IN2P3 Computing Center

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IN2P3Computing Center

• Outline
• CC-in2p3 in a nutshell
• Computing,
• storage
• Network,
• other services
• Grids and Openings

HEPCCC 27 june 2003

• Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
• 27, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918
• 69622 VILLEURBANNE
• France
• Téléphone 33 4 78 93 08 80
• Télécopie 33 4 72 69 41 70
• http//webcc.in2p3.fr
• http//annuaire.in2p3.fr

http//www.cnrs.fr http//www.in2p3.fr
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in a nutshell
IT resource and service centre common
to IN2P3-CNRS DSM-CEA
50 people (40 IT engineers)
National 18 HEP labs, 40 experiments, 2500
users
0,5 PBytes Data Bases, Hierarchical
storage
National opening to biology and IT
Grids know-how, culture dissemination
International Tier-1 / Tier-A status
 1000 cpu's (500k SI2K or 1.5 THz)  60 TB
permanent disk
Budget 6-7 M /an Plus 2 M salaries
Network QoS.many custom services "à la carte"
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Computing Service
Shared resources you use 80 of peak power 100
of the time. You buy average resources, not peak.
For LCG data challenges, you squeeze the other
users for a while Platforms Linux, Solaris,
AIX a few versions each
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Computing service
45 groups most large HEP and NP experiments are
users, 40 astroparticle, 10 bio, users and
groups growing.
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Computing service
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Storage services disk and tapes

• HPSS
• 200 ? 600 TB this year, 250 in march, now 300.
• HPSS between cache disk, 20GB tapes and 200GB
  tapes
• purchased for Babar but now used by most
  experiments
• Babar Objectivity 130 TB and 25 TB cache disk,
  others 120 TB and 4.4TB
• 35 STK 9840 (20GB tapes, fast mount) and 12?25
  STK 9940 (200GB tapes, slower mount, higher I/O),
  mostly used by hpss
• Accessed by RFIO. Installed capacity on tape 700
  TB
• Up to 8-10 TB/day
• Originally, mainly rfcp. Supports files larger
  than 2GB
• Direct HPSS access from network through BBFTP

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Storage services disk and tapes

• Shared disk capacity 60 TB semi-permanent
  storage, AFS, NFS, tape cache, Objectivity,
  Oracle, TSM, local, HPSS, etc..
• Semi-permanent storage
• Suited for small files(which deteriorate HPSS
  performances)
• Access with NFS or RFIO API
• Back-up possible for experiments whose CC-IN2P3
  is the  base-site  (Auger, Antares)
• Working on RFIO transparent access
• Back-up, Archive TSM (Tivoli storage manager)
• For Home directories, critical experimental data,
  HPSS metadata, Oracle data
• TSM allows data archival (Elliot).
• For back up of external data (IN2P3 Admin. Data,
  Biology DB, etc)

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NETWORK
Renater-3 oct 2002, grid-shape, most links
2.4G, still 2 main nodes
RENATER
CERN
CC-in2p3 Lyon-USA thru Geant and USLIC.
Lyon-Cern now at 1 Gbps
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Services of an IT division

• Other services at CC-IN2P3
• - Data Bases (Objectivity, Oracle, xSQL, )
• - Softwares and OS (purchase, support,
  maintenance), RH 7.x, Solaris, AIX
• web sites (gt 70) , web services (webcast,
  phototheque, mail,..),
• customized services (storage, specialized
  computing resources and more)
• - Developments software tests (esp. for grids)
• - Visioconferencing, MCU ("multipoint conference
  unit")
• document DB (in-house Democrite), bank of thesis
  and of scientific publications -
  http//ccsd.cnrs.fr - or of technical documents
  (Cern EDMS),
• Directories
• - CAD
• - Security, we will host the CNRS system for CAs
• - Host to external services (nodes of networks,
  IXP, DB)
• - Teaching, IT schools
• ? Not last, nor least
• Hot-line, user-support, a unique 24h/24 system
  for most IT services.
• But, as a first approx., we do not support
  detector-dependent applications.

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Openings and changes

•  GRIDS
• - Developments, tests, production, dissemination.
  
• a new way of working that emerges
• hosting EDG resource broker and associated
  services, CVS repository, CNRS-IN2P3 in charge of
  WP6, WP7 and WP10 coordination
• involved in 8 grid projects, IBM coop. agreement
  on grid technology.
•  Being a  Tier1  2 key-functions,
• Internationalization,
• provide a significative part of IT services
• requested by any large HEP experiment
• (Babar, D0, Auger, Virgo-Ego, 4 LHC
• and more in the future)
• Opening to other fields, beyond astroparticle
  
• - Biology grid develoments, users,
  partnerships, contracts.
• IT grid develoments, partnerships.

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Conclusion
CC-IN2P3 is one rare example of an IT centre
where 40 HEP collaborations and several grids
share the same resources and services. Other
disciplines are starting to use services
(biology) 2 key experiences will be presented in
the next talks - what does it mean to be a
Tier1 (Babar case) ? - what does it mean to
mutualize over so many groups ?