OSG Technology Area Meeting, 9 March 2021¶

Coordinates: Conference: +1-415-655-0002, PIN: 146 266 9392, https://morgridge.webex.com/webappng/sites/morgridge/meeting/info/791d9dddc5464eb6a73fc7746331d06c (password sent separately)
Attending: BrianL, Carl, Derek, Marco Mambelli, Marian, TimT

Announcements¶

Kubernetes Hackathon today 2-6pm Central
OSG 3.6 next
- AI (Carl): Release XRootD in OSG 3.6 (https://opensciencegrid.atlassian.net/browse/SOFTWARE-4494)
- AI (BrianL): Issues with the blahp
- AI (Mat): Investigate GlideinWMS Globus dependencies (GlideinWMS 3.9 built into 3.6 upcoming development)
OSG 3.5.32
- AI (Carl): Gratia probe 1.23.2 with fixe to QueueTime collection
- AI (Carl): Release XRootD 5.1.0 (https://opensciencegrid.atlassian.net/browse/SOFTWARE-4356)

We only need to build xrootd-hdfs build for 3.5 EL7 upcoming, can be ignored for 3.6 and 3.5 EL8 upcoming

AGLT2 (BrianL): helped them downgrade to OSG 3.5 after an upgrade to 3.6. In addition to downgrading RPMs, they had to uncomment the line in /etc/grid-security/gsi-authz.conf to re-enable LCMAPS
Purdue (BrianL): ran into issues with the new supervisord backfill container not having rootly permissions
Purdue (Carl, Derek): made custom Gratia probe to generate missed February records

OSG Status page: Moving synchronization to Tiger (pull request submitted)
XRootD accounting information (from Frank):
- May need help with automating the process of generating these reports. A month only takes a few minutes. Longer periods take much longer.
- Table of working set, read, and re-read for monthly, quarterly, and year.
PATh metrics writing is ongoing for user "wait time"

None this week

None this week