DIRAC Project meeting

Europe/Paris
Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)
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Participants
  • Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
  • Axel BONNET
  • Bertrand Rigaud
  • Heloïse JOFFE
  • Loris VAN KATWIJK
  • Luc Guyard
  • Luisa Arrabito
  • Mazen Ezzeddine
  • Natthan Pigoux
  • Sorina POP
  • Stella Maria Renucci
  • Vanessa Hamar

Compte rendu réunion DIRAC@IN2P3

Mardi 28 avril 2026

 
 

Atendees:  Andrei, Axel, Bertrand, Héloïse, Loris, Luisa, Mazen, Natthan, Stella-Maria, Sorina, Vanessa

 

Agenda:

 
  1. Project Status
  1. Projects
  1. DiracX
  1. Publications / Conferences
  1. Consortium news
  1. AOB
 

1. Project Status

 
    

1.1 Versions :

 
  • DIRAC v8.0.78
  • NTR
 
  • DIRAC v9.1.8 (from 9.1.3)
  • Update of the time left algorithm
  • Minor fixes
 
  • DIRACX Release v0.0.14 (from 0.0.11)
  • Added diracx-tasks
 
  • Discussion on release branches vs trunk based development
  • convenience for developers or for administrators ?
 
 

 1.2 DiracX Hackathon

 
  • Next DIRAC Hackathon  1-2 July, CERN
 
 

1.3 Current Developments :

 
 
  • Sprints (Natthan, Luisa, Stella, Loris, Heloise, Mazen)
  • Heloise, Loris: Sprint related to the RSS
  • Almost done
  • Mazen: global ES prefix
 
  • IN2P3 contributions
  • DMS/File Catalog porting (Andrei, Heloise, Bertrand )
  • Goal: come up with the single configuration, best performing based on the acquired experience
  • To be used in DIRAC9
  • To be used as the starting point for the diracx migration
  • Status
  • 3 DB schemas defined
  • Current production, +merged tables, +directory closure
  • Databases created
  • population scripts are ready
  • Metadata with dirac-closure still to be confirmed
  • Next steps
  • Run and measure population of the 3 catalogs
  • Measure bulk queries
  • Procedure to migrate current catalogs to be defined
  • 2 steps:
  • merged tables
  • leveltree -> closure (if proved necessary)
 
  • diracx-cwl (Luisa, Natthan, Loris, Stella)
  • Status
  •  
 
  • Deployment with K8s (Bertrand)
  • Status
  • Opensearch
  • PR for allowing certs for login almost ready
  • Global prefix to be added to DIRAC (see Mazen)
  • Replacement of MinIO:
  • SeaWeed
 
 

1.4. EGI Services:

 
  • The service itself is running smoothly
  • NTR
 
  • Service splitting (Vanessa)
  • Hosts are ready with DIRAC8 software installed
  • DIRAC@IN2P3 service 
  • Operational (DIRAC8)
  • km3net.org production tests to start ?
  • Set up the IN2P3 storage in DIRAC
 
  • DIRAC4EGI service
  • Servers are in place
  • Migration after the DIRAC@IN2P3 is done
 
  • FITS DIRAC service (Heloise, Vanessa, Bertrand)
  • Status
  • DIRAC9+diracx configured
  • First job by a user without certificates.
  • Job submission via the REST in the Swagger generated doc page
 

1.4. European/National Projects : 

 
  • GreenDIGIT (Mazen)
  • GreenReportingAgent updated to reduce time for processing jobs
  • Still getting CI metrics from external services is slow
  • GreenSiteDirector
  • Using simple GreenScore site ranking
  • Simulation
  • First results
  • CO2 gain
  • CO2 gain correlated with Turnaround
  • Systematic runs with better stats ongoing
  • Production WMS optimization
  • Using biomed_green group (biomed VO resources)
  • Refining observed metric:
  • The main one NormCPU/g_CO2
  • PRs are in the Github, close to be ready to apply to other services
  • Collaboration with GreenDIGIT:
  • EGI
  • km3net.org
  • CMS ?
 
  • PEPR STEEL (Andrei)
  • NTR
 
  • SpectrumCoP-WP[1,2,3] (Andrei, Vanessa)
  • Final meeting 3d June, Brussels
  • The final reports are being finalized 
 
  • ENSURE TECH-01 call (Sorina): 
  • Status
 
  • MesoClouds RI proposal
  • NTR
 

2. Projects

2.1 CTAO (Luisa, Natthan)

  • Status
  • Testing the kubernetes setup
  • Testing CWL based WMS
 

2.2 Biomed (Sorina, Axel)

  • Status
  •  
 

2.3. Juno (Andrei)

  • Status
  • Long File names in the catalog
  • Problem identified
  • Waiting for a quite window to fix the database
  • Solving the Transformation Monitor problems:
  • MonitorFiles task
  • Problem identified, fix to be tested
 

2.4 KM3NeT.org (Vanessa)

  • Status
  • Sites configured to accept km3net.org jobs
  • SEs ?
  • Rucio connection
  • Ball on their side
  •  
 

4. Conference, workshop, publications

  • CHEP'26, Bangkok, 25-29 May
  • 2 DIRAC related contributions
  • JCAD'26, Nantes, 5-7 October, deadline 22 May
  • EGI'26, Ghents
  • DIRAC User's Workshop
  • To be announced shortly, 13-16 October '26, Prague
 
 

5. Consortium

  • Advancing with the HSF affiliation program
  • Confirmed the final reviewer report
 

6. AOB

  • The next meeting date: 26th May 2026
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    • 14:00 14:40
      Etat du projet 40m
      • Tour de table
      Orateurs: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France), Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)
    • 14:40 15:20
      Projets 40m
      Orateurs: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France), Axel BONNET ({CNRS}UMR5220), M. Bertrand Rigaud (CC-IN2P3), Luisa Arrabito (LUPM), Natthan Pigoux (LUPM), Sorina POP (CNRS)
    • 15:20 15:25
      Publications / Conférences 5m

      Publications

      Conferences

      Orateur: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
    • 15:25 15:35
      Consortium news 10m
      Orateur: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CPPM-CNRS)
    • 15:35 15:45
      AOB 10m