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Publication from : Darren Moore <darren.moore(a)stfc.ac.uk>
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Dear all
The Stratum-1 service at RAL-LCG2, which serves both EGI and the WLCG communities is currently in a long down time (28th June to 14th August) while it is rebuilt with new hardware.
When the downtime was declared we removed RAL-LCG2 from the global config meaning any site relying on this would simply stop trying to access it and use Nikhef or CERN for EGI or the WLCG repositories respectively.
For sites that were explicitly configured to use RAL, the Stratum-1 alias was configured to return a 503 error when queried (on port 80 and 8000), which should make the failover rapid. We hoped that this would mean the absence of the RAL-LCG2 Stratum-1 would be transparent to sites/users.
It has been brought to our attention that there are multiple GGUS tickets (e.g. https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=167385) for failing jobs at sites that would appear to be caused by attempts to connect to RAL-LCG2 Stratum-1. If a GGUS ticket is created against your site on a similar issue, feel free to include lcg-support(a)gridpp.rl.ac.uk in the cc list and we will provide support if it is related to the RAL-LCG2 Stratum-1.
Darren
RAL Tier-1 Operations Manager
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Publication from : Marcos Seco Miguelez <marcos.seco(a)usc.es>
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Our site, USC-LCG2, will be decommissioned by the end of June 2024. Following the EGI procedure a ticket, https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=166433, was created to track the process. To child tickets were also created to track the decommissioning of the two management nodes, CE: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=166434 and site BDII: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=166435
The timeline for the decommissioning will be as follows:
On June 24th the CE and BDII services will be put in downtime in GOCDB
On June 24th Job Submission will be blocked.
On June 28th the site and all its services will be removed from the monitoring pool
the services and the site will be removed from GOCDB once all of the services are no longer monitored.
Best Regards
Marcos Seco
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Publication from : Maarten Litmaath <Maarten.Litmaath(a)cern.ch>
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Dear colleagues,
since the GGUS maintenance on May 29, the GGUS web service is running on EL9.
Today, it was reported that no user with a certificate from the Romanian CA
can access the service, while such certificates work OK for other services.
Unfortunately, the main expert will only be back on Monday, but we suspect
the problem is due to the absence of SHA-1 support on the web service host.
This matter then affects a number of other CAs as well, as explained here:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/EL9vsSHA1CAs
Hopefully this matter will be resolved on Monday!
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Publication from : Darren Moore <darren.moore(a)stfc.ac.uk>
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As part of our work to upgrade the RAL-LCG2 Tier 1 site away from Red Hat 7 derived OSs, we are announcing that the GridFTP protocol (aka gsiftp) will be no longer be supported at our site from the 3rd of June 2024.
The services affected by this include FTS and all aspects of Echo.
Please inform us you are still interacting with either of these services in any way, including data access, deletions or fallback, and if you are, what your timeline is for switching to another protocol.
If you have any further questions or queries regarding this decommissioning process, please do not hesitate to contact the RAL Tier-1 Production Team.
Regards
Darren Moore
RAL Tier-1 Operations Manager
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Publication from : Yin Chen <yin.chen(a)egi.eu>
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Dear all
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar titled "Reproducible Open Science with EGI Replay," scheduled for April 17th, 2024, at 14:00 CEST.
In this webinar, we will be showcasing EGI Replay, a managed service for the EGI Community based on Binder. EGI Replay empowers users to effortlessly reproduce intricate calculations, simulations, and visualizations by importing Jupyter Notebooks and their respective runtime environments. With just a single link, users can seamlessly share their work with collaborators, making Replay an indispensable tool for workshops, scientific workflows, and team collaboration.
**Highlights**
- Introduction to EGI Replay: A managed service for the EGI Community based on Binder.
- Ease of Reproducibility: Showcase of how EGI Replay enables users to effortlessly reproduce intricate calculations, simulations, and visualizations by importing Jupyter Notebooks and their respective runtime environments.
- Seamless Collaboration: Demonstration of how users can share their work with collaborators using a single link, making Replay an invaluable tool for workshops, scientific workflows, and team collaboration.
** Speaker**
Our esteemed speaker for this event will be Sebastian Luna-Valero, a Cloud Community Support Specialist at the EGI Foundation. Sebastian brings a wealth of experience in research computing and a passion for providing valuable computational support to researchers. He will be sharing insights into the capabilities of EGI Replay and how it facilitates reproducible open science within the EGI Community.
**Webpage**: https://www.egi.eu/event/reproducible-open-science-with-egi-replay/
**Registration** Registration for the webinar is now open! Secure your spot by registering at the following link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CdxIQ3z9RaqsDsOk_0riKw#/registr…
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about EGI Replay and how it can enhance your research endeavors. We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Yin
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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | Twitter: @yinchen16
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Publication from : Tiziana Ferrari <Tiziana.Ferrari(a)egi.eu>
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Dear Colleagues
I am happy to announce the annual conference of the EGI Federation - EGI2024 - from September 30th until October 4th, 2024:
https://go.egi.eu/EGI2024
The conference is the a venue were you can share your results, insights and trends about innovative technical solutions advancing the field of computing in data-intensive science.
This year, EGI is proud to partner up with CMCC - the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - to host the conference in beautiful Lecce, Italy, a Mediterranean gem in Salento, between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas.
We encourage you to submit an application to the conference and wish to see many of you in person in Lecce!
Thanks in advance for sharing this announcement with your networks.
Best regards,
Tiziana Ferrari
Contribution types:
- Short Talk (max. 10 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
- Long talk (max 20 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
- Poster: format A0, will be displayed throughout the conference + dedicated networking during opening reception + 1’ pitch presentation opportunity
- Demonstration (max 30’): demonstrations showing a service, tool, or product + with dedicated networking during opening reception + 1’ pitch presentation opportunity
Topics
(1) Needs and solutions in scientific computing:
- Digital twins: Digital twins for the modelling of complex objects and phenomena
- Artificial Intelligence: Federated learning; Distributed AI/ML analytics; AI-powered services for science; Advancements in the “AI on Demand” platform
- Compute continuum: Hybrid compute infrastructures and the convergent use of HTC, HPC, cloud, container, edge and serverless technologies
- Platforms and gateways: Integrated and scalable online environments for scientific communities
(2) National perspectives on advanced computing:
- Services and approaches: New developments, challenges and opportunities in national e-infrastructures and scientific communities
- Federated operation: Tools, services and approaches for the delivery of computing services in federated environments
- Business models: Novel business models and sustainability approaches for data-intensive science in academia and industry
(3) Data innovations:
- Data spaces: Scalable solutions for data exchange and analysis in highly distributed ecosystems
- Data management and integration: Platforms, tools, services and data lakes for high performance data access and analytics
- Processing of sensitive data: Trusted services and environments for the exchange and analysis of sensitive data
(4) Environmental informatics:
- Green computing: Lowering the environmental impact of digital services, software and data analytics applications
- Climate Change/Environment: Advancing climate change research and addressing environmental challenges with advanced computing
(5) Trust and Security:
- Trusted computing: Solutions and standards for trust and security in distributed and federated environments
- Access control: Effective but non intrusive infrastructure controls
- Interoperability: Novel approaches for ensuring interoperable security across distributed service ecosystems.
(6) EOSC and Open Science
- Reproducible open science: Practices and solutions for FAIR, open and reproducible science
- EOSC: European Open Science Cloud developments and perspectives, in particular contributions of the EGI community to EOSC
Timeline:
Call for Abstracts open: March 21st
Deadline for proposals: April 25th
Confirmation of acceptance: on or before June 7th
Registration is planned to open mid-May
Please note that EGI2024 is intended to be an in-person event. All contributors (or their representatives) are expected to attend the conference on the premises.
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Tiziana Ferrari
Director | EGI Foundation | M: 0031.6.3037.2691
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research | https://www.egi.eu/
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Publication from : Gergely Sipos <gergely.sipos(a)egi.eu>
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Dear EGI site and VO admins,
The EGI Foundation and 4 EGI members* are involved in a new Horizon Europe project, called GreenDIGIT and started working on the lowering of the environmental impact of digital infrastructures. GreenDIGIT will benefit the EGI community, 3 other DIGIT infrastructures from ESFRI (SLICES, SoBigData, EBRAINS) and thematic ESFRIs with significant IT capacities.
GreenDIGIT will work with the EGI sites and with reference VOs on a landscape study, on green metrics, on improved energy management and workload management practices.
I'd like to invite you to a zoom meeting where we'll introduce the GreenDIGIT project and will discuss these collaborative activities. Please indicate your availability for this first collaboration meeting in the following doodle: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/enGvEgWa
If your institute/VO has dedicated person(s) for green/environmental aspects of your data centre/applications, then please forward this invitation to them.
* CESNET, CNRS, CSIC, SZTAKI
Thanks and regards,
Gergely Sipos
(Head of Services, Solutions, Support @ EGI Foundation)
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Publication from : Yin Chen <yin.chen(a)egi.eu>
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Dear all
Join us for the 2024 EGI Webinar series, where we bring you engaging discussions on hot topics, cutting-edge e-infrastructure technology, new EGI services, and insights from the community's experiences. We're thrilled to present talks by the best speakers from domain experts.
*2024 First Webinar*
**Title**: Introduction to the new generation EGI container execution platform
**Description**:
Discover the evolution of the EGI Cloud Container Compute service into a groundbreaking system – a fully managed Kubernetes clusters platform for end users. Our expert speaker will guide you through building container images, storing and sharing them via the Harbor repository, and running them seamlessly with the Rancher service on fully managed Kubernetes clusters.
**Highlights**
--Cutting-edge insights into the latest technology
--Demo of container image building
--Efficient storage and sharing using the Harbor repository
--Seamless deployment on fully managed Kubernetes clusters with the Rancher service
**Speaker**
Dr Adrián Rošinec, Cloud Engineer, CESNET, CZ
We are thrilled to introduce Adrián, a distinguished professional in informatics and cloud computing. As a Cloud Engineer at CESNET, the Czech National e-infrastructure Center, he specializes in optimizing deployments for scientific applications. Adrián's Ph.D. journey focuses on creating metadata ontologies and semantics for molecular dynamics data, aiming to revolutionize molecular research and protein engineering tools for the scientific community.
Don't miss out on the most cutting-edge and attractive technology of the moment! Stay tuned for more details and secure your spot to stay at the forefront of e-infrastructure advancements.
**Date and Time**: 24th January, Wednesday, 14CET
**Webpage**: https://www.egi.eu/event/webinar-introduction-to-the-container-platform/
**Registration**: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0STcI5qERPSO8TmJ9-sa_g#/registr…
Yin
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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | M: +31 (0)6 3037 3096 | Skype: yin.chen.egi | Twitter: @yinchen16
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research
The EGI Foundation is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 certified
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https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-foundation/team/yin-chen/
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Publication from : Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos <emmanouil.vamvakopoulos(a)ijclab.in2p3.fr>
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Dear All,
We would like to announce that GRIF/IJCLAB (ex-LAL) site has started the decommissioning procedure of grid05.lal.in2p3.fr DPM service due to end of life. The services end-points which are provided by node grid05.lal.in2p3.fr will be decommissioned in 7 weeks :
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=3136 (SRM)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=4474 (XROOTD)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=9664 (WebDAV)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=10062 (Accounting)
The detailed timeline is the following:
2023-12-07 creation of the parent ggus ticket -
( https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=164582)
2023-12-07 Broadcast message to supported VOs
2023-12-22 Creation of the downtime: begin the downtime
2024-01-02 : set to "production=N" "monitored=N"
2024-01-25: All the supported VO have to verify the migration of their data.
2024-01-25: stop all services
2024-01-26: remove service end-points entries from GOCDB
with best regards,
On behalf of the GRIF ops team
Vamvakopoulos Emmanouil
P.S. In the case of any question or issue please open a ticket on the GRIF side
with subject "decommission - grid05.lal.in2p3.fr"
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Hi all,
Apologies for bulk releasing a bunch of held messages- this must have
confused you!
This list is the default contact address of EISCAT VO managers for
messages from the EGI systems, so the list server must be set to accept
such messages (rather than the default which is to hold messages from
non-members). Hopefully I've managed to do so now.
Best regards,
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Scientific data services developer
EISCAT Scientific Association
PO Box 812
SE-98128 Kiruna, Sweden
Telephone (work): +46 980 790 88
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