27 May 2005 meeting minutes
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Present: A. Forti, P. Love, B. Davies, P.Hodgson, M. George, A. Beresford, P. Hogson

Sites reports
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Lancaster:
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Installed dcache head node. Done progress with ukLight, the connection is there now although the farm is not connected yet. CE is setup and running and there is a classic SE with 2TB attached to it until dcahce will be working. there is a problem with limiting the jobs it would be good if the maui scheduler could do it. Security incident nothing changed.

Liverpool:
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SE,CE,UI,MON 1 WN have been installed still under test. Once it works the WN will be imaged. NAT hasn't been yet configured. Michael is going on holiday for a week. He foresee to setup 3 racks (120 nodes) within 3 days after his return.

Manchester:
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Test on the vendors machines have finished and a vendor has been selected. The old farm will be put back online with 2 dcache pools on 2 worker nodes the selected vendor machine will be left there until they are reclaimed.

Sheffield:
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The farm is running they had problems with too many LHCB jobs queued. The BDII kept on crashing and a script to kill the jobs until this is solved has been put in place. They are planning to buy other ~4 TB of disk space.

Next Meetings: 24 June 2005 on the phone.


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