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:
>
> 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.
>
>
>>
>> -----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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