Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2014-01-07

Happy New Year!

General News

• ADC and ATLAS Computing News [20140107]
  • ADC Weekly meeting
  • ADC Coordination Changes
    • Andrej Filipcic (JSI) will co-coordinate ADC Operations together with Alessandro DiGirolamo
    • Simone Campana (CERN) appointed as WLCG Operations Coordinator
    • Andreu Pacheco (UAB) nominated as GDP co-coordinator together with Rod Walker
    • New Distributed Analysis Co-oordinator to be appointed
    • ADC OTP will be completed within next week
  • AMOD Report
    • Transfer errors due to openssl bug
  • MC Production over Christmas
    • Back into large scale production
    • Clean out from groups before Christmas
      • full/fast MC12 - ~560M events/(108+1500)M events
      • full/fast MC11 - ~30M events/260M events
      • full MC10: 50M events
    • Have simulation requests for at least 4 more weeks (full resources)
    • Data Challenge 2014 (DC14) - 8 TeV pre-production planned for before Xmas but did not happen
      • Problems with ATLAS-R1-2012-02-00-00
        • Problems in athenaMP merging → solved over Christmas including pcache build
        • Missing reconstruction geometry → validation sample A running
      • Problems with calibration hits
        • Information for extracting calibration hits not stored → close to be solved
      • First tasks submitted Jan 1. Still expect bulk production in mid-January
    • FTK Special Production - 7.5 M events
  • Group production status during break and since
    • Submit urgent NTUP_IDVTXLUM production needed for the 2012 luminosity paper - completed on Dec. 21st.
    • Large scale NTUP_COMMON v2 production postponed due to bug found on Dec. 20th which required a new cache:
      • Cache was built on Dec. 29th and validation samples launched
      • Waiting on final word from the b-tagging group on validation
    • Working on caches for other productions this week: NTUP_MUON, NTUP_2L2QHSG2 (H->ZZ->llqq analysis), Heavy Ion DESD

• 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 [20130625]
  • Current shift - Erming Pei June 24-28, 2013
  • Next Week - Leslie Groer

• 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

-- Leslie Groer - 2014-01-07

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