1. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.991 PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov. 99 - New Hardware - N.Hayashi / RIKEN November 10, 1999 PHENIX Computing Meeting @BNL

2. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.992 CC-J Development & Construction in Wako Hardware & system software –T. Ichihara- manager, network –Y. Watanabe- HPSS, data duplication facility –N. Hayashi- network, linux, job control –S. Sawada (KEK)- PBS –S. Yokkaichi(Kyoto)- monitor –H. Hamagaki (CNS, Tokyo)- AFS Simulation & offline software (at BNL) –H.I. K. Shigaki (KEK), S. Nishimura (CNS, Tokyo), A. Kiyomichi (Tsukuba) –spin A. Taketani, Y. Mao, YG, H. Sato (Kyoto)

3. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.993 New Hardware arrived 3rd & 4th Alta Clusters –RH5.2 preinstalled: not 6.0 –3rd and 4th: Dual Pentium III 600 MHz x 16 nodes –1st and 2nd: Dual Pentium II 450 MHz x 16 nodes –Total … 1360 SPECint95 –Enough capacity of UPS to serve two more boxes 1.6 Tela Bytes RAID disk 2nd Sun E450 as a new NFS server –4 CPU model Located on RIKEN main building 2nd floor

4. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.994 CCJSUN and CCJNFS0

5. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.995 Sun and Disk 1.6 TB RAID 288 GB RAID ccjsun (gateway) ccjnfs0 (NFS server) UPS for Sun and disk

6. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.996 Alta Clusters 1st 2nd 4th 3rd UPS for Alta Cluster

7. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.997 Alta Cluster Controller & Gbit AltaCluster Controller Gbit Switch Gbit Hub

8. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.998 1.6 Tela Disk RAID Level 5 800 GB x 2 partitions –Solaris 2.6 support up to 1 TB –Solaris 7 (64 bit OS) is too fragile VxFS –Veritas File System –fsck free!

9. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.999 http://ccjsun.riken.go.jp/ccj/Wako-Sys /

10. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.9910 Schedule Installation (disk reconfiguration etc.) almost done Needs stress test: new-MDC? HPSS stops definitely on Dec. 10, 1999 –Due to moving of HPSS stuff to new building –Alta Cluster can operated without HPSS HPSS restarts on Jan 5, 2000 –could be restarted in Dec. 27, but a week-long new year holidays follows. HPSS final readiness review begins on Feb., 2000 Another moving (Linux PCs) around April?

11. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.9911 Schedule (cont’) We are still “pre Test Operation” period now Test Operation starts Feb? Official Open on Spring. April?

12. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.9912 New Data Challenge at CC-J? MDC3? VRDC? Our stress test can be combined with a part of PRDF production for VRDC Need PWG inputs –How many events? What kinds? required CPU & Disk? Sharing tasks both RCF (rcas & rcrs) and CC-J? Setup Environment –PISA99 and its PRDF writing routine –Automated scripts, monitoring tools, …., DB? Data transfer PRDF to RCF? Mostly Tape? Required man power?

13. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.9913 Memo from Yuji & Shin’ya PISA99 preparation –should be available by the end of this week. –will be installed from the beginning of the next week. –should be installed by the mid next week. Input data/file –should be available by the mid next week. –should be prepared by Charlie and each PWG. –note: Requests from PWGs should be informed to CC-J by the mid next week. Job scripts –are modified from those used for MDC2 by CC-J-WG. Events –will be generated during Nov 22 - Dec 5 (two weeks). –assumptions and rough estimations: –available number of CPUs = 60 –for Au-Au CPU time 1 ksec/event data size 10 MB/event 50k events => 10 days, 500 GB –for p-p CPU time 10 sec/event data size 50 kB/event (after compression) 5M events => 10 days, 250 GB Data transfer –will be by magnetic tapes. (1TB = 50GB/tape x 20tapes) –note: Temporally dosk storage at RCF is needed.

14. November 10, 1999PHENIX CC-J Updates in Nov.9914 Summary New hardware, Linux PC, Sun, Disk, delivered and installed They are waiting for stress test Possibility to combine this stress test and VRDC (MDC3?) HPSS unavailable Dec.11 to Jan.5