US HPC Facilities Meeting

Friday 21 Jul 2017, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Central

Meeting notes:

Attendees: Doug, Rob, Paolo, Xin, Wei

Need a champaign to drive the HPC allocation @ NSF - From Rob: need ALTAS physicists to come out with a convincing use case for (NSF) HPC such as the Bluewater. MWT2 already spent manpower on it and all it need is allocations.

DOE HPCs: discussing with DOE about long term commitment - 75% of simulation on HPCs.

NERSC: Want more space. considering moving NERSC_DATADISK to global scratch instead of project GPFS space - this means ATLAS data there can't be for permanent. and need to coordinate NERSC purging and RUCIO update; Need to run deletion sooner, and get storage dump (cron job) back and running.

Using containers may help reduce load to shared file systems; Xin is helping setup a container building machine at BNL - expect daily builds and shipping out Shifter and Singularity container images (for HPCs) at a O(10^2) GB / day. 

11:00 → 11:15 Harvester

Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:15 → 11:30 OLCF Update

Speakers: Danila Oleynik (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)), Sergey Panitkin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:30 → 11:50 NERSC & ALCF

Speakers: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US)), Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Taylor's report as of 7/19

Yoda, NERSC Opr, Containers, CVMFS ...