LaTech IAC Site Report

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LaTech IAC Site Report

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History in the days of D0RACE, established one
of our Linux nodes as a Monte Carlo Production
Farm server

• first purchased and installed a 120GB computer
  disk on the node (caps10) for Monte Carlo
  operations and to serve as a local SAM cache
• during June -July, 2002 installed and made
  operational the McFarm software package developed
  at UT-Arlington (UTA)
• Key to the success of this endeavor was the work
  of our student system manager, Michael Wallis,
  and personnel at UTA

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Personnel Using LaTech IAC (CAPS) Linux Cluster

• CAPS
• D0 Group
• Lee Sawyer, Dick Greenwood (IAC Rep.), Neeti
  Parashar, Sudhir Malek, Joe Steele
• Jefferson Lab Group (G0, Qweak Experiments)
• Kathleen Johnston, Neven Simicevic, Steve Wells,
  Tony Forest
• CEnIT
• Box Leangsuksan, LaTech CS

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Expansion

• We have the potential at LaTech to greatly expand
  our analysis capabilities. One possibility link
  with another existing Linux network in our
  College CEnIT and NH
• CAPS has spent about 10k on the beginning of a
  rack system a rack with power and cooling and 2
  dual processor CPU's.

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New Rack System Details

• 42 U high rack with cooling on top
• Two dual-cpu p4 Xeon nodes
• Each node has 2G Ram with 120G dedicated storage
  capacity
• Gigabit switch
• More nodes coming in the future

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Manpower

• This work requires significant manpower.
  Presently done by ZDG, Michael Bryant, and, on
  Linux technical issues, Tony Forest. More
  manpower is required.
• Award of D0E-Epscor LaTech-Fermilab Partnership
  grant.
• Joe Steele full time Postdoc commencing June 1
• (part-time from April 1 to June)
• Another source of new manpower is the
  collaboration with other disciplines in our
  College, particularly CS.
• Dr. Box Leangsuksun, an Associate Professor in
  CS, and his students are now working with us.
  Professor Leangsuksan is an expert in grid
  technology, so his association is a great
  development.

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Presently

• have installed and maintained on our Linux
  computer cluster the current production versions
  of the D0RunII software
• established one of our Linux nodes as an
  operational SAM Station
• Globus 2.4 installed
• Condor 6.4.7 installed as batch system
• MC Farm setup complete
• Ganglia installed for online, real time
  monitoring of resources
• graphical display (McFarmGraph) accessible for
  updated MC job status display

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Since our last meeting

• Got DoEGrid User and Host certificates for CAPS10
• Installed D0RunII p15.06.01 and p16.01.00
• Running request 12203 (100,000 events)
• 137 jobs completed
• 63 jobs remaining
• Made preparations for SAMgrid exercise

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Next Steps

• Exercise the farm and analysis packages
• Purchase two 1U units for rack (a Dual Pentium
  XEON 2.4GHz)
• Hoping for award of NSF ITR grant (Phantom) to
  support a Postdoc and graduate students for 3
  yrs.