DIRAC Project meeting

Europe/Paris
Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)
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 24 Fevrier 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

The 2026 DIRAC@IN2P3 budget is approved at 12K euros - to be confirmed. 
    

1.1 Versions :

 
  • DIRAC v8.0.78 from (8.0.76)
  • Minor fixes
 
  • DIRAC v9.0.20 (from 9.0.16)
  • Minor fixes
  •  
  • DIRACX Release v0.0.9 (from 0.0.7)
  • Mostly bug fixes and chores
  • Added Replica mapping Pydantic model (see FC discussion below)
 

1.2 Developments :

 
 
  • Following the "sprints" method
  • multiple issues are in the works 
  • participating: Natthan, Luisa, Stella, Loris, Heloise, Mazen
  • Reports
  • Luisa: the procedure actually helps to plan the work, describe and understand the issue, manage availability of the developers
  • Mazen: Task - add tests for the Job commands. Sprint method is efficient and widely used. Discussions around the tasks with colleagues is quite helpful
  • Heloise: Clean up Auth databases. Sprint: efficient to grasp the context of the tasks in discussions with colleagues
 
 
  • IN2P3 contributions
  • DMS/File Catalog porting (Andrei, Heloise, Bertrand ? )
  •  F2F meeting at CC to discuss details 
  • (from the previous meeting, reminder) 
  • Review the DIRAC8 FC
  • Make a (single) choice of components
  • Experiment with a final monolitic design (performance)
  • Make a new FC implementation in DIRAC9
  • with contents migration tools
  • Design the FC diracx interfaces
  • Port the FC from DIRAC to diracx 
 
  • diracx-cwl (Luisa, Natthan, Loris, Stella)
  • How to accelerate the diracx WMS full-fledged system ?
  • Status
  • Experimental JobWrapper is merged which interprets the CWL job description. The wrapper involves the cwltool to execute the job flow. A DIRAC CWL executor is planned to allow both local and "on WN" execution with access to input data (Stella).
  • Job Status reporting in the new CWL job wrapper (Loris).
  • This will allow to fully execute CWL jobs.
  • CWL for Transformation to follow: machinery, user interfaces, input data resolution, using CWL hints for any DIRAC specific extensions, e.g. file catalog to be used. 
 
  • Deployment with K8s (Bertrand)
  • Status
  • Issues with Opensearch access with certificates - the implementation is to be added to diracx-charts. 
  • Issues with the use of common prefix for OS. 
 
  • Reviews Ddop
  • SSHCE, SSHBatchCE
  • Matching
 

1.3. EGI Services:

 
  • The service itself is running smoothly
  • Some problems with the CVMFS uploader at RAL resulting in delays of DIRAC software release deployment. 
 
  • Service splitting (Vanessa)
  • Hosts are ready with DIRAC8 software installed
  • DIRAC@IN2P3 service 
  • Finalizing, to go production in ...
  • Site GocDB is created
  • Km3NET is the first community to use it
  • The File Catalog contents to be migrated
  • DIRAC4EGI service
  • Should find the date for downtime to migrate the service
  • after the DIRAC@IN2P3 deployment
  • Warn the EGI CM admins
  • Perform the migration
  • Resources
  • File Catalogs
  • FITS DIRAC service
  • DIRAC9+diracx installation started but blocked  with the OS access problems
 
  • 10th March - CC downtime planned
 
 
 

1.4. European/National Projects : 

 
  • GreenDIGIT (Mazen)
  • Using job traces of jobs in the ES of the CC 
  • to report to the GreenDIGIT database
  • to simulate various scenarious of job scheduling
  • Scheduling algorithms:
  • Prioritizing sites with high GreenScore
  • Delayed scheduling to use less polluting periods (day vs nights hours)
  •  
  • PEPR STEEL (Andrei)
  • Plenary meeting on the 6th Feb in Rennes
  • Smart scheduling of tasks analyzing smartly places data
  • We have to find a proper topic in the "project continuum" to work on.
  • Several "theoretical" PhD stopics presented in the meeting
  • Discussions are planned with the management
  •  
  • SpectrumCoP-WP[1,2,3] (Andrei, Vanessa)
  • Experts meeting on 24-25th Feb in Barcelona
  • Finalizing the  documents
  • Bleuprint
  • SRIDA roadmap
  • Feedback pool still ongoing
  • Plan to answer
  •  
  • ENSURE TECH-01 call (Sorina): 
  • Status
  • Participants CNRS: CREATIS, CPPM 
  • GreenDIGIT continuation: optimize the resource usage as far as eco-impact is concerned.
  •  
  • MesoClouds RI proposal
  • NTR
 

2. Projects

2.1 CTAO (Luisa, Natthan)

  • Status
  • Working on HELM charts for DIRAC9/diracx for CTAO preserving existing databases.
  • Volodymir will report in the next Dops on the setup developed for the CTAO. 
 

2.2 Biomed (Sorina, Axel)

  • NTR
 

2.3. Juno (Andrei)

  • Discussion on the production activities organization
  • Roles of shifters
 

2.4 KM3NeT.org (Vanessa)

  • Status
  •  
 

4. Conference, workshop, publications

  • CHEP'26, Bangkok, 25-29 May
  • 2 DIRAC related contributions
  • ISGC, Taipei, 15-20 March
 
 

5. Consortium

 
  • NTR
 

6. AOB

  • The next meeting date: 31.03.26 at 14pm
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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