Minutes 13 March 08

• Phone:
  • Gridka: Doris and Andreas
  • RAL: Carmine
  • NDGF: Olli
  • BNL: Carlos
  • CNAF: Barbara
  • SARA: Alexander
  • TRIUMF: Andrew

• CERN:
  • 3D: Dirk, Maria, Eva
  • ATLAS: Gancho, Florbela

• General announcements:
  • Next workshop: scheduled as part of the WLCG workshop, draft agenda sent around by Maria, please send your comments
    • Will attend: Gordon and Carmine, Alexander, Carlos, Olli, Barbara and Federico, Doris and Andreas, Florbela and Gancho
    • Please send us suggestions for the Agenda
  • 3d project from the development point of view is completed, so Dirk will propose to conclude this project. Status report will be prepared for the Management Board.
    • Dirk will prepare a draft on how this will continue (operational meetings, 3d as part of the databases services)
  • Licenses review: Licenses discussion, possible common acquisition as in 2006, Dirk has asked the sites to send their requests.
    • Licenses from 2006 are still valid, can be moved to new hw, but taking in count new rules for multi-core hw.
    • From CERN it will be not possible to get another similar arrangement during some time.
    • Feedback must be collected soon because the acquisition will be done in April.

• Status Tier0 and Tier1 sites:
  • Tier0:
    • Patch for bug: imported table do not replicated
    • ORA-600 error when dropping propagation fixed in 11.2, backport requested
    • Split performed for PIC and CNAF to be prepared for their interventions.
  • Triumf: CPU January patch will be applied today
  • SARA: Nothing to report. Meeting with DQ2 people to be scheduled.
  • BNL:
    • CPU patch FTS database.
    • Views recompilation on 3d cluster next week.
    • One of the nodes was rebooted by itself but service was not affected, bug fixed in 10.2.0.4
    • Dawid is helping Carlos with the 32bits to 64bits migration tests
  • RAL: Next week January CPU patch on both databases
  • NDGF: Patch applied next week
  • CNAF: Preparation of the big intervention: downtime for 1 week, after CPU patch will be applied
  • GridKa: LHCb/LFC frontend installation finished. CPU January to be applied

• Contact GOC db so the EGEE broadcast is sent automatically
• Experiments status:
  • PVSS replication to be moved to production soon