Dear All
Over the last few months we have received a few requests to support
additional VOs. As mentioned in previous emails the GridPP PMB
encourages the support of more VOs including those outside of HEP. Many
sites have quite a lot of unused resource
(http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/UKI.html) much of the time,
therefore enabling more VOs is helpful for us to meet utilization
targets and to be seen as a strong contributor towards EGEE.
It is clear that we need a better and consistent presentation of VO
information so that you as system administrators can find details
quickly. In addition we need to optimise workflow so that new requests
can be dealt with in batch. We will come back to this in the New Year.
In the meantime I would like to resend a request you have likely already
seen to support more of the DESY based physics VOs. In particular (each
now listed as an EGEE "global" VO) the three DESY VOs H1 ('hone'), ILC
('ilc'), and ZEUS ('zeus'):
The VO configurations are:
VO_HONE_SW_DIR=$VO_SW_DIR/hone
VO_HONE_DEFAULT_SE=$SE_HOST
VO_HONE_SGM=ldap://grid-vo.desy.de/ou=honesm,ou=vo,o=desy,c=de
VO_HONE_USERS=ldap://grid-vo.desy.de/ou=hone,ou=vo,o=desy,c=de
VO_HONE_STORAGE_DIR=$CE_CLOSE_SE1_ACCESS_POINT/hone
VO_HONE_QUEUES="short hone"
VO_ZEUS_SW_DIR=$VO_SW_DIR/zeus
VO_ZEUS_DEFAULT_SE=$SE_HOST
VO_ZEUS_SGM=ldap://grid-vo.desy.de/ou=zeussm,ou=vo,o=desy,c=de
VO_ZEUS_USERS=ldap://grid-vo.desy.de/ou=zeus,ou=vo,o=desy,c=de
VO_ZEUS_STORAGE_DIR=$CE_CLOSE_SE1_ACCESS_POINT/zeus
VO_ZEUS_QUEUES="short zeus"
For both VO's the usage is similar, namely MC production.
Storage requirements are a few Gbyte long term locally for
executables, database and noise files along with input sandbox of
around 1 Mbyte, input dataset of 50 Mbyte and output dataset of up to
1 Gbyte per job, which are fetched from DESY and copied back there on
job completion (see page 15 in
<http://www.desy.de/dvsem/WS0506/wissing_talk.pdf> or page 29 in
<http://www.desy.de/dvsem/WS0405/wrona-20050214.ppt>).
A request has been lodged with the GridPP User Board for our Tier-2s to
provide about 65 kS2Kmonths/month. It would be great to show support for
this request by further enabling the VOs now. Some are already supported
at a few Tier-2 sites but not with the VO_xxxx_SGM definitions above.
Your help is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Jeremy
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