Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Operations Service Update - Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 13:00 UTC. Grid Operations reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

REPO
 *Update repository maintenance scripts

Oasis
 *Update to cvmfs-servermon-1.7+

OIM
 *Python script updates
 *Database configuration changes

Myosg
 *Jquery update

Ticket Exchange
 *Fermilab format update  

Operations Service Update - Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 13:00 UTC. Grid Operations reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

REPO
 *Update repository maintenance scripts

Oasis
 *Update to cvmfs-servermon-1.7+

OIM
 *Python script updates
 *Database configuration changes

Myosg
 *Jquery update

Ticket Exchange
 *Fermilab format update  

Monday, March 19, 2018

ANNOUNCING THE OPEN SCIENCE GRID USER SCHOOL 2018!

If you could access hundreds or even thousands of computers for your
scholarly work, what could you do? How could it transform your work?
What discoveries might you make?

We are seeking applicants for the Open Science Grid (OSG) User School
2018, which takes place July 9-13 at the beautiful University of
Wisconsin in Madison. Participants will learn to use high throughput
computing (HTC) to harness vast amounts of computing power for research,
applicable to nearly any field of study (e.g., physics, chemistry,
engineering, life sciences, earth sciences, agricultural and animal
sciences, economics, social sciences, medicine, and more).

For more background:
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/htc.html
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/news/research-highlights-list/

Using lectures, discussions, roleplays, and lots of hands-on work with
OSG experts in HTC, participants will learn how HTC systems work, how to
run and manage many jobs and huge datasets, how to implement a realistic
scientific computing workflow, and where to turn for help and more info.

Worried about costs? We pay all basic travel, hotel, and food costs for
applicants who are selected to attend. This is a valuable offer!

Ideal candidates are graduate students whose research involves or could
involve large-scale computing - work that cannot be done on one laptop
or a handful of computers. Also, we accept some post-doctoral students,
faculty, staff, and advanced undergraduates, so make a strong case for
yourself regardless of your current role!

IMPORTANT DATES

Application Period (OPEN NOW): 15 March - 20 April 2018
OSG User School: 9-13 July 2018

MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS

Web: https://www.opensciencegrid.org/UserSchool
Email: user-school@opensciencegrid.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OSGUserSchool
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSGUserSchool

Please forward this announcement to anyone who might benefit from the
OSG User School. And consider posting our flyer where appropriate:

https://opensciencegrid.github.io/user-school-2018/files/osg-user-school-2018-flyer.pdf

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Announcing OSG Software version 3.4.9

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.4.9.

Changes to OSG 3.4.9 include:
- XRootD: Several important bug fixes
- GlideinWMS: Enhanced Singularity support, automatic proxy renewal
- Frontier Squid: Fixed handling of "Pragma: no-cache" directive
- RSV: Improved security verifying certificates, fixed Java version probe
- osg-release: Use HTTPS protocol for OSG repositories

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

http://opensciencegrid.github.io/docs/release/3.4/release-3-4-9/

Need help? Let us know:

http://opensciencegrid.github.io/docs/common/help/

We welcome feedback on this release!

Announcing OSG Software version 3.3.33

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.3.33.

Changes to OSG 3.3.33 include:
- Fixed an issue where the XRootD service would not start upon reboot

Note: At this point, only critical issues will be addressed in this series
through May 2018. After May, this release series is unsupported. Please
update to the 3.4 series.

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

http://opensciencegrid.github.io/docs/release/3.3/release-3-3-33/

Need help? Let us know:

http://opensciencegrid.github.io/docs/common/help/

We welcome feedback on this release!

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Operations Service Update - Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 13:00 UTC. Grid Operations reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

Collector
  * Reconfigure certificates to properly enable multiple instances

Jira
  * Change cipher suite

OIM
  * Adjustments to internal URL configurations
  * Session increase to 24 hours

Oasis
  * Update frontier-squid on oasis-replica to prevent runaway squids.

Repo
  * Enable iPV6

Ticket
  * Update recaptcha to v2 (branch 2.3)
  * Session increase to 24 hours

MyOSG
  * Session increase to 24 hours

Ticket Exchange
  * Fermilab synchronization update  (branch 1.55)

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