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April  2019

April 12th 2019

  • Pegasus 5.0
    • Site Catalog Conversion to YAML
      • mukund is mainly done
      • pushed out his changes
      • trying to make the tests green
    • Checkpointing changes to accomodate LIGO use of vanilla universe
      • Karan and Mats will explore and see if it is possible
      • cumulative stdout|stderr
        • what about time and duration values
        • since there is no DAG Node retry and job just goes on HELD state
    • Composite Events
      • Kibana dashboard needs to be updated
      • dropping __ in the event names
      • George wants the AMQP library updated 
        • Will create a JIRA item
    • Office Hours video
      • Karan will work Jasmine to upload the video
  • Papers
    • RACE Paper submitted last week
    • PEARC Paper this week
  • Proposals
    • Army Research 
      • enabling in-situ supports for ExaScale
      • linked with what Tu is doing
    • SCEC Proposal Submitted
      • have a good chance
    • Exascale one with Michigan
      • the call will come out soon
    • Ewa , Rafael and Deborah
      • NSF GCR Proposal
      • Modelling wild fires
      • Has PRICE school input and also Deborah Post DOC
  • EScience
    • Pegasus Tutorial Proposal
    • May 6, 2019: Tutorial Proposal Deadline
    • Also trying for the workflow comparison paper
    • Dynamo paper by George
  • Pegasus connect discussion
    • tabled it for later when Mats is around
  • HTCondor Week
    • Karan will be doing a Pegasus talk and Pegasus workshop
  • Pegasus OLCF Poster
    • combine the panda poster
    • can also submit to EScience
  • Ryan's work
    • Loic is moving pachyderm setup to AWS
  • Loic Rafael and Tu are working on a paper for Cluster
  • Software X

March  2019

March 29th 2019

  • 4.9.1 Release
    • done and working on 4.9.2
  • Site Catalog Conversion to YAML
    • mukund working on it
    • i still need to look at the bamboo tests
      • bamboo faling on mount scratch thing that condor thing
      • we have to fix in pegasus also. to fail on credentials in /tmp
      • check and do condor_config_val  on the key and check if /tmp is in there
      • mainly affects all the users that use x509
      • LIGO has also tripped over it . Both with Pegasus and without Pegasus
  • Condor vanilla checkpointing
    • karan asked him about what he is trying to do
  • composite events 
    • check for keys with same values
    • also do we need to pad extra keys for all events?
  • Extensions to Jupyter Integration
  • Pegasus Connect
    • will discuss on whiteboard on April 12th


March 1st 2019

  • 4.9.1 Release
  • Office Hours
    • On Friday March 22nd on real time monitoring
  • transformation catalog for 5.0
    • Mukund will work on it next
  • EScience?
    • Paper
  • pegasus-exitcode test
    • success message not parsed correctly  
  • Programmer
    • will interview the 

February  2019

February 22nd 2019

  • 4.9.1 Release
    • Pending Issues
      • https://jira.isi.edu/projects/PM/versions/11891
      • This raises the larger issue of how long we want to support externals packages

        there are some packages we need to ship because of worker packages dependencies.

        Consensus:
        We remove mysql python externals package for 4.9.1 and 5.0.0

        And also remove the dependencies from our deb and RPM builds.

      • Transfers within containers
        • We are only going to transfer from within the container till people complain
        • George Papadimitriou will add to the documentation.
      • non ascii encoding in the stdout
    • Support HPSS storage
  • Office Hours
    • George on real time monitoring.
      • Date?
  • EScience?
    • Paper
    • Tutorial submission

February 1st 2019

  • 4.9.1 Release
    • ascii encoding breaks while parsing for monitoring events. monitors should have the population working and have log a warning error.
      • but we should ensure that stdout in database still gets populated
      • Karan will fix this
  • New TC Format
  • Shifter Support in Pegasus
    • is in 4.9 branch
  • Pegasus Annual Report
    • will be working on it in coming weeks
    • will ask for input
    • next year report will be tricky . in terms of effort allocation.

January  2019

January 25th 2019

  • 4.9.1 Release
    • ascii encoding breaks while parsing for monitoring events. monitors should have the population working and have log a warning error.
      • but we should ensure that stdout in database still gets populated
  • YAML format for the TC
    • the line numbers should be mentioned in the errors
  • GitHub commits don't trigger bamboo builds right now
    • move to webhooks?
    • slack token in bamboo.yml . 
      • mats will look into it further
  • SCEC for HPC Transfer certificate issue
    • Globus online certificates messed up hpc-transfer issue.
  • Data Storage at NERSC
    • almost full
  • Singularity container with the entry point.
    • docker → singularity container conversion does not add the entry point.

January  18th 2019

  • 4.9.1
    • container execution
      • data transfers happen within the container
      • python3 issue
      • vague rules to discover what python to use
    • Singularity HUb URL's updated
      • Documentation and tutorials need to be updated
      • montage examples
      • python stuff: create JIRA item
    • LIGO pull requests
      • Build pull request
      • PAM module
      • subprocess package thing
      • also related to Python3 movement
  • Transformation Catalog Implementation
  • Astro Py
  • Shifter support at NERSC
  • Panda Integration
  • CENON NT
    • Rusio data pull in 
    • fetching data might be easier
  • Journal Paper
    • need to write something about containers

December  2018

December 13rd, 2018

  • Pegasus 4.9.1 release
    • local site catalog entry creation
      • based on the pegasus version on the submit host
    • encoding issue in the stdout.
  • Pegasus 5.0 Release
    • TC yaml implementation
      • mukund will create a yaml schema compatible with the TC
    • backwards compatibly 
      • case by case basis
      • definitely for
        • catalogs
        • dax 
        • pegasus-transfer
  • SWIP Paper
    • we are in good shape
  • Titan
    • under the PBS batch gahp.
  • ZTF
    • the pipeline is based on docker-compose
    • peter will visit ISI with postdoc Danny in January
  • Tutorial at TACC
    • karan has updated pegasus-init to work on wrangler
    • will update the tutorial notes accordingly 
  • OLCF accounts
    • make sure they work 
    • get karan and mats can login

November  2018

Nov 29th, 2018

  • Ryan
    • working on comparison paper with george on workflow systems
    • mats, karan shared neon meeting notes with Ryan
  • Pegasus 4.9.1 release
    • Due for december end
    • potential issue in monitord in reference to hierarchal organization of submit directories
    • pegasus-submitdir
  • ADASS Paper
    • due tomorrow
    • need to add information about sample run
  • SWIP paper
    • mats and karan will work on it tomorrow afternoon.
    • cull out sections
    • add information about updated monitoring in 4.9
  • OLCF Kubernetes 
    • Condor is installed and configured as root
    • George tried condor log directory to lustre as condor in container has to run as user not as root
    • LOG_DIR should be /tmp
    • volumes can be attached to container to contain workflows etc
  • Dynamo 
    • Do dynamic scheduling
    • George thinking of using flocking
    • similar to what is done in OSG
    • non-sharedfs deployments should work

Nov 1st, 2018

  • Pegasus 4.9.0 and 4.8.5 Released
    • We released it this week.
  • Pegasus Business Card
    • Advocate for job postings. 
      • Postdoc options
      • Programmers
      • pegasus.isi.edu/jobs
    • We should take to conferences with us
  • Pegasus JAVA 8 dependence in RPM
    • there is a disconnect between RPM and common.sh
  • ADASS
    • Karan working on a wlpipe demo example
  • New Student
    • Mukund 
  • Duncan started using 4.9.0 and has updated pyCBC to use singularity
    • changed our container execution model
    • all transfers done within the container now.

October  2018

Oct 12th, 2018

  • Rescheduling meetings
    • New time is Thursdays 2PM starting from last week of October
  • DAX APi reporting
    • Perl DAX API - Rajiv
  • Atlas visit
    • Wednesday we have Scientific Computing Seminar
      • Will involve writing a Pegasus code generator
      • Panda is second biggest after Condor on OSG
    • Thursday 
      • Karan and George will be there.
      • Mats might be available remotely
  • 4.9.0 Release
    • Mats preference is to skip the beta tag
    • Aim for the full release
    • Documentation freeze on Oct 26th
    • Try and do the builds over the weekend
  • Duncan container usecase
    •  cvmfs hosted container images
  • Demo repository
    • panorama data and some runs from exogeni / nersc
    • Mats has two new elastic search VM's and are part of Elastic Search cluster
    • these vm's data is backed up also

Oct 5th, 2018

  • Rescheduling meetings
    • Either Tuesday or Thursdays
      • Karan will circulate a doodle poll

September 2018

September 28th, 2018

  • Rescheduling meetings
    • Either Tuesday or Thursdays
      • Karan will circulate a doodle poll
  • Pegasus 4.9.0 Release
    • transformation selection issue
      • karan has not been able to recreate it yet.
      • will look into it more today
    • docker singularity pulls
    • container symlink 
    • deprecate api's
      • modify DAX generators to indicate version/ DAX API used.
      • will look into ways on how to do it
        • one way is workflow metadata attributes
        • second is attribute to ADAG object.
      • rajiv will check how it gets stored in the metrics server
  • ADASS
    • will try and do a poster with Mike at ADASS
    • deadline is Oct 8th

September 21st, 2018

  • Rescheduling meetings
    • Either Tuesday or Thursdays
  • Pegasus 4.9 release
    • integrity error reporting
      • pegasus-statistics reporting information about integrity errors
      • the unicorn dashboard for internal swip purposes
        • errors are appearing in the stream
        • more brainstorming required. the data is there
        • not clear whether to use grafana or kibana
          • does not have drill down functionality
          • mix of production and test workflows
          • create different queues in AMQP exchanges
    • container mount point support
      • karan is close to have that being implemented
    • transferring outputs to multiple location
      • lets say one for portal and the other for 
      • list of output sites
      • good feature to add for 4.9.1
      • update --output-site option to pegasus-plan
    • pull docker images for singularity runs
      • we should do for 4.9.0
      • planner needs to tell pegasus-transfer an extra attribute. 
        • add a type attribute
    • Papers 
      • Github private papers repo
    • Deprecate stuff
      • perl api
      • old catalog formats
      • pegasus-plots
    • Hiring

August 2018

August 24th, 2018

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