Location: BU Center for Computational Science facility, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Street.

http://atlas000.bu.edu/NETier2/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

NETier2 main page

Our users:

~75% Panda production team

~25% About 20 sporadically active, mostly local, mostly muon-related ATLAS users

Very little General OSG use

Northeast Tier 2 Center, Status August, 2006

Contacts: Jim Shank (shank@bu.edu), Saul Youssef (youssef@bu.edu)

atlas000.bu.edu atlas001.bu.edu atlas002.bu.edu atlas003.bu.edu

wiki, web, misc. DQ2 (Panda dev./server) (Network mon.)

56 Xeon

8T RAID

56 core AMD opteron

IBM blade center

IBM blade center

2 x ASA File server

SL-3

OSG 0.4.1

Ganglia

PBS

DRM

am-BU

data1/

data2/

data3/

data4/

Software

1GigE to campus core network

gatekeeper

file server

dual Xeondual Xeon

BU

MIT

Harvard

NYCNoX Metro Ring,7.4 miles, 144 fibers

UMASS

TuftsOC48

Northeastern

Issues for us:

1. It would be great to know ahead of a CPU purchase if production is going to run on it without problems.

2. What are the hardware implications of NewNet speed networking?

3. Allocation controls via user name & PBS are crude.

4. We lost our hypernews forum at BNL due to spammers.