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BTW, I called in at 9:10am but no one was on the phone. On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Wei Yang wrote: > Attendees: Chuck, John Bartelt, Booker, Randy, Wei, Richard > > Production: > ========== > > We are now running DQ2 and PandaMover in parallel. PandaMover is a new > mechanism for data transferring by Panda jobs. PandaMover needs write access > to local replica catalog's (LRC) web interface and we use a well maintained > Apache proxy as its frond end. PandaMover doesn't solve the problem of > staging data from BNL tape to BNL disk, so production is still not in good > shape. > > We are reporting our accounting data to Gratia and WLCG. Michael Ernst will > extract last year's usage (9/2006 - 9/2007) directly from Panda logs. From > Oct. onward, WLCG will get usage data from Gratia. > > Hardware: > ======== > > Current schedule is still January. Hope to combine ATLAS purchasing with > others to make it a bigger one. > > AOB: > === > > 1) Michael would like SLAC to serve as a test site for security related issue > because most of issues are raised by SLAC. Wei had agreed to work on the > first of such issues, the GSI based authentication of LRC web interface for > PandaMover. > > We should also be careful not to over commit ourselves giving our limited > resource as a Tier 2. > > All parties think that it is necessary to have security people engaged at > planning and development stage.It would be good to provide a short > description when planning to develop new softwares, and circle around for > comments at early stage. > > 2) Tier 2 workshop in November. We are in touch with Office of Communication > for logistic related issues. Have just filled out some paperwork. Estimates > $75 for registration (and $100 for late registration). OoC will help setup > online payment account and URL. > > Also are working with InfoMedia group for an official web page for the > workshop. The target date is mid-Oct (InfoMedia is busy on other important > things at the Lab, mostly from the director's office). > > > Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 650-926-3338(O) > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy, SLAC | CERN Office: 32-2-A22| |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | CH-1211 Geneva 23 | | | Switzerland | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +41 22 767 5840 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/