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<!-- keep this as a security measure: #uncomment if the subject should only be modifiable by the listed groups * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup,Main.CMSAdminGroup,Main.CmsT3SteeringBoardGroup * Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = Main.TWikiAdminGroup,Main.CMSAdminGroup,Main.CmsT3SteeringBoardGroup #uncomment this if you want the page only be viewable by the listed groups # * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.TWikiAdminGroup, Main.CMSAdminGroup, Main.CmsT3SteeringBoardGroup --> ---+!! Steering Board Meeting 2009-12-01 Meeting Materials: * [[%ATTACHURL%/PSI-T3-Board-20091201.pdf][Meeting Slides]] (D. Feichtinger) ---++ Agenda 1 Welcome 1 Information about present status of T3cluster at PSI 1 Policy proposals for resources * CPU * storage allocation and management.. * cluster access, accounts... 1 Discussion: * statements / comments by all parties * groups ? 1 Recommendations: * Draft for resource sharing recommendations * rules, implementation, publication * validity (time),... 1 AOB ---++ Meeting Minutes presence: Christoph Grab, Derek Feichtinger, Leonardo Sala, Urs Langenegger, Alexander Schmidt, via phone: Ernest Aguilo Items: * Welcome by Christoph * Derek presents status of T3 cluster at PSI. Some key figures: * 8 worker nodes with 2*XeonE5410 processors (8 cores) * 6 fileservers with 100TByte space in total * major upgrade in December/January consisting of: 20 worker nodes with 2*XeonX5560 CPUs and 5 fileservers with 200TByte * guest users: should visitors be allowed to obtain guest accounts at the T3? * Pro: collaboration within physics/detector group is simplified if the same computing architecture is used (e.g. to share ntuples) * Contra: if everybody is allowed this leads to an uncontrolled increase of number of users * <span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Agreement:</span> allow a fixed limited contingent (e.g. 2 guests) per group/institution (?) to be allocated by the respective group responsible. Further guests can only be allowed if previous accounts are deleted. * distribution of computing resources: * allocation of CPU time is easy and can be changed on the fly. Fairshare algorithms can be adjusted anytime as necessary. * More important and more difficult is distribution of storage space. Foresee three types of storage space: * private storage space for users * group storage space for hosting official CMS datasets as well as group skims, ntuples etc. * central space for maintenance etc. * Agreed on the followig policy: Storage space is equally divided into number of users. Each user has x TByte and belongs to only one group. The space is added up inside a group. The group decides then how the space is divided. Guest users don't count. There is no quota, but the group responsible needs to take care of the storage space limits. * <span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Action item:</span> make list of groups, users and according amount of storage. Define names of group responsibles. * commissioning dataset (first LHC collisions): it is currently not distributed to the PSI T3, because it is still more efficient to analyze the small number of events at CAF. This dataset can be requested and hosted in T3 central space (not in group space) if needed. * there is no backup of home directories, disk failure protection is provided by RAID6 * queues: average time consumption by CMS jobs is 4 hours. The 24h queue is too long, will be changed to 8h or 12h. The old computing nodes will be used for the short (test) 1h queue. * comment from Urs: we are very happy with the T3 and can't live without it. Derek and his team are doing a great job. * three days of T3 downtime is necessary to prepare the upgrade, probably before christmas. need to find a convenient date. ---+++ Comments/Corrections * Derek * Guest users: we agreed to allow one guest user per physics group.
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