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:

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

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
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> +  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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