Project lead:

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Lulu Zhu <cz67@cornell.edu>

Team: Zhichun Liang, Peter Borbat, and Lulu ZhuOliver Habicht.

Goal

Run humongous jobs, and run them hundreds of times. Expect that having own equipment is most cost-effective, but reality-check against other options such as CAC's RedCloud service (not mutually exclusive).

Project status

Must work out some technology

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To buy us time, move Eldor under CRCF's management for ~6 months. This requires a new OS and file system service to replace CCMR's AFS.

Note

Required changes to Eldor are linked to moving off of CCMR's AFS. Hence the move from AFS will be being explained here, as a sub-project to the Eldor move project.

Steps and draft timeline

Ensure CIFS (replacement to AFS) is working for everyone. Includes testing permissions, including writes.

Draft start date: Week of May 27.

Duration: About a week.

Turn off Eldor

Tentative date: June 3.

Turn on Eldor, connected to CIFS

Tentative date: About a week after Eldor is turned off.

Turn off AFS

Tentative date: Soon after Eldor is functional.

Move all AFS data to CIFS

Tentative date: Same date AFS is turned off.

Duration: If just sync'ing data, maybe about a day.

If having to copy all data over, may take a day or two.

Status

Must identify all current users of Eldor

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Project notes and efforts

5/22/13: Lulu set up CIT SFS CIFS service, in preparation for Eldor's move to CRCF.

As of 5/22/13: Lulu worked out Linux/ CU AD integration.

As of 5/1/13: Lulu is working on Linux/ CU AD integration in preparation for Eldor's move to CRCF.

4/3/13: Oliver spoke with Liang and Peter. Liang and Peter approved removing the (computational, GPU) video cards before Lulu upgrades the OS.

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