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- Drop ship everything to the site and assemble on site
- Ship everything here and assemble then ship a rack-on-pallet
- Mix the two. Ship minimal stuff here (head node, switch, couple of nodes, etc) and configure and drop ship most of the nodes to the site.
Data Path
This is conceptual at this point.
- We pre-stage data on head node
- We then either submit a job locally and it flocks to the remote site or we login to the remote site and submit there.
- Can we use a nifty filesystem to simplify this (Ceph or that LHC fs)?
- The remote execute hosts transfer data from the remote head node
- The job uploads resulting data to the head node
- We retrieve data from the head node
Other
- Keep each rack as similar to the other racks as possible.
- Test system at NRAO should be one of everything.
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