1. Status of PDC’06 Latchezar Betev TF meeting – September 28, 2006

2. Status of PDC’06 2 Weekly report (1) The problems reported at the last TF meeting (APIService and SEs overload) have been partially solved: APIService is working fine with 2 load-balanced machines Distribution of load on several SEs helped  This is not a final solution (rather a workaround)  The xrootd behaviour is now monitored by the AMON service of AliEn and restarted as necessary Since two days we are processing steadily at an average of ~1700 concurrently running jobs

3. Status of PDC’06 3 Weekly running profile SEs stable

4. Status of PDC’06 4 Weekly report (2) Typical problems  Prague (Dagmar) VO-box proxy expires without warning grid- and myproxy- still valid  GridKa – proxy problem on a system level  SARA – proxy problem in the VO-box  Several sites have other operational problems, which are being solved  Houston – NFS problems  Kolkatta – cluster shutdown Several sites (Krakow, Poznan, LBL, Mexico) are being installed and debugged Good news  GSI and Lyon (problem with package installation) are back in action

5. Status of PDC’06 5 Weekly report (3) We are now in a normal operation mode  The available resources are saturated with running jobs Awaiting the new AliEn release (v.2-12)  Details from the AliEn experts New AliRoot release v4-04-Rev-09 is in the final stages of validation  New implementation of OCDB access classes Object names retrieved from metadata search – one connection to APIService for all objects (reduction of x64 of access frequency)  Jobs which end in ‘segmentation violation’ will no longer hang on the WN doing nothing

6. Status of PDC’06 6 Data statistics Special productions  Di-muon 100K (done)  p+p 900GeV 200K (done)  Single-muon 100K (processing)  Standard p+p min.bias: 1MiO events in the last week, 800K of these in the last 2 days We hope the production will continue in this way