Minutes 11 January 07

• Phone:
  • TRIUMF: Denise
  • GridKA: Andreas, Doris
  • FNAL: Eric
  • CNAF: Barbara
  • ATLAS: Shasha, David Front
  • SARA: Alexander
  • BNL: Iris
  • NDGF: Olli

• CERN:
  • 3D: Dirk, Zbigniew, Marcin, Luis, Eva
  • RAL: Gordon
  • ATLAS: Gancho, Florbela

• General announcements:
  • 3D status report by Dirk at the GDB meeting
  • next workshop 22 - 26 January

• Sites update:
  • Triumf (Denice):
    • RAC working well on one node, network/memory problems on one of the nodes
    • working on the problem, Denice will mail the general list when the problem is solved
  • CNAF (Barbara):
    • installation next week
    • in production before half/end February
    • tests on the LFC replica to be planned
    • Barbara asks if it is possible to include the master LFC (LHCB production database) in the Streams monitoring - to be checked
  • BNL (Iris):
    • memory to be added (already delivered)
    • patch set will be applied after increasing the memory
    • waiting for metalink account
      • Dirk will collect all the information and will send an email with the missing steps, and will create the metalink accounts for the sites
  • GridKA (Andreas):
    • upgrade to 10.2.0.3 forseen 21st January
      • cursor problem discovered in this version - additional patch to be installed
      • streams performance impacted (up to 10%)
  • SARA:
    • database ready ( 2 nodes cluster)
    • already included on the Streams monitoring
    • Florbela pointed out that the streams pool size is too small and there is no info available using oem - Eva will check with Alexander
  • NDGF (Olli):
    • single node database will be ready soon
    • ATLAS will require 3 nodes database - check if it is possible to fulfill the requirements
  • RAL (Gordon):
    • monitoring mail list to be provided - Zbigniew will send a remainder

• Agenda fro the workshop:
  • Dirk has sent the agenda to the full list
  • Gordon will collect all the information related to Tier1 sites problems
  • Barbara will report on the LFC Streams replication

• ATLAS Streams tests:
  • first successful run: 4 sites during 12 hours
  • evolution of the storage to be discussed during the workshop ( 1TB of data, and 2-3 TB of additional structures: indexes, ... to allow TAGS querying)
  • conditions data challenge postponed - end february??
  • SARA seems to keep the rate (first tests)
  • Triumf and BNL: network performance problems - to be checked with the networking people