Same for Sheffield
On 27 Jan 2014, at 11:49, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Will send Manchester after lunch.
>
> On 27/01/2014 10:57, Matt Doidge wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> You might have heard this through more efficient channels, but Steve Lloyd put a request out for Tier-2 site descriptions for the upcoming GridPP5 proposal. It only needs to be a few sentences, please see the ECDF and Oxford examples below.
>>
>> It's asking a lot, but could sites provide something today, or let me know if you've already provided something to Steve. Failing that let me know if you're happy with me writing something.
>>
>> My apologies, this is the second request from Steve that I forgot to forward to you guys. I'm really sorry.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Fwd: Tier-2s
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:28:19 +0000
>> From: Jeremy Coles <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Duncan Rand <[log in to unmask]>, Mark Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>, Matthew Doidge <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Dear Duncan, Mark and Matt,
>>
>> Steve sent out the message below on 15th January seeking input (in the form of short site descriptions) for a GridPP Tier-2 document that we are compiling as input when writing the GridPP5 proposal - I appreciate that Steve did not set a deadline. However, the input documents were intended to be in a final draft on Monday. I have been asked to follow-up and check the status of descriptions for the following sites:
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>> SCOTGRID: Durham and Glasgow
>> NORTHGRID: Lancaster, Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester
>> LONDONGRID: QMUL, Imperial, UCL, Brunel, RHUL
>>
>> I appreciate that work is getting busy again but would be grateful if you could let me know ASAP (ideally by lunchtime Monday 27th January) whether or not you will be able to provide input for your sites and/or whether the site has been asked to provide something directly. I paste below two examples in case there is some confusion about what we are after here. It is within all our interests to write a convincing proposal and having strong input will help!
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> Edinburgh (ATLAS, LHCb)
>>
>> Edinburgh is a leading example of a Tier-2 site delivering resources to GridPP through the use of a shared university cluster facility (ECDF). The site has strong expertise in data storage and hosts a 1 FTE Data Storage post responsible for the development of DPM software and who is currently chair of WLCG data working group. As well as providing significant CPU and storage for LHC experiments, the site has specialised in the exploitation of many-core devices such as GPUs and MICs for use on the Grid. In addition, the site has recently explored the possible use of High Performance Computing systems (such as the HECToR supercomputer hosted by the Advanced Computing Facility in Edinburgh) for Grid-based workloads. Staff at the site are closely aligned to the ATLAS experiment activities and have taken lead roles in ATLAS distributed computing operations. The site has a excellent publication record as part of EGI and CHEP conferences as well as representation on the CHEP programme committee. Edinburgh has also organised and hosted a number of data management and future-computing workshops
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>> Oxford (ATLAS, LHCb)
>>
>> The Oxford GridPP Tier-2 is a medium sized site that is based in a purpose built computer centre located five miles out of town shared with the University Super Computer facilities. There is plenty of space, power and cooling capacity for future expansion. Oxford is a designated ATLAS analysis site site with 1.5 FTE of GridPP system management effort and devotes the majority of its capacity to ATLAS, however it also supports LHCb and ALICE at around a 16% share each. It has a dedicated 10Gb/s link directly from the cluster to JANET. Oxford runs the UK WLCG Nagios Availability monitoring service including managing the remotely located server at Lancaster. They provide one of two backup VOMS servers (the other is at Imperial) which provide backup to the primary service at Manchester. The site is part of the security team, storage and IPv6 groups and was one of the first to enable xrootd access, and provides an IPv6 enabled Grid User Interface and other services.
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>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Steve Lloyd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> Sent: 15 January 2014 16:39
>>> To: Duncan Rand; Mark Mitchell; Peter Gronbech; Matt Doidge
>>> Subject: Tier-2s
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Is is possible for you to give me one or two sentences about each Tier-2 site for the Draft Draft GridPP proposal. i.e X is the biggest/one of the biggest .. specialises in x, y, z, whatever. I don't need disk/cpu or manpower numbers as that will appear in a separate table.
>>> Cheers
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> + Prof Steve Lloyd Head of School +
>>> + E-mail: [log in to unmask] School of Physics and Astronomy +
>>> + Phone: +44-(0)207-882-6967 Queen Mary University of London +
>>> + Fax: +44-(0)207-882-7033 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK +
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>
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