26 Feb (Thu)

• LHCb has migrated to a new catalog architecture on Monday (Dirac File Catalog). The migration went all successful. Many thanks to IT/DB and IT/PES colleagues for their support.
• Distributed computing dominated by Monte Carlo and user activities.
• T0:
  • Q: VOMRS move for LHCb date? No reply to some questions yet.
• T1:
  • Multiple T1 (and T2D) sites in scheduled DT on Tuesday with their storage. LHCb would like to discuss a possibility to align such DTs better in sequence.

23 Feb (Mo)

• LHCb dist computing activities drained b/c of migration to new file catalog system. We expect to come back from this DT this afternoon.
• T0:
  • Migration of DBOD DBs together with the above migration (other than FC)
• T1:

19 February 2015 (Thursday)

• User jobs and MC at the moment.
• T0: NTR
• T1: NTR

16 February 2015 (Monday)

• Still finalising last few file statuses of Stripping21 campaign. User jobs and MC at the moment.
• T0: NTR
• T1: NTR

12 February 2015 (Thursday)

• Still finalising last few file statuses of Stripping21 campaign. User jobs and MC at the moment. Expect MC to ramp up soon.
• T0: CERN job failures ticket still open (GGUS:111565) and on us to understand where the job time limit problem is.
• T1: Thank you to T1s for bearing with us this week while we killed jobs from a user who had submitted a large number of tape requests.

9 February 2015 (Monday)

• "Legacy Run1 Stripping" still looking at recovery from lost files. Large MC campaign upcoming + User jobs but not much happening right now.
• T0: Many of the job failures at CERN appear to be related to batch queue timeleft mechanism. Investigating still. (GGUS:https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=111565)
• T1: NTR

5 February 2015 (Thursday)

• "Legacy Run1 Stripping" waiting on FTS tranfers and recovery from lost files. Large MC campaign upcoming + User jobs but not much happening right now.
• T0: Lot of jobs failing at CERN (GGUS:https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=111565)
• T1: SARA : any news about the INCIDENT report ?.

2 February 2015 (Monday)

• "Legacy Run1 Stripping" waiting on FTS tranfers and recovery from lost files. Large MC campaign upcoming + User jobs but not much happening right now.
• T0: NTR
• T1: Downtime at RAL and forthcoming intervention on IN2P3 on CE transparent for user.

-- JoelClosier - 2015-06-01