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- Budget and PPA status
- there is an ongoing review of the computing in HEP. Timeline: a report should be ready in December.
The charge is to assess what is going on in the field and where the money is going.
The 10% (people+hardware: 75M$) of HEP budget goes into computing resources.
Solutions need to be found in order reduce the amount of funds that go into HEP computing.- Are common projects an option in our Collaborations based world?
- there is an ongoing review of the computing in HEP. Timeline: a report should be ready in December.
- SLAC networking to NERSC (Tony)
- Very close to hit the ceiling in the 100GBit between SLAC and NERSC.
A dedicated NERSC network connection from SLAC?
Need to make a proposal.
- Very close to hit the ceiling in the 100GBit between SLAC and NERSC.
- LSF and MPI.
- Better aggregation of single slot jobs on the same hosts, Is it ok for jobs with high I/O rates ?
Also a wall time limit will be enforced. What about the CPUF ?
- Better aggregation of single slot jobs on the same hosts, Is it ok for jobs with high I/O rates ?
- Conferences
- SuperComputing2013
- CHEP 2013 + DPHEP
- Virtualization + C++ 11 standard
- DPHEP common projects
- From previous meeting
- Status of hardware purchases (PPA-ATLAS-Theory , Fermi)
- Policy Task Force
- SRCF update
- Migration from RHEL5 to RHEL6
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