OS
support CASA
patch support
Try to have one OS to support VLASS and local but
Do they dual-boot? One for us, one for them? k8s?
Third party software in support of VLASS
CASA
HTCondor
Slurm?
Third party software in support of local work
Need a way to maintain their stuff
Services
DNS
DHCP
sendmail or equiv
NTP
NFS
LDAP? We may not need it but can we share with them?
ssh
rsync
Management access
PDUs
UPSes
BMCs
switches
Maintenence
replacing disks
replacing DIMMs
replacing power supplies
etc
NRAO may handle replacement hardware. Drop ship. Spare ourselves?
Hardware
GPUs? 1U or 2U?
1Gb/s might be enough. 10Gb/s if similar price.
30 1U nodes or 15 2U nodes
A test unit at NRAO (a head and a couple of compute nodes)
PDU or two
UPS for just head node unless the site has UPS power
environmental monitoring
rackmount KVM (not remote) and patch cables
NVMe drives for nodes
Since we are making our own little OSG, should we try to leverage OSG for this or not? Or do we want to make each POD a pool and flock?
How do we handle the 50% workload?