Reprocessing: Meeting of 16-May-2005: 9:30-10:30 ESNet video conference

Our meeting number on the ESNet is 823073776 (82d0repro).
Instructions to dial into a video conference via phone.

Agenda

News
Status of remote site Certification
JIM Deployment and Remote Setup of remaining sites.
Status of production
AOB.

Minutes

Participants

Frederic Villeneuve-Seguier (London), Sabah Salih (Manchester), Gavin Davies, Joe Steele, Joerg Meyer, Gabriele Garzoglio, Daniel Wicke (FNAL)

Topics

News
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Status of remote site Certification
- Status of production certification.
  - SAR: UTA: Plots to certify local DB proxies submitted to Laurent for approval.
  - SAR: Oscer: Plots to certify submitted to Laurent for approval.
  - UK: IC: Certification plots available.
  - CMS Farm: Certification plots available. A high failure rate of around 10% is under invesigation (Anoop).
  - UK: Manchester: Certification datasets ready, to be sent.
- Status of Merge Certification of Sites
  - DØFarm: done.
  - WestGrid: done.
  - Lyon: done.
  - SAR: UTA: done
  - SAR: Oscer: done
  - GridKa: done.
  - Wisconsin: done.
  - Prague: done.
  - UK: IC: Will now start the merging jobs for all 3 datasets. Dataset "2" seems a bit strange, we'll ignore it for the certification, but will investigate what happened.
  - UK: Manchester: Status under investigation.
  - CMS Farm: Production of unmerged files ongoing. GG: Problems with automatic job resubmission reappeard. Under investigation.
JIM Deployment and Remote Setup of remaining sites.
- GridKa: Suffering from system problems. JIM setup should be OK. A new kernel on the worker nodes is hoped to improve the situation.
- UK:
  - RAL: SAM station being installed. Hoped to be ready at the end of the week. Then continue with JIM. JIM head node and SAM station will be on different machines. Communiation needs between these nodes and to FNAL were specified to their admins.
  - Lancs: SAMGrid installation underway.
Status of production
- WestGrid: (running)
- Lyon: GG: Problems in accessing hpss. Implementing retrial in batch adapter.
  Comunication problems between french submission site and their execution sites.
  375 zero length files in the JIM product area. These files have to be recovered/reinstalled before operation and the above work can continue.
- Prague: ramping up.
AOB:
- Some discussion about LCG adapters.

Action Items:

Next Meeting

23-May-2005.

Mike Diesburg, Daniel Wicke, 9-May-2005. Last Change 9-May-2005.

Diesburg@fnal.gov, Wicke@fnal.gov