Welcome to the CSCS LCGTier2 web and the PHOENIX cluster

Information for Swiss LCG Grid Users

The CSCS LCG cluster is a dedicated resource for the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), mainly to analyze data coming from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN.

CSCS operates the Swiss Tier2 in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) for CHIPP and provides support to the whole CHIPP community.

It is also part of the infrastructure of the European Grid Initiative (EGI).

Information for Users

• RoadMap contains information about the present and past of the Cluster.
• Tier2ResourcePlanning is the main access point for the CHIPP Computing Board, where we discuss about the future of the cluster
• ATLASInfoPages has information for ATLAS users only.
• CMSInfoPages has information about CMS as a VO.
• CMSInfoPagesUsers has information for CMS users.

Information for Sysadmins

• PhoenixSetupAndSpecs gives a brief overview of the current installed services on the cluster.
• FabricInventory has detailed information about every machine of the cluster. It has restricted access.
• ServiceInformation contains a detailed description of every service installed in the cluster, in a form so called service-cards
• HardwareInformation stores interesting information about hardware and OS features like shared filesystems

Contact Information

Any question regarding the Phoenix services hosted at CSCS can be asked directly to the Site Sysadmins: grid at cscs dot ch

Also, two mailing lists are available for users of the PHOENIX cluster users:

• tier2-users at cscs dot ch: used for broadcasting downtimes and generally technically relevant messages for users who rely on the local resources of the PHOENIX cluster (e.g. on the storage accessibility). Subscribe/unsubscribe by sending mail to tier2-users-request@cscs.ch (the email is read by a human operator, no need for special format).
• cms-users@cscs.ch: will receive CMS specific messages in addition to all messages from the tier2-users list. Subscribe/unsubscribe by sending mail to cms-users-request@cscs.ch (the email is read by a human operator, no need for special format).

Support

• GGUS portal for submitting trouble tickets non specific to this site
• ROC DECH support pages for submitting trouble tickets specific to the German and Swiss LCG centers (this shortcuts one distribution step of a GGUS submission and may be a bit faster)
• For urgent problems you may want to contact your experiment's site contact (ATLAS: Sigve Haug, CMS: Derek Feichtinger, LHCb: Roland Bernet). These persons have a fast communication channel to the administrators. Don't abuse this channel, please.
• For CMS site issues, you may also use the Savannah system to submit a support request to the facilitiesopscmscompinfrasup-facilities group.

Documentation on Grid Usage

• Starting point for LCG users
• LCG-2 user guide
• LCG Wiki
• gLite File Transfer Service FTS links and descriptions - usually only used for large scale transfers

PHOENIX Site Status and Grid monitoring

The site name used for PHOENIX on the following pages is T2_CSCS or CSCS

• Local monitoring overview (all important metrics on one page): PhoenixMonOverview & qtop
• NGI-DE/CH Nagios with functional test states
• EGEE-SA1 Nagios Status of all Grid services in the Phoenix cluster. (Need grid certificate loaded in the browser.)
• CSCS Nagios monitoring Status of all hosts in the Phoenix cluster. Restricted to specific CSCS users.
• Central site functional tests (SFT):
  • SAM tetst for the CE ce01.lcg.cscs.ch
  • SAM tests for the SE storage01.lcg.cscs.ch
• GSTAT monitoring page
• GOC data base
• GOC Accounting Graphs
• LCG2 real time monitoring (VO summary reports)
• FZK monitoring, includes the FTS channel STAR-CSCS
• Grid View Monitor
• Grid Map Monitor
• ATLAS
  • ATLAS GridKaCloud wiki pages, with FTS monitoring
  • Data Management
• CMS
  • CMS Dashboard (central monitoring of CMS LCG Grid activities)
  • Site log for CMS CSCS Tier2
• NorduGrid
  • Nordugrid monitor
  • Batch queue status
• LHCb
  • LHCb dashboard - site status
  • LHCb dashboard - SAM status
  • LHCb DIRAC Site Status
• some fancy monitoring for the whole WLCG

Phoenix Cluster Information

• PhoenixCluster: describes the setup of the cluster, the computers, their usage, the services running on it.
• gLite port list: listing of ports used by the middleware
• AdminArea: Area for sharing of information between admins
• LCGTier2PhoenixMeetings: announcement and planning of meetings
• PhoenixPresentations: Presentations and other public documents about PHOENIX and the LCG Tier-2 center
• Phoenix2 Cluster: describes the setup of the coming Phoenix2 cluster.
• Ganglia dumps: Collecting ganglia database dumps
• VO Requirements for Phoenix
• Pictures from the cluster

Administrativa

• EGEE Service Level Description

LCGTier2 Web Utilities