GSI-Computing Users Meeting

Europe/Berlin
Christopher Huhn (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH), Kilian Schwarz (GSI Ges. für Schwerionenforschung mbH)
Beschreibung
Regular meeting of IT and researchers to discuss the GSI computing environment (batchfarm, Lustre filesystem etc.): 1) problems and possible improvements will be discussed. 2. IT as well as the experiments inform about their planning for the next weeks. Each interested Party should send at least one representative to participate in the technical discussions about the current and future state of GSIs computing environment.
Minutes
    • 14:00 14:50
      agenda 50m
      • Planning for the shutdown of the LSF farm 5m
      • Action Items Status 15m
        New action items: * Implement Projects on Prometheus (BN, VP) * Patch for the GridEngine master to fix crashes (BN, VP) * MPI jobs never scheduled outside the default queue? - needs more investigation (CP, TN, BN, VP) * Tweak the minimal job submission interval (BN, VP) * Cleanup of jobs that are not scheduled during a given interval (HPC) * Status of Hera/gStore connection? (Horst Göhringer, Thomas Roth * Investigate the possibilities for a backup of the CVMFS servers (HPC) * Environment variables that indicate to which cluster a worker node belongs to (HPC) Other open action items: * Upgrade of interactive ALICE nodes lxir35-38 to Squeeze (16.01.12: JT) * Upgrade of PANDA and CBM Storage Elements from Etch to Squeeze (16.01.12: KS) * CVMFS on Squeeze desktops (06.02.12: JT, IT) * Farm-wide availability of Modules (06.02.12: JT, IT) * Funding for new hardware, e.g. CVMFS server (05.03.12: VP, WS, CH)
      • Plans for the next weeks 15m
        Sprecher: Experiments and IT (GSI)
      • Date for next meeting 15m
    • 14:50 15:00
      AOB 10m