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Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.23

2013-09-10T12:28:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.23!

This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for:

* Scientific Linux 5 and 6

* CentOS 5 and 6

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

This release affects the clients, compute elements, and storage elements.

Changes in the osg-release repository include

* Migration of packages from using Oracle Java 6 to OpenJDK 7

* Initial release of osg-control

* VO Package v47

Changes in the osg-upcoming-release include:

* HTCondor-CE

* HTCondor 8.0.2

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3123

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

2013-09-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

Over the last week I have been looking at X-Tags (http://x-tags.org/) and specifically Brick (http://mozilla.github.io/brick/), which is an X-Tag implementation by Mozilla. The purpose of X-Tags is to providea much more coherent interface for creating and using Custom Tags in web pages.

As an example, HTML does not provide ( and may never provide ) tags for some complex UI features, such as Flip panels e.g. Divs that can be flipped over to mimic Iphone UI features. Up until now this could be achieved using some javascript libraries, such as JQuery, and then implementing the functionality in JavaScript.

X-Tags improves moves things on, as it aims to make a consistent set of UI features, that can be re-used by designers easily, the supporting JavaScript is hidden away, therefore the is no need to invoke any actions on load and the control is all in HTML markup, which makes separating the design / development processes easier.

X-Tags are used just like 'normal' html tags, here is a quick code example. For further demo's and information have a look at the Brick site. (http://mozilla.github.io/brick/)
<x-flipbox class="text"><div>I'm the front face.</div><div>And I'm the back face.</div></x-flipbox>
The x-tags expose Events and an API, to allow code to interact and respond to user interactions. For example to flip the box, something akin to the floowing could be used.
var flipBox = document.querySelector( "x-flipBox" );
flipBox.toggle();

Now for the downside, x-tags only (really) work on IE10, Chrome, Firefox, Opera 11+ and Safari 4+. IE9 is supported via PolyFill ( i.e. some extra javascript to retrofit functionality to this browser, but still many of the nice transitions do not work properly ). IE8 is NOT supported and is unlikely to be so.

X-Tags are a great development and it is nice to see a well thought out approach to solving these problems for developers. Mozilla have done a nice job with Brick with Google doing similar with Polymer. If you are working on business applications, this is unlikely to be usable now, given support requirements for Windows XP ... but this is certainly an interesting technology and one to keep an eye on for next year.

OASIS Outage

2013-09-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

At approximately 7:00 (eastern) the file catalog of the top level oasis server was damaged making files appear to be missing. The root cause is understood, no user files were lost and recovery is underway. It is currently estimated complete recovery may take up to 24 hours.

The GOC apologizes for any inconvenience.

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, September 10th at 13:00 UTC

2013-09-04T05:46:00.000-07:00

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

OIM 3.22

* Updating fields to display under project list view on VO / CampusGrid.

* Fixed duplicate user comment issue for cancel(), and fixed missing user comment issue for re-request()

Confluence

* Upgrading to version 5.2.3 (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.2+Release+Notes)

SSH (All Hosts)

* Password authentication for all hosts at OSG Operations will be disabled. Authentication will be via SSH keys only. Primarily this affects only OSG Operations staff, but for those few with shell access to OSG Operations hosts, please forward your SSH public key to thomlee@iu.edu to continue to be able to connect.

OSG Software SHA-2 Compliance Update

2013-08-29T11:34:00.000-07:00

OSG VO and Site Administrators,

As of October 1st, 2013, Certificate Authorities (CAs) that are part of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) will begin issuing certificates signed with the new SHA-2 hash algorithms. By this date you will need to update some components of the OSG middleware package to be SHA-2 compliant. At this point all software has been updated in the OSG software stack. To be fully compliant in all packages you will need to be updated to OSG 3.1.22 or greater. A full table of packages and the OSG version they are compliant at is available at https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/SHA2Compliance. It is very important that you review this list and determine if commonly used software at your site needs to be updated.

The OSG Release Team is looking for early SHA2 adopters to help with the transition. If you have interest in being ahead of the SHA-2 curve and providing feedback to help during this transition please contact Tim Theisen at tim@cs.wisc.edu.

The OSG Production and Software Teams are available to answer your questions and support you during upgrade. Please open a ticket at http://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/submit if you have any questions or need assistance.

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, August 27th at 13:00 UTC

2013-08-20T11:59:00.000-07:00

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

MyOSG 2.15

* Update perfsonar mesh config parameters to match that of WLCG mesh config.

GratiaWeb v1.2-12

* (v1.2-9) Modification made to resolve GOC ticket 15719 titled "Unable to retrieve transfer data for USCMS-FNAL-WC1-SE

* (v1.2-10) Changes were made to resolve GratiaWeb-35 (^Batch$)

* (v1.2-11) Final changes made to resolve jira ticket Request-56, titled 'Need Gratia query that shows usage by ProjectName across OSG sites'. The changes required to replace '@' for ',' in the final data result set.

* (v1.2-12) These changes resolve GOC ticket 15713, titled "BNL disappears from data transfer gratia report'.

All Services

* There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases. However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.

Initial production release of osg-control

2013-08-20T10:13:00.000-07:00

The OSG Software team will be cutting an initial production release of

osg-control this Friday. The initial osg-control announcement is included

below if you missed it.

Please send any feedback you may have this week to

or and we

will attempt to incorporate it into the release.

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The OSG Software team would like to announce a beta release of

osg-control, a new software tool for managing OSG services. Many thanks

to Tony Tiradani for writing and contributing this software to OSG!

In OSG 1.2, most OSG services could be managed with a tool called

vdt-control, providing an easy way to view services and enable/disable

them. To provide some of this functionality to OSG 3.x, osg-control was

written as a wrapper around osg-configure and the services it manages. The

new tool allows querying the status, starting/stopping, and

enabling/disabling OSG services individually or all at once.

We have released a beta version of osg-control in the osg-testing

repository and are inviting community testing and feedback. If you

currently use osg-configure for OSG services, it should be an easy

install:

yum install --enablerepo=osg-testing osg-control

For more background and discussion on this topic, see:

https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-607

https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-1156

We welcome any feedback at or

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Pacific Rim

2013-08-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

My favorite movie this year.

Pacific Rim

2013-08-15T16:46:00.000-07:00

thanks Matt & Brandon for the critiques!

robots and monsters

2013-08-15T15:55:00.000-07:00

Pacific Rim fan art done prior to seeing the film for a work topic on the AVA blog…

osg-control announcement

2013-08-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

The OSG Software team would like to announce a beta release of osg-control, a new software tool for managing OSG services. Many thanks to Tony Tiradani for writing and contributing this software to OSG!

In OSG 1.2, most OSG services could be managed with a tool called vdt-control, providing an easy way to view services and enable/disable them. To provide some of this functionality to OSG 3.x, osg-control was written as a wrapper around osg-configure and the services it manages. The new tool allows querying the status, starting/stopping, and enabling/disabling OSG services individually or all at once.

We have released a beta version of osg-control in the osg-testing repository and are inviting community testing and feedback. If you currently use osg-configure for OSG services, it should be an easy install:

yum install --enablerepo=osg-testing osg-control

For more background and discussion on this topic, see:

https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-607

https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-1156

We welcome any feedback at or .

New VO Package - New VOs ENRM and Darkside

2013-08-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

A new VO package is now available. This package includes newly enabled VOs ENMR and Darkside. The NWICG VO has also been removed from the package. It also includes updates to the NYSGrid and Belle VOs.

A detailed list of changes is available at:

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV46

This release is part of the OSG 3.1.22 Software Release, which was released yesterday 8/13/2013. Instructions are available at:

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/ReleaseNotes

A change log is available at:

https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Operations/PackageV46

With the recent deprecation of Pacman, we will no longer release a Pacman version of the update files. Though for legacy reasons the raw configuration files can still be found at:

http://software.grid.iu.edu/pacman/tarballs/vo-package/

Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.22

2013-08-13T13:57:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.22!

This release affects most OSG installations. Changes include:

* All known issues with OSG Software and SHA-2 certificates have been fixed

* In the Upcoming series, all Java packages are built & tested on OpenJDK 7

* Update to CVMFS 2.1.14

* VO package v46

* RSV has many improvements and bug fixes, plus a new Java reporting probe

* SLURM is supported as a resource management system via PBS emulation

* osg-configure has many improvements and bug fixes

* HDFS 2 packaging was fixed (available in Upcoming series)

SHA-2:

Early adopters are already using SHA-2 signed certificates.

Our CAs may issue SHA-2 signed certificates starting October 1st.

OpenJDK 7:

Early adopters have already replaced their Java installations with

OpenJDK 7. We plan to fold the OpenJDK 7 changes into the 3.1

repository in the next release on September 10th.

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3122

As a reminder, the OSG Software 3.1 is available as RPMs or client tarballs

for Enterprise Linux versions 5 and 6.

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

Playin' in the Water

2013-08-13T08:32:00.000-07:00

Big thanks to Mathew for helping me out on this one!

Ol' Kaiju

2013-08-08T15:25:00.000-07:00

Hi Kaiju!

2013-08-08T09:14:00.000-07:00

I was a little hesitant to post to this topic, since I haven't seen the movie yet. I had to guess at this guy's personality...

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, August 13th at 13:00 UTC

2013-08-07T08:19:00.000-07:00

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

OSG Homepage (www.opensciencegrid.org)

Current twiki homepage will be replaced by a dedicated OSG homepage. You can see the ITB version of the new OSG homepage at http://www-itb.opensciencegrid.org.

The OSG homepage will have following URL redirections for backward compatibilities with existing twiki URLs.

* https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view > https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view

* https://www.opensciencegrid.org/twiki/bin/view > https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view (similar for http:// URLs)

All other URLs will be served by new OSG homepage.

GOC Ticket 1.67

* Switching spam filter to Akismet. Added submitter IP/Agent to submission metadata to better filtering

* Updating a label on ticket submit form to include “Others” (GOC Ticket 14610)

* Updated to the latest bootstrap lib

* Added submitter IP/Agent to submission metadata.

OIM 3.21

* PKI / Updated user certificate renew process to re-key user certificate issued using user provided password. Also updated REST API to require password field and return pkcs12 output (OSGPKI-387)

* PKI / Hide disabled VO inside user certificate request form, and GridAdmin request form (OSGPKI-388)

* Releasing Project Registration forms (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Accounting/FOSAccounting) (OIM-68)

* Updating to the latest bootstrap CSS library in order to fix IE10 GridAdmin dialog box issue.

* Hidden certificate request counter for contact that has no DN associated.Added support for java.sql.Date as well as java.util.Date for RecordBase

* Fixed an issue reported by Alain Deximo where fiu.edu matches GridAdmin for iu.edu.

* Fixed incorrect wording of invalid date range warning

MyOSG 2.14

* Added project page to export OIM’s project registration (ref. OIM-68)

OSG BDII (is1/is2.grid.iu.edu)

* Enabling LVS. is.grid.iu.edu will be a LVS alias to vip-is.grid.iu.edu

Back when Kaiju were called Sea Monsters

2013-08-05T10:27:00.000-07:00

Pilots

2013-08-02T12:20:00.000-07:00

I was inspired by Matt's post below to draw the pilots.

Samoan Jaeger

2013-08-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

Pacific Rim: A Guy in a robot suit... in another robot suit, in another robot suit?

2013-07-31T22:52:00.000-07:00

Confession: I havn't seen this yet, but if I had more than one awesome robot suit, I'd try wearing as many as possible at the same time too.

Pacific rim lighting

2013-07-31T12:44:00.000-07:00

Pacific Rim: Rolling Thunder :M3

2013-07-30T10:40:00.000-07:00

I suck at painting people, but at least I tried. :) I'll probably go back and try to repaint the dudes on this one. But for now it's "done".

Java 7 announcement

2013-07-30T08:59:00.000-07:00

OSG community:

To help OSG admins migrate from the now-unsupported free edition of Oracle

JDK 1.6, the OSG Software team has prepared and tested new builds of all

Java packages using Java version 7 (specifically, using OpenJDK 7). Today,

we announce that the new packages are available in (Upcoming) production

and that we are seeking volunteers to be the first to deploy them.

DEPLOYMENT PLAN

The Java 7 packages are available now in the Upcoming area. Eventually, we

will incorporate these updates back into the main OSG Software 3.1 area, so

that they become the default packages for all users. The timeline for this

transition is as follows:

* now - 30 August 2013: Early adopters use packages from Upcoming

* 13 August 2013: Fix remaining known issues in Upcoming (see below)

* 10 September 2013: Release Java 7 packages in main OSG Software 3.1 area

Of course, if a number of issues arise, we may elect to delay the release

until the planned 8 October release.

Please let us know soon if you want and are able to be an early adopter of

the Java 7 packages. We would like your feedback on how the packages are

working for you and how the upgrade process goes. Contact information is

below.

HOW TO INSTALL JAVA 7 PACKAGES

Because sites may not want to install the Java 7 packages right away, they

are available from the Upcoming area, described here:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/InstallOsgUpcomingSoftware

Specific installation instructions for the Java 7 packages are here:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/InstallSoftwareWithOpenJDK7

KNOWN ISSUES TODAY

Today, there are a few known issues with the Java 7 packages in Upcoming:

* The jGlobus package (used by BeStMan 2) needs bug fix updates

* HDFS 2 installs fail due to a missing bigtop-utils package

Both issues are expected to be fixed in OSG 3.1.22 on 13 August 2013.

BACKGROUND

The main software components affected by this project are:

* BeStMan 2

* dCache and BeStMan SRM clients

* GUMS

* Gratia service

* HDFS (aka hadoop-0.20)

* Pegasus

* VOMS (specifically, VOMS Admin)

For earlier information about our migration project, see:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Java6Migration

CONTACT US

We welcome feedback on issues you encounter with the new packages at

osg-software@opensciencegrid.org or goc@opensciencegrid.org

Pacific Rim: ONI TSUNAMI 34-2

2013-07-26T14:34:00.000-07:00

Would you rather eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich in a car?

or IN A JAEGER!!!

Would you rather call mom while on the train?

or IN A JAEGER!!!

Would you rather go to drive in movies in a truck?

or IN A JAEGER!!!

Never forget:

Everything is better IN A JAEGER!!!