NAF User Committee Monthly Meeting

Tuesday 21 Nov 2023, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Berlin

ZOOM & in-presence

Notes from Yves:

NUC:
- IT: Christoph Beyer, Thomas Hartmann, Yves Kemp
- ATLAS: Stephen Jiggings
- Belle: Andreas Gellrich

Additions to IT status:
- New NUC leading structure approved
- NUC topical on containers in 2024
- EL9 migration
- Memory per core discussions
- INtroduction of MFA:
 - point experts to our documentation: Is it OK? (detail, workflows)
 - inform users about what they have to do before the MFA-date ... and when the MFA-date is
 - test setup for checking MFA ... one for all, or one for each VO?
 - naf-wgs will remain open to the internet as used ... except that MFA is used in addition
 - maybe date even before
 - staged by product (ssh, jupyter, fastx)

Terascale alliance:
- maybe add after the official closure of the workshop (first priority)  --> Yves check with Andreas Hinzmann
- probably take part in the computing&ML parallel session (as guests, or with a slot)
- maybe also have a parallel session on Wednesday 
- add MFA to the agenda

- Occupancy has gotten lower in the past month
 - Asking the experiments, whether they can explein
 - Providers needs to investigate wether power users went away

- Adding Stephen to the ATLAS user registration page

ATLAS:
- NAF GPU queue will be growing in usage ... two more users. Will go for more. GPU to become a more regular part of workflows
- Fix the registration webpage 

Belle:
- thanks for DESY IT for recalibration business in the past.
- problems with jupyterhub: large data in memory. Unclear why stopped working from one day from another ... people have migrated workflows to batch
- usual problems
- discussion on size of jupyter notebooks
 

1 Report from IT: Operations Status

Speakers: Mr Christoph Beyer (IT (IT Systems)), Thomas Hartmann (IT (IT Systems)), Dr Yves Kemp (IT (IT Systems))

nuc_11_2023.pdf

2 ATLAS status

3 Belle status

4 AOBs