PSI Tier-3 Steering board meeting

Meeting Date and Location

Time and date: Thu, Nov 3rd, 10:30 - 12:30h (doodle poll)
Location: ETH Hoenggerberg, HPK D32 (location map)

Proposed Agenda:

• Discussion of Scheduling Policies and Resource quotas
  • presentation of resource usage over the last years and statistics
  • discussion of batch system policies
    • experiences with the new policies
    • discussion of and agreement on parameters for queues short.q, all.q, long.q and their associated quotas
  • description of priority calculation (UL is asking for this)

• Upgrades of the system and rolling replacement. Financing
  • presentation of Storage expansion options
  • plans for evolving the system in 2012 and further
  • next major SW upgrades
    • dcache migration to new DB backend (Chimera). 1-2 days of downtime. Would like to do it in Dec. Will need a preparatory half-day downtime about 2-4 weeks before that to bring system to newest release before the migration.

• Miscellaneous
  • clarification about T3-usage for non-CMS publications (UL)
  • clarification about (home) disk quota (overusage) and deciding body (UL)
  • clarification about what exactly happened in the first week of October (UL)
  • discussion about user expectations for T3 (UL)
  • change of usage model to reflect the changed MC generation policy (UL)

Please add items that you feel should be discussed and mark them with your initials or name.

-- DerekFeichtinger - 2011-10-18