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Hi, I'm curious to know what the plans are for supporting analysis via panda (e.g. pathena)? I've seen SLAC setup as a test queue there. Is that just for testing, or is there a plan to eventually turn that on in production? Cheers, Gordon. > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Gowdy > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM > To: ATLAS SCCS Planning > Subject: Minutes from ATLAS/SCCS Planning Meeting 12th Dec 2007 > > ATLAS SCCS Planning 12Dec2007 > ----------------------------- > > 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935# > > Present: Wei, Stephen, Richard, Randy, Chuck, JohnB, JohnW, Len > > Agenda: > > 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy > > Production is running well. Using 300 CPUs most of the time. Have > enough data to run jobs. Have FUSE running on a few xrootd > machines. Also have a Berkeley version of SRM (BeStMan), > transferred > data from SLAC to UTA using FTS. This is called BeStManXroot but it > doesn't use any features of xrootd so it can be without it. > > For the dq2_put problem, it might be better to use noric09 which > has XrootdFS running. > > Do we know if the fairshare works correctly for ATLAS? We believe > so. There are users using some of it so it doesn't all go to > production. > > 2. Tier-2 Hardware > > Asked to replicate 12/13 release AOD. Would need about 40TB, don't > have enough space for this. Spending ATLAS money on disk would get > us about 200TB. We pushed ahead with the CPU spending as it was > desired. Can now get the 1TB disks so that will make disk pricing > more attractive. Currently in negotiation about storage > price. BaBar can probably wait till April for the next big > purchase. Alexei suggested getting AOD since 1st September. Not > sure how useful a definition that is but can meanwhile do that and > determine if there are requests for other data. Currently importing > 1 or 2TB of RDO data for trigger work. > > Order for CPUs went out about a week ago. Expect delivery before > Christmas but installation after the break. Will probably move some > machines from water cooled racks to Sun Black Box. The full set of > machines should be available early February. Existing ATLAS > machines will move to the second Black Box (it'll be half BaBar, > quarter ATLAS - all current installation - and quarter GLAST). > > > > 3. tcsh with larger environment space > > Taylor needs to copy it across to the machines. It'll go to > /usr/etc/tcsh and put that /etc/shells. Then users should ask for > their shell to be changed. Will need to be changed on Solaris too > to ensure you can have the same shell everywhere. > > 4. Tier2/3 Workshop > > Not much to say, it appears on the ATLAS e-News today. > > 5. AOB > > - Space for atl-prod02 mirror > > Reply from Wei's ticket saying there wasn't a 72GB one. Will have > another, perhaps larger one. > > Action Items: > ------------- > > 071114 Stephen Attempt to use tcsh 6.14 to see if that solves env > problem > 071212 Done. Will deploy.