Welcome & Agenda

• Richard Hughes-Jones (GEANT)

Update on progress

• All

a. The 100Gigabit link to JBO – Jimmy The 100G link from JBO was investigated yesterday by the provider of the fibre. They performed OTDR tests to investigate an 8dBm loss in power found on 9th February. They tested the link for 4 hours yesterday and I have not heard the official outcome, but unofficially they haven't found the problem. b. Tests between DTN Lon and DTN Cape Town – Richard & Siju Some connectivity suggestions made to use the Open-exchange path. Richard to check status with TENET and GEANT OPS c. Results of transfer tests between Juilich Onsala, GÉANT– Oleg, Simon, Richard, Domenico d. Feedback on the DMZ work - Network and Storage questions – Mary & Siju Sent the Qaire to Pawsey as well. Had 2hr conversation with SurfSARA and all the questions answered. Not clear if there is a problem with the questions or not - maybe the other 2 sites will clarify this. Richard to push Alison Rohini to ask RAL T1 manager e. Task 2 – Mauro No contact from Task2

Update on the WP3-WP4 work and LHCb Grid

• Rohini

2 new people Alex Clarke and Therese Cantwell working for Anna on WP4. Rohini has been setting them up - we will meet at the F2F. Have been cleaning up the data from the web transfers & making the transfers more efficient. Now a member of the LOFAR VO with help from Oleg. This should be more efficient for access/transfers. The ATLAS russio data management tool workshop was useful. Met the T1 manager from RAL and SKA VO will be enabled at RAL

Deliverable D4.1 Best practice recommendations Data moving applications, protocols and storage Feb18 The deliverable D4.1 is almost ready with just a couple of sections missing about: storage+catalogue and one about local network tests done in the GEANT lab.

Deliverable 4.2 Site Catalogue of the storage and network capabilities

• Richard Hughes-Jones (GEANT)
• Mauro Nanni (INAF - Ist. Radioastronomia)

Input from the MT meeting Preparation and Planning

Milestones

• All

MS7 Storage sub-system evaluation Jul17 Oleg MS19 Data transfer test South African site to European site Jan/Feb 18 Siju & Richard MS20 Joint Milestone (WP4) on SKA Sci DMZ recommendations Feb 18 Mary & Siju (MS21 Best practice recommendations Data moving applications, protocols and storage Feb 18 – this is the D4.1) MS22 Specification for SKA Science DMZ Feb 18 Mary & Siju

PoC work in Australia and South Africa

• Shaun, Siju, Mary

Shaun at MRO measured the 40Gig cables required for connecting the TPMs to his router to form a temporary work round the TPM firmware limited IP stack. There will be an independent 10G link for this from MRO to AARnet.

AENEAS Face to Face

• All

26-28 March 18 Details and registration at: https://indico.astron.nl/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=143

Date of next Telcon

AOB