Meeting with STFC - discuss CTA potential adoption

Thursday 3 Oct 2019, 14:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

31/S-027 (CERN)

CTA Evaluation.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 STFC Use Cases

CASTOR status and configuration, usage stats, growth rates, needs, etc

Speakers: Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Alison Packer (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

CTAEvaluation20191003.pdf

Tier1TapeRobot20190923.pdf

14:30 → 14:50 EOSCTA Architecture and Functionality

EOSCTA architecture and functionality
- commonalities and differences with CASTOR from user and operator perspective (file access, lifecycle, protocols, workflows, library support)
- current status and plans

Speaker: Eric Cano (CERN)

CTA architecture.pdf

CTA Object Store Status and Alternatives .pdf

CTA Object Store Status and Alternatives .pptx

14:50 → 15:10 CTA DB and tape library support

Status of the different DB back-ends for CTA and the status of CTA's support for tape libraries

Speaker: Steven Murray (CERN)

CTADatabaseSTFC03102019.pdf

CTATapeLibrarySupportSTFC03102019.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 CTA deployment status at CERN

Including HW setup, node allocations, automation/configuration/provisioning procedures, etc

Speaker: Julien Leduc (CERN)

CTA deployment status at CERN

15:30 → 15:50 CASTOR->CTA migration

How will we migrate from CASTOR to CTA? Required analysis and cleanups, migration scripts, performance, limitations etc.

Speaker: Michael Davis (CERN)

Migration_RAL.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 EOS: installation and operation

High-level overview on EOS installation and operation

Speaker: Luca Mascetti (CERN)

EOS 101 - RAL.pdf