2012 Software Review Planning Meeting: Mar. 23, 2012

Main Hall-D Software Review Page

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Agenda

• Previous Meeting (Mar. 16, 2012)
• Status of Review Organization (JLab organizers)
• Time-line for Hall-D
  • March30-April 4
    • Tight Spots & Weaknesses
    • Management Plan
  • April 23-27 - talk outlines.
  • April 30 - Written material for the review (CDR?).
  • May 14/15 - First draft of presentations for dry run.
  • May 24/25 or 29/30 - Final talks with timed presentations.
  • June7/8 Software Review at JLab.
• Cross-Hall Collaboration
  • Mini-hbook

• Organization of Hall-D preparations for Review
  • Introductory talk (preliminary sildes) with notes.
  • Software Manpower within collaboration (no change) (Mark)
  • 2012 Offline Computing Schedule (David)
  • Software Milestones/Challenges
  • Calibration/Alignment
  • Computing Resources in the Collaboration

CMU is

At CMU: These resources are split with our lattice QCD group with whom
we share operations of the cluster. All CPUs are roughly 2.4GhZ nodes and
all are under three years old at the moment.

32       dual-quad core AMD machines      ->  256 compute cores 1GB core per CPU
12       quad-eight-core AMD machines    ->   384 compute cores 2GB core per CPU
180TB of RAID storage spread across several servers
10Giga-bit backbone from the RAID servers to the switches and 2Giga-bit connections
to each compute node.


Over the next few years, we anticipate purchasing around 16 boxes of the next
generation of CPUs (quad-sixteen or thrirty-two core boxes). We also expect to
double our disk storage capability as we start to retire some of our very old few-TB
servers. 

Minutes

TBD