Swiss WLCG Operations Meeting on 2011-02-24

• Date and time: Thursday at 9:30
• Place: EVO, password: chipp
• External link / EVO: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MtM8Ma282nDnD99u9eDs9t

Agenda

• Status
  • CSCS:
    • PhaseD new Worker Nodes
    • GPFS Scratch
    • Moab 6
  • PSI:
    • Fabio works on hardware monitoring/logging
    • setting up new PSI VM infrastracture
    • planning next extension (storage - dCache)
  • UNIBE:
  • UNIGE:
    • Investigation of data transfer rates involving SWITCH and NDGF-T1 is going on.
    • Upgrade of DPM from 1.7 to 1.8 last Monday, partly rolled back.
    • UNIGE-DPNC is in the NGI-CH since last Monday.
    • A new file server (Sun X4275) crashed after a few days.
    • The 'Manno blades' are installed.
• CMS: From 2011-02-18 Comp Meeting: glexec + ARGUS should be operational by 2011-06-30 (Such info we also always keep here: CMSInfoPages#CMS_Requirements)
• LCG-CE:
  • when are VOs ready to run without it?
    • ATLAS: Marc will ask at the german cloud meeting next week on Wednsday
    • CMS: want to watch CREAM for 1 month from now. If all is ok, we can switch off LCG-CE (Link to CMS SAM monitoring for all services. This link is also available on our monitoring page under the CMS section. The link is named "tiny panel")
    • LHCb: Should be OK right now.
• AOB

Attendants

• CSCS: Peter
• CMS: Derek, Fabio
• LHCb: Roland
• Atlas: Marc, Szymon

Action items

• Check price/TB for new dCache and GPFS installations
• Check transfer rate between NDGF-T1 and CSCS-LCG2