CAF: CDF Central Analysis Farm

Announcement

  • PACCAF is back in operation as of 1/25/2010
 
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Grid-based User policy

If you use any of the CAFs you are accepting the following user policies, in addition to the default Fermilab one.

Default Queue Lengths

All CAFs have the same queue lengths, unless it is stated differently.
The default lengths are:
  • short - 6 hours
  • medium - 36 hours
  • long - 72 hours

NamGrid Queue Lengths

NamGrid relies on Grid resources provided by others, as we use their
resources we have to follow their rules
The current configuration of the queues are:
  • short - 6 hours (Wisconsin and MIT Grid sites)
  • mediumshort - 24 hours (Wisconsin and MIT )
  • medium - 40 hours (MIT)
  • long - 48 hours (MIT)
  • production - 48 hours (MIT)

Segments limits

  • Segments can use up to 2 GB of memory and 20 GB of disk space

Data Handling: limit of concurrently running sections

  • SAM- 1000 concurrently running sections/job
  • DISKPOOL- 150 sections/job
  • ROOTD- 50 sections/job

Output limits

  • The output locations fcdflnx* are limited to only 10 sections.

Monitoring

Useful Info