NT1/SG-Meeting-2021-06-10

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NT1 meeting 2021-06-10, 10:00 - 11:00 CET, online

Invited: Mattias Wadenstein (Technical lead (TL)), Oxana Smirnova (HEP), Vincent Garonne (Activity Manager (AM->PM)), Tomasz Malkiewicz (Activity Owner (AO->PO))


Agenda

  1. Presence and approval of agenda
  2. Personnel changes - for information
  3. NT1 evaluation - for discussion
  4. Reusing old hardware - for discussion
  5. CERN fees by NT1 partners - for discussion
  6. Vega developments with dCache - for discussion
  7. NT1 Budget scenarios for 5+ years from now - for discussion
  8. Open Action points
  9. Next meetings
  10. AOB

Minutes

1. Presence and approval of agenda

  • Present: Mattias Wadenstein, Oxana Smirnova, Vincent Garonne, Tomasz Malkiewicz
  • Decision: The agenda is approved.

2. Personnel changes

3.NT1 evaluation

4. Reusing old hardware

  • These resources will be used for pilot projects and/or onboarding new communities
  • Action on TL to provide a description of resources and estimate of the cost for NT1

5. CERN fees by NT1 partners

  • Discussion on CERN fees: based on CERN Convention of 1953, fixed by CERN Council. WLCG computing is not covered by fees and is an extra contribution by countries that provide Tier1 and Tier2 services.
  • Development effort within NT1
    • dCache: Good storage solution fits to our (distributed) needs, Good in house expertise and support
    • Same approach for ARC
    • Relative small contributions (e.g., 6 persons at DESY) with high impact
  • Development done at other sites, like CERN IT, BNL
  • 12 or 14 Tier-1 sites (Russia haven’t signed the agreement, Tier-1 is split across 2 sites)
  • About the importance of being a T1:
    • WLCG management board consists of Tier-1 representatives
    • Higher influence, visibility and impact in official decision- and policy-making

6. Vega developments with dCache

  • 3 additional PB contributed by SI partner via Vega, only for ATLAS (total Nordic pledge is 6 PB, SI has 7 (3 on Vega, 4 on Jožef Stefan Institute)
  • Storage architecture designed from start to serve the LHC community

7. NT1 Budget scenarios for 5+ years from now

  • Discussion about the provisional budget, current and future needs
  • ARC, dCache, Operations, monitoring, Onboarding new communities: +6.75 FTE
  • Caveat: The estimate budget is based on the current situation
  • The possibility to increase NT1 budget and future will be more discussed later

8. Open Action Points

  • AP TL: keep following-up with EISCAT-3D.
    • New budgetary limits
    • NeIC Director to be involved, primarily through NT1 Activity Owner
  • (done) AP TL: Reply to Ingrid Mann, cc Tomasz. Points to notice: Nordic countries not members of EGI anymore, UK a member. EE a member, but not a part of EISCAT_3D.
  • AP TL: to make operational procedures again public and up to date so it can be referred to. (transferred to PM)

9. Next meetings

  • 9th of September

10. AOB

  • EGI query: EGI is asking for a meeting with NeIC
  • DK NT1 services run by University of Copenhagen, DeiC not involved
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