On 18/09/2013 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 can't answer on who might be interested, I would be but at the moment
between atlas monitoring and SL6 migration + Manchester I can't. Maybe
at a later stage if nobody picks it up. I don't understand your point
about not doing development isn't it what Andrew M. is doing with VAC
and Andrew W. is doing with many-cores architecture and atlas code?
Whether you put it as an activity or not we will all have to work on
this eventually because among the things listed it's the one most likey
to go in production sooner rather than later.
cheers
alessandra
> 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.
>
> 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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