CHIPP/CSCS Face To Face Meeting on 2015-08-21

• Date and time: 2015-08-21 9:00 to 17:00
• Place: CSCS Meeting Room ground floor
• External link / EVO:

Agenda

• 9:00 - 9:30 -- Coffee, presentation and agenda
• 9:30 - 10:45 -- Tier-2 status and plans
  • CSCS Miguel/Gianni (45')
  • UNIBE-LHEP Gianfranco (30')
• 10:45 - 12:00 -- Tier-3 status and plans / Open discussion
  • PSI Fabio on vacation, no slides
  • UNIBE-ID (?)
  • UNIGE (?)
• 12:00 - 13:30 -- Lunch at Pizzeria Resega
• 13:30 - 14:30 -- NGI_CH Sigve (60' or shorter)
• 14:30 - 15:30 -- A.O.B. / Pledges
• 15:30 -- END of the meeting

Attendants

• CSCS: Sadaf Alam, Nicholas Cardo, Stefano Gorini, Gianni Ricciardi, Dino Conciatore, Dario Petrusic, Miguel Gila, Pablo Fernandez
• ETHZ: Christoph Grab, Daniel Meister
• PSI: Derek Feichtinger
• UNIBE-LHEP: Gianfranco Sciacca, Sigve Haug
• UNIBE-ID: (?)
• UNIGE: (?)
• UZH: Roland Bernet

Minutes

• Need to plot pledged/delivered by experiment... maybe showing in the Big graph a split (bars) for each of the VOs instead of the SUM.
• How do we split the 420 TB free we have now? 400 to LHCb and the rest divided amongst ATLAS and CMS. For next period 540 for LHCb and the rest evenly distributed. The ration should be around 15... but LHCb would be around 18 in Phase K. CSCS will update the tables.
• Enable ARC for all VOs so that we can get rid of CREAM, we need to put this work in perspective with other priorities. We have good feet inside the development thanks to Sigve.
• Other priorities (Storage): dCache upgrade (important), GPFS upgrade, commissioning the compute nodes, deployment of Puppet, network/bridges alternatives
• Expected 20% increase on compute and 15% on storage per year. But probably this has decreased last 2-3 years. Need to check how other sites are doing. Maybe join next Hepix in Europe this Spring?
• Allow some CMS power users to use our resources. They would prefer local access (no certs) but things should go through Grid channels. We'll try with ARC, and Daniel will be happy to teach them how to use it (ASAP).

Action items

• item
• UNIBE-LHEP-20150821_upd.pdf: UNIBE-LHEP site status
• NGI-CH-20150821_upd.pdf: NGI_CH Operations
• NeI-CH-2015-08-20.pdf: NeI-CH-2015-08-20.pdf

• 20150821_F2F_final.pdf: CSCS_F2F_final