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-- 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, 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: > ------------- > > 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. > > > >