Activity in JFY 1999
Construction of the CC-J at phase 1
- High Performance Storage System (HPSS) installed in early 1999.
- About 2/3 of the Phase 1 hardware installed by Dec. 1999
- Two SUN E450 Data servers
- 32 node 64 CPU farms (1500 SPECint95)
- 2 TB Data Disk
- Gigabit Ethernet Network
- Adjustment of the software environment of CC-J almost completed.
- Contract of hiring a System Engineer with IBM Japan concluded in Dec. 1999.
- A tape drive and a work station: installed at BNL as front-end CCJ system for tape duplication at BNL.
Stress tests for the entire system
- Carried out in May, July 1999 and January 2000 with some detector simulation (MDC1, MDC2, VRDC)
- confirmed long-term stability of CCJ system