DIRAC Project meeting

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Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)
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Topic: DIRAC@IN2P3
Time: Jun 10, 2025 02:00 PM Paris
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https://etherpad.in2p3.fr/p/DIRAC%40IN2P3-10062025

 

Participants
  • Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
  • Axel BONNET
  • Bertrand Rigaud
  • Luisa Arrabito
  • Natthan Pigoux
  • Sorina POP
  • Vanessa Hamar

Compte rendu réunion DIRAC@IN2P3

Mardi 10 Juin 2025

 
 

Atendees: 

Andrei, Bertrand, Luisa, Sorina, Vanessa
 

Agenda:

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

1. Project Status

 
  • The DIRAC->DIRAC9/DiracX0.1 migration
  • LHCb is running smoothly after several fixes    
  • Time to think of following it for EGI
    

1.1 Versions :

 
  • DIRAC v8.0.75
  • Minor fixes
 
  • Problems with RAL CVMFS Stratum0 to publish new release
  • Likely to move dirac.egi.eu CVMFS cell to CERN, e.g. as diracgrid.org 
 
  • DIRAC Prerelease  v9.0.59
  •  
 
  • DIRACX Prerelease v0.0.1a45
 

1.2 Developments :

 
  • Started dirac-mcp project (Alexandre)
  • DIRAC MCP server to provide AI support for the developers
  • Similar project at IHEP, should converge to avoid divergences
 
  • DIRAC documentation
  • diracgrid.org is being refurbished, to be out next week hopefully
  • having links to documentation, users, consortium, etc
  • Hosted at CC ?
  • DiracX documentation will be published at diracx.io (mkdocs generated)
 
  • DIRAC hackathon at CERN 5-6th May
  • Attempt to update cctbdiracXX to DIRAC9/DiracX
  • We did not manage to accomplish 
  • Problems with ElasticSearch and a number of others
  • K3s cluster deployment of diracx on 2 servers (02/03) 
  • DIRAC8 deployment on 01 from scratch
  • Apply migration scripts to DIRAC9
  • make backup of the database to complete the procedure
 
  • Development at CC
  • cctbdirac01-03 testbed status
  • Planning for full stack DIRAC9/DiracX0.1 deployment and tests
  • By the end of July. 
 

1.3. EGI Services:

 
  • Smooth running in general
  • Downtime 17th June: DB update, 13pm-17pm.
  • KM3NeT
  • New VOMS server and corresponding updates
  • Setting up tokens support at the sites
  • Auger
  • Automatic VOMS2CSAgent setup done, but needs proper user management on the PERUN/VOMS level
 
  • General 
  • How to declare VOs supported by a site, how to find sites supporting a VO
  • WLCG is not requiring BDII data from sites relying on GOCDB/CRIC
  • EGI requires sites to publish in BDII
  • Sites look not to follow fully neither approach
 
 

1.4. European/National Projects : 

 
  • GreenDIGIT 
  • Started development of an agent to publish job records in the common metrics DB. Records will contain "Green" parameters - evaluation of the energy consumed and CO2 produced
  • Engineer recrutement restarted :(
  • PEPR STEEL 
  • NTR
 
  • SpectrumCoP-WP[1,2,3]
  •  
 
  • EOSC-01 call : Foundational EOSC Nodes with federating capabilities for the EOSC Federation
  • New EC call to be prepaired by Sep 2025
  • Very complicated so far, discussions are ongoing
  • CNRS/DIRAC to participate as one of the federation technology providers
  • In discussion
  • Possible restart of the collaboration with Galaxy, let's see
 
  • MesoClouds RI proposal
  • Replacement/continuation of Mesonet/France-Grilles
  • Partners: Universities/Mesocenters, laboratories/platforms
  • DIRAC project participation via labs ?
 
 

2. Projects

2.1 CTAO (Luisa, Natthan)

  • Test of the v9 migration, tests are encouraging.
  • Data transfered in the parent directory, not in the working directory.
  • Work on the job submission described with CWL
  • The mode should be supported by the next release of CTAO software
  • Study of using DIRAC as a backend of the CWL workflow executor.
  • New engineer can study the case starting from September
  • To discuter in the CTAO in the end of June
 

2.2 Biomed (Sorina, Axel)

  • facilite jobs of the parameter sweeping type
  • VIP must function in secure environments, so it does scheduling locally
  • Turning to Singularity from Docker. requires apptainer to be available from CVMFS. 
  • New VOMS server to be enabled next week (16th June)
  • Few sites to be configured properly for the jobs biomed.
 

2.3. Juno  

  • Started discussion on the JUNO File Catalog based on the DIRAC FC with an extensive use of metadata
  • A demonstrator is deployed with fake data and metadata (volume equivalent to about 2 years of JUNO data taking)
 

2.4 KM3NeT.org

  • Setting up automatic VOMS2CS after the new VOMS is available
  • Setting up site with KM3NeT tokens
 
 
 

4. Conference, workshop, publications

 
  • DIRAC User's Workshop, 17-20 September 2025, IHEP, Beijing
  • Low subscription
  • JCAD'25 15-17 Sep
  • Somebody not going to Beijing to propose a presentation ?
 
 

5. Consortium

 
  • Consortium Board meeting 25th April 2025. Agenda
  • Status of the DIRAC9/DiracX development and migration
  • report on the LHCb's status
  • DIRAC participation to the HSF affiliation program
  • Agreed to participate. The procedure is to be set up with the HSF people
  • Other potential projects with the DIRAC’s involvement
  • CTAO as consortium member ? No clear answer yet from the IN2P3 legal office
  • Rucio-DIRAC reference service at CERN
  • Agreed to pursue
 
 

6. AOB

  •  
  • The next meeting date: 15th Juillet, 14 h
 
 
Il y a un compte-rendu associé à cet événement. Les afficher.
    • 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