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 26 mai 2026

 
 

Atendees:  Andrei, Axel, Bertrand, Héloïse, Loris, Luc, 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 v9.1.9 (from 9.1.8)
  • Multiple minor fixes (load balancing, managing MySQL connections)
 
  • DIRACX Release v0.1.0 (from 0.0.14)
  • First minor release
  • Due to incompatible changes compared to 0.0.XX releases
 
  • LTS release discussion
  • 8.0/9.0 releases to maintain to support current activities and first migration to DIRAC9/diracx
  • Likely that LTS releases will be necessary also for the diracx
  • LTS: bug fixes, special back porting if really necessary
  • Who should maintain it: 
  • Communities running services in production
  • With an (exceptional) help from the bleeding edge developers
 
 

 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
  • DiracX style adjustments
  • Mazen: global ES prefix
  • Cert tests to be done
  • Waiting anxiously at the EGI/IN2P3/FITS service, it is blocked without
  • @Bertrand: is it foreseen to manage also index suffixes uniformly ? To be found out.
 
  • IN2P3 contributions
  • DMS/File Catalog porting (Andrei, Heloise, Bertrand )
  • NTR
 
  • diracx-cwl (Luisa, Natthan, Loris, Stella)
  • Ryan's large PR is to be reviewed by CTAO 
  • Diracx/CWL to be tested in the certification instance of CTAO
  • Loris worked on the new job wrapper
  • But it is mostly developed by Ryan/Alexandre
  • CWL jobs tests are OK
  • CWL Productions/Transformations test to come
 
  • Deployment with K8s (Bertrand)
  • Status
  • Opensearch
  • certificates: PR to be reviewed
  • Replacement of MinIO:
  • SeaweedFS: in the works
  • Others
  • Should we remigrate the certification service to 9.1 ? update from 9.0 to 9.1 ?
 

1.4. Services:

 
  • EGI: The service itself is running smoothly
  • ~14M jobs since the beginning of 2026
  • Mirgation from ccdiracXX to ccdiracliXX servers
  • Smooth in general
  • Done in one day
  • Databases (MariaDB, ES) version update, contents copy
  • DIRAC software update
  • Few minor configuration issues following user reports
  • Multiple site updates
  • Mostly coincidences, not due to migration 
 
  • IN2P3
  • km3net.org sites are configured and ready
  • tests by km3net.org (Riccardo Bruno) done
  • Still to do
  • Rucio configuration
 
  • FITS DIRAC service (Heloise, Vanessa, Bertrand)
  • Status
  • Using DIRAC CA certificates
  • Job submission
  • Sandboxes
  • Integration into the FITS portal 
 

1.4. European/National Projects : 

 
  • GreenDIGIT (Mazen)
  • Green reporting
  • Green scheduling
 
  • 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): 
  • Kick-off in September
 
  • MesoClouds RI proposal
  • NTR
  • 9 June MesoCloud meeting
 

2. Projects

2.1 CTAO (Luisa, Natthan)

  • Status
  •  
 

2.2 Biomed (Sorina, Axel)

  • Status
  •  
 

2.3. Juno (Andrei)

  • Recent production rather heavy
  • Still using only 2 rather powerful servers for everything (MySQL, MQ, DIRAC)
  • VO-boxes in CC/IN2P3 and JINR
  • To cope with the load:
  • installed extra 2 CS slaves at CC/IN2P3 and one slave at JINR
  • Install extra ProxyManager instances
  • The production scripts to review
  • Not using the DIRAC failover mechanism for data uploads
  • Failed uploads but jobs Done
 

2.4 KM3NeT.org (Vanessa)

  • Status
 
  •  
 

4. Conference, workshop, publications

  • CHEP'26, Bangkok, Now
  • 2 DIRAC related contributions: general status, CWL based WMS
  • JCAD'26, Nantes, 5-7 October, deadline 1 June
  • Ask for poster
  • EGI'26, Ghents
  • Poster accepted
  • DIRAC User's Workshop
  • 13-16 October '26, Prague, FZU
 
 

5. Consortium

  • DIRAC is now HSF affiliated project ! 
  •  
 

6. AOB

  • The next meeting date:  7th July 2026 after the hackathon
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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