Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2018-09-18

Tier1 and Tier-2 Weekly Report 2018-09-18

General News

ADC Technical Coordination Meeting [20180917]
- SAM tests
ADC Weekly Meeting [20180918]
- Group Derivation Production
  - Open-ended production ongoing, including calibration_BphysPEB, BPhysLS streams + 7 more requests, each with a single format
  - New cache built yesterday
  - Very few new requests, happy with global shares for now (70k-80k)
- MC Production
  - Steady 300k-350k cores
  - MC16e reco started beginning Aug, essentially done - 4.4B events, chasing tails
  - Bunch of other pileup jobs running, some very old - 600 Mevents/24 requests
  - Any drop in pileup should be taken up by simul
  - Some discussion about MC16g and timing - deal with LAR hole issues
- Data17 Reprocessing
  - Preparation for fast processing of data17
    - period M (5 TeV) and period N (low mu) launched
    - Numerous other tasks underway
- CRC/ADCoS Report
  - No report
- Testing gridftp in SAM/ETF
  - Protocol chosen by AGIS flavour of SE
  - File transfer by gfal2 API (supports multiple protocols)
  - Been tested for 6 months already
  - Plan to include in ATLAS_CRITICAL and will affect availability calculation once in production
  - Sites can check if ETF fails or not by turning on "service_is_monitored".
    - Won't affect A/R until "production" flag is set
CA Cloud Squad Actions
- User DaTRI requests approved / processed (last week)
Open Issues and Ongoing Discussions
- Availability & Reliability Reports [20170328]
  - 2018 Reports - click down to find reports of format WLCG_All_Sites_ATLAS_MMMYYYY.(html|pdf)
- Sites should be providing the 2017 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