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CMS Tier-2 center at Purdue resources Print

Overview 

CMS Tier-2 center at Purdue consists of two clusters: CMS and Steele, which are operated and maintained by ITaP. The CMS cluster is CMS dedicated cluster. Steele is a large community cluster.


Resources

Network Connections
  • Lan connection: 20 Gb/sec Core
  • Internet2 via I-Light: 1 Gb/s
  • FNAL via StarLight: 10 Gb/s
  • Teragrid: 10 Gb/s


Computing resources
  • Dedicated:
    • CMS:
      • 70 SUN Fire X2200 M2 nodes  Dual Quad-core AMD Barcelona 2.3 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 2 x 750 GB, (70 * 8 = 560 job slots)
      • 154 Dell 1950 nodes Dual Quad-core Intel Xeon E5410, 2.33 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB, (154 * 8 =1232 job slots)
    • Steele: 67 Dell 1950 nodes, Dual Quad-core Intel Xeon E5410, 2.33 GHz, 2 x 6MB Cache, 16 GB RAM, (67 * 8 = 536 job slots)
    • Proof farm:
      • 6 Dell 1850 nodes Dual Dual-core Intel Xeon, 3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM
      • 2 Dell 1850 nodes Dual Dual-core Intel Xeon, 3.0 GHz 2 GB RAM
      • 1 Dell 1850 nodes Dual Dual-core Intel Xeon, 3.0 GHz 6 GB RAM
  • Non-dedicated:
    • Preemptible (non-dedicated): 1024 CPUs Dual Quad-core Xeon E5410
  • Supported VOs: uscms
  • Additional Enabled VOs: ivdgl, lsc01, sdss, usatlas1

  

Servers:
  • Cms: (gluon.rcac.rcac.purdue) 2.33 GHz Dual Quad-core Intel Xeons, services: log in, grid UI, condor, afs client
  • Steele: (steele.rcac.purdue.edu) 2.33 GHz Dual Quad-core Intel Xeons, services: log in, grid UI, condor
  • Osg: 2.33 GHz Dual core Quad processor Intel Xeon E5410, services: globus-gatekeeper, gsiftp, globus-ws, gris, bdii, afs client, condor, monalisa, ganglia
  • Lepton: 3.0 GHz Dual core Dual processor X86_64, services: globus-gatekeeper, gsiftp, globus-ws, gris, bdii, afs client, condor, monalisa, ganglia
  • Srm-dcache: 2.5 GHz Dual Quad-core AMD Opteron 2380,  services:  srm
  • PNFS: 3.0 GHz Dual core Dual processors Intel Xeo, services: pnfs
  • dCache: 2.6 GHz Dual core Dual processors AMD Opteron 2218, services: dCache admin
  • Phedex:  2.5 GHz Dual Quad-core AMD Opteron 2380 , services: phedex
  • Higgs:  2.5 GHz Dual Quad-core AMD Opteron 2380, services: opportunistic dcache pool
  • Cmsdbs: 2.5 GHz Dual Quad-core AMD Opteron 2380, services: crab portal, local DBS
  • Crabserver: 2.33 GHz Dual Quad-core Intel Xeons, services: crabserver
  • Vo: (vo.rcac.purdue.edu)  3.0 GHz Dual core Dual processor X86_64, services: GUMS, VOMS

Storage:

Data:
  • dCache:
    • resilient:
      • 105 TB (70 Sun X2200, each has 2 x 750 GB)
      • 300 TB (150 Dell 1950, each has 680GB + 910 GB)
    • non-resilient:
      • 48 TB (2 Sun X4500, each has 48 x 500 GB)
      • 96 TB (2 Sun X4500, each has 48 x 1 TB)
      • 144 TB (3 Sun X4540, each has 48 x 1 TB)
      • 33.6 TB (6 Apple Xserve RAIDs, each has 5.6 TB)
Software
 

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Utilization
2859 jobs running
Total: 2328 job slots
Jobs running: 2859
Jobs queued: 347
dCache
73% utilization
Total: 520 TB
73% Used, 27% Free

This site, and the work it describes, is primarily funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).