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PaNIP-TDAQ Cluster Installation

PaNIP Cluster

Private Compute Cluster - ~800 CPU Cores and 12 TB Storage

• We received computers from ATLAS-TDAQ @ CERN
  • 12 rack mount Dell C6100 Chassis
  • each 4 nodes,
• each with 2 CPUs Xeon E5540/E5650 /node
  • 16 GB RAM/node
  • 1 * 250/500 MB HD/node
  • 2 NIC ports/node
• 6 HP Network Swithes ProCurve 3500YL-48 Port J8693A
• UJ ICS gifts Dell Storage Server
  • Disk group 1 is a PERC H730P RAID5 of 12 3.36TiB HDDs with one device configured as a hot spare
  • Hosts VMs, like the Head node for the cluster.

SysAdmin

• CentOS7
  • User account and name on request to sys admins
  • User authentication to head node by keyed ssh through tunnel into DMZ <Ask by Whatsapp>
  • Root password for learning sys admins = <Ask by Whatsapp>
• Foreman, Puppet, Local DHCP, Prometheus, Grafana, Condor, ATLAS software suite by CVMFS
• Further details on system install and administration are private here

HPC Access

• Usage by Condor
• Training Resources
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WMz8NpKJXaKp5x07uolkkr5N_v5rENXc/view?usp=sharing | Tim Brooks Presentation]] (require group private access)
  • Recording (require group private access)
  • ATLAS Condor training
  • Ask an expert (in the group)

ATLAS Tier 3 Node

• In progress