1. Status of PDC’07 Latchezar Betev TF meeting – April 5, 2007

2. Status of PDC’07 2 Central services  Stable operation  95+ % availability  ApiService - couple of short hiccups this week, strongest one this morning at 09:50  Closure of high (>2000) ports in the CERN firewall (June) We need to delcare all ports (TPC/UDP) needed for the central services ApiService, alien.cern.ch machines already done aliendbx - list is being prepared Site services  Analysis queue is still suffering from problems with the CERN VO-boxes. Multitude of sensors deployed by IT and us

3. Status of PDC’07 3 Nordic sites  Jyvaskyla (Finland) - running  Aalborg, NBI - not running yet Next week - NDGF expert in charge of ALICE will be at CERN for training  Norway, Sweden - no progress  Storage - part of the storage suffered serious hardware malfunction (offline) dCache not updated yet Polish sites  Cyfronet running - recompilation of AliRoot for Itanium on SLC3 is needed  Poznan - to be debugged  Warsaw - to be installed (LCG/AliEn?) Additional regional expert from WTU to be trained at CERN soon

4. Status of PDC’07 4 Job profile All started with a bunch of boxes… A bit of screwing around…