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OSG Technology Area Meeting, 6 April 2020

Coordinates: Conference: +1 312-626-6799, PIN: 718 161 330, https://cern.zoom.us/j/718161330 (password sent separately)
Attending: BrianL, Carl, Derek, Diego, Edgar, Marco Mambelli, Marian, Mat, TimT

Announcements

New COVID-19 site documentation available: https://osg-htc.org/docs/compute-element/covid-19/

Triage Duty

  • This week: TimT
  • Next week: Diego
  • 9 (-2) open FreshDesk tickets
  • 0 (-1) open GGUS ticket

JIRA

# of tickets Δ State
157 +0 Open
40 -2 In Progress
8 -3 Ready for Testing
0 -2 Ready for Release

OSG Software Team

  • COVID-19 Open Science CE
    • AI (Mat): add POOL secret volume mount and generate a new token for Mats
    • AI (Mat): Create a gittrac ticket for the HTCondor security session string comparison bug
    • AI (BrianL): Advertise consistent schedd name between instances
  • OSG 3.5.15/3.4.49
    • AI (Carl): Various blahp tickets (SOFTWARE-3995)
    • AI (Edgar): Release CCTools 7.1.0+ (SOFTWARE-4031)
  • Next doc focus 9 Apr 2020 @ 1:30pm

Discussion

  • AI (Edgar): Build ENMR singularity image
  • AI (BrianL): Follow-up with Diego about running tests manually to troubleshoot XRootD 5 issues
  • AI (BrianL): Create GlideinWMS 3.7 ticket and assign it to Edgar
  • Diego spoke with XRootD devs about xrootd-lcmaps linked libraries. It built without the libraries so we will test to see it if it stil works.

Support Update

  • GlueX (Edgar): Had issues with signing VOMS attributes – will investigate with BrianL and Carl
  • Purdue, UCSD (Diego): Having issues reproducing the XRootD failures – we decided that if there aren't regressions, we should just move forward with the release

OSG Release Team

3.4.48 Δ Both Δ 3.5.14 Δ Total Δ Status
0 +0 0 +0 10 -3 10 -3 Open
0 +0 0 -2 6 +1 6 -1 In Progress
0 +0 2 +1 4 -4 6 -3 Ready for Testing
0 +0 0 +0 0 -2 0 -2 Ready for Release
0 +0 2 -1 20 -8 22 -9 Total
  • Software
    • Ready for Testing
      • 3.5.14
        • osg-ce 3.5-5
        • XRootD 4.11.3
        • osg-xrootd 3.5-12 - osg standalone config
      • Both
        • Frontier Squid 4.10-3.1
  • Data
    • VO Packge v103 - Wednesday
  • Operations
    • Nothing
  • Contrib
    • Nothing

Discussion

  • AI (Edgar): Get Igor to update to a container with the latest frontier-squid, verify it works, and tag it as stable
  • AI (Edgar): Comment in SOFTWARE-4017 with the results of the UCSD XRootD update

OSG Investigations Team

  • GRACC transition now monitored with gracc-transition website: https://gracc-transition.herokuapp.com/: 91%
  • SciTokens+XrootD requires xrootd 5.0. RC2 is out, in development.
  • Need to evaluate HTCondor-CE tests for availability.
  • Folding@Home is running on the OSG within Singularity.

Discussion

None this week