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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Stephen J. Gowdy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:37 PM
> To: atlas-sccs-planning-l
> Subject: Minutes of ATLAS/SCCS Planning Meeting 1st August 2007
> 
> ATLAS SCCS Planning 01Aug2007
> -----------------------------
> 
>   9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935#
> 
> Present: Stephen, Wei, Richard, JohnB, Booker
> 
> Agenda:
> 
> 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy
> 
>     Nothing to talk about. Alexei is resuming the AOD replication to
>     sites. We have 350 to 400 jobs to run in the last days, so not a
>     big impact. Currently he is replicating 30%, should we 
> increase it?
>     Not right now as there is an issue with the new DQ2 in 
> that the PFN
>     might not match the LFN (if it can't write to the same 
> name it adds
>     some more characters to the PFN) and the cleanup tool assumed this
>     was true.
> 
> 2. Tier-2 Hardware
> 
>     Tried to test eval01 earlier today but needed to be added to list
>     of users. Booker has done this. Now have a silly problem 
> with ATLAS
>     software which will need to solve to do the tests.
> 
>     Some email exchange on the list about 8 core machines. Will be
>     buying real soon now for BaBar to replace the noma and tories
>     (probably weeks). Torn between wanting to buy the exact same for
>     ATLAS Tier-2, but will not get the money till October/November so
>     it will be five months later so would not get the exactly the

BaBar wants to buy in weeks. ATLAS money comes in October/November. That looks like a 2-3 month difference. What is 5 months? 

>     same. Wouldn't want to do a competitive bid just for 40 machines,
>     could bundle it up or use a bulk purchase agreement. BaBar is also
>     buying storage, so that could be part of one larger purchase.
> 
>     Would like to understand when it is optimal to buy the new Tier-2
>     hardware. Wei feels storage is urgent but CPU less so.
> 
> 3. AOB
> 
>     - Physics Workshop later this month
> 
>       Post from Charlie on the mailing list. Request for no outages
>       during those four days (20th-23rd August).
> 
>     - Security
> 
>       Bob Cowles is a little worried about some solutions being
>       developed for US-ATLAS from a security point of view. One of the
>       items is to run "network performance toolkit" which has
>       particular issues.
> 
>       At an OSG meeting they showed an OSG organisation chart and Wei
>       raised a question if the security part was consulted for the
>       deployment of new software on the ITB. Didn't really get an
>       answer.
> 
>       Expect this will come up again. Would be nice if people thought
>       about security while developing and integrating software.
> 
>       Have not installed GLEXEC yet on OSG. This will be used to
>       change userids for running jobs.
> 
>       "Ask not what OSG can do for you, ask what you can do for OSG."
> 
> Action Items:
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> 
> 070801	Stephen See when new Tier-2 hardware is needed
> 
> 070725	Stephen	Try to test eval01
>  	070801 Didn't have access when attempted, Booked fixed that.
>  	       Problem with ATLAS software (hopefully trivial).
> 
> 070711	Stephen	Find out about benchmarks for CPUs for 
> next purchase
>  	070718 Not done yet.
>  	070801 Extracted data from our Production Database, need to
>  	       analyse it still.
> 
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