• Data Processing
  • VAC
    • Used in production with several hundred VMs at Manchester, Oxford and Lancaster
    • Infrastructure moved to CERNVM3 / SLC6
  • Unification / rewrite of the pilot framework in LHCbDIRAC
    • same infrastructure to be used at WNs, VAC, BOINC, CLOUD
    • including machine / job features
  • WMS decommissioning
    • WMS server decommissioning at CERN went without problems
    • Currently LHCb is submitting < 4 % of its pilots through WMS to small sites
      • Decommissioning of remaining sites will continue on low priority
• Data Management
  • Tier2Ds (D==Disk)
    • Many Tier2Ds are using DPM as storage technology
      • Bug of the SRM/xrootd interface was fixed earlier this year and verified for version 1.8.8 - many thanks to CBPF.br and NCBJ.pl
      • The rpm is available in EPEL / testing at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/6/x86_64/, release in EPEL pro to follow soon
  • FTS3
    • Service is used 100 % in production since several months by LHCb
    • Client was used in "FTS2 mode" within LHCbDIRAC.
      • Planning to use the REST interface (python only, avoid Boost and other C++ dependencies)
  • File Access
    • Upcoming release of LHCbDIRAC will contain ability to use natively built xroot tURLs without going through SRM,
    • Next step will be to integrate http/webdav access, should be less work with the previous work already done but so far less endpoints available....
  • LCG file catalog to DIRAC file catalog migration
    • Migration procedure is currently being prepared, no estimate yet on the final schedule for the migration available. The objective is still before the end of the year.
  • CASTOR -> EOS migration
    • LHCb is using EOS already for production data for several months
    • Last bit missing was user data migration, which is scheduled for 22nd April - Many thanks to DSS for their support !!!!
• Infrastructure
  • IPv6
    • Test infrastructure currently being setup in LHCb
    • New LHCb representative to IPv6 WLCG TF and Hepix - Raja Nandakumar
  • perfSonar
    • waiting for dashboard interface to consume data
  • Middleware Testing
    • Infrastructure for middleware testing available within LHCb.

-- StefanRoiser - 16 Apr 2014