Participants:
Matthew Viljoen
Vincenzo Spinoso
Alessandro Paolini
Bruce Becker
David Cohen
Dmytro Karpenko
Gianfranco Sciacca
Ionut Vasile
Jan Astalos
Joao Pina
Adrian coveney
Kostas Koumantaros
Linda Cornwall
Jiri Sitera
Kashif Mohammad
Stephane Gerard


Apologies: Jerome




Introduction (Matthew Viljoen)

High level Operations Objectives

review corporate level OLA

improve EGI requirmeents gathering

Restart TCB

Questions: Kostas
among the objectives, I would like see integration HTC/Cloud, new services to introduce

there are dedicated boards where such topics are handled
we can interact with them, having their feedeback in order to plan the Operations


Operations Objectives for 2019 

- CREAM-CE replacement

important to provide a more detailed timeline soon

important to find pilot sites to test the new product in UMD
Can NGIs check with their sites if anyone is interested
in NGI_IBERGRID most of the sites are already using Condor as batch system

Kostas: Interesting to know how many sites are already interested in moving to CondorCE (some sites are already using Condor as batch system)

David Cohen: 3 sites in NGI_IL are moving to htcondor as a batch system and looking into condor ce. I would very interested in documentation from sites that already went through the process.

Matt: Would be good if some of these sites could get involved in the staged rollout process


- Badging Cloud sites and VO level monitoring


- Operational tools development

- other important objective to track of: information system 

Discussion and AOB



From the chat:


Vincenzo Spinoso:
@joao getting back to the Condor discussion for a moment, please if you may investigate if some of your sites would be happy to participate to the integration process as far as UMD is concerned

Kashif Mohammad:
In UK, one site tested HTCondorCE but they have to stop it due to accounting issues.

Vincenzo Spinoso:
I'm worrying well in advance in order to optimise as much as possible the available time

Vincenzo Spinoso:
@Kashif, this is interesting, having a quick description of the problem would help, if possible

Kashif Mohammad:
The main issue is that accounting can not be published to APEL. It was discussed in last HTCondor meeting at RAL UK and I think there is a working group for this now

Kashif Mohammad:
In general UK sites have already moved to HTCondor/ARCCE. There are only few CREAMCE left

Kostas Koumantaros:
IMHO we shouldn't replicate the Management structure of EOSC-HUB but simply coordinate with it