Scotgrid goes South

Last we week attended the bi-annual GridPP Collaboration meeting.
The venue this time was CERN itself and the meeting was, as ever, incredibly useful.

We were lucky enough to have presentations from the Experiments, the LHC, EGI and the WLCG community as well as presentations from across the UK collaboration.

A full programme of the meeting is available here:

http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp27/

Above is a picture of our own Dr Crooks presenting on the Glasgow Security Model

ECDF Update

The procurement of our grid front end nodes for ECDF has been held up for about 2 weeks. Sam had tried to setup one of the old Edinburgh worker nodes as a trial CE to iron out any glitches in the gatekeeper scripts, job manager, accounting chain, but has hit an ACL in some router between ECDF and KB which prevents him from being able to even qsub.

The systems team are going to give him a requisitioned worker node to test with instead, which should happen this week - although as they are going live today and it's holiday time this has also been somewhat held up.