Thursday, March 26, 2015

HTCC 2015 Winners

Congratulations to the winners of this year's High Throughput Computing Challenge!

1st Place: Bala Desinghu and Judith Stephen
2nd Place: Majid Arabgol of Purdue
3rd Place: Kenyi Paolo Hurtado Anampa of Notre Dame

Thank you to all the participants and we hope you had fun. If anyone has suggestions for next year's mystery challenge application, feel free to contact Elizabeth Prout.

Friday, March 20, 2015

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting:  See you next week!

For those of you who are registered for the OSG AHM, see you next week!

Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27 at Northwestern University’s Evanston Campus, Illinois!

Please take a moment to check the list of those currently registered http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/.  If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.

If you have not yet registered, but plan to attend the meeting, or if you have any questions, please email pmv@northwestern.edu.


See you next week!

Friday, March 13, 2015

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting: Final chance to register for OSG AHM!

Still not registered for the OSG AHM?

We have extended registration until this Monday, March 16 but no further! Don’t lose your spot, register today! http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/

The OSG AHM will be held Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27 at Northwestern University’s Evanston Campus, Illinois. Click here to see the agenda: https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=8580#20150323

Please also take a moment to check the list of those currently registered http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/. If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us (osg-contact@opensciencegrid.org).

Thursday, March 12, 2015

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting: Registration closes end of TOMORROW Friday, March 13!

Register by end of the day tomorrow for your place at the OSG AHM (Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27 at Northwestern University’s Evanston Campus, Illinois): http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/ 


Please also take a moment to check the list of those currently registered http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/ 

If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.
 
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us (osg-contact@opensciencegrid.org).

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.21 and 3.1.45

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.21 and 3.1.45.

OSG 3.2.21 contains:
* XRootD 4.1.1 (see release notes for critical EL5 update instructions)
* Globus Toolkit 6.0 , which is mostly a packaging update with a few small functional changes
* HTCondor CE 1.10 (see release notes for details)
* CA certificates updated to IGTF 1.62
* GIP configuration for HTCondor CE is now fully automated in osg-configure
* HTCondor 8.3.4 in Upcoming

At this time, OSG 3.1 receives critical updates only and
will be completely unsupported after April 30th, 2015.

OSG 3.1.45 contains:
* CA Certificate update to IGTF 1.62

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3221
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3145

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

Monday, March 9, 2015

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting: Registration closes this Friday, March 13!

Only a few days left to register for the OSG AHM (Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27 at Northwestern University’s Evanston Campus, Illinois).

Click here http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/ to register today!

If you are coming only for the beginning of the week, make sure you check out the agenda for Thursday morning. With an extra plenary, a panel and two tutorials, you will probably want to stay!

Click here to see the draft agenda: https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=8580#20150323

Please also take a moment to check the list of those currently registered: http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/

If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.

If you have any questions or suggestions for the agenda, please do not hesitate to contact us (osg-contact@opensciencegrid.org).

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

OSG Software Notice To Sites About GFAL 2 Packaging Issue

GFAL (Grid File Access Library) is a library and command-line tool for uniformly accessing files using a wide variety of protocols, including SRM, XRootD, and GridFTP.
Some OSG meta-packages recently switched from requiring lcg-util to gfal2-util (which comes from EPEL), but most sites have not switched to GFAL 2 yet.
If you do not use GFAL 2 from EPEL, you may skip the rest of this message.

EPEL recently released gfal2-2.8.1-1, an update to the core GFAL code.
This update splits one binary package into several, resulting in new failures for at least one common use case that the OSG Software team tests (using gfal-copy to/from a file:// URI).
There is a simple workaround for now. If you install and use gfal2-util, especially with local filesystem endpoints, please install an extra GFAL package as follows:

yum install gfal2-plugin-file

OSG hopes to have a fully automated solution to this issue in time for the March release.
If you have any questions or comments about GFAL, please contact .

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting:  Registration Countdown Begins!

If you have not yet registered for the 2015 OSG AHM, there are only 10 DAYS left to sign up, so click here (http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/) to register today!

The meeting will be held Monday, March 23 – Friday, March 27 at Northwestern University’s Evanston, Illinois Campus.  You can sign up for the whole week or in daily increments.  Click here (https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=8580#20150323) to see the draft agenda.

We apologize for the technical problems with the registration page last week.  Registration is now fully open.  Please also take a moment to check the list of those currently registered (http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/).  If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.

If you have any questions or suggestions for the agenda, please do not hesitate to contact us (osg-contact@opensciencegrid.org). The deadline is Friday, March 13. Register now to secure your place!
 
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Notice to sites about gfal2 packaging issue

GFAL (Grid File Access Library) is a library and command-line tool for uniformly accessing files using a wide variety of protocols, including SRM, XRootD, and GridFTP. Some OSG meta-packages recently switched from requiring lcg-util to gfal2-util (which comes from EPEL), but most sites have not switched to GFAL 2 yet. If you do not use GFAL 2 from EPEL, you may skip the rest of this message.

EPEL recently released gfal2-2.8.1-1, an update to the core GFAL code. This update splits one binary package into several, resulting in new failures for at least one common use case that the OSG Software team tests (using gfal-copy to/from a file:// URI). There is a simple workaround for now. If you install and use gfal2-util, especially with local filesystem endpoints, please install an extra GFAL package as follows:

yum install gfal2-plugin-file

OSG hopes to have a fully automated solution to this issue in time for the March release. If you have any questions or comments about GFAL, please contact .

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, March 10 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

GratiaWeb
* Some long running queries were causing timeouts for the web server, timeout value will be increased to 180 seconds.


Oasis
* The oasis-replica CVMFS Stratum 1 upgrade was aborted during the last maintenance period, so it will again be attempted to be upgraded to the latest versions of cvmfs, oasis, and frontier rpms.  Also, the process of adding new repositories will be automated based on OIM registration.


OIM 3.42
* Refactored model access code for meshconfig administration page in order to prevent excessive cache refresh.

* Fixed the error report page which was causing tomcat to display tomcat generic error page. Updated the link for GOC Ticket submitter to pre-select various ticket submission form. Various other fixes to error report page. (OIM-120)

* PKI / Added checks for null secondary_email during certificate renew criteria test so that user with no secondary email address can be handled correctly.

* Added capability to specify certificate signer for each VO (frontend feature is only available for ITB). 

* Refactored footprints model so that *all* ticket update events will be vetoed under debug mode. 

* Made various bug fixes for CILogin certificate signer to be tested in ITB.


MyOSG 2.33
* Renamed pfmesh to psmesh and updated parameter "pfds" to "psds". All changes should be backward compatible. (MYOSG-84)

* Various cosmetic updates for RSV status details

* Added toolkit_url: "auto" to all mesh_config for new maddash config parser to add link to each toolkit from MadDash status matrix

* Removed references to OIM's user profile settings for timezone (OIM-46)