Subject: meeting on data issues before/after MACRO's decommission
From: Erik Katsavounidis (Erik.Katsavounidis@lngs.infn.it)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 08:43:06 EDT
Dear MACRO Colleagues,
We are planning to have a meeting at Gran Sasso on May 16
(Tuesday) 14:00-17:00 in order to discuss *final* MACRO data
distribution issues and long-term MACRO data archiving/storage.
The top priority issues include:
1) Completion of DLT distribution for Italian institutions;
for various reasons, several full-MACRO data tapes
were produced in a limited number (lack of tapes, op. system
breakdown, acquisition problems, tape drives breakdown) and
not delivered to all of them. Please DO YOUR DLT INVENTORY and
IF YOU WISH to receive tapes that were somehow skipped, please
submit your requests. Producing these tapes costs money
and time that can be spent elsewhere if there is no
interest in receiving these tapes. Added to that, there are
roughly 30 DLT tapes with pre-1995 data that were transfered
from older media (TA90,8mm) to DLTs. If there is anybody
interested in receiving them, this is the moment to start
working on them.
2) Completion of DST distribution to US institutions.
We have been catching up with RARE DST production
for TAMU and by May we should be able to provide
the complete data set. If other US institutions (BU, CIT)
that partially received RARE DSTs wish to continue, please
submit your requests now.
3) We need to discuss what kind of data we should plan on
leaving permanently on disk, where this should happen and
under what platform. As you probably know, most of the
infrastucture at Gran Sasso is VAX/VMS based and this is
where we've invested so far. A 250 DLT robot and hundreds
of GB of disk space are currently available under VAX/VMS
which is planned to phase out shortly after MACRO's
decommissiong: we should be prepared for this moment.
Everybody interested is welcome to participate, or communicate
any of his/her preferences or suggestions. This meeting by
no means tries to substitute the work of the working groups
which most likely have to go though similar discussions but
for a much more limited volume of data.
It only intends to optimize the resources --mostly computing
and manpower-- for the limited time that they are still going
to be available (at least at Gran Sasso).
Regards,
Aurelio Grillo
Francesco Ronga
Erik Katsavounidis
PS If you plan to travel to Gran Sasso for this meeting,
please let us know
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