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I noticed right after sending it I'd added the status of Charlie's action 
item to Neal's...

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:

> ATLAS SCCS Planning 06Sep2006
> -----------------------------
>
> 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935#
>
> Present: Su Dong, Richard, Wei, Booker, Charley, Len, Chuck
>
> Agenda:
>
> 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy
>
>   Nothing changed. I've done installation using atldq2 but fully
>   configured or active yet.
>
>   Don't believe we need to install FTS as we believe that the
>   instance at BNL will manage transfers for us.
>
> 2. Slots for ATLAS Production jobs and other batch related stuff
>
>   Atlas batch group 200 shares for local users in the general
>   queues. We monitor it to see how it works.
>
>   The CPU limit is too short for the ATLAS production jobs in the
>   general queue except for xxl (which has a limit of 8 jobs). Could
>   perhaps double the CPU time for the general queues to allow them to
>   get into xlong. Should also increase limit on the number of jobs
>   per user. Have now moved the ATLAS production jobs to the general
>   queues so need to update the batch system to fix these issues.
>
> 3. Validation of ATLAS jobs on RHEL
>
>   No news this week. Need to understand what would trigger a
>   validation. Perhaps shouldn't worry about the kernel?
>
> 4. AOB
>
>   - Pacman mirror at SLAC?
>
>     Could possibly do this. Need to worry a little about it become a
>     too big a load on the services. Need to find out how much load
>     this puts on other sites. Not certain why ATLAS needs so many
>     mirrors as OSG uses one web server for everything. Using FTP as a
>     file transfer mechanism would be more efficient but don't believe
>     that pacman supports that. Will decide after feedback from the
>     Tier-2/BNL meeting this morning.
>
>   - Oracle server
>
>     Current plan we don't need it.
>
>   - TDAQ Test Farm
>
>     30 machines have been installed. Probably do another 20 this
>     week. RonB said we could move them next week. Not in a big hurry
>     to get them out, so we can probably use them down there till they
>     move.
>
> Action Items:
> -------------
>
> 060906 Stephen	Find out if DQ2 can use standard web ports.
>
> 060906 Stephen	Find out what the load is for existing US mirrors.
>
> 060906 Wei	Discuss ATLAS pacman mirror with other Tier-2s.
>
> 060830 Stephen	Talk more to DavidQ about validation.
>       060906 No news.
>
> 060830 Richard	Talk to Gregory about "getting" disk
>       060906 Did try but not managed yet.
>
> 060816 Wei	Setup ATLAS/SLAC Web page
>       060823 Wei circulated a not try to bring back comments for next
> 	      week.
>       060830 First draft up.
>       060906 Updated from various comments. Would like to use a
>              better looking page. Need to find somewhere to put it
> 	      also.
>
> 060816 Charlie	Talk to SLUO about adding institutions.
>       060830 Will take time to converge but will be done.
>       060906 Done.
>
> 060816 Neal	Setup atlas priority group for LSF
>       060823 Not done yet.
>       060830 Group setup, not priority given yet.
>       060906 Done. Asked one person from each institution to register
> 	      to be able to verify other.
>
> 060816 Chuck	Check with Bob about web server approval need
>       060823 To be done.
>       060830 To be done.
>       060906 Gary believes that it wouldn't need approval but should
> 	      check with Bob.
>
>
>

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