TRIUMF @ Service Challenge 4
This is the status of our SC 4 cluster as of
August 2006.
Hardware
Servers
- 3 EMT64 dCache pool node systems, each with:
- hardware raid - 3ware 9xxx SATA raid controller
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives in hardware raid 5 - 8 x 250 GB
- 2 EMT64 dCache pool node systems, each with:
- hardware raid - 3ware 9xxx SATA raid controller
- Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives in hardware raid 5 - 8 x 500 GB
- 1 dual Opteron 246 dCache headnode server with:
- 2 GB memory
- 3ware 9xxx SATA raid controller
- WD Caviar SE drives in hardware raid 0 - 2 x 250 GB
- a 4560-SLX IBM Tape Library (currently with 2 SDLT 320 tape drives)
- 1 EMT64 system used as an FTS Server with:
- 2 GB memory
- 3 SCSI 73 GB drives for the OS and for Oracle's needs.
- a 4560-SLX IBM Tape Library (currently with 2 SDLT 600 tape drives)
- 2 EMT64 systems used as LFC and VOBOX Servers with:
- 2 GB memory
- 2 SATA 160 GB drives in a Raid-1 configuration
Storage
Software
- dCache/SRM - deployed in June 2005
- FTS / Oracle - deployed late July 2005
- LFC / VOBOX - deployed in October 2005
- gLite 3.0 - deployed in May 2006
Networking
- 2 x 1 GigE
- CANARIE provides some graphs of the traffic rates of the TRIUMF-CERN links:
Tape Transfer Status
We used a
home-brewed HSM tape interface
for tape transfer tests. The tape transfer status page for the period from
April 19 - May 4 is linked here. The current SC4
tape status page is here.
Tier 2 Status
To-Do List
- an Oracle RAC will be order this week (week 35)
- 2 blade chassis of worker nodes have been ordered.
