First major PEARC17 Conference call-for-participation deadline approaching

First major PEARC17 Conference call-for-participation deadline approaching
 
Technical papers and tutorials proposals for the inaugural PEARC conference for advanced research computing due March 6
 
The first major call-for-participation deadline for the inaugural PEARC Conference is March 6, 2017. PEARC17, which will take place in New Orleans, July 9-13, 2017, is open to professionals and students in advanced research computing. Technical papers and tutorials submissions are due by March 6 and must be submitted through EasyChair, which can be found on the PEARC17 Call for Participation webpage here.

The official Call for Participation contains details about each of the four technical tracks of papers, and tutorials. The technical track paper submissions may be full papers (strongly preferred) or extended abstracts. External Program and Workshop proposals are due March 31 and Poster, Visualization Showcase and Birds-of-a-Feather submissions are due May 1.

The PEARC (Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing) conference series is being ushered in with support from many organizations and will build upon earlier conferences’ success and core audiences to serve the broader community. In addition to XSEDE, organizations supporting the new conference include the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop (ARCC), the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRC), the ACI-REF consortium, the Blue Waters project, ESnet, Open Science Grid, Compute Canada, the EGI Foundation, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), and Internet2.

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GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 28th at 14:00

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, 28/Feb at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

Data

* Update internal database servers data1 and data 2

Reports

* Upgrade production report generator to CentOS 6.8

VOMS

* Upgrade production instance to CentOS 6.8
* Take over operation of OSG VO voms from FNAL

Twiki

* Back up configuration changes

Web Services

* Basic updates and patches to OSG web presence.

All Services

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

Announcing OSG CA Certificate Update

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 1.80:
- Discontinued BEGrid2008 (BELNET) classic authority (BE)

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release33212

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Announcing OSG Software version 3.3.21

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.3.21.

Changes to OSG 3.3.21 include:
- osg-configure 1.6.1: Additional support for ATLAS AGIS
- GlideinWMS 3.2.17: See Release Notes
- Important bug fixes for CVMFS server
- HTCondor 8.4.11: Final bug fix release of the 8.4 series
- HTCondor-CE 2.1.2: Avoid crash by being more liberal in what we accept
- Added 2 scripts to manage VO and CA certificates in tarball installations

Changes to the Upcoming Repository include:
- Singularity 2.2.1: Moderate Severity security update

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3321

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

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

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

Oasis
- Upgrade oasis and oasis-replica to CenOS 7.3

OIM
- Update to OIM to reject requests for host certs that put the user over quota - https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-2472
- OIM 3.68

Event
- SSL/TLS integration for RabbitMQ instance

Reports
- Upgrade production report generator to CentOS 6.8

VOMS
- Upgrade production instance to CentOS 6.8
- Take over operation of OSG VO voms from FNAL

XSEDE Ticket Exchange

Colleagues,

The OSG Operations ticketing interface is now able to exchange tickets with the XSEDE ticketing interface.  This means that if you are having issues with XSEDE or need support from the XSEDE operators, you can open a ticket with us (https://ticket.opensciencegrid.org) and let us know that the ticket needs to go to XSEDE.  Once we have this information we can send the ticket to XSEDE and they will be able to work in their ticket environment while you continue to work in the OSG environment.  

This should help everyone on both sides in their support workflows.  Please let us know if you have any questions.