gLite

Corrected a config error which was preventing the Wits University site from publishing its details to the core SAGrid services.  Wits is now visible again: …

Timothy and Andrew attended a site administrators course in Potch over the last 3 days.  The focus was on doing higher level site admin training and to thrash out some problems we've been experiencing on SAGrid.  The closing session included…

We have finally resolved the issue of the high load on the WMS.  It was being caused by test jobs being submitted by Eumed Grid being unable to access a required CE and remaining in the WMS queue.  The SAGrid…

The following elements of the UCT Grid infrastructure have been upgraded: UI - portal.sagrid.ac.za CE and Worker Nodes Upgrade from SL4, gLite 3.1 to SL5, gLite 3.2…

The BDII on devslngrd001.uct.ac.za has been upgraded to gLite-BDII-3.1.22-0.slc4
We have also upgraded our site BDII on srvslngrd011.uct.ac.za as above.

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The new Grid site at UCT is up and running.  It consists of a CE and a single worker node with 8 CPUs.…

Fixed a bandwidth problem with the Top BDII, ldap queries were taking too long.…

The SAGrid Top BDII is now up and running at UCT.…

Tim and Andrew spent the last two weeks at the Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Catania, Sicily on a Grid training course.  The INFN host GILDA, the training facility for the European Grid Initiative and run frequent training…