XCache DevOps Meeting Jan 10, 2019

US/Central
Brian Bockelman, Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Marian Zvada (US CMS)
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Attendees: Marian, Matevz, Ilija, Mat, BrianL, JohnH

News:
- BrianB officially relocated to Wisconsin, welcome to Wisconsin Brian!
- OSG Operations meeting taking place in San Diego Jan 29-31
- Joint OSG/WLCG/HSP workshop at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  https://indico.cern.ch/event/759388/
  * DOMA will be presented as part of XCache projects on WLCG
  * we should talk about contribution of XCache in general on the OSG All Hands meeting, too. Will talk to TimC in San Diego as he is preparing agenda for OSG AHM
- Ilija mentioned RUCIO Workshop Feb 28-March 1st in Oslo
 
Development:
- RC3 out, Brian made new build RC3.1 and deployed at UNL on all xrootd data nodes
- news/date for v4.9.0? nobody knows, but should include recent bug fixes by BrianB (github issues #888, 892, 891).

ATLAS:
- Ilija reports about number of errors and disconnects to be investigated in cache setup
- BNL has own 60TB NVMEs over 100Gbit link, Ilija is wondering about performance, deployment will be not done via slate because of lot of hassle with firewall stuff at BNL
- Edgar mentioned they are going to try 100TB NVMEs at UCSD

CMS:
- successfully storing data into CERN ES (producer and type of messages updated in the collector and deployed): https://monit-kibana.cern.ch/kibana/goto/cfc7f48530bfcb510b6d557e632bd5ab

OSG:
BrianL/Mat:
- renamed repo from StashCache into xcache
- xcache-xrootd 1.0 at the door, currently for EL7 only based on 4.9.0 (or >-=RC3)
- authfile to be generated and periodically updated from topology, it requires changes in the topology which are done, what remains is convention in the config, Mat is tweaking this in conversation with BrianB via PR
- preparing xcache container that OSG will ship xcache rpm and xrootd 4.9.0
Edgar/Marian:
- any news on kubernetes UChicago? Just that we set few caches behind redirectors, need to check whether the old cache mwt2-stashcache.campuscluster.illinois.edu is behind redir or what are the plans as they mentioned the HW will be deprecated
JohnH:
- he'd like to follow up on the performance tests of cache on 40Gb link, will send email to the list asking for more info

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 13:00 13:05
      News
      Conveners: Brian Bockelman, Mr Marian Zvada (US CMS)
    • 13:05 13:15
      XCache development

      General status of development, XRootD releases with new cache features, bug fixes, etc...

      Conveners: Mr Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Matevz Tadel (UCSD), Wei Yang (SLAC)
    • 13:15 13:25
      ATLAS XCache deployment
      Conveners: Dr Ilija Vukotic (LAL), Wei Yang (SLAC)
    • 13:25 13:35
      CMS XCache deployment
      Conveners: Diego Ciangottini (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT)), Prof. Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD)
    • 13:35 13:45
      OSG StashCache deployment

      Status of OSG deployment, origin/caches operations, stashcp, usage, etc...

      Conveners: Brian Bockelman, Brian Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dr Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Mr Edgar Fajardo Hernandez (UCSD), John Hicks (Internet2), Mr John Thiltges (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Mr Marian Zvada (US CMS), Mr Matyas Selmeci (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • 13:45 14:00
      AOB