Markus,
for the T0, see attached message by Manuel.
Cheers,
Helge
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Helge MEINHARD CERN, IT Department, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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On 11/02/2011 11:14 PM, Markus Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after some local discussions concerning the usage of PROOF by WLCG sites I decided that it is time to cry for help.
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> The reason I want to learn about the current situation is that I need to get an idea on how important it is for WLCG storage to support this use-case and whether
> this should be handled at small and large sites alike. I know that ALICE uses PROOF, but I assume that they rely on local clusters. I found something about the sites
> in Spain, but I am not sure how I have to understand "co-locating PROOF farms in the T2/T1", does this mean that they are share the same storage/computing fabric????
> Since we are working on DPM I am especially keen to hear from the T2/T3 sites what they are doing/planning.
>
> Could you please try comment on the following questions/topics:
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> 0) Do you support PROOF for experiments or have concrete plans to do so?
> If you answer NO, you are done.
> If you answer YES, please continue.
> How concrete are your plans? Pilot in Y months, Production since / in XX months.
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> 1) I am at a T0, T1, T2, T3
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> 2) Do you run a dedicated cluster of or does PROOF run on top of your production facility?
> Size?
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> 3) Do you provide dedicated storage?
> Would it be very desirable to integrate this with your general purpose, grid storage?
> How do you move data in and out of the cluster? Is this seen as a problem?
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> 4) Do you use PROOF with your WLCG-SE?
> what type do you run? dCache, BestMan, STORM,...... with XX TBytes.
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> Thanks to all those who will reply and to all who don't, because their answer to question 0) is negative.
>
> markus
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> p.s. I'll try to summarize the feedback....
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