XCache DevOps Meeting Feb 18 SPECIAL, 2021

US/Central
Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Marian Zvada (US CMS)
Description

Time: 11AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET/8PM CET
Where: ZOOM.US

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Attendees: Gabriele Fronze (guest), Derek, Marian, Edgar, Diego, Ilija, Andy, Carlos, Matevz, Mat, Riccardo

News
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* registration open for OSG AHM:
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/47040/registrations/2899/
* Edgar is leaving, his last day with OSG is February 28. Good luck, Edgar!
* presentation from Gabriele Frozne on "StashCache benchmarking on the IGWN infrastructure: a programmatic approach", slides uploaded to
indico:
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/47941/attachments/140197/176127/VIRGO-Grabriele_Fronze-XCache_DevOps.pdf

XRootD development for XCache
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* stay tuned

XCache issues
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* Diego is taking responsibility from Edgar for SoCal caches, not sure what about CMS caches

ATLAS XCache deployment
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* I am running 5.1.0rc6 everywhere. XCaches are stable.
* Using SLATE I deployed 3 servers at AGLT2.
* All xcaches are sending a simple heartbeats to VP at CERN
* Working now on changes in Rucio that will enable it to use multinode caches.

CMS XCache deployment
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* no report, not sure about CMS caches support that was under Edgar's management

OSG StashCache deployment
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* new container update policy;
https://github.com/opensciencegrid/technology/pull/877
* OSG has 5.1.0rc7 in the 3.5-upcoming-testing repos

XRootD transfers monitoring
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* new generation collector in production
* writing report for scale validation
* comparing data in MONiT between GLED and new collector sources

AOB
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* Carlos noted they upgraded caches to v5.0.x and things are running OK
* will subscribe Gabriele to the xcache list

 

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