Hi,
I'm curious to know what the plans are for supporting analysis via
panda (e.g. pathena)? I've seen SLAC setup as a test queue there. Is
that just for testing, or is there a plan to eventually turn that on in
production?
Cheers,
Gordon.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Gowdy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM
> To: ATLAS SCCS Planning
> Subject: Minutes from ATLAS/SCCS Planning Meeting 12th Dec 2007
>
> ATLAS SCCS Planning 12Dec2007
> -----------------------------
>
> 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935#
>
> Present: Wei, Stephen, Richard, Randy, Chuck, JohnB, JohnW, Len
>
> Agenda:
>
> 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy
>
> Production is running well. Using 300 CPUs most of the time. Have
> enough data to run jobs. Have FUSE running on a few xrootd
> machines. Also have a Berkeley version of SRM (BeStMan),
> transferred
> data from SLAC to UTA using FTS. This is called BeStManXroot but
it
> doesn't use any features of xrootd so it can be without it.
>
> For the dq2_put problem, it might be better to use noric09 which
> has XrootdFS running.
>
> Do we know if the fairshare works correctly for ATLAS? We believe
> so. There are users using some of it so it doesn't all go to
> production.
>
> 2. Tier-2 Hardware
>
> Asked to replicate 12/13 release AOD. Would need about 40TB, don't
> have enough space for this. Spending ATLAS money on disk would get
> us about 200TB. We pushed ahead with the CPU spending as it was
> desired. Can now get the 1TB disks so that will make disk pricing
> more attractive. Currently in negotiation about storage
> price. BaBar can probably wait till April for the next big
> purchase. Alexei suggested getting AOD since 1st September. Not
> sure how useful a definition that is but can meanwhile do that and
> determine if there are requests for other data. Currently
importing
> 1 or 2TB of RDO data for trigger work.
>
> Order for CPUs went out about a week ago. Expect delivery before
> Christmas but installation after the break. Will probably move
some
> machines from water cooled racks to Sun Black Box. The full set of
> machines should be available early February. Existing ATLAS
> machines will move to the second Black Box (it'll be half BaBar,
> quarter ATLAS - all current installation - and quarter GLAST).
>
>
>
> 3. tcsh with larger environment space
>
> Taylor needs to copy it across to the machines. It'll go to
> /usr/etc/tcsh and put that /etc/shells. Then users should ask for
> their shell to be changed. Will need to be changed on Solaris too
> to ensure you can have the same shell everywhere.
>
> 4. Tier2/3 Workshop
>
> Not much to say, it appears on the ATLAS e-News today.
>
> 5. AOB
>
> - Space for atl-prod02 mirror
>
> Reply from Wei's ticket saying there wasn't a 72GB one. Will have
> another, perhaps larger one.
>
> Action Items:
> -------------
>
> 071114 Stephen Attempt to use tcsh 6.14 to see if that solves
env
> problem
> 071212 Done. Will deploy.
|