Week of 190826

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• Best practices for scheduled downtimes

Monday

Attendance:

• local: Olga (Computing), Maarten (ALICE), Michal (ATLAS), Julia (WLCG), Vladimir (LHCb), Miro (DB, Chair)
• remote: Di (TRIUMF), Xavier (KIT), Mike (ASGC), Xin (BNL), Marcelo (CNAF), Sang-Un (KISTI), Jens (NDGF), Dave (FNAL), Christoph (CMS)

Experiments round table:

• ATLAS reports ( raw view) -
  • Activities:
    • pilot2/singularity migration converging, remaining sites/queues handled one by one
    • ongoing reprocessing campaign, i.e. intense tape staging
      • sub-optimal performance in staging at pic, FZK - to be followed with sites
  • Issues
    • Transfers from INFN-T1 tapes were failing with "Communication error on send" (GGUS:142805)
      • networking issue fixed
    • Transfers from IN2P3-CC tapes were failing with "Changing file state because request state has changed" (GGUS:142818)
      • FTS channel was saturated
    • Transfers from BNL-ATLAS are failing with "File is unavailable" (GGUS:142841)
    • urgent jobs stuck at ANALY_BNL_MCORE
      • the queue has only one running job
      • email thread with US people started

• CMS reports ( raw view) -
  • Reprocessing of Run2 data is on going
    • Will involve re staging of RAW from tape

• ALICE -
  • NTR

• LHCb reports ( raw view) -
  • Activity:
    • MC, user jobs and data restripping.
    • Massive staging at all T1
  • Issues:
    • RAL:
      • GGUS:142350; still issues accessing files on ECHO. Under investigation.
    • CNAF:
      • Data transfer problem GGUS:142803; Fixed

Sites / Services round table:

• ASGC:
  • Downtime for DPM DB update (T1/T2):
    • 2019-08-26T01:00:00 ~ 2019-08-26T10:00:00 (UTC)
    • Had been finished smoothly, and the downtime is over, now starting to get jobs

• BNL: Issues with dCache Chimera name server recently, caused transfer failures from time to time, under investigation. (GGUS:142841)
• CNAF: Back in action with fully electrical continuity since Wednesday afternoon
  • Issues with main router in restart. This router was already scheduled to be replaced beginning of September
  • StoRM issues mentioned by LHCb and ATLAS (also in tkt) seemed to be related to the Router issue
• EGI: NC
• FNAL: NTR
• IN2P3: NC
• JINR: dCache and Enstore upgraded to the latest version (5.2.3)
• KISTI: NTR
• KIT:
  • Reminder: Nearline storage outage from Sep 16th till Sep 27th for all VOs!
    • Outage for lhcbsrm-tape-kit.gridka.de
    • Warning for atlassrm-kit.gridka.de and cmssrm-kit.gridka.de
    • Alice has no SE services hosted by KIT in GOCDB
  • Reminder: Online storage outage on Sep 17th for all VOs (GOCDB:27575). We will try and keep the batch farm operative, so you still may send us jobs and work with remote storage at other sites.
• NDGF: NTR
• NL-T1: NC
• NRC-KI: NC
• OSG: NC
• PIC: NC
• RAL: NC
• TRIUMF: NTR

• CERN computing services:
  • BDII service degraded over the weekend. Issue now resolved. (OTG:0051959)
  • Reduced capacity in HTCondor next Monday/Tuesday (OTG:0051883) due to planned intervention (OTG:0051379).
• CERN storage services: NTR
• CERN databases: NTR
• GGUS: NTR
• Monitoring: NTR
• MW Officer: NTR
• Networks: NTR
• Security: NTR

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