Completion of the Power Saving Project

The MIT Tier-2 was established in 2006 and after some moving about it landed in 2009 at the newly inaugurated High Performance Research Computing Facility (HPRCF) at Bates, Middleton, MA. Its fundamental design was based on a massive Cisco switch with each worker node connected at 1 Gb/sec and each worker node provided compute and … Read more

MIT Tier-2 Report – September 3 2025

Our site started to fail SAM tests on XRootD on Tuesday (Sept. 2nd) afternoon. At the moment I do not understand what the issue is, all systems here are responsive and I can’t detect any problems. I am starting to suspect that there is a network problem between us and Fermilab.

MIT Tier-2 Report – August 20 2025

SiteReadiness: 100.0% SAM tests: 98.9% There was a problem with user CRAB jobs caused by CMSSW having problems with davs protocol. I switched our site to root default. Over last 24 hours CMS transferred to us ~600 TBs of data. Today we are scheduled for data challenge tests.