28 January 2005 meeting minutes
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Present: A. Forti, P. Love, P.Hodgson

Situation at sites
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Lancaster:

53 cpus 31 kSI
LCG version: upgrade to 2_3_0 using lcfg still problems with RGMA
Posts: still looking the interviews didn't go well New farm should arrive within 10 days.
Location: HEP department

Liverpool:

Problems: cooling system breakdown in the middle of december. Posts: still looking interviewed people not good.
Location: HEP department

Manchester:

LCG version 2_3_0 upgraded with lcfg
Posts: shortlisted interviews in february
Location: HEP department

Sheffield:

New farm arrived (163 cpus 240 kSI 4TB storage)
LCG version 2_3_0 installed with manual install on top of SL 3.0.3
Location: University computing centre.
Problems: cooling system breakdown (all the units even the backup ones.
Firewall: farm completely behind the firewall but for the ports listed in the port tables available at

LCG port table

Use of the university logging service.
Post: new person Andrew Beresford network and security background

Local security policy
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Nobody knows about their local policy. Need to find out.

Next meeting 25 February 2005


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