DE cloud will use IN2P3 as primary and RAL as backup)
    • Problem with running MC overlays that impacted CA cloud last time has been tested with 4M jobs and seems fine
  • AMOD Report
    • PIC experienced transfer errors to DATATAPE as new file family data was not defined in dCache
    • CERN network outage Sat Apr 20 17:30-20:20 caused drop in running jobs
    • Some slowness in DQ2+LFC registration April 20-21 still being investigated
    • Database query on ADCR affecting PanDA caused some issues late Fri afternoon (threads taking up too much CPU and not being killed) - still being investigated

• CA Cloud Squad Actions [20120626]
  • User DaTRI requests approved / processed (last week)
  • 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 2013 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 [20121127]
  • [20121029] UMD v.2.2.1 has been released
  • [20120924] Retirement calendar of gLite 3.1 and currently unsupported gLite 3.2 products
  • [20120911] EMI-2 WN & UI rpms (SL5/x86_64) beta testing version available

• ROC_Canada News [20130423]
  • Current shift - Sergey Chelsky April 22-26, 2012
  • Next Week - Erming Pei

• WLCG and General Computing News [20120911]

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-MCGILL-CLUMEQ-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=2013-02-01%2020:59:59&start-date=2013-02-07%2020:00:00

-- LeslieGroer - 2013-04-30