[Swift-devel] Need help using Data Capacitor in Swift Workflow

[Ian Foster]

I'm told that it will be available at the end of next week, so there is 
no immediate need to grow the SAN.

I'm always nervous introducing more moving parts into already complex 
systems ...

Michael Wilde wrote:
> Ti indicated that FLASH will free 15 TB in about 3 weeks, and that we 
> can buy more disks. Currently the SAN is still sitting at 99% full 
> with less than 1 TB free.
>
> The DC is just another TG resource - I see no reason not to use any 
> Grid resource available to us.
>
> I dont have any funds I can use for growing the SAN. If you want us to 
> grow it using CI funds, we can. I dont know that we've created a 
> policy for how to grow it. We should.
>
> - Mike
>
>
>
> On 1/30/08 11:46 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
>> It seems crazy to me that we are going to IU for storage.
>>
>> Did Ti indicate that we cannot provide any space at U.Chicago? 
>> Argonne has no space?
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>> Michael Wilde wrote:
>>> [was: Re: Store files in IU Data Capacitor?]
>>>
>>> A week ago I started to help MikeK find several TB of free space to 
>>> support his next round of workflows.
>>>
>>> Currently the CI SAN has only 700GB free.
>>>
>>> I started looking at how to use the 500TB data capacitor server at IU.
>>>
>>> MikeK, should we assume you still need this, test access to it, and 
>>> give you the parameters for your sites file, and swift examples of 
>>> mapping data to/from GridFTP URIs?
>>>
>>> If so, Mihael can you do this? (URL for the DC is below. Can use 
>>> scratch space for 2-week stretches. Ive applied for an allocation on 
>>> it).
>>>
>>> - Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: Store files in IU Data Capacitor?
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:42:48 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Mike Kubal <mikekubal at yahoo.com>
>>> To: Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>,   "Binkowski, Thomas Andrew" 
>>> <abinkowski at anl.gov>
>>>
>>> 10TB would be plenty.
>>>
>>> I've been using Benoit's allocation.
>>>
>>> The TG project ID I've been using is:
>>>
>>> TG-MCA01S018
>>>
>>> Thanks MikeW,
>>>
>>> MikeK
>>>
>>> --- Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew and Mike,
>>>>
>>>> One place we might be able to keep our multi-GB data
>>>> files is in the IndianaU Data Capacitor:
>>>>  
>>> http://datacapacitor.researchtechnologies.uits.iu.edu/
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a rough estimate of what we need?  the
>>>> DC allocates storage in 10TB chunks, which I assume will meet our 
>>>> needs
>>>> for the moment?
>>>>
>>>> Can you send me the TG project # for the LigandAtlas
>>>> project, and I will try to get an allocation of space there?
>>>>
>>>> Are we running on our own TG DAC, or on Benoit's
>>>> large allocation?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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