DIRAC Project meeting

mardi 15 sept. 2026, 14:00 → 16:20 Europe/Paris

Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)

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Compte rendu réunion DIRAC@IN2P3

Mardi 15 Septembre 2026

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

Agenda:

1. Project Status
2. Services, Projects
3. Conference, workshop, publications
4. Consortium
5. AOB

1. Project Status

1.1. Versions

• DIRAC v8.0.83 (from 8.0.81)
  Minor fixes
  dirac-jobexec fix for using parameterised input data

• Still PR:
  * outputPath, LFN globbing in the output data
  * enabling File Monitoring for Transformations
  * 9.0: propagation of 8.0 fixes

• DIRAC v9.1.18 (from 9.1.12)
  * See release notes: https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/blob/v9.1.18/release.notes
  * Parameterized SQL calls to allow arguments checking by the MySQL client
  * correct AccountingDB bucket writing (raw buckets were not dropped)
  * Multiple optimizations, fixes (DMS, Accounting, etc)

• DIRACX Release v0.1.0 (from 0.0.14)
  * v0.4.1 (from v0.1.0)
  * added pilot db and routers
  * rss router
  * + multiple minor fixes

1.2. Current Developments:

• The last Ddev meeting https://indico.cern.ch/event/1721787/

• Sprints (Natthan, Luisa, Stella, Loris, Heloise, Mazen)
  *

1.2.1 IN2P3 contributions

• DMS/File Catalog porting (Andrei, Heloise )
  * We have to restart after the summer
  * concentrate on 9.1 and back port things as necessary

• diracx-cwl (Ryan)

• FiTS (Heloise)
  * Access with tokens/certificates

• Deployment with K8s (Bertrand)
  * Opensearch global prefixes
  * SeeweedFS

• Others
  * Moving to DIRAC9/DiracX of the EGI service
  * CTAO will most likely go in production by January 2027

  • While keeping the DIRAC8 service in parallel

1.3. Services

1.3.1. EGI: The service itself is running smoothly

• Check-In Keycloak upgrade - changed token format (audience claim)
  • requires changes in the DIRAC code and in the HTCondor sites configuration
  • We have to see if it is compatible with IAM and changes can be generally accepted

1.3.2. IN2P3:

• Still only km3net.org configured, not heavily used
  • mostly for the GreenDIGIT related studies

1.3.3. FITS DIRAC service (Heloise, Vanessa, Bertrand)

1.4. European/National Projects

1.4.1. GreenDIGIT (Mazen)

• Elsevier Paper
• Poster for the EGI Conference

1.4.2. PEPR STEEL (Andrei)

• Looking for prerequisites for opening recruitment

1.4.3. ENSURE TECH-01 call (Sorina):

• Kick-off meeting next week
• Presentation to be prepared

1.4.4. MesoClouds RI proposal, Numpex

• MesoCloud was enabled officially by the Ministry

1.4.5. Numpex discussion

• PEPR NUMPEX presentation at the JCAD

2. Projects

2.1. CTAO (Luisa, Natthan)

• First data to be treated by the DPS (DIRAC) with CWL described
  jobs but the current transformation system. Will need custom CTAO
  plug-ins. This is to be made ready by the January 2027.

2.2 Biomed (Sorina, Axel)

• Reduced activity in summer, will pro

2.3. Juno (Andrei)

• Ongoing production without major upgrades and problems
  • File monitoring is very desirable

2.4 KM3NeT.org (Vanessa)

3. Conference, workshop, publications

• JCAD’26, Nantes, 5-7 October 2026
  * DIRAC/GreenDIGIT poster

• EGI’26, Ghents, Sep 21-24 2026
  * DIRAC/GreenDIGIT poster
  * GreenDIGIT AHM
  * ENSURE kick-off

• DIRAC User’s Workshop, Prague, FZU, 13-16 October 2026

• Discussing with CTAO the next DUW venue (most likely LUPM,Montpellier)

4. Consortium

Discussing CTAO membership

5. AOB

The next meeting date: 22 Octobre 14pm

1 Etat du projet

• Tour de table

Orateurs: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France), Vanessa Hamar (CC-IN2P3 / CNRS)

2 Projets

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)

3 Publications / Conférences

Publications

Conferences

Orateur: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)

4 Consortium news

Orateur: Dr Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CPPM-CNRS)

5 AOB