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* New system engineer joined our team in February | * New system engineer joined our team in February | ||
* Started to offer an additional number of UI machines for more interactive work | * Started to offer an additional number of UI machines for more interactive work | ||
==== UZH ==== | |||
* Sergio Maffioletti has been formally assigned as ARC Staged Rollout manager together with Christian Ulrik Soettrup (NBI - DK) | |||
* Preparation for the ARC Early Adopters activities (included infrastructure setup) | |||
* Established contact with the Computational Chemistry Competence Center (C4) at ETH Zurich. A series of usecases has been identified. The porting to the national infrastructure will be implemented by the GC3 group. | |||
* Followup with the CompChem VO for implementing a series of usecases from user group from University of Perugia (UniPE) using the tools developed by the GC3 group. In the next quarter, a researcher from UniPE will be visiting UZH. | |||
* Contacted Earth VO group (Horst Schwichtenberg) for exploring possible followups in some solutions adopted within 'earth' VO in SMSCG | |||
===2.2. Main Achievements=== | ===2.2. Main Achievements=== | ||
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* improved resilience of the system by a new Nagios service, better low level HW monitoring, centralized backups | * improved resilience of the system by a new Nagios service, better low level HW monitoring, centralized backups | ||
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* Prepared Monitoring Host forseti.switch.ch to run with gLite and ARC tests. Need to decide on putting into operation. | |||
===2.3. Issues and mitigation=== | ===2.3. Issues and mitigation=== | ||
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| Oracle takeover of SUN affects PSI: It has been confirmed that we cannot get any more Solaris10 updates for our systems without buying maintenance contracts. || PSI will continue to run the latest free version of Solaris10. | | Oracle takeover of SUN affects PSI: It has been confirmed that we cannot get any more Solaris10 updates for our systems without buying maintenance contracts. || PSI will continue to run the latest free version of Solaris10. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:38, 22 January 2015
EGI Inspire Main page |
Inspire reports menu: | Home • | SA1 weekly Reports • | SA1 Task QR Reports • | NGI QR Reports • | NGI QR User support Reports |
Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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4 | NGI_CH | Switzerland | Andres Aeschlimann |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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11.-14.4.11 | Vilnius | EGIUF | 6 (UniBE, UZH, SWITCH), 1 booth, 2 posters | http://uf2011.egi.eu/ |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
CSCS
- Miguel Gila started on the 1st of April and replaces Peter Oettl who leaves on April 30th
PSI
- New system engineer joined our team in February
- Started to offer an additional number of UI machines for more interactive work
UZH
- Sergio Maffioletti has been formally assigned as ARC Staged Rollout manager together with Christian Ulrik Soettrup (NBI - DK)
- Preparation for the ARC Early Adopters activities (included infrastructure setup)
- Established contact with the Computational Chemistry Competence Center (C4) at ETH Zurich. A series of usecases has been identified. The porting to the national infrastructure will be implemented by the GC3 group.
- Followup with the CompChem VO for implementing a series of usecases from user group from University of Perugia (UniPE) using the tools developed by the GC3 group. In the next quarter, a researcher from UniPE will be visiting UZH.
- Contacted Earth VO group (Horst Schwichtenberg) for exploring possible followups in some solutions adopted within 'earth' VO in SMSCG
2.2. Main Achievements
CSCS
- Upgraded cluster by adding 10 Worker Nodes with 240 total cores. Increased storage capacity by 232 TB.
- GPFS introduced to replace Lustre as scratch in the future.
- Participated in staged rollout of gLite CREAM, gLite WN, gLite Torque utils and gLite Torque client for gLite 3.2
- LCG-CEs decommissioned.
- Created a new queue for high-memory ATLAS jobs.
- Migration of SUN Thumpers from Solaris to Linux.
PSI
- improved resilience of the system by a new Nagios service, better low level HW monitoring, centralized backups
SWITCH
- Prepared Monitoring Host forseti.switch.ch to run with gLite and ARC tests. Need to decide on putting into operation.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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CSCS encountered excessive usage of find, du and ls commands that slowed down the parallel filesystem. | Reported to VOs trying to minimize usage of those commands. |
Oracle takeover of SUN affects PSI: It has been confirmed that we cannot get any more Solaris10 updates for our systems without buying maintenance contracts. | PSI will continue to run the latest free version of Solaris10. |
At the moment the international CompChem community seems to be rather disjointed. | --- |