Grid Storage System Deployment Working Group

About this working group

• Mandate
• Members
• Mailing list
• Meetings
• Current proposed sub-groups

SRM v2 roll-out plan

• PDF version
• Excel Version

SRM v2 status

• Status of the implementations
• Status of the sites
• VO specific SRM v2.2 tests using tokens
• SRM2.2 deployment monitoring plot
• Plots of the advertised space token descriptions
• Production deployment schedule for dCache Tier-1s
• Production deployment schedule for CASTOR Tier-1s
  • CERN: end of October 2007
  • RAL : end of November 2007
  • CNAF : 13 November 2007
  • ASGC : ??

SRM v2 experiments test details

• ATLAS
  • ATLAS tests details
  • PPS configuration for ATLAS
  • CCRC08 storage requirements for ATLAS
• LHCB
  • LHCb tests details
  • PPS configuration for LHCb
  • CCRC08 storage requirements for LHCB
• ALICE
  • CCRC08 storage requirements for ALICE
• CMS
  • CCRC08 storage requirements for CMS
• DTEAM
  • WLCG DM High-level utilities testing plan

Transparent data access

• Philippe Charpentier's study on SE accessibility from ROOT
• ATLAS ROOT/SE Issues
• Proposals to solve the ROOT/GFAL interaction problem
• rfio TURL format supported by CASTOR
• Minutes of the ROOT/GFAL meeting, 11 June 2007

Input from the experiments on configuration of Tier-1s and Tier-2s storage

• ALICE
• ATLAS
• CMS
• LHCB

Useful Documents and Links

SRM v2.2

• SRM Development Web page
• List of available SRM v2.2 endpoints

Tools

• Most updated version of lcg-utils 1.6.4 and gfal 1.10.5 man pages
• List of reported bugs found in lcg-utils 1.6.0 and gfal 1.10.0
• Test results for lcg-utils CLI
• History of test results for lcg-utils CLI
• Tarball with BDII check scripts
• Test results for information published in production BDII
• History of test results for information published in production BDII
• Tarball with lcg-prestage un-official client
• List of experiment requests for high-level tools

Storage Solutions

• dCache Book, dCache SRM configuration, dCache space configuration
• Instructions for dCache PooManager.conf
• How to reserve space in dCache
• Greig's list of issues and workaround with dCache
• Greig's list of issues and workaround with DPM

Glue Schema configuration

• DPM Information Providers
• dCache Information Providers
• Proposal for information to be published for an SRM v2.2 endpoint

CCRC'08

• CCRC'08 meetings
• CCRC'08 mailing list and web archive
• Base versions of services and client tools for CCRC08

Future Development

• VOMS-ACLs_Proposal.pdf: VOMS-based ACLs proposal

Problems and solutions with production Storage Services

• globus-url-copy from dcache to non-dcache balanced sites
• CASTOR failures during file transfers
• Results of dCache srmcp transfers between SRM v1.1 and SRM v2.2

Input to the experiments

• Setting up a namespace for SRM v2

Input from Tier-1s

• Input from IN2P3 for LHCb requirements
• LHCb response to IN2P3 document

Guidelines for Tier-1s (Storage Classes and SRM configuration)

• How to set up FZK for LHCb
• Configuration of dCache 1.8 for SRM v2.2 at BNL
• How to publish an SRM v2 endpoint in the BDII

Guidelines for Tier-2s

• How to create static space token descriptions for experiments for DPM
• Upgrading from dCache 1.7 to dCache 1.8

Storage Management in OSG

• OSG Twiki pages
• Web archive of e-mail discussions
• Storage Forum and meetings minutes
• VDT web pages about dCache

-- Flavia Donno - 26 November 2007