Status of the production Status of the production and STEP09and STEP09

TF meetingTF meetingJune 4, 2009June 4, 2009

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Production statusProduction status• Great start of June – long weekends are always productive

• Running parasitically on a lot of ‘free’ resources

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Running statusRunning status

Jobs drained, change of SE

RAL

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Running statusRunning status

Jobs drained, change of SE

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IssuesIssues• The system is becoming too popular for its own good• User analysis is a very popular item

• Given the multi-million events available• The issue is with quotas

• Job and disk• Minimize the amount of users who loop over the ESDs at the same time – Analysis Train (still to become fully operational)

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User job profileUser job profile

Jobs drained, change of SE

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SE profilesSE profiles

Jobs drained, change of SE

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SE profiles (2)SE profiles (2)

Jobs drained, change of SE

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SE profiles (3)SE profiles (3)

Jobs drained, change of SE

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SE profiles (4)SE profiles (4)

Jobs drained, change of SE

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ALICE activities calendarALICE activities calendar

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RAW deletion

Replication of RAW

Reprocessing Pass 2

Analysis train

WMS and CREAM CE

Cosmics data taking

Data taking

STEP’09

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ALICE STEP’09 activitiesALICE STEP’09 activitiesReplication T0->T1Replication T0->T1

Planned together with Cosmics data taking, Planned together with Cosmics data taking, must be moved forward, ormust be moved forward, or

We can repeat the last year’s exercise, same We can repeat the last year’s exercise, same rates (~100MB/sec), same destinationsrates (~100MB/sec), same destinations

Re-processing with data recalls from tape Re-processing with data recalls from tape at T1at T1Highly desirable exercise, the data is already Highly desirable exercise, the data is already

at the T1 MSS storageat the T1 MSS storageDepending on the agreed duration, we can Depending on the agreed duration, we can

make more data available at the T1smake more data available at the T1s

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ALICE STEP’09 activities (2)ALICE STEP’09 activities (2)Non-Grid, but equally important activity – Non-Grid, but equally important activity –

transfer rate tests (up to 1.25GB/sec) transfer rate tests (up to 1.25GB/sec) DAQ@P2 to CASTORDAQ@P2 to CASTORValidation of new CASTOR and xrootd Validation of new CASTOR and xrootd

transfer protocol for RAWtransfer protocol for RAWWill go on just before or overlap with STEP’09Will go on just before or overlap with STEP’09Critically dependent on the availability of Critically dependent on the availability of

CASTOR v.2.1.8CASTOR v.2.1.8The transfer rate test will be coupled with The transfer rate test will be coupled with

first pass reco@T0first pass reco@T0