Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2016-06-07

Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2016-06-07

General News

ADC and ATLAS Computing News [20160607]
ADC Technical Coordination Meeting [20160606]
- Alternative stage out tests
- Cloud Operations (Ryan)
ADC Weekly Meeting [20160607]
- MC Production
  - Significant downturn in running jobs due to lack of requests. About 70k cores at moment
  - All approved requests submitted ~ 25M in queue
  - Need to finish EVGEN on one request
  - Fair amount of discussion about needing 0.5B events / month. Not clear if have storage space for HITS. Groups should have low priority jobs as backfill. Will be taken up with Physics Coord.
- Group Production
  - Open-ended derivation production on data16, switched to 20.7.6.4
    - About 0.5PB produced
  - MC15c production with 20.7.6.4 for groups
    - No central bulk submission with this cache
    - About 12GB input per job
    - Last round produced ~ 4PB.
    - Sent call what can be deleted. MC15a already marked for deletion
- Reprocessing
  - Done with 2015 pp reprocessing
  - Final HI stream submitted (light on resources)
  - Couple of smaller requests being done (backgrounds, low-pt)
- UK site experiences with copy to scratch and directI/O - see slides
- Data Watcher
  - Prototype of Recommender System for PanDA
  - Aimed originally at users (recommend "interesting" data)
  - Could have utility for data distribution or job brokerage?
- CRC/ADCoS report - none
CA Cloud Squad Actions
- User DaTRI requests approved / processed (last week)
Open Issues and Ongoing Discussions
- Availability & Reliability Report [20160216]
  - January 2016 - All Sites Report ATLAS
- Sites should be providing the 2015 storage pledge.
  - REBUS Site Capacities
  - REBUS Federation Resource Pledges
- ATLAS Canada HammerCloud Tests
WLCG and General Computing News
- Security News
- gLite/EMI News
ROC_Canada News
- Current shift