XCache DevOps Meeting Feb 18 SPECIAL, 2021

Thursday 18 Feb 2021, 13:00 → 14:00 US/Central

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

Time: 11AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET/8PM CET
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VIRGO-Grabriele_Fronze-XCache_DevOps.pdf

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

 

13:00 → 13:05 News

Conveners: Dr Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Mr Marian Zvada (US CMS)

13:05 → 13:10 XRootD development for XCache

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)

13:10 → 13:15 XCache issues

XCache issues experienced during the deployment, configuration or otherwise causing problems in production or development.

13:15 → 13:20 ATLAS XCache deployment

Conveners: Dr Ilija Vukotic (LAL), Wei Yang (SLAC)

13:20 → 13:25 CMS XCache deployment

Conveners: Diego Ciangottini (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT)), Mr Edgar Fajardo Hernandez (UCSD), Prof. Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD)

13:25 → 13:35 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)

13:35 → 13:40 XRootD transfers monitoring

Conveners: Dr Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Diego Davila (CMS), Mr Edgar Fajardo Hernandez (UCSD)

13:40 → 13:45 AOB