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CHIPP-CSCS Face to Face Meeting on 2018-01-25

  • Date and time: Thursday 25th of January at 10:10 (time should be fine for the 7:32 train from Zurich / 8:18 from Arth-Goldau)
  • Place: Lugano (CSCS)
  • External link / EVO: Win/Mac: https://vcmeeting.ethz.ch/ (Room: 6708238) | Linux(vidyo): sip:6708238@vc.ethz.ch | Phone gate: +41 43 244 8930 (ext 6708238 #)

Agenda

  • 10:10 - Welcome, coffee and agenda
  • 10:30 - Update from the Computing Board (15' - Christoph)
  • 10:45 - VO Status report (~last 6 months + changes since last F2F, for both Phoenix and CRAY)
    • LHCb (20' - Roland)
    • ATLAS (20' - Gianfranco)
    • CMS (20' - Thomas)
  • 11:45 - Tier-2 status, plans & pledges
    • CSCS (45' - Various people, for both Phoenix and CRAY)
    • UNIBE-LHEP (30' - Gianfranco)
  • 13:00 - Lunch
  • 14:15 - Tier-3 status and plans
    • PSI (15' - Nina)
    • UNIBE-ID (15' - Gianfranco)
    • UNIGE (10' - Gianfranco)
  • 15:00 - Coffee break
  • 15:15 - NGI_CH (20' - Gianfranco)
  • 15:35 - Discussion / fix pledges (55')
  • 16:30 - End of meeting

Attendants

  • CSCS:
  • CMS:
  • ATLAS: Gianfranco
  • LHCb: Roland

Minutes

  • LHCb
    • Some tickets get never resolved because the problem goes away
    • ACTION: Roland shall try to follow up next time it happens
    • ACTION: CSCS should plug in the Nagios tests from LHCb to get the input from the SAM tests (to keep the site green, otherwise LHCb does not care much)

  • ATLAS
    • ACTION: CSCS should check if the hammercloud queues go offline notification email arrives.
    • End-of-November is where the issues focus (ATLAS could not follow up)
    • arc04 looks red since end-of-November. Nagios checks (if imported into our nagios) should have shown it... but it was not reported either (it only affects A/R metrics)
    • ACTION: Fair-share needs to be looked at (some details needed in the next meetings)
    • ACTION: We should make sure we do the monthly operatoins meetings, even if we have F2F meetings
    • There are fluctuations in performance, most probably GPFS around December. This also shows clear in the ATLAS IO workloads.
    • ACTION: CSCS should follow up. ATLAS can try to check different IO mechanisms (direct-IO and/or usage of local disks)

  • CMS
    • Pledge delivery looks very bad: part of it is coming from lack of information on the CMS side, but there is also a part (which shows in the CSCS charts) is related to CSCS compute: it looks like either the queue pressure is not sufficient or the fairshare might be wong.

  • UNIBE
    • Hardening the monitoring has paid back with lower failure rates

Other Action items

  • all VO representatives shall evaluate the needs of the VOs for the next 4 years in terms of CPU, DISK, TAPE, ratios…
    • also whether the increase over the years should be continuous or not
  • CSCS shall make a statement on what part of phoenix and on what timescale will be available to CHIPP for re-usage.
    • Bern hopes for 50% of the PHOENIX hardware in 2019.
    • Other VOs shall make a statement what they want from HW.
  • clarify pledges numbers; and prepare 2019 pledges to be entered in Sep. 2018 including LHConCRAY growth of 27% (use 25% ?) CPU and 15% storage.
  • Objection raised by ATLAS to changing the CPU shares from 40:40:20 to 37.5:37.5:25 without a clear mandate by the CHIPP CB. ATLAS will consider 40:40:20 effective share (despite wrong pledges in REBUS) until a decision to change this will be taken and announced with a protocol.
  • A CPU and disk growth plan by ATLAS (part of the decision to move to the Cray platform) has been presented. This is based on the agreed growth rates of 27% and 15% storage. The ATLAS number show slightly different ratios for CPU and disk that should be clarified before any change to the batch shares are implemented.
  • The other VOs have been asked to pur forward similar plans.

Attachments

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PDFpdf 0125_F2F_v2.pdf r1 manage 1013.6 K 2018-01-25 - 09:30 ThomasKlijnsma CMS VO Report
Unknown file formatpptx 20180125_F2F_CSCS.pptx r1 manage 3730.7 K 2018-01-25 - 09:00 PabloFernandez  
PDFpdf ATLAS-report-20180125.pdf r1 manage 1905.4 K 2018-01-25 - 08:20 GianfrancoSciacca ATLAS VO report
PDFpdf LHCb_CHIPP_Lugano_Jan2018.pdf r1 manage 862.8 K 2018-01-25 - 10:01 RolandBernet  
PNGpng Network_-_last-month.png r1 manage 111.1 K 2018-01-25 - 09:03 DinoConciatore Network usage
PNGpng Network_-_last-week.png r1 manage 123.3 K 2018-01-25 - 09:03 DinoConciatore Network usage
PNGpng Network_-_last-year.png r1 manage 87.2 K 2018-01-25 - 09:03 DinoConciatore Network usage
PDFpdf UNIBE-LHEP-20180125.pdf r1 manage 1269.2 K 2018-01-25 - 09:42 GianfrancoSciacca UNIBE-LHEP Tier2 report
PDFpdf UNIGE-DPNC-20180125.pdf r1 manage 98.0 K 2018-01-25 - 09:43 GianfrancoSciacca UNIGE-DPNC Tier3 report
PDFpdf chipp-cscs-f2f-20180125.pdf r1 manage 518.8 K 2018-01-25 - 10:13 DerekFeichtinger  
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