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2 SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES QUESTIONNAIRE
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4 Name of Respondent: David Martin
5 Job Title: ScotGrid Systems Administrator
6 Email address: d.martin@physics.gla.ac.uk
7 Telephone number:
8 Department: Physics and Astronomy
9 University: University of Glasgow
10 Date: 29th January 2007
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17 CURRENT RESOURCES
How many working nodes are currently available for There are 140 batch execution nodes with 2 x dual
18 1 ScotGrid? core AMD Opterons = 560 cpu cores
Are Nodes solely for ScotGrid use or owned/used
resources by a given faculty with restricted access ScotGRID-Glasgow hardware is for the exclusive use
19 2 to ScotGrid? by ScotGRID-Glasgow
20 3 What percentage would be available for ScotGrid? 100%
Are Nodes networked PCs, worker/headnodes as
part of a cluster, SMP resources, visualisation
21 4 servers, etc? All nodes are rack mounted
model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm)
22 5 What are the Node CPU speeds? Processor 280 cpu MHz : 2393.214
23 6 What is the associated Node memory? 2G per cpu core
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24 7 What is the associated Node disk storage? 80.0 GB
What is the Network storage? (please give number
25 8 of devices AND storage capacity) Approx 10 servers with 10 TB each
A little NFS is planned to a subset of storage, The
major access for Particle Physics will be RFIO which
gives a Posix like access. Indeed with the use of
LD_PRELOAD it is all but real Posix (but do not know
what the performance is like in this mode, man ld.so)
The concept is streaming mode - optimised for
How is this storage accessed by users' jobs? (eg: accessing sequentially. The SAN access hasn't
26 9 NFS, Lustre, SAN etc) materialised.
What is the network connectivity between nodes?
27 10 (speed AND type, eg: Gb, CAT5e, InfiniBand) 1 x 1000baseT per Worker Node - no special topology
Do you currently allow inbound network access to
28 11 your worker nodes? (eg: none / limited / full) None
Do you currently allow outbound network access Full - subject to some some special firewalling wrt
29 12 from your worker nodes? (eg: full / limited / none) campus addresses
Do you have a network diagram for the available
30 13 hardware? If so, please attach.
How are the Nodes cluster-managed? (eg: Cfengine,
other kind of configuration management software, or homebrew plus cfengine - ClusterVisionOS present
31 14 is this done manually) but little used
Who defines access/usage policies for these
resources? Please provide email address/contact
32 15 details. Prof. Tony Doyle et al.
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Once completed, please email Questionnaire to: access hasn't materialised
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2 SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES QUESTIONNAIRE
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9 University:
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What operating systems are used on the available
18 1 hardware? (eg: Linux, other Unix, Windows, mixed)
If Linux is used, please give distribution (eg: RedHat
19 2 Enterprise 4)
20 3 Are the systems currently used batch or interactive?
If batch, what access method is used and what batch
21 4 system? (eg: SSH, PBS)
Do you currently use middleware - if so - which
22 5 middleware?
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23 6 Do you use portals? If so, for which applications?
What applications are most needed by users at your
24 7 site? (eg: Blast, MatLab, gcc, perl) Please list.
What databases do you use? (eg: Oracle, MySQL,
25 8 PostgreSQL)
Are there any known restrictions on the kinds of
application that can be run on these resources? (eg:
26 9 licence, security requirements)
Which communities have expressed an interest in
27 10 enabling their Grid applications?
If so, what specific data resources and/or web
28 11 services have been requested?
Is there a Registration Authority (RA) at your
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If so, who are the Registration Authority contacts?
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Are there other certificate issuing mechanisms in
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SFC have indicated that hardware costs be met
internally by the Institutes. In this context and to
enable a sustainable approach to future hardware
funding, could you indicate your University's
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What hardware purchases are envisaged for the next
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Has your Institution decided on an approach to the
funding of campus level computing facilities in the
19 2 context of Full Economic Costing?
If the answer to (2) is STILL UNDER DISCUSSION,
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If the answer to (2) is STILL UNDER DISCUSSION,
what are the obstacles presently standing in the way
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If the answer to (2) is YES, which model of fEC
funding have you adopted in order to recover costs
22 5 from the Research Councils?
What is the timescale for introducing your preferred
23 6 funding model?
To what extent do you think your chosen model will
24 7 permit you to recover all costs?
25 8 What are the barriers to achieving this?
What, if any, interim arrangements will you provide
to ease the transition from today's situation (where
presumably users pay no charge/token charge that is
not reflective of real costs) to the full recovery of all
26 9 costs from projects making use of the facilities?
If your preferred model of funding involves a
substantial amount of cost recovery through the
'indirect' mechanism, how does your Institution
assign priorities to ensure that adequate levels of
indirectly recovered monies are assigned to the
maintenance of computing facilities? Is this
guaranteed in some way, or subject for example, to
an annual round of bidding or budgetary
27 10 negotiation?
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The Major Research Facility model requires the
institution to calculate the cost of a 'unit of use'
based on the premise of 'reasonably efficient
utilisation which is normal for the sector' (ie:
campus computing in Higher Education). What do
you consider a reasonably efficient utilisation rate to
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1 SCOTGRID PROJECT
2 SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES QUESTIONNAIRE
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4 Name of Respondent:
5 Job Title:
6 Email address:
7 Telephone number:
8 Department:
9 University:
10 Date:
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15 Software, skills and services
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19 1 What software is used for your research?
20 ~ software:
21 ~ associated libraries:
22 ~ associated databases:
23 ~ compilers:
What licences are required (if any) AND what are the
24 2 constraints? (eg: site licence)
25 3 Is the software run interactively or via batch?
26 4 Are jobs run singly or in parallel?
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27 5 What are the system requirements of a typical job?
28 ~ CPU time:
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30 ~ disk space:
31 6 Are jobs typically CPU bound or i/o bound?
How is the software accessed? (eg: via a portal or
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