Minutes of the storage EVO meeting 01 Dec 2010 Attending: Glasgow: Sam, David Edinburgh: Wahid Manchester: Alessandra Lancaster: Matt Bristol: Winnie Sussex: Jeremy (attempted) Liverpool: Stephen, John Oxford: Pete QMUL: Chris RAL T1: Brian, James, Jens (chair+mins) 0. Review of actions - below see 1. Final feedback from the NGS IF Main discussion points (with non-empty intersect to storage or data management) were: * CVMFS considered interesting * NGS projects building on cloud and/or iRODS * Interactions between the GridPP site and NGS site with the same name (eg GridPP site as affiliated/partner, or separate sites) Distinction between partner and affiliated - partners have more commitments in terms of sofwtare stack etc - distinction is not so relevant any more. GridPP sites do not always have the required software, but Glasgow have run jobs. 2. Lustre Jeremy's Mac exploded into pieces of putrid debris (POPD), or maybe EVO blew it up, so Jeremy didn't manage to connect for long enough to tell us much - but he will try again next week. We believe Oracle don't want Lustre to fork, in which case they should keep supporting it. There are two Lustre consortia, one for the states with expensive membership requirements (by our usual academic pauper standards), and another one for Europe. Support from ALCES. Dell also working with Edinburgh; server on loan to install DPM. Also a 90TB disk server at Cambridge, but then bandwidth may become the problem. 3. AOB ACTIONS 401 02/06/2010 Clean up the wiki ALL Low Open 416 10/11/2010 Report on Areca problems Sam Med Open 417 24/11/2010 Send GridPP25 input to Jens Sam High Open 418 24/11/2010 Check space token changes for 2010 with ATLAS Brian High Open [09:54:37] Brian Davies afk [09:58:46] David Crooks joined [09:59:18] John Bland joined [09:59:26] Matthew Doidge joined [09:59:43] Pete Gronbech joined [10:00:43] Wahid Bhimji wow - you must have a lot of stuff [10:00:48] James Thorne joined [10:02:19] Stephen Jones joined [10:02:48] Winnie Lacesso joined [10:08:50] Christopher Walker joined [10:09:24] Christopher Walker Morning [10:13:18] Jeremy Maris joined [10:16:06] Pete Gronbech who is typing? [10:16:36] Wahid Bhimji sorry that was me [10:16:45] Wahid Bhimji didn't realise I was unmuted. [10:16:55] Wahid Bhimji we should move on this is a tangent [10:17:20] James Thorne left [10:21:57] Wahid Bhimji compute . are we talking storage here [10:39:03] John Bland pete: we have 6x bonded links on a system here. seems to work ok. [10:40:20] David Crooks left [10:40:23] John Bland left [10:40:24] Winnie Lacesso left [10:40:25] Matthew Doidge left [10:40:26] Sam Skipsey left [10:40:27] Pete Gronbech left [10:40:29] Brian Davies left [10:40:30] Wahid Bhimji left [10:40:39] Stephen Jones left