[nb going to two week schedule by default, see below]
ATLAS SCCS Planning 19Sep2007
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9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935#
Present: Randy, Wei, Stephen, Chuck, JohnB, Richard, Charlie
Agenda:
1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy
Nothing this week. Were finally able to get data from BNL. Things
were running well till yesterday when pilots stopped coming to
SLAC. Someone changed a PANDA configuration which broke things,
Kaushik asked someone else to fix it and that went wrong too. DQ2
down now for power outage.
Started to test dq2-cr (copy & register) for sites without (any or
stable) DQ2. Trying it for WI just now.
2. Tier-2 Hardware
Including the next acquisition in the Fall Purchase. Getting a
costing for Black Box #2. Hope to get it in by the first
January. PPA really want to make sure this doesn't get stalled.
Sun will have quad core AMD and Intel. Also will look at a
Quad-core Quad-socket 1U server from another company. Sun rolled
out their 4100 family last week. This has 16 DIMM slots and 8 drive
(SAS, only 6 for SATA) bays in 1U. Evaluation machines should be
coming in soon. Will be available like eval01 (Dell Intel Quad
core).
For storage it will probably be Thumpers again unless something
better comes along. There is a new sales team so everything needs
to be renegotiated again.
3. AOB
- Power Outage
In the midst of the power outage, everyone itching to get out and
get back to work.
- Black Box
Turning on Black Box this week. Power and cooling is on. Systems
are installed. There is an outage of the box tomorrow to do some
changes to the cooling.
It contains 252 machines identical to the boers (except instead
of two 250GB disks there is one 500GB drive). There was a problem
with the lubricant on the 250GB drives, failures have been above
the 1-2% level, almost to 10%.
- Meetings
Not too many hot topics, will drop default frequency to two
weeks. Will have meetings every week when topics arise or busy
seasons (like around purchases).
Action Items:
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