ATLAS SCCS Planning 22Aug2007 ----------------------------- 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935# Present: Wei, Stephen, Chuck, Len, Randy, Richard, Booker Agenda: 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy Problems today with the PANDA server today so probably is probably poor. A lot of problems while BNL was updating their dCache. They have unexpected hardware problems. So production has been down quite a lot recently. Some worries about the quality of the DQ2 software, doesn't seem to be production quality even after two months of deployment. The recent functional tests have worse results than the last try last year. 2. Tier-2 Hardware Stephen posted earlier about some measurements with the latest Intel and AMD CPUs. The basic result was that the Intel GHz were worth 10% more than the AMD ones. AMD was less effected by loading up a box completely (the 10% is for a fully loaded box, it was nearer 15% with only one job per box). BaBar saw more-or-less parity between them. For acquisitions therefore might assume more like 5%. Will not know how the prices compare until the 4-core AMD chips come out. Have for the last year being doing 1gig ether net on the batch machines, this is really needed with the large number of cores per box. Might even need to bind together the two on board ones for the Dell boxes being tested, having four would have left more headroom but have only two. 3. AOB - Next weeks meeting Stephen will be travelling, should others meet? Wei also away so will cancel next week. - OSG Counsel Meeting Noticeable that SLAC doesn't get any statistics in to the Gratia accounting system. There is a large downside for the OSG that we don't do this. Need to get this working. There are some technical issues with assumptions made (might be an assumption that there is only one queue used, takes all info from that queue and a single user). OSG needs some amount of political help. They've been funded for one year for $6M (half DoE, half NSF), NSF has pulled out $1M from a second year. Some folk having been hearing this grid stuff will disappear in a year or so and we'll be back at TeraGrid (which means large NSF facilities). We should make sure that OSG can report truthfully the large amount of work being done. Some milestones were written down that don't actually reflect work being done. OSG needs to make sure they have the right set of milestones. This that more than half of OSG is reporting via Gratia. So it is useful to use it for the next year till it gets replaced. Fermilab is responsible for Gratia just now, initially it was developed with PPDG money prior to OSG. - Power work It will happen on Wednesday next week, all day. There will be some service outage. There is a new outages planning mailing list. Charlie is on it. There will be a whole building outage not before next March, this will be for an entire day. Action Items: ------------- 070815 Wei Thing about how we maintain lists of local people etc 070822 Should create another LSF group. The current one is for all Tier-2 users. These are only for local use. Should just LSF groups to maintain these lists. Done. 070725 Stephen Try to test eval01 070801 Didn't have access when attempted, Booked fixed that. Problem with ATLAS software (hopefully trivial). 070815 Installed new software to get around the problem. Not tested yet. Have order 128 cousins for it, have bought the machine. 070822 Done. 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. 070815 Not done yet. 070822 eval01 test produced results needed just now, so forget about this for now.