Summary
The construction of the PHENIX Computing Center in Japan (CC-J) at RIKEN Wako campus, which will extend over a three years period, began in April 1999.
The CC-J is intended as the principal site of computing for PHENIX simulation, a regional PHENIX Asian computing center, and a center for the analysis of RHIC spin Physics.
The CC-J will handle the data of about 220 TB/year and the total CPU performance is planned to be 10k SPECint95 (100k SPECint2000) in 2002.
CPU farm of 128 processors (RH6.1, kernel 2.2.14/16 with nfsv3 ) is stable.
Copy data over WAN: Large ftp performance (641 KB/s = 5 Mbps) was obtained for over the Pacific Ocean (RTT = 170 ms)
The CC-J operation started in June 2000 at 1/3 scale.
- 39 userÅfs account created.
100K-event simulation project started in September 2000.
Some part of real raw data (about 2 TB) of PHENIX experiment transferred to CC-J via WAN and data analysis by regional users are in progress.