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Quarterly Report Number	NGI Name	Partner Name	Author
3	NGI_CH	Switzerland	Andres Aeschlimann

1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:

please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended
for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. Otherwise put: “-“
include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda
provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.
- If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu.

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1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
30.11.10	Bern	Swiss Grid Day	about 50	http://www.swing-grid.ch/event/242148-swiss-grid-day-2010
13.1.10	Bern	AAA Infoday	total ~100, Grid ~20	http://www.switch.ch/aaa/events/aaa-info-day-2011/

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
22.-24.11.10	Prague	EMI all hands meeting	3 from NGI_CH	Work on Argus

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

PSI has been able to hire an additional system administrator with main responsibility for the PSI T3. Start of work: Feb 1st 2011

2.2. Main Achievements

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description

Mitigation Description

PSI: Some insecurity due to takeover of SUN by Oracle. Our Storage is based on Sun X4500/X4540 and Solaris as dcache pool servers. The newest machines we bought in December, they now have been taken already out of the program by Oracle. Solaris updates seemingly can now only be gotten via a support contract. All of this forces us to reconsider the architecture this year. As queuing system we use SGE where the future with Oracle also is unclear.

Following up development of forked product for SGE. Investigating new storage infrastructure for expansion. Maybe freezing Solaris OS on present architecture and run it as long as we use these machines. Also need to study support costs.

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