Thursday, January 26, 2017

Announcing OSG CA Certificate and VO Package Updates

We are pleased to announce a data release for the OSG Software Stack.
Data releases do not contain any software changes.

This release contains updated CA Certificates based on IGTF 1.79:
- Updated UNLPGrid CA with extended validity period (AR)
- Fixed regular expressions in CILogon and NCSA CA namespaces files (US)
- Included rollover CA IRAN-GRID-CGC-G2 (IR)
- Corrected an incorrect line in selected info files for DigiCert (US)
- Discontinued expiring NECTEC CA (TH)

This release also contains VO Package v70:
- Deleted MCDRD VO

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release33202

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Reminder: OSG All-Hands Meeting Registration is now open! Registration Closes Feb 19!

REMINDER: Registration closes in just 25 days!

OSG All Hands Meeting 2017 - San Diego Supercomputer Center - University
of California San Diego

Registration for the All-Hands Meeting of the Open Science Grid hosted by
the San Diego Supercomputer Center (http://www.sdsc.edu/), March 6-9,
2017, La Jolla, CA

Topics to be discussed will include:

* Cyberinfrastructure partnerships: university research computing
HPC centers, XSEDE XD providers, DOE laboratories, NSF Large Facility
computing organizations and commercial cloud providers. Technologies,
strategies, ideas, and discussions on how OSG can foster partnerships
across the widest possible range of CI.

* How high throughput computing accelerates research, and how OSG can help
users scale up.

* Usability challenges and solutions for distributed high throughput
computing applications.

* Connecting virtual organizations, campus researchers and XSEDE users to
the OSG: command line, science gateways, and workflow frameworks.

* Training and education workshops.

* Serving more of the "long tail" of science with high throughput parallel
computing: incorporating multi-core, GPU and virtual cluster resources
into science workflows using shared and allocated distributed
infrastructure.

* Advanced network analytics services for national Science DMZ
infrastructure.

As has been the custom, the 2017 OSG AHM will be co-located with the U.S.
Large Hadron Collider (LHC at CERN) computing facility meetings.

Logistical information, registration and agenda are available at
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/AHM2017 (This will redirect to the
eiseverywhere.com domain.)

If you have any questions, please see the contact page on the above link
for who to email.

We look forward to seeing you in March!

Friday, January 20, 2017

2017 Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting Registration Now Open!

OSG All Hands Meeting 2017 - San Diego Supercomputer Center - University
of California San Diego

Registration for the All-Hands Meeting of the Open Science Grid hosted by
the San Diego Supercomputer Center (http://www.sdsc.edu/), March 6-9,
2017, La Jolla, CA

Topics to be discussed will include:

* Cyberinfrastructure partnerships: university research computing
HPC centers, XSEDE XD providers, DOE laboratories, NSF Large Facility
computing organizations and commercial cloud providers. Technologies,
strategies, ideas, and discussions on how OSG can foster partnerships
across the widest possible range of CI.

* How high throughput computing accelerates research, and how OSG can help
users scale up.

* Usability challenges and solutions for distributed high throughput
computing applications.

* Connecting virtual organizations, campus researchers and XSEDE users to
the OSG: command line, science gateways, and workflow frameworks.

* Training and education workshops.

* Serving more of the "long tail" of science with high throughput parallel
computing: incorporating multi-core, GPU and virtual cluster resources
into science workflows using shared and allocated distributed
infrastructure.

* Advanced network analytics services for national Science DMZ
infrastructure.

As has been the custom, the 2017 OSG AHM will be co-located with the U.S.
Large Hadron Collider (LHC at CERN) computing facility meetings.

Logistical information, registration and agenda are available at
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/AHM2017 (This will redirect to the
eiseverywhere.com domain.)

Thursday, January 19, 2017

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, January 24th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 24th at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

OASIS
* Update cvmfs packages on oasis and oasis-replica to the latest version
* Update frontier-squid on oasis-replica to the latest version
* Enable garbage collection on oasis-replica for the osgstorage.org repositories
* Remove requirement in the oasis-replica install process that external repository servers are responding

Web Services
* Update all software packages associated with OSG Web Pages.

All Services

* Operating system updates; reboots will be required. The usual HA mechanisms will be used, but some services will experience brief outages.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Announcing OSG Software version 3.3.20

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.3.20.

Changes to OSG 3.3.20 include:
- HTCondor 8.4.10*: Running in SELinux should work now, other bug fixes
- gratia-probe 1.17.2: Improved ability to report local jobs to OSG or not
- Updated to XRootD 4.5.0
- Updated gridftp-hdfs to enable ordered data
- osg-configure 1.5.4: Further updates to support ATLAS AGIS
- Ensure HTCondor-CE gratia probe is installed when installing osg-ce-bosco
- Updated to VOMS 2.0.14
- Completed conversion of packages to use systemd-tmpfiles on EL 7

Changes to the Upcoming Repository include:
- Updated to HTCondor 8.5.8*
- Added Singularity (version 2.2) as a new, preview technology
- Updated to frontier-squid 3.5.23-3.1, a technology preview of version 3

*NOTE: When updating or installing HTCondor on an EL 7 system with SELinux
enabled, make sure that policycoreutils-python is installed before HTCondor.
This dependency will be properly declared in the HTCondor RPM in the next
release.

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3320

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Emergency Service Downtime for OSG Connect, CI Connect, and Stash Data Services

OSG Connect, CI Connect and Stash data services will be in an emergency downtime today due to a data center issue.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,
The OSG User Support Team

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, January 10th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 10th at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

OIM
Fixing a bug with displaying CILogon as the cert signer

OASIS
Add space to the data filesystem
Add an extra disk volume to the oasis machine in preparation for upgrade to el7
Update cvmfs packages on oasis and oasis-replica to the latest version
Update frontier-squid on oasis-replica to the latest version
Enable garbage collection on oasis-replica for the osgstorage.org repositories
Change the ligo.osgstorage.org configuration to not require lsb_release