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---+ Computing Topics

Intended to list the internal task list and make sure that the priorities are agreed.

---++ Necessary - ASAP
   * Memory review/purchase -- How much memory the HT capable nodes need. Aim for 3 GB per core. 2 would be ok too.
   * 2014 Deployment plan -- power / placement 
      * Get quotes for Nodes/Disks. Compare 6378 with 6382 SE
      * Before finalizing it would be nice to have
   * Monitoring review - test SMS alerts and fine-tune priorities of alerts and where they go
   * PhEDEx migration to better hardware - will support thousands of parallel transfers instead of hundreds.

---++ Necessary - Long term

   * Write CMSSW benchmark suite that could be ran by Condor/CRAB jobs. Compare performance of whole-node to 1 core. 
      * Bonus feature - Have CouchDB centralizing jobs outputs. We would know how much EV/s each CPU could do. Automated systems such as WMAgent could use this information.
   * Not so long term -- Figure out the HEP Cluster usage.

---++ Enhancement

   * Start a Cloud site with the $500 Google Cloud promotion. Needs quite some testing. Setting up a minimalistic site would be fast though. Might have problems in the Middleware.
   * CRAB submitting to the T2 through HTCondor CE.
   * T3 Storage - CEPH commissioning, start testing with WN storage.
   * Try registering T3-Higgs as T3_US_Caltech and mimic the T2 activities. Could observe how a "CEPH site" would behave. 
      * In principle no mistery, if file reading by jobs and GridFTP works. Already tested ROOT access. Works better than Hadoop (support merging natively)
   * CEPH Validation checklist
      * Works with all ROOT operations - opening, merging and updating file -- doesn't work in HDFS, works in CEPH
      * Running CMSSW jobs -- test stage-out
      * GridFTP transfers
      * Checksum calculation for standard Linux tools
      * Test Caching policy and functionality -- Cache node disks have to serve as a RAID0.
      * Partial replication -- less than factor of 2 usable space.
-- Main.samir - 2014-07-10

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Topic revision: r3 - 2014-07-24 - samir

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