Requirements as a Regional Computing Center
Software Environment
- Software environment of the CCJ needed be compatible to the PHENIX software environment at the RHIC Computing Facility (RCF) at BNL
- AFS (/afs/rhic) - daily mirroring and accessed through NFS from Linux
- Objectivity/DB : Local AMS server (regularly update DB)
- Batch queuing system: Load Sharing Facility (LSF 4.1)
- RedHat Linux 6.1 (Kernel 2.2.19 with nfsv3 enabled), gcc-2.95.3 etc.
- Veritas File System (Journaling file system on Solaris): free from fsck for ~TB disk
Data Accessibility
- Need exchange data of 225 TB/year to BNL RCF
- Most part of the data exchange is carried out with SD3 tape cartridges
- Data duplicating Facility at both (10 MB/s performance by airbone)
- Some part of the data exchange is carried out over the Wide Area Network (WAN)
- CC-J will use Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) for US-Japan connection
- APAN has currently ~100 Mbps bandwidth for Japan-US(STAR TAP) connection
- 3 MB/s transfer performance was obained using bbftp protocol