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OSG Technology Area Meeting, 20 July 2020

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

Announcements

  • Derek OOO this week
  • OSG User School ongoing this week

Triage Duty

  • This week: Carl
  • Next week: BrianL
  • 7 (+0) open FreshDesk tickets
  • 0 (+0) open GGUS ticket

JIRA

# of tickets Δ State
166 +2 Open
44 -1 In Progress
15 +4 Ready for Testing
11 +1 Ready for Release

OSG Software Team

  • OSG 3.5.21
    • AI (Diego): Add package NVR table to XRootD plugin tickets and mark RFT (SOFTWARE-4093, SOFTWARE-4137) Diego is ready to promote plugins but is waiting on a PR review for xrootd-cmstfc.
    • AI (Carl): Fix broken cadist links in the initial HTML generation (SOFTWARE-3874)
  • Containers
    • AI (Diego): Add tcmalloc to XCache containers (SOFTWARE-4166)
    • AI (BrianL): Add XRootD 5 based XCache image builds (SOFTWARE-4181)
    • AI (BrianL): Add the ability to build XCache images based on XRootD hotfixes (SOFTWARE-4151)
  • Enterprise Linux 8
    • AI (Edgar): Add OpenSSL 1.1.1 support to xrootd-lcmaps (SOFTWARE-4150)
      • Testing via XCache not possible because Python bindings for HTCondor (for OSG) are not available yet.
        Edgar will test using xrootd-standalone
    • AI (Mat): Add functioning VMU tests for EL8 (SOFTWARE-4072)
      • Close to working; needs cleanup and PR review.
    • AI (Mat): Build osg-wn-client tarball (SOFTWARE-4050)
    • AI (TimT): Release condor for el8 (SOFTWARE-4157)
  • AI (BrianL, Carl): Write design doc for generating pilot records for OSG pilot containers (SOFTWARE-4169)

Discussion

  • Ongoing storage ticket with Brown; currently it's not OSG-related troubleshooting, so it would be better served if it's tracked by CMS coordinators.

  • Carl working on moving building container to GitHub actions; this enables us to make updates to the software-base image and have them trigger builds for all descendent images.

  • Edgar will be working on DOMA tasks so will not have time for software work. BrianL and Marian are interested in seeing XCache-related documentation that Edgar writes.

  • Edgar has been running an XRootD 5 cache in Sunnyvale. No problems so far but there have been auth issues reported against XRootD 5; BrianL will find the GitHub issue so Edgar can test.

Support Update

  • Edgar: - #65322 -- CMU is having difficulties with GridFTP and XRootD. - Multi-core pilots at Syracuse not matching; Edgar requests help from HTCondor developers, who request additional logs from Syracuse.

OSG Release Team

3.4.54 Δ Both Δ 3.5.20 Δ Total Δ Status
0 +0 0 +0 1 -5 1 -5 Open
0 +0 0 +0 5 -3 5 -3 In Progress
0 +0 0 +0 4 +0 4 +0 Ready for Testing
0 +0 0 +0 10 +1 10 +1 Ready for Release
0 +0 0 +0 20 -7 20 -7 Total
  • Software
    • Ready for Testing
      • 3.5.20
        • ATLAS and CMS XCache containers
        • osg-xrootd 3.5-13
        • Upcoming: XRootD 5.0.0
    • Ready for Release
      • scitokens-cpp 0.5.1
      • HTCondor-CE 4.4.0
      • Frontier-Squid 4.12-2
      • CVMFS 2.7.3 / cvmfs-config-2.7.3 / osg-oasis 16-5
  • Data
    • Nothing
  • Operations
    • osg-build 1.16.2
    • Frontier-Squid 4.12-2
  • Contrib
    • Nothing

Discussion

  • Release this week.

OSG Investigations Team

  • Outage of personel last week, Marian was available only on Monday last week
  • OSG Summer School is ongoing this week.
  • XRootD Monitoring Validation is ongoing, and taking significant amount of time (and development / bugfixes)
  • CVMFS Singularity Sync is going to start using singularity to create the containers. Working on testing, see github discussion:
  • XRootD 5 release and built in OSG. Preparing TLS configurations for upstreaming, though bugs in xrootd5 are the current issue (watching xcache mailing list).
    • organizing presentation on http://gitbhub.com/xrootd/xrootd-k8s-operator on next xcache meeting, IN2P3 folks involved
  • GRACC tape backup broke last week, investigated root cause, turned out to be FNAL issue and fixed by the end of business day on last Friday (operations effort)

Discussion

None this week