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We have the quotes for the hardware. The good news is we can get more nodes because we got better prices. The bad news is we can get more nodes and have to find power for them. I'm working on ordering the hardware now. Chuck Boeheim [log in to unmask] On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Young, Charles C. wrote: > Since today's meeting is canceled, could people circulate short > notes on the usual items? Cut and pasted from last week's minutes: > > 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy > 2. Tier-2 Hardware > 3. HPSS/gsiftp/xrootd > 061108 Richard Discuss with SLAC Security longterm approach to > ATLAS VO > > Thanks! > -- > Charles C. Young > M.S. 43, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > P.O. Box 20450 > Stanford, CA 94309 > [log in to unmask] > voice (650) 926 2669 > fax (650) 926 2923 > CERN GSM +41 76 487 2069 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [log in to unmask] > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > > Behalf Of Stephen J. Gowdy > > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:36 AM > > To: atlas-sccs-planning-l > > Subject: Minutes of ATLAS/SCCS Planning Meeting 7th Feb 2007 > > > > ATLAS SCCS Planning 07Feb2007 > > ----------------------------- > > > > 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935# > > > > Present: Stephen, Richard, Wei, Chuck, JohnB, Charlie, Randy, Booker > > > > Agenda: > > > > 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy > > > > Has been running fine. > > > > Have been transferring user data for Tau group work to SLAC. Did > > need to restart DQ2 to notice that the data was at BNL > instead of > > just on the LCG. > > > > 2. Tier-2 Hardware > > > > Have the list of hardware we want. Waiting for Sun to > > give us their > > best offer on it. A week ago were told by Sun to suggest what we > > were expecting. Gave them this aver the weekend and hope to hear > > from them soon. > > > > Note from Persis that as there is no budget cannot make > > commitments. > > > > The order has been held up waiting for it to match with other > SLAC > > purchases. There is the Tier-2 Workshop in about a month, would > > have been a good time to show something about the hardware being > > used. > > > > BaBar usage hasn't been 100% so we have been able to use > > some batch > > capacity for ATLAS. > > > > Believe that John knows where to put it and power it. > Everyone is > > being told that things will need to be moved around later in the > > year, so expect interruptions. > > > > 3. HPSS/gsiftp/xrootd > > > > We have a module to allow gsiftp to interact with xrootd. It > > functions well but we've uncovered several other problems with > > xrootd, don't believe these are show stoppers or hard > > problems. Some of them are small bugs. The behaviour is slightly > > twisted. Need to talk to Andy, may not be able to do that > till he > > comes back from CERN. Andy should be at SLAC on Friday > > then goes to > > CERN for two weeks. Will probably do two weeks later and > > will be at > > IN2P3 for a week in early March. He will be at INFN also. These > > are groups who have had a formal request from the experiment. > > > > We are at the point where we could setup an endpoint and start > > using it but we don't have hardware. Hope to setup one machine > > before the March meeting. The behaviour will be different in a > > cluster environment and we will see these issues > > mentioned above in > > that case. > > > > Jim Shank and Torre Weanus will be at SLAC the 12th > > March. They are > > interested in having ATLAS work better and Jacek told them about > > PetaCache. Should think about how we make their visit as > > productive > > as it can be. Not sure a demonstration would be useful but > having > > things working would be good, should have some Tier-2 hardware > > online by that time. > > > > 4. AOB > > > > None. > > > > Action Items: > > ------------- > > > > 061108 Richard Discuss with SLAC Security longterm > > approach to ATLAS VO > > 061115 No information. > > 061213 Nothing happened yet. > > 070103 No information. > > 070110 Richard & BobC in Denver, Stephen will email them. > > 070124 Don't know the status. > > 070131 Don't believe this happened. > > 070207 Have not done this. Randy has talked to Heather, > didn't > > have any time to comment today but she is aware about > > it. Will treat each VO as an enclave, if you are using > > anonymous accounts need to be able to show how ran a job > > and when. The main issue is that VOs are not legal > > entities and anyone can declare themselves a VO. Would > > need to actually test that the required information can > > actually be found. > > > > > >