EGEE-SA1-SWE News

Gonzalo is attending the LCG3D workshop. He will be replaced by Andreu Pacheco in the EGEE-SA1-SWE meeting and by Carlos Borrego in the Grid Operations Meeting. This project has as objective to setup a Oracle-based distributed database between all the Tier-1s and CERN for the LCG project.

... See the web page for this activity

From February 20 to 24th, CIEMAT is organizing a EELA Grid Tutorial in Madrid. The tutorial will be on EGEE middleware.

... See Web

Released the third version of the SA1 tables for EGEE-II in SWE federation after changes requested by some partners.

... See Excel File

Released the list of expected EGEE-II core services to be run in the SWE federation.

... See Excel File

Pepe Salt from CSIC assisted to the European Grid Organization meeting held in Thoiry (France) from 30 to 31st January 2006. No web page located for this event.

LCG 2.7 was released last January 31st. LCG Release information is available through this web page

... See Web

Important LCG Security Holes have been reported, mainly in the storage element components.

Ian Neilson from CERN has requested to SWE what is their planned contribution to the LCG Security Challenge I. He contacted Miguel Cardenas, our security contact with no answer at January 6th of January and last friday Feb 3rd, he contacted me. As Miguel is engaged with the new center in Extremadura we may need a new person to appoint for this security challenge.

Mario David and Nuno Dias assisted to the TPM meeting. Need for a second TPM team of two members in SWE. This issue will be reported to the next SWE collaboration board.

 

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New EGEE Technical Coordination Group has been created!

... See Web

 

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Consolidated CPU accounting SWE from Oct 2004 till Sep 2005

... See Document

EGEE Operations Workshop in Abingdon, UK . Sep 27th-29th

... See Agenda

Financing for Tier-1/Tier-2 centers proposed for 2006/2007

Resources are request from EGEE to support computing for ESR, Magic, and Planck. CompChem and EGEODE

New preproduction site at INTA-CAB

 

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J.R. Valverde volunteered to be reviewer of deliverable DNA5.3 on Progress report on International Cooperation Activities and European Grid project synergy (in collaboration with DEISA, SEE-GRID and other relevant initiatives and EU projects).

New released of the GridICE server installed at CESGA. Source: Fco. Jose Bernab Pellicer.

Transparencies from the Grid Deployment Board meetings.

... See Agendas: September 06, September 07

Looking for volunteers to review deliverable DNA5.3 - International Cooperation Activities of the EGEE Project

... See Draft

A. Pacheco Report on ROC Managers Meeting on Sep 6th

... See document

Reminder of 1-day Forensic Analysis Workshop in Madrid on Sep 22nd

... See web

Superscalar Grid tutorial by Rosa Badia - CEPBA-Barcelona during Cluster 2005 conference

... See web

Announcing Super Computing 2005 Conference, Washington, USA November 12-18 November

... See web

The EGEE-II proposal has been submitted and the submission acknowledged.

... See web

Reminder: Candidates searched for EGEE Deputy Project Director and Technical Director.

Grid computing posts from CIEMAT-Madrid

... See web

Announcement of ROOT2005 Workshop CERN, 28-30 September.

... See web

 

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Released LCG 2.6. New version of the glue schema. BDIII sites in 2.4 will not be able to see 2.6 sites. All sites required to upgrade as soon as possible but not target data has been set.

Temporary list of EGEE-2 assignments

...See document

Released draft of SWE metric resources passing all SFT tests for EGEE reporting

...See web

 

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New ROC SWE User Support Website

...See web

gLite 1.2 released

...See announcement

Next EGEE Operations Workshop in Abingdon, UK . Sep 27th-29th

...See agenda

 

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All Activity Meeting 5-6 July devoted to EGEE2 preparation

...See agenda

SWE comments to EGEE2-SA1 activity have been communicated to EGEE-PMB and discussed. Contents has been distributed though the SWE CB list (project-eu-egee-cb-swe@cern.ch).

Released VOMS documentation for gLite VOMS installers

...See documents

and for the next LCG2.6 release

...See documents

SA1 Quaterly Report 5 draft released for comments

...See agenda

Next ROC Manager Meeting Monday 4th at 11hAM

...See agenda

EGEE Survey results available

...See excel

Accounting plot for SWE federation. IFCA data is missing due to a technical accounting issue being solved.

...See plot

gLite Tutorial available

...See pdf

Few instructions how to join gLite preproduction testbed

...See mail

Announcement of a 1-day preparation meeting for calls to EU funds (IST 5) next July 5th

...See announcement

 

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Registration is OPEN for the EGEE04 Conference at Pisa, 24-28 October 2005

...See web

Resources for gLite novices

...See mail

Roc Managers Meetings in second half 2005 and beggining 2006

...See document

Proposal for staffing estimates for EGEE-2 at SWE level to be discussed

...See document

Released final report from the LHC Grid Baseline Services group i.e. minimal things that should work

...See document

Description of SA1 Activities for EGEE2

...See document

BIOMED Data Challenge will launch this summer for Drug Discovery

...See proposal and Data Challenge Activity Page

Released draft of Guidelines for EGEE-2 Regional Task Partitioning (sent to all CB contacts in SWE from M. Delfino by mail). This document sets the rules for a partner and a federation to participate in EGEE-2.

J. Shiers Progress status of the LCG Service Challenge 3

...See wiki

 

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Proposal for European Grid Organization (EGO)

...See document

Search for the EGEE Director to replace Fabrizzio Gagliardi

...See document

Updated the LCG/EGEE Virtual Organisation Security Policy

...See document

CIEMAT will join Biomed Data Challenge

...See announcement

22 participants at the IFIC Grid Course in Valencia this week!

All-Activity meeting at CERN 5-6 July dedicated to EGEE-2

...See announcement

Open call for sites to join gLite preproduction testbed

...See announcement

 

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ROC Managers meeting in January 2006 agreed to be done in Barcelona. Tentative dates are 19-20th

 

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Announcement of a security challenge in the coming months. Malicious jobs can be submitted to some sites in order to check if security policies are applied.

...See egee3-slides for details

IFIC - Valencia joined the effort in gLite testing activity as requested by EGEE management. lvaro will contribute to this activity.

Biomed Data Challenge schedulled from July 11th to August 19th, 2005.

... More information

 

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R-GMA Status of EGEE - SWE Federation ranked #2 in number of fedwerations with major percent of accounting sites

... See mail

ATLAS Experiment Computing Technical Design Document draft 2.0 released

... See document

Finished the HEPIX Meeting in Karlsruhe (Germany)

... See Program and Slides

Finished the LCG/EGEE 2nd Operations Workshop in Bologna (Italy) last week

... See Program and Slides

 

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Updated guide of EGEE Security Incident Response

... See document

CESGA publishes how to configure the fmon sensor for worker nodes

... See instructions

Announcement of the GGF Workshop on Science Gateways (June 28, Chicago)

... Registration

New version of the Federation Online Web reporting page for the grid operations meeting

... See web

Jornadas de e-ciencia en Santiago de Compostela 6-7-8 Julio 2005

... See annuncement

RGMA Tutorial @ CERN, May 20th 2005, 9h-18h, room 40-5-A01, VRVS Island Room

GGUS Downtime announced Wednesday 11th May from 4h-9h AM

Announcement of the ARM (Roc Managers Meeting in CNAF-Bolonia, May 23th)

New online form to report to the EGEE Operations Meeting

... See form

 

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Announcement of Globus Toolkit 4.0.0

...See: web, news

 

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Released Draft LCG Technical Design Report for comments

...See draft

A Security RSS feed has been designed to provide system administrators from various Grid projects, such as EGEE/LCG, GridPP and UK NGS, with a set of up-to-date and coherent websites containing guidelines and best practice regarding IT security issues

...See web

Released the answers to the comments made by the EU reviewers

...See document

Announcement of the EDG Article in Journal of Grid Computing

...See web

Security issue raised in the web offering the list of RPM packages installed at sites

...See web

Request for contributions for the Spanish Technical Meeting of REDIRIS

...See call

Announcement second course of Grid and E-Science in Valencia, June-14-16, 2005

...See web

Transparencies by D. Shiers on the 2005 LCG Service Challenges

...See slides

Released final version of the contract ammendment of the EGEE Annex1

...See document

Bob Jones requests to SWE federation more manpower for gLite testing and deployment

...See mail

Photo of the participants in the SWE Federation meeting in EGEE3 Athens conference

...See jpg.

Registration open for the Global Storage Symposium, June 20-24th, Sardinia-Italy

...See web

 

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Presentation of the ROC Manager to the SWE Federation Meeting and the Overall SA1 talk

...See slides

Presentation of the SWE User Support Website in EGEE3

...See slides

Post for a Grid Engineer open at CESGA (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

...See announcement

 

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Problem with the CRL of the Spanish CA

...See alert

Announcement of the second LCG/EGEE Operations Workshop in Bolonia (Italy) from May 24 to 26th

...See web

New version of LCG 2.4.0 to be updated by all whithin 3 weeks

...See release

New version of the accounting package Apel 3.4.42

...See installation instructions, more info

New official release of gLite 1.0

...See release, documentation

EGEE-SA1 Open Sesion during EGEE3 Wed 14h30-18h

...See programme

Training available during weekend prior EGEE3 conference

...See web

SWE Accounting by user available to registered certificates

...See web

 

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Released draft SA1 Quaterly Report

...See document

Released gLite Documentation:

• Workload Management Service: https://edms.cern.ch/file/572489/1/WMS-guide.pdf
• Logging and Bookkeeping Service: https://edms.cern.ch/file/571273/1/LB-guide.pdf
• VOMS Core Services: https://edms.cern.ch/file/571991/1/voms-guide.pdf
• VOMS Admin Service: https://edms.cern.ch/file/572406/1/user-guide.pdf
• gLite I/O: https://edms.cern.ch/file/570771/1/EGEE-TECH-570771-v1.0.pdf

Released an Easy-to-Install User Interface

...See UI Plug-and-Play

Announcement of the CERN School of Computing 2005, Saint Malo (France)

...See web

LIP Announces a New tool to measure bandwith between sites in SWE

...See: web, map

Announcement of the LCG/EGEE Security Service Challenge 1

...See document

Announcement of the new GOCDB2 features

...See web

Announcement of the course of Grid and e-science in Valencia 14-16 June 2005

...See bulletin

Announcement of the course on administration, explotation and programming of grid systems in Madrid July 4th - 29th

...See: web, course announcement, school info

Release of the first draft of the deontological code for computer intrusion analysis by Elio P rez and Miguel Crdenas - CIEMAT

...See draft

Final approval by the GDB of the LCG/EGEE Site Registration Policy & Procedure document

...See document

Released for comments document LCG/EGEE Security Operational Procedures (First revision)

...See document

CERN announces that LCG/EGEE Grid surpasses 100 sites in 31 countries being the biggest world computer grid

...See announcement

BIFI - Zaragoza express their interest to be a resource center in EGEE.

Guillermo Losilla connects for first time to SWE meeting.

...See web

Updated program of the second meeting on Grid Middleware in Barcelona

...See web

Announcement of the LCG Network Meeting in Amsterdam on April 8th

...See agenda

 

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New LHC Computing Resources Review Report released

...See document

Released Final Review Report of Crossgrid

...See cover letter

Released updated EGEE/LCG Generic Installation and Configuration Guide

...See web or document

Past Grid Managers Tutorial Web site offers very good teaching documents

...See web

EGEE Phase II Proposal.

The taskforce established in October to prepare the proposal for the second phase of EGEE (call opening in May and closing on 7 September 2005) is pursuing its activities with the aim of giving ideas and directions in time for the third EGEE conference in Athens. Further details can be obtained from the Project Office.

New Proposals and spin off projects

The EGEE project has been approached by a number of project initiatives to profit from forthcoming EU calls. One of these calls closes on 17 March 2005, with projects intending to cover the following extensions to EGEE:
Extensions in geographical coverage: e.g. Baltic countries, Latin and South America, Mediterranea countries, as well as Asian countries such as China.
Extensions in functionality and applications: accounting technology, documentation, training, and biomedical.

Released EGEE Newsletter March 2005

...See document

Released new procedure to configure and integrate a new VO

...See document

New site BIFI from Zaragoza to join EGEE soon.

Guillermo Losilla from BIFI is starting the installation of a new grid site to be integrated in EGEE shortly. BIFI stands for Instituto de Biocomputaci n y Fsica de Sistemas Complejos de la Universidad de Zaragoza
...See web

New email address for site managers contacts project-eu-egee-sa1-swe-admins[at]cern.ch

SWE Ticketing System on Test!

...See web

 

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New gLite v1.0 Installation Guide

...See document.

New gLite 1.0.11 Release

...See Kits.

Weekly SWE site reports have to be sent to egee.swe.roc.contact[at]pic.es

Release of LCG 2.3.1 Security Update!

...See Web.

Released Security Documents for LCG/EGEE Sites

...See Web.

 

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Open registration for EGEE3 Conference in Athens

...Registration Web.

New user accounting available in swe accounting

...See example.

Open consultation on user accounting

...See request.

Crossgrid Project Review Successful

...See mail.

New development from CESGA on an alert system for the SWE federation

...See web.

 

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New template released for ROC Operational Reports

...See web.

Request from K.Bos (LCG/GDB) for volunteers to setup the middleware components needed for LCG grid at LHC start

...See mail.

Date for SWE User Support integration process: April 14th, 2005

...See mail.

New template for reporting site status in SWE

...See template.

New planning for gLite released

...See plan.

Instructions to add MPI Support to your site

...See instructions.

Instructions to add user information to EGEE accounting

...See instructions.

Moved location of the Gridice server monitoring to CNAF

...See web.

 

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Presentation from Maria Dimuo (CERN) about the new site registration procedures.

...See ppt.

Changes to the execution plan from CESGA and IFCA .

...CESGA - IFCA

IFIC Upgraded to LCG-2.3.0 with swetest support .

...See report

New User Support Portal, released 4 Feb 2005 .

...See web

GEANT2 European Academic & Research Network Status Report.

...See web

CESGA Upgrades their Accounting Web page.

...See web

 

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Site Registration Policy and Procedures changed. Concerning candidate site's data verification, site registration when no ROC applies, site registration in case of dispute with the ROC (escalation path), site's commitment to security policies and clarification of registration steps.

... See document

How to integrate an existing beowulf cluster into LCG.

... See recipe

 

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A new version of Apel (3.4.39-1) that corrects this and other bugs has been released. All sites are encouraged to upgrade to the new version.

... Read more

... See the guide

December 2004 Quaterly Report

... Read more (edms account needed)

New procedure to register a site in EGEE

... See document

New procedure to register a new VO in EGEE

... See document

Open Request to install Apel for accounting on all SWE sites

... See the instructions

Draft Jul-Sep EGEE Quaterly Report

... See document

Draft of EGEE Operations Procedures

...See document

Updated Site Registration Procedure

... See document

Presentation in LCG Workshop, by Andreu Pacheco

... See document

List of middleware issues reported by the ROCs

... See document

EGEE SA1 Release Notes 1 at Month 6 on draft

... See document

EGEE SA1 Quaterly Report 2 on draft

... See document

EGEE Pre-production service starting

... See transparencies

EGEE Accounting service starting

... See transparencies

LCG-ES is deciding to join EGEE to create joint technical meetings.

... See LCGES-DI minutes.

Grid Operation Center supports RSS. Monitoring information about each site available as news!

... See link