Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2017-08-22

Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2017-08-22

General News

No ADC Technical Coordination Meeting this week
ADC Weekly Meeting [20170822]
- MC Production
  - Regular ~200k slots for MC production with major spikes from HPC (discussed muting these as msileading at least for NERSC if not Titan)
  - Simul starting to make a comeback, scrutiny samples now picking up after adjusting priorities
  - Expect to keep simul high in coming weeks, with mc16c_PA samples (following their mc15 evgen, to come today/tomorrow)
  - MC15 was dominated by evgen from large bphys request (650M events)
  - Some MC15 pile and simul also running this week
  - Another large (700M) mc15 evgen started
  - MC16 pileup decreased made of mc16a physics and mc16c CP
  - MC16c physics coming next week - simul+pile (130M)
  - Discussion about issue with too long file name / double tags
- Group Derivation Production
  - Open ended production of 2017 data physics_Main temporarily stopped due to issue with IDTIDE format
- Reprocessing
  - Still waiting on trigger info and HI requests
  - Done with 2016 data reprocessing R20.7 and new ID aligment and R21 track error scaling override
  - Running low-pt ditau - almost done
- CRC/ADCoS Report
  - No major issues with free space this week
  - Deletion of too long name phys-higgs files - declared lost
  - Few minor T0/T1 issues
- New framework for SONAR Tests
  - Student project to go from single test per week with full mesh to daily, smaller datasets with balancer to pick less frequently used channels for testing
  - Also measure overhead and closeness
CA Cloud Squad Actions
- User DaTRI requests approved / processed (last week)
Open Issues and Ongoing Discussions
- Availability & Reliability Reports [20170328]
  - 2017 Reports - click down to find reports of format WLCG_All_Sites_ATLAS_MMMYYYY.(html|pdf)
- Sites should be providing the 2016 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