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15.12.2004  Presentations of the computing models of the 4 LHC experiments in the GDB (agenda)
   
01.12.2004  Presentation on tape storage (performance+costs) in a Phase 2 meeting (talk)
   
22.11.2004  22-23. Nov.   LHCC Comprehensive review ( agendafabric talk)
   
09.11.2004  PEB presentation on the resource situation for 2005 at CERN (talk)
   
02.11.2004

 LCG worksop on Operational Issues  (agenda)

   
18.10.2004

18-22 October , HEPIX meeting and Workshop on 'Platforms for Physics in Brookhaven (Agenda and Talks)

 

 

27.09.2004

27September-01.October  CHEP 2004 Interlaken (Agenda and Talks)

   
24.05.2004 24-28 May,  HEPIX meeting in Edinburgh (Agenda and talks)
   
14.05.2004 C5 presentations about R&D activities in the ADC group                                        
  1.   investigation of USB/Firewire disks  (.ppt)
2.   test results from Infiniband  (pdf)
3.   optimization of IDE disk servers (kernel, filesystems,etc.)  (pdf)
 
27.04.2004 openlab thematic workshop on security  (Agenda and talks)
   
24.11.2003 Fabric presentation to the LHCC review  (.ppt)
   
18.11.2003 Fabric presentations to the internal LCG review
  1.    fabric overview              (.ppt)
  2.    cluster filesystems       (.ppt)
  3.    open source software   (.ppt)
  4.    fabric infrastructure       (.ppt)
  5.    fabric-grid interfaces     (.ppt)
   
12.11.2004 openlab thematic workshop on TCO (Agenda and talks)
   
12.09.2003  Fabric status presentation to the SC2  (.ppt)
   
24.06.2003 LCG Seminar on the re-costing exercise for Phase 2 (.ppt)
   
12.05.2003 Computing Infrastructure and Technology (.ppt) and Data Challenges (.ppt)
Academic Training Lecture
12.03.2003 Fabric area status report to the SC2 (.ppt)
Results from the IT-ALICE Data Challenge IV (.ppt)
10.12.2002 Fabric Area presentation to the SC2 (.ppt)
14.10.2002 Presentation at the Large Cluster Workshop in Fermilab
about the CERN Architecture (.ppt)

 

 

Documentation

 

General

Overview of the Computing Fabric

Quarterly reports and general LCG documentation

Risk analysis

Technology evaluation report  PASTA

Cost Estimates for the Construction and Operation of the Tier 0+1 Facility at CERN in Phase 2 of the LCG Project - 2006-08

Re-costing tables (2003)

Re-costing technical explanation note

New price extrapolation note (August 2004)

Preliminary cost extrapolations for the CERN T0 center (September 2004)

Tape sizing and performance figures ( February 2005 )

External audit document 1

External audit document 2

Status of LCG Computing Resources

CMS-IT  Data Streaming project

Note on data rate predictions

General talk on physics and computing (October 2004)

General talk on IT computing (September 2005)

General talk on storage from IBM (slides) (September 2004)

Computing models of the 4 LHC experiments (December 2004)                                 ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb

Draft paper on architecture and technology for phase II (January 2005)

Central Data Recording and the T0, status and issues  (September 2005)

PC memory and PC cost evolution (September 2005)

Infrastructure

Overview Network 

WAN challenges  (paper, slides)  (September 2004)         

Overview Monitoring and Fault Tolerance                          web page

General monitoring display   (October 2004)                       web page

Lxbatch cluster accounting figures  (October 2004)             web page

Overview Installation and Configuration                             web page

Status and overview of the ELFms system (paper, slides) (September 2004)

Overview Electricity and Cooling                                        web page

Overview Purchasing procedures

PC Power Consumption

Overview console management

Procurement planning (September 2005)

 

Services

Overview Batch Scheduling System                                   web page

Overview Linux at CERN                                                      web page

Overview Cluster filesystems                                                web page

Hierachical Storage Management, CASTOR                         web page

Status report of the new CASTOR development (October 2004)

Detailed description of the new CASTOR system (paper slides) (September 2004)

Status data management service (slides(September 2004)

Disk server hardware overview  (slides) (September 2004)

 

Monitoring

CASTOR monitoring                                           web page

LSF batch system monitoring                             web page

Cluster farm  monitoring                                    web page

AFS server monitoring                                       web page     

DATATAG network monitoring                           web page

Service DC network monitoring                         web page

Failure rate monitoring                                      web page

Service incidents monitoring                              web page

External network monitoring                              web page

 

Pictures and Diagrams

View of the different areas in the Fabric

Cluster layout diagram

General data flow diagram

Building blocks of the Fabric

Today's and Tomorrow's network topology

The LHC Tier model

Refurbishment of the vault and building 513

Refurbishment of the computer center, picture gallery (October 2004)

Layout of the high throughput/openlab cluster  (October 2004)

 

 
 
 
 
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