15 December 2004 meeting minutes
--------------------------------

Present: A. Forti, P. Love, M. Robinson, M. George, M. Houlden

Situation at sites
------------------

Lancaster:

53 cpus 31 kSI
Supported VOs: Atlas and Lhcb
LCG version: 2_2_0, upgrade in January
No particular problems with maintainance.
Posts: shortlisted people, inteviews in january.
New farm: 200 nodes 3 GHz, 80 TB in 7 SE - should arrive sometime in january.

Liverpool:

MAP II: 120 nodes (2 GHz, no storage)
LCG version 2_2_0, upgrade in January
Supported VOs: Atlas and Lhcb
Complain that nobody is using it and questioned the necessity of putting more nodes online.
Posts: shortlisted 3 people, interviews in january

Manchester:

97 cpus 35 kSI+ 10 kSI
LCG version 2_2_0, upgrade in January
Supported VOs: Atlas, BaBar, Dzero
Posts: still advertising

Sheffield:

24 cpus down since mid-october
LCG version 2_1_0
Had anyway a really bed cooling system breakdown last week and are still recovering.
Supported VOs: Atlas
Posts: shortlisted, interviews in january
New farm: 160 cpus, 240 kSI + 4TB

Comments on release policy
--------------------------

no comments

Deployment issues
-----------------

no comments

Remote access for maintainance
------------------------------

Remote access to A. Forti or anybody else denied denied by lancaster and sheffield. Liverpool already granted it. Access to GOC database to change settings in case of problems granted by everyone.

Storage and storage software
----------------------------

no comments

Next meeting 28 January 2005


Last modified Thu 14 April 2005 . View page history
Switch to HTTPS . Website Help . Print View . Built with GridSite 1.4.3
For more about GridPP please contact Neasan O'Neill