PPE Web Pages• Moved PPE web pages to university

supported content management system • Staging website for development • (Should be) easy enough to add

and modify content

Content rewrite underway • New set of ATLAS pages went live earlier this year • Now working on material for LHCb, HyperK, CLIC, ILC, FCC • Need to update more general pages e.g. Seminars, Postgraduate

opportunities, Careers etc. • Discussions with school web support on best way to support dynamic

content (e.g. Member lists, News items) • Volunteers and contributions very welcome

Research DataStore

• Nominally 500 GB per user free at point of use for every researcher• Can share up to 50% of share with "group or project partners”• 60 days offline backup

Available now for testing via an SMB share Mac: Cmd-K -> smb://csce.datastore.ed.ac.uk/csce/ph/users/$UUN Linux: mount.nfs csce.datastore.ed.ac.uk:/exports/csce/ph/users/$UUNOr via scapa: /Disk/ds-sopa-personal/$UUN

Caveats• For now think of this as a data silo rather than as a dropbox-like tool• Inconsistencies in definition of researcher - may only get 5G instead of 500G

depending on your designated title • Permission management needs some work • Upcoming school meeting to determine storage space practicalities and

access mechanisms

PPE Small scale Batch System• Aim to have small-scale compute resources with faster turnaround

time than ECDF• For larger scale workloads continue to ECDF resources

• If there is enough demand for the service will scale up the number of slots

• Already some usage in the last two weeks (170 jobs) • No scheduling scheme in place – the only limit is 48 hour wallclock• Would like feedback on the best queue configuration

• e.g. Does it make sense to have a short 1 hour queue?

Data Preservation• Our old storage servers are out of warranty and the data needs to be

archived• This means any data on the following partitions: ardbeg5, basil3,

lochnagar0, speyside4, speyside7, speyside8• Note: This does not include data on /Disk/ecdf-nfs-ppe

• Computing support recommends migrating and archiving all data from these servers to avoid any possibility of data loss

• A significant proportion can (presumably) be removed without archiving (e.g ATLAS LHCb, ROOT software releases)

• Lots of data from previous staff and students

• Performed preliminary bookkeeping to the assess scale of exercise • Data from 33 staff and 16 students (current and former)• ROOT files / experiment-based data dominates usage • Oldest timestamp: Apr 18 1985 (eisenhar)

• Will send out an targeted email to users over the coming weeks to review data to be archived

Computing Support

How to contact Computing Support

Walk-in Helpdesk: Room 3205 9.30am-5pm

@ ppe-help@ph.ed.ac.uk

Computing Services Documentation https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/PandAIntranet/Computing+Services• Essentials: Common services used by most staff, students and visitors • Frequently Asked Questions• Helpdesk information • Service Alerts

Any areas of support that are not covered? Any ongoing issues that need to be followed up?