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


1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date Location Title Participants Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date Location Title Participants Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
11.-14.4.11 Vilnius EGIUF 6 (UniBE, UZH, SWITCH) 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?

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
  • Improved resilience of the system by a new Nagios service, better low level HW monitoring, centralized backups
  • Started to offer an additional number of UI machines for more interactive work

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

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description Mitigation Description