NDPF News

Stopping resource broker services at NIKHEF-ELPROD

The resource broker services at site NIKHEF-ELPROD will be stopped at 02-February-2009. This affects the RBs bosheks.nikhef.nl, boszwijn.nikhef.nl and the alias rb03.nikhef.nl.

Current users of the resource brokers are advised to start submitting their jobs via the replacing WMS servers as soon as possible, but not later than January 15, 2009. Output sandboxes have to be retrieved before February 2, 2009; after this date they will be deleted.

The WMS hosts at NIKHEF-ELPROD are graszode.nikhef.nl and graspol.nikhef.nl (or use the alias wms03.nikhef.nl).

Removing installation of VL-e PoC release 2

The installation of VL-e PoC release 2 will be removed from the worker nodes at site NIKHEF-ELPROD per 02-February-2009. Users of the the PoC should migrate to release 3 of the PoC, which is already available.

Change in services

The Classic Storage Element tbn15.nikhef.nl (alias se03.nikhef.nl) will be removed from the information system at Monday 17-Nov-2008. Access via gridftp to the storage element will remain available until further notice.

After removal of the service from the information system, the lcg-* tools (e.g. lcg-cr, lcg-cp) can no longer be used to access the data on this storage element.data on this storage element.

EGEE-broadcast: https://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=rc&page=broadcastretrieval&step=2&typeb=C&idbroadcast=37321

Where to go for which service

User Interface

any local NIKHEF workstation running SLC4 is capable of acting as a UI. For those of you who have been granted access to the NFPD Centralised UI: use ui03.nikhef.nl

BDII and Information System

bdii03.nikhef.nl (top-level) and siteinfo03.nikhef.nl (site GIIS), or use LDAP via, e.g., ldap://bdii03.nikhef.nl:2170/o=Grid

Computing Element

ce03.nikhef.nl (currenty: gazon.nikhef.nl)

Resource Broker

rb03.nikhef.nl (currently: boszwijn.nikhef.nl)

Workload Management System

graszode.nikhef.nl

Registration with one of the Dutch VOs is now avaialble from https://voms.grid.sara.nl:8443/vomses.