NDPF News
Moving grid services to new data center (10-14 August 2009)
Nikhef will move all of its grid service machines and grid network infrastructure to a new data center in the week of 10-14 August 2009. During this period, all grid services at site NIKHEF-ELPROD will be unavailable.
Moving compute and storage clusters to new data center (17-21 August 2009)
Nikhef will move its grid compute and storage clusters to a new data center in the week of 17-21 August 2009. During this period, computing and storage resources will be unavailable or only partly available.
During the weekend of 25-26 April, work will be done on the electric systems providing power to the grid computing nodes at Nikhef. Therefore, the grid computing nodes ("worker nodes") at Nikhef's grid facility will be unavailable from Friday April 24, 13:00 until Monday April 27, 10:00.
The facility will stop accepting new jobs from Thursday morning 8:00 (the 23rd), to enable jobs to finish before the shutdown of the nodes.
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.
