Tunnel Light

It had been a reasonably quiet and productive week.

• After enough messing around with credentials, certificates, and things like that, I witnessed some GridFTP portal displaying my home directories on both Data Capacitor and HPSS, how rewarding.


• Another WYIN/ODI project meeting with astronomers, indicating yet another potential CIMA collaboration. The interested starting point seems to be resuming old RoboScope work for SpectraBot.


• Application level failover testings for CIMA. The system now seems to be capable of surviving most failures/outages except for one, which roots deep down at the instrument data collection side.


• Boiled down the annoying "There is something wrong" problem with the heatbeat configuration, bless our poor souls that suffered this message for months.


• Reviewed a paper for GCE07, and also got back "warm words" for the one with my name on it.

More failover testings await for the week ahead, mostly at the system level. If we could tune up across distances by Friday, I'd see that light at the end of the tunnel better, I mean the tunnel of SC07 of course.