25 June 2006: ScotGrid clocks up more than three million CPU hours.

June 25th marks the fourth anniversary of ScotGrid deployment. After four years, the system has provided 3,061,049 CPU hours and 383,858 completed jobs.

The fourth year has been significant for ScotGrid. This year, many new Virtual Organisations were supported across ScotGrid. These included the Biomed VO, researching Avian Influenza and the PhenoGrid VO, which is based at Durham University.

Storage Deployment

This year, ScotGrid has led the UK in the deployment of large-scale data storage using the Storage Resource Manager (SRM) protocol. Extensive performance testing of the dCache server was done at Edinburgh and the Disk Pool Manager (DPM) server at Glasgow. These results are now informing deployment across the UK.

Service Challenges

ScotGrid at Glasgow is leading our involvement in the fourth LCG Service Challenge, starting in June 2005. This is a period of sustained operation and testing of the computing and networking infrastructure underlying the LCG Grid. Glasgow is involved in supporting the Atlas VO's tests of their data management tool DQ2.

Future Planning

The next phase of ScotGrid is about to be delivered at Glasgow through funding via SRIF3, to be used as the basis of the Scottish Grid Service. A cluster which will deliver 1M SpecInt2K of processing capability has been ordered and will be commissioned in August 2006. Procurements are ongoing at Edinburgh.

ScotGrid

ScotGrid is a three-site Tier-2 centre funded by SHEFC (now SFC) for the analysis of data primarily from the ATLAS and LHCb experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and from other experiments. It is now providing IBM solutions for Grid Computing in Particle Physics, Bioinformatics as well as Grid Data Management, medical imaging and device modelling simulations.

2002 Statistics (click for full-size chart)

2003 Statistics

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2005 Statistics

2006 Statistics (to June)