On 18/09/13 17:22, David Colling wrote:
> Hi Alessandra,
>
> Yes they are indeeedee. I only know of bits and pieces in the LHC world
> but do know, for example, that our T2K colleagues make extensive use of
> them. The Imperial T2K people code and debug locally and then run on the
> RAL resources. This is proving so successful that we are considering
> adding a bigger node - perhaps to the GridPP cloud so that others could
> use it via OpenStack. These are at the *ideas* stage at the moment, but
> if we did would there be any takers or would we have just thrown away a
> chunk of money (or rather given it to T2K as I am sure that they would
> use them)?
>
> I guess that the question is what should GridPP be doing about this? I
> don't see it as our place to fund development in the individual
> experiments but should we be acting as a conduit for best practise?
> Organising Goofit tutorials? Interacting with EGI as Stephen suggests?
> What else? Is there a focus that we can develop with very little money?
>
> I think that these are questions for next Tuesday rather than Friday but
> I will add a specific discussion to the discussion agenda for this.
QMUL now has a single node MPI queue - Dan has more details. What more
does one need?
Chris
>
> Best,
> david
>
> On 18/09/13 14:41, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> multicore should become a reality at the end of LS1. We should
>> definitely have it as an activity.
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
>> On 18/09/2013 14:12, David Colling wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am just drawing up an agenda and is it worth having an item on FTS3
>>> (from Andrew L.)?
>>>
>>> Also the many and multicore activity. Is somebody able to describe
>>> what has been happening in these two areas? Is this something that we
>>> want to have as an activity in GridPP5?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> david
>>
>>
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