Minutes 10 November 05

• VRVS/phone: Iris(BNL), Lee(CMS), Eric(FNAL), Stefan (ATLAS), Gordon (RAL), Sasha(ATLAS), Marco(LHCb)
• @CERN: Ioannis, Kuba, Luis, Birger, Dirk, Eva

• Wellcome to Luis Ramos, new participant in the 3D project (CERN)
• New site joined to the 3D testbed: IN2P3
• Feedback of the presentation about 3D project in Edinburg (Stefan and Gordon)
• From GDB presentation on 9th november:
  • Agreement with the proposal for the 1st phase (see transparencies from agenda, page20)
  • Discuss network requirements to connect to tiers0
  • Dirk will look at the CERN plan for linux os versions
  • Schedule plan accepted by GDB (see transparencies from agenda, page21)
  • try to convince remaining sites to join
• COOL distribution tests
  • RAL database is ready to start the tests
  • Stefan will contact David Front to get his tests for current COOL package
  • no test of replication from tier1 to tier2 (mySql) yet
  • Sasha will give the Octopus reference to Stefan for to tier2 replication
• FRONTIER/RAL tests status
  • Latest POOL release includes FroNtier/RAL plugin
  • Frontier server in the testbed was upgraded to the release used by the RAL plugin
  • Python client to test Frontier has been used to confirm that FroNtier server works ok.
  • 10 sites (CMS), 4 or 5 tier 1 sites, Lee/Dirk will contact Stefano Belforte for details on Squid setup coordination (driven by CMS)
  • Question on Frontier + plugin maintenance came up - deferred until successful test results
• Trash.Test plan for testing AMGA replication using the 3D testbed at CERN
  • Birger will contact Eva
• BNL is looking at cluster hw. In case of problems, they will use the service list to obtain advice from other participating sites.
• Streams and RAC
  • Intermitent connection problems to connect to RAC database due to default configuration of the listener (host names without domain suffix)
  • Solution tested at CERN and already implemented by IN2P3
  • Eva will add one document explaining the problem and the solution in the 3D LCG wiki