How to apply for an account at the CMS PSI Tier 3 To apply for a Tier 3 account please send an email to cms tier3@lists.psi.ch with Subject `account request`....
HowTo use EOS from the PSI Tier 3 Currently the local mounting of EOS has problems. But we can use the command line eos utility For authentication EOS accepts either...
Policies for the resource allocation on the PSI Tier 3 These policies were agreed upon in the first and second Steering Board meetings. They need revision in...
Slurm Batch system usage Simple job submission and the concept of queues (partitions) On the Tier 3 you run jobs by submitting them to the Slurm job scheduler. The...
Solutions to Operational Issues daily check of slurm Even though many problems are signalled through mails by Icinga, I also prefer to have a look each morning on...
How to access, set up, and test your account Mailing lists and communication with admins and other users cms tier3 users@lists.psi.ch : list through which we...
How to retrieve your corrupted or deleted /t3home and /work files Every user can retrieve from snapshots corrupted or deleted files from /t3home or /work...
How to work with Storage Element SE clients Storage data (based on dCache) located under directory /pnfs/psi.ch/cms/trivcat/store/user/username . Data are...
CMS data ordering by Rucio CMS is now using Rucio for the data management across sites. Even though users can submit own requests by Rucio, we currently need to duplicate...
Understanding Tier 3 storage The Tier 3 offers different kinds of storage and it is important that you understand how to use them to their best advantage. User home...
OBSOLETE INFORMATION basic understanding of the dCache for advanced user (archived pages) The Storage Element ( SE ) t3se01.psi.ch runs dCache, a Grid Storage...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details I wish you a happy and productive new year. as every year, PSI is conducting the big compute center test (`Schaltertest`)...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details These are the first nodes in our cluster based on the AMD EPYC architecture. For the first days we will just run them in a...
This page is an up to date version of ObtainingHostCertificates Obtaining host certificates for Grid servers Certificates now agaim come from QuoVadis. Their services...
Trust/Link from QuoVadis CA You are invited to use QuoVadis Trust/Link as a Subscriber to issue Grid Host certificates for the ScITS UniBe Account in the following...
Monitoring OBSOLETE This page has been dismantled I leave it active for the moment since it contains some links that still may be interesting Networking and...
Areca Support WebGUI usage steps to allow web access: # /root/Linuxhttp V2.5.1 180529/x86 64/archttp64 ArchHTTP for setup: http://hostname:81/ or directly the...
Slurm WN Partition: Running Jobs Slurm WN Partition: Running vs Waiting Jobs Slurm QUICK Partition: Running Jobs Slurm QUICK Partition: Running vs Waiting...
Networking and File Transfers ( PhEDEx) Links: usage at T3 usage at T2 day of FTS3 jobs induced by CRAB3, transfers details day of FTS3 jobs induced...
Comparison of I/O Performance on /t3home, /work and /eos with simple dd benchmark measure of write performance to eos 7.9 MB/s dd if /dev/zero of /eos/home n...
PSI Tier 3 Physics Groups Overview Obsolete information, needs update Note: Each group has a home page on this wiki that can be reached by the link in the Name...
Submitting Multicore/Multithreading job using multiple processors/threads on a single physical computer (SMP parallel job) Your program might require a number of...
Basic job submission and monitoring on the Tier 3 The Tier 3 cluster is running the Sun Grid Engine batch queueing system. You can submit any shell script to the...
FW updates on DALCO JBOD servers SN F 18.05.101 104 and F 18.11.176 This is the latest firmware package: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/de/download/28696/Intel...
Dalco Storage servers with JBOD There are two raid controllers installed on t3fs07 10 servers Areca ARC 1883 combined 24 storage drives and MegaRAID...
Batch system policies These policies were discussed and endorsed in the steering board meeting of 2011 11 03 Aims The T3 CPUs and Storage resources must be shared...
(Derek) Notice that this machine still reboots unexplainedly about once per month. The machine comes up well, but the dcache pools are not started and need manual...
MegaRAID Support To check RAID1 raid controller of the two OS SSDs on t3fs07 11 use StorCLI Standalone Utility: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27654/StorCLI...
Sun Grid Engine on CMS Tier3 This document describes the planning, installation, and basic configuration of SGE on the PSI Tier3 cluster. The advanced configuration...
PhEDEx PhEDEx is the data transfer service used by CMS to transfer data sets beween sites. Central Monitoring Plots for last 24h of Agents as seen by the...
Thumper local port to switch port mappings and trunking tests Local port to switch port mappings These mappings are needed for correctly configuring the switch...
Burn in Tests The system boots to the Pc Check main menu. Choose `Immediate Burn in Testing option` in the main menu. The Immediate Burn in Testing option...
Obtaining host certificates for Grid servers Our host certificates are issued by the SWITCH CA (using the QuoVadis service). Go here for the web interface for the...
Node Type: Until today 20th June 2013 t3bdii.psi.ch is currently an alias for t3bdii02.psi.ch that`s a SL6 UMD 2 VM Firewall requirements local port open...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details Message from 7. 7. 2017 Dear Users We need to replace a HW component for the central home storage server. The parts are ordered...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details We would like to carry out this operation on Monday afternoon, 13:30h. It will require a complete shutting down of the storage...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details Dear Users Since the too frequent taking of snapshots has led time and time again to problems with users not being able to...
Node Type: Firewall requirements local port open to reason Installation Official Doc ( pretty chaotic ) https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic...
CMS Tier 3 News Item Summary Details As every year, PSI will perform a power test in the beginning of January 2017, exactly on 07/08. This means all T3 services...