Analysis Facility Pilot (weekly discussion)

Friday 17 Jan 2025, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

513/R-068 (CERN)

Useful information and links:

e-mail list: cern-analysis-facility@cern.ch

Overall description and useful information

Mattermost Channel

Workbook

Minutes

16:00 → 16:15 CERN Analysis Facility prototype

Speaker: Enric Tejedor Saavedra (CERN)

AF discussion - 17-1-25.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Discussion

Questions/topics for discussion

Metrics

• How do you measure how many (active) users are using the facility?
• What other user metrics do you measure? Real-time or historical time series?
• Do you only support interactive analysis? If not, how does non-interactive analysis look like?
• What KPI do you consider to define success from the point of view of AF operations?
• How do you monitor storage (XCache or other) usage and performance?

Software distribution

• How are the client software libraries made available to the users
• To what extent, and how, can users customize their software stack (e.g. versions of Coffea and dependencies)?
• To what extent do you provide support of the client software side? E.g. having one or few software distributions that are "guaranteed" to work?