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Workshop on Computing for Neutrino Experiments - Summary

Workshop on Computing for Neutrino Experiments - Summary. April 24, 2009 Lee Lueking, Heidi Schellman NOvA Collaboration Meeting. Overview. Purpose: bring present and future neutrino experiments at Fermilab together to share information on infrastructure and offline computing.

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Workshop on Computing for Neutrino Experiments - Summary

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  1. Workshop on Computing for Neutrino Experiments - Summary April 24, 2009 Lee Lueking, Heidi Schellman NOvA Collaboration Meeting

  2. Overview • Purpose: bring present and future neutrino experiments at Fermilab together to share information on infrastructure and offline computing. • Format: reports from experiments interleaved with overviews of specific topics by experts from the Computing Division. Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  3. Participants • The experiments: Minos, MiniBooNE, SciBooNE, MINERvA, NOvA, Argoneut, MicroBooNE, Mu  e, and DUSEL (and a guest from Daya Bay). • CD services providers: SAM (file catalog), Networking, Mass storage, Central disk storage, Experiment Facilities, Central Facilities, Grid and Databases. Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  4. Significant Issues List [1/2] • Concern over support for tools like SoftRelTools and UPS/UPD. Are there alternatives? • CD supported database technologies • Lead times for procuring and commissioning hardware like CPU, disk storage, … • Service Levels: CD always provides 9-5 x 5, but for special circumstances can provide extended service levels to 9-5 x 7, or 24/7. • Shared analysis cluster for all Neutrino groups: • Batch system • Environment setups • Resource partitioning Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  5. Significant Issues List [2/2] • Support for desktop cluster machines • Small file (<~1GB) archiving to Enstore tape needs some form of concatenating and/or gzip’ing • SAM data file catalog: Sharing backend DB. Features needed by various groups. • Sharing database services by all Neutrino groups (calibration, construction, … ) . • The relative use of dCache vs. BlueArc storage • Common neutrino CVS repository in which shared code Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  6. Resource Schedule (first guess) Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  7. Resource Schedule (first guess) • Software development and support for Simulations, common software tools. • Data handling and processing • Detector operations and common tools for monitoring, etc. • User and Operational support Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

  8. Conclusions and Plans • Mailing list “nucomp” for communication • working group to meet monthly or bi-weekly. Reps from Exp’s + CD. • collect requirements • coordinate common services • prepare for collective hardware purchases • mitigate resource contention issues • monitor resource usage trends • plan for future needs. • Future workshop in March 2010 to get a broad view of progress and needs. Computing/Neutrino WS Summary

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