1. LT 2 London Tier2 Status Olivier van der Aa LT2 Team M. Aggarwal, D. Colling, A. Fage, S. George, K. Georgiou, W. Hay, P. Kyberd, A. Martin, G. Mazza, D. McBride, H. Nebrinsky, D. Rand, G. Rybkine, G. Sciacca, K. Septhon, B. Waugh

2. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Back in September there where two important issues in the LT2 All available CPU where not online: Brunel had a 128 CPU. IC-LeSC had a 400 CPU cluster running sge. All available disk was not online: QMUL had a 18 TB storage which needed to be online. Back in September

3. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status CPU: Brunel Beginning of November the Argo cluster went gradually online. –Difficulties with the setup that uses a windows pxe server. –Part of the machines had a power supply problem that needed to be fixed. We have setup a second CE for the Argo cluster. Proven to be quick to do.

4. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status CPU: IC-LeSC Integration of sge job manager with the LCG job manger –Introduced the concept of virtual queues. Sge does not have the concept of queues. It works a la condor where you give your requirements and it will allocate cpu for you Each virtual queue maps to a set of requirements Sge is flexible to make the accounting –The information system was the most difficult part and it took some time to have it stable. See the plot. Documentation http://wiki.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/LCG-on-SGEhttp://wiki.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/LCG-on-SGE

5. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Online CPU evolution Brunel IC-LeSC

6. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Online Storage SiteStorage (TB) SeptembreNOW Brunel0.44 IC8.35 QMUL018 RHUL8.8 UCL1.07 Total18.6636.66 After the upgrade of QMUL to LCG260 Alex and Guiseppe installed an DPM on their pool fs file system The pool fs is doing the work of distributing file writes to different disks. DPM is only used with one pool. Need to check how poolfs will scale with the load on the DPM SRM. Installing DPM almost doubled the storage available in the LT2

7. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status SRM in the LT2 We decided to have all sites with DPM –Size of the disk ressources –Ease of configuration But we kept an eye on dCache with the IC-HEP setup. SiteSRM installed UCL-HEP UCL-CCC IC-HEP IC-LeSC Brunel QMUL RHUL

8. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Service Challenge 4 Need to work with a tight schedule to finish the SRM installation in the LT2 by end of Jan. 50% of sites should have done 1TB transfer tests. Have started transfer test between T1 and IC-HEP. –Poor bandwidth 80 Mb/s –Attributed to one pool that was degrading the overall transfer rate. –Have now upgraded with dCache 1.6.6 but have problems with the information system not publishing the available size correctly. Will use Glasgow to make DPM-DPM transfer tests.

9. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Issues RHUL and Brunel unlikely to have a Gb connections for SC4. Need apel accounting to be installed on our sge setup. Need to see how DPM setups will behave under load. Some sites have chosen to have it installed on a NFS/poolfs file system. Upgrade with the coming 2.7.0 release –Need to have a clear schedule for the upgrade within the LT2. How can we help each other efficiently ?

10. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Conclusion Last quarter was productive for – Bringing more ressource online Increase the CPU by 49% Increase the disk by 100% –Preparing for the SC4 in terms of SRM. We need to focus more on the production quality of our setup. Need to keep up with the SC4 preparation and detailed testing of the DPM SRM –Focus on the transfer tests. 50% of sites by end of Jan

11. LT 2 Jan 11 th Jan 2006London Tier 2 Status Thanks to all of the Team M. Aggarwal, D. Colling, A. Fage, S. George, K. Georgiou, W. Hay, P. Kyberd, A. Martin, G. Mazza, D. McBride, H. Nebrinsky, D. Rand, G. Rybkine, G. Sciacca, K. Septhon, B. Waugh LT 2