On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Christopher J. Walker
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> Stephen Burke wrote:
>>
>> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>>>
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ewan MacMahon said:
>>> the fact that if Stephen and Steve don't seem to have entirely
>>> congruent understandings of something then deploying it is
>>> likely to be messy.
>>
>> I think we have the same understanding of the situation, it's just all
>> these pesky words that can be hard to understand :)
>
> I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. AIUI, UK sites have been asked to publish
> this already. How are we supposed to get this right if there isn't a clear
> explanation of what is required? If there is, can somebody provide a link
> from the gridpp wiki please.
>
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LCG/WLCGCommonComputingReadinessChallenges/WLCG_GlueSchemaUsage-1.8.pdf
> Details of what numbers to put for a nehalem machine with 2 processors, each
> with 4 cores, and each core with 2 threads would be useful too.
>
>
It covers this case for sure. If the threads are enabled they
individually cores as
far as publishing is concerned.
>>
>>> And yes, that does mean I was depressed about this conversation
>>> before it happened; did anyone just turn something on that might be
>>> warping the space-time continuum or otherwise altering the
>>> fabric of reality?
>
> Indeed. Sysadmin time is a limited resource. We should try to use it
> efficiently.
>
>>
>> It must be the Grid, it's been having that effect on conversations since
>> it started ...
>
> :-(
>
> Chris
>
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