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Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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QR 11 | NG-CH | Switzerland | Sigve Haug |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
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1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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2012-11-19 | Bern | SDCD 2012: Supporting Science with Cloud Computing | 90 | http://www.swing-grid.ch/event/1057179-sdcd-2012-supporting-science-with-cloud |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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2013-01-28 | Amsterdam | EGI Workshop | 1 | S. Haug attended Workshop, PMB, Council |
2012-12-3-4 | LAL Orsay | DPM Community Workshop | 1 (G Sciacca) | http://indico.cern.ch/event/2nd-dpm-community-workshop |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
Smooth operation. Software and hardware upgrades.
2.2. Main Achievements
CSCS upgraded dCache SE from 1.9.5 to 1.9.12. CSCS nnstalled new storage to replace the one lent by CSCS in QR10. 6 New IO servers with 6 IBM DCS 3700 enclosures for a grand total of aprox. 850 TB. Installed with latest SL 6.3. CSCS installed new 2 KVM virtualization hosts to replace aging Sun hardware. CSCS Configured CMS xrootd redirector
UNIBE BDII-site from glite-BDII_site-3.2.11-1.sl5 (glite 3.2) to emi-bdii-site-1.0.0-1.sl5 (EMI-2) UNIBE DPM head from glite glite-SE_dpm_mysql.x86_64 1:1.8.0-1.sl5 (glite 3.2) to emi-dpm_mysql.x86_64 0:1.8.4-1.el5 (EMI-2) UNIBE ARC CE from nordugrid-arc-compute-element.noarch 1.0.1-1.el5 (nordugrid 1.1.0) to 2.0.1-1.el5 (EMI-2)
UNIGE Upgrade of the site BDII to the EMI2 release in December. New site BDII installed in a virtual machine. UNIGE Addition of 8 new worker nodes, each with 32 CPU cores and 96 GB of RAM, to the system. Old machines representing 48 cores were retired the same time. UNIGE Upgrade of the DPM SE head node to the EMI 2 release in January. New head node installed in a virtual machine. The mysql database of the SE is on a separate physical machine.
PSI migration of dcache namespace from PNFS to Chimera in December, also postgres DB upgrade to 8.4. PSI dcache main services migrated to SL6 OS (for Linux hosts) and deployed on virtual machines. PSI dCache upgrade to 1.9.12 in January, including postgres upgrade to 9.2. PSI recycling of a number of old HW as UIs.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
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