Aurora setup for ATLAS

Thursday 15 Sep 2016, 10:00 → 11:10 Europe/Stockholm

Skype

15 September 2016, 10:00 - 10:30

Present: Caterina, Torsten, Jonas, Florido, Oxana

* MoU: Jonas made small adjustments, will highlight the changes for better readability. One such change is that the MoU should be in line with the general User Agreement with SNIC, which includes e.g. problem resolution flow in the RT system. More complex cases will be resolved outside RT and will have progress reports. Jonas also suggests to add Marcos Acebes to the group.

* CentOS7: Marcos set up Singularity at Aurora, investigates how to make it updateable via yum. Oxana reports on the information on US CMS Singularity experience obtained during Wednesday's meeting. The conclusion is that the best approach is to create a CentOS VM and regularly update it, creating then Singularity images. Singularity is also reported to work with Docker images. Florido did some simple tests of the instance, looks encouraging. He also contacted ATLAS CentOS7 validation team for a test suite.

* Storage: LUNARC got an attractive offer for a simple direct access storage server (80 TB for 50 KSEK). It can be used for dCache pools, too.

* Software tests: Caterina may try again Edgar's tests from within Singularity. Florido will communicate with Marcos and Caterina on details.


* Actions:
- Jonas checks that Florido can be added to LUNARC RT
- Oxana adds Marcos to the group
- Florido follows up with Anders F. on storage 

10:00 → 10:10 Responsibilities and duties

10:10 → 10:25 New software packages (MC)

10:25 → 10:40 CentOS7 compatibility

10:40 → 11:00 Storage solution