1. Location: BU Center for Computational Science facility, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Street. http://atlas000.bu.edu/NETier2/wiki/index.php/Main_Page NETier2 main page Our users: ~75% Panda production team ~25% About 20 sporadically active, mostly local, mostly muon-related ATLAS users Very little General OSG use Northeast Tier 2 Center, Status August, 2006 Contacts: Jim Shank (shank@bu.edu), Saul Youssef (youssef@bu.edu)shank@bu.eduyoussef@bu.edu

2. atlas000.bu.edu atlas001.bu.eduatlas002.bu.edu atlas003.bu.edu wiki, web, misc. DQ2 (Panda dev./server) (Network mon.) 56 Xeon 8T RAID 56 core AMD opteron IBM blade center 2 x ASA File server SL-3 OSG 0.4.1 Ganglia PBS DRM am-BU data1/ data2/ data3/ data4/ Software 1GigE to campus core network gatekeeper file server dual Xeon

4. BU MIT Harvard NYC NoX Metro Ring,7.4 miles, 144 fibers UMASS Tufts OC48 Northeastern

5. Issues for us: 1.It would be great to know ahead of a CPU purchase if production is going to run on it without problems. 2.What are the hardware implications of NewNet speed networking? 3.Allocation controls via user name & PBS are crude. 4.We lost our hypernews forum at BNL due to spammers.