NT1 bi-weekly meeting

Thursday 15 Apr 2021, 15:00 → 16:05 Europe/Copenhagen

Meeting slot for discussions, report on some cool technologies, coming changes, follow-up on activities, etc.

 Zoom link

Present: Darren, Oxana, Jens,  Erik, Mattias, Maiken,  Petter, Vincent
Absent: Krishnaveni,  Christian

 

•  Decision to use marengo as a dteam tape endpoint
• Next meeting: 
  • 29th of April:topic
  • Grafana training/tutorial: Maiken, Vincent, Petter

15:00 → 15:05 News

Speaker: Vincent Garonne (University of Oslo (NO))

News:

• Spring All hands meetings: https://indico.neic.no/event/189/
  • 3rd-5th May
  • Please register: https://indico.neic.no/event/189/registrations/90/
• Application to NeIC - Invitation for e-Infrastructure Community-forming pre-study or workshop got accepted
  • “ How to run a high availability storage cloud service with dCache ”
  • Summary Proposal
• NT1 evaluation still ongoing:
  • We need to explain our future needs & challenges
    • HL-LHC: ATLAS Estimates
    • Survey to NT1 sites / National providers / Physicists 
    • Description of the current resources
    • Implication on: ARC, dCache, Central services, LAN/WAN, etc.

Highlights:

• WLCG DOMA is setting up a testbed to try SRM+HTTP access for tape. They ask us about a dteam enabled TAPE endpoint with 10TB space.
• Recalculate availability/reliability for NDGF in March ?

Round table / Follow-up:

• Ansible tower (Darren)
• Grafana (Petter, Vincent)

Next meeting:

• 28th of April:
  • Possible topics:
    • Grafana training/tutorial: Maiken, Vincent
    • Nagios improvement or replacement, e.g., Zabbix, Icinga
    • Issue-Thon ? 43 issues in https://source.coderefinery.org/NT1/Operations/-/issues
    • dCache (Krishaveni)

AOB:

15:05 → 15:15 GDB Summary

Agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/876788/

Speakers: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC), Oxana Smirnova (NeIC / Lund University)

GDB Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/876788/ 

15:15 → 15:35 CI/CD in ARC

Speakers: Maiken Pedersen, Maiken Pedersen (University of Oslo)

ARC-CI-NT1Biweekly.pptx