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GWDG and CERN CTA team - discuss potential CTA adoption

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Meeting between Prof. Ramin Yahyapour and his team from GWDG (https://www.gwdg.de/) and the CERN Tape Archive team from the IT Storage group at CERN (https://cta.web.cern.ch).

GWDG are using TSM for data archival (not backup) and are investigating options to replace TSM when their license expires (in a couple of years from now).

The meeting will take place in the following Zoom room: 94945540086. Please see accompanying e-mail for invitation link and passcode.

    • 09:00 → 09:30
      Introduction to GWDG 30m

      GWDG to present their current set up (disk and tape infrastructure, total storage capacity, data taking and retrieval workflows).

      Speakers: Bjoern Nachtwey, Christian Schwerdtfeger, Piotr Kasprzak, Prof. Ramin Yahyapour, Stefan Teusch
      2020-07-22-CTA_CERN.pdf
    • 09:30 → 10:00
      Introduction to CTA 30m

      Architecture of CTA, current CERN infrastructure, status of the CTA production instance and migration from CASTOR to CTA.

      Speaker: Michael Davis (CERN)
      ATLAS_Update.pdf
      CTA_architecture.pdf
      CTA_GWDG.pdf
      CTA_Object_Store_Status_and_Alternatives_.pdf
    • 10:00 → 11:00
      Open discussion 1h

      Open discussion of whether CTA could be a candidate to replace TSM for the GWDG use case.

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