Copy of 2024-08-22 Meeting Notes

Date

Aug 22, 2024

Participants

@James Walder
Lancs:
Glasgow:

Apologies:

CC:

Goals

List of Epics
New tickets
Consider new functionality / items
Detailed discussion of important topics
Site report activity

Discussion topics

Current status of Echo Gateways / WNs testing

Recent sandbox’s for review / deployments:

Item	Presenter	Notes

Item	Presenter	Notes
Operational Issues Gateways and WNs: - Current status and upcoming changes (Gateway Auth failures)	@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)
Compilation and rollout status with XrdCeph and rocky 8: 5.7.x	@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)
XrootD Workshop plan	@Alastair Dewhurst @Katy Ellis	XRootD and FTS Workshop @ STFC UK One month to go! Final abstracts (UK) to add ? …
Shoveler	@Katy Ellis	Shoveler installation and monitoring
Deletion studies through RDR	@Ian Johnson
Deletions	https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-83
Planning for ALICE CMSD redirection	@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)	Done ?
Prefetch studies and WN changes	@Alexander Rogovskiy	Read requests fail for proxy+origin setup under heavy load · Issue #2308 · xrootd/xrootd
Xrootd testing framework	@Mariam Demir	XRootD Site Testing Framework Pull requests · stfc/xrootd-testing-framework
SKA Gateway box	@James Walder	https://stfc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UK/pages/215941180 No progress with DHCP config. Still issues with DHCP and booting. Work arrounds being investigated
Future developments ideas planning work	@Ian Johnson @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)	Notes from planning meeting 22-04-2024
Tokens Status		To split this into Operational aspects and any development / long-term planning aspects.
Checksums fixes	@Alexander Rogovskiy @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

on GGUS:

Site reports

Lancaster: Tom soothed our fears over the status of CEPH on Rocky8, Gerard having success upgrading our test cluster to the latest Reef. Steven producing a talk for the XRootD/FTS workshop. Otherwise quiet. Trying to do a sun-dance for GridPP52 next week.

Glasgow: gridpp scheduling.

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