CERN Planning for SC4
GDB - Bologna - 12 October 2005

 

Planned Installed Capacity at CERN  
       
year Feb-06 Sep-06 2007 2008
processing capacity (MSI2K)        
Tier-0 1.6 2.40 4.80 12.60
CAF 0.7 1.00 4.32 12.72
disk capacity (PBytes)        
Tier-0 0.15 0.23 0.46 1.26
CAF 0.36 0.54 1.55 5.50
       
Tape drives 80 80 200 200

For general CERN Fabric planning see High level milestones

Status of Acquisitions for Equipment to be in operation in 2006

Tender for CPU Servers

General Info

FI Reference: IT-3389/IT
Target date: Equipment required for 21-Dec-05
Equipment expected by 19-Dec-05
Market Survey: MS-3293/IT
FC Paper: not needed

Step-by-Step Status

Step Due Complete
Order prepared 23-Sep-05 06-Oct-05
Order sent 07-Oct-05  
Equipment arrives 18-Nov-05  
Physical installation complete 23-Nov-05  
Stress testing complete 16-Dec-05  
Commission 19-Dec-05  
Pay the bill 31-Jan-05  

 

Tender for Disk Servers

General Info

FI Reference: IT-3390/IT
Target date: Equipment required for 21-Dec-05
Equipment expected by 16-Dec-05
Market Survey: MS-3293/IT
FC Paper: not needed

Step-by-Step Status

Step Due Complete
Offers opened 22-Aug-05 22-Aug-05
Initial compliance verified 24-Aug-08 24-Aug-08
Detailed hardware tests completed 02-Sep-05  
Winner decided 23-Sep-05  
Contract/final price negotiated 30-Sep-05  
Order prepared 30-Sep-05  
Order sent 07-Oct-05  
Equipment arrives 18-Nov-05  
Physical installation complete 23-Nov-05  
Stress testing complete 25-Nov-05  
Commission 16-Dec-05  
Pay the bill 16-Jan-06  

 

Tender for Tape Servers

General Info

FI Reference: IT-3419/IT
Target date: Equipment required for 21-Dec-05
Equipment expected by 13-Jan-06
Market Survey: MS-3293/IT
FC Paper: not needed

Step-by-Step Status

Step Due Complete
Tender docs prepared 14-Sep-05 15-Sep-05
Spec meeting held 21-Sep-05 21-Sep-05
Documents issued 23-Sep-05 28-Sep-05
Envelope opening date set 24-Oct-05  
Offers received 26-Oct-05  
Offers opened 02-Nov-05  
Initial compliance verified 04-Nov-05  
Detailed hardware tests completed 11-Nov-05  
Adjudication 11-Nov-05  
Contract/final price negotiated 11-Nov-05  
Order prepared 11-Nov-05  
Order sent 18-Nov-05  
Equipment arrives 05-Jan-06  
Physical installation complete 06-Jan-06  
Stress testing complete 13-Jan-06  
Commission 13-Jan-06  
Pay the bill 13-Feb-06  

 

Market Survey for Physics computing equipment

General Info

Step-by-Step Status

Step Due Complete
Announced to FC 07-Oct-05 14-Jun-05
MS prepared 21-Nov-05  
MS docs reviewed in IT 30-Nov-05  
Spec meeting for MS help 09-Dec-05  
MS issued 15-Dec-05  
Deadline for MS replies 03-Feb-06  
MS replies analysed 17-Feb-06  
Commission 17-Feb-06  
MS Expires 17-Feb-07