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Analysis Facility Pilot (weekly discussion)

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

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CERN Pilot Analysis Facility
Zoom Meeting ID
61085982895
Host
Markus Schulz
Alternative hosts
Ben Jones, Giovanni Guerrieri
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    • 14:00 → 14:25
      Last Week's Meetings: Summaries and Feedback 25m

      Last week several of us have participated in some meetings at CERN relevant for the AF-Pilot.
      Like the Joint Experiments Meeting:
      https://indico.cern.ch/event/1501541/
      the OTC:
      https://indico.cern.ch/event/1506690/
      Reinterpretation etc:
      https://indico.cern.ch/event/1466101/timetable/#27-current-cern-platforms-for
      ATLAS S&C:
      https://indico.cern.ch/event/1477564/

    • 14:25 → 14:45
      What have we learned from the Chicago AF? 20m

      Overview:

      • Main services offered by the AF.
      • Scale: amount resources and number of users.
      • What triggered the deployment of the AF? Were users demanding Jupyter/Dask/Scale-out etc.?
      • What has been the adoption by users? Is the usage increasing over time?
      • Do you only support interactive analysis? If not, how does non-interactive analysis look like?
      • Can the AF be used via a terminal/batch?

      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?

      • 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?

      • Number of users?

      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?



    • 14:45 → 15:05
      Status and next steps.... 20m