MINUTES OF THE EGEE SA1 Activity

MINUTES
OF THE EGEE SA1 Activity
Southwest Federation ( Portugal & Spain)
Monday 20th, September, 2004

V1.3

Present: Andreu Pacheco (PIC), Celso Martínez (IFIC), Javi Sanchez (IFIC), Javi Fontan (CESGA), Álvaro Fernández (IFIC), Carlos Fernández (CESGA), Jorge Gomes (LIP), Kai Neufer (INTA), Emilio Hernández (PIC), Jesús Marco (IFCA), Eduardo Huedo (INTA)
Apologies: Irma Díaz (IFCA), Dani Cano (IFCA), Pepe Salt (IFIC) and Farida Fasi (IFIC)
Brief status report (Andreu Pacheco):
- See report for details.
- In principle, all sites green.
- It is expected that next status reports will give more information and changes.
- Andreu forgot to mention that an EGEE overall operations meeting is scheduled all Mondays at 14h00. I have not received yet any announcement or agenda.
Report from sites:
- IFCA:
  - Reported last week.
  - Irma and Dani are attending a meeting in Santiago.
- IFIC:
  - Reported last week.
  - Pepe and Farida are attending the ATLAS Software Week at CERN.
- CESGA (Javi Fontan):
  - Creating the EGEE site using infrastructure from the USC-LCG2 site. All services will be located initially in one machine.
  - New recruitment expected in October.
- LIP (Jorge Gomes):
  - Small production cluster in EGEE (4 cpus)
  - Bringing up a preproduction cluster
  - Deploying Quattor as installation tool.
  - Testing use of virtual machines
  - Testing use of Scientific Linux in the worker nodes
  - Deploying a new certification authority site using OpenCA
  - Preparing the support to other Portuguese universities to join EGEE
  - Mario is leading the user support service
  - Organizing the Grid Open Day in Lisbon on Oct 21st as Crossgrid Activity. EGEE will be represented by Fabrizio Gagliardi or other top management representative. See the web page of the Crossgrid Integration meeting (link).
- INTA (Kai Neufer):
  - Reported last week.
  - Waiting 8 new CPUs to be added as worker nodes. The 3 current worker nodes are old computers and will be removed.
  - Preparing site certification with Gonzalo.
- PIC (Andreu Pacheco)
  - Announcing 208 CPUs to the grid corresponding to 104 real boxes.
  - Now servicing mainly the ATLAS Data Challenge.
  - Preparing for LHCb and CMS virtual organization service challenges.
  - Gonzalo Merino and Carlos Borrego have setup a generic service for site certification (egee.swe.certification@pic.org.es). They also service the PIC-LCG2 contact address (lcg.support@pic.ifae.es)
  - Mari Paz de Andres in charge of the PIC central operations service (pic-oper@pic.org.es)
  - Paco Martínez in charge of the storage service using the Storategek silo. Using Castor, a CERN developed product, see web. Currently servicing 100 TB of storage (500 tapes), maximum 1.2 PUB (6000 tapes).
Next meeting: Scheduled for September 27th, 2004.
Corrections: These minutes have been created Sep 20th 2004 at 19h32. Send corrections to Andreu Pacheco.