Dune sites meeting 4 march 2019
Present
Doug Johnson, Andrew McNab, Cheng-Ju Lin, Heidi Schellman, James Perry, Peter Clarke, Petr Vokac, Raja. Nandaklumar, Robert Illingworth, Stu Fuess, Tanya Levshina, Daniela Bauer, Vip
Update
Have asked, and got, reduction on file sizes from 8GB to 4GB
Also problems with memory size on MC,
Also sees problems with stashcache related to the photon library.
Onboarding:
Successful test at PIC
CIEMAT tests coming soon
Rucio workshop: Robert
25 different communities represented and presenting
Surprising amount of comment using Postgres for the DB—
Partitioning DB by scopes didn’t work up to postgres 11,
It works but we will have to deal with it.
Rucio integration with Dirac got a mention in a lot of places
Support module—should they move to annual golden releases instead of upgrading to current release to get any bug fixes.
All presentations were online
JAmes
Some downloads to object store
Cheng-ju lin—NERSC
Seeing sporadic failures with authentication
Streaming raw data file live via xrootd
10 hrs of processing time.
On cori haswell
Steve to contact Cheng-ju off line to check with authentication.
Want to get a proposal in to SPPM
Heidi—can chris Marshall use this NERSC allocation too..
craig Tull is contact at computing division
LBL scientists may be able to get a separate allocation
New SW and computing meeting time will be either 9:30 Monday US. Central or 10AM Friday US Central
All slides from Rucio workshop available here
https://indico.cern.ch/event/773489/timetable/?view=standard