[Halld-offline] CVMFS JLab Stratum 0

[Alexander Austregesilo]

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce that JLab is hosting a CVMFS Stratum-0 service 
now and we successfully mirror the software stacks and auxiliary files 
necessary to set up your container environment. You can find the files 
under:

 > /cvmfs/jlab.opensciencegrid.org/halld/

It is synced to the relevant folders on the group disk about once every 
6h and completely equivalent to

 > /cvmfs/oasis.opensciencegrid.org/jlab/halld/

which it will replace long-term. So far, we are actually using a 
different folder for our offsite production and MCWrapper operations, 
which we may deprecate at some point:

 > /cvmfs/oasis.opensciencegrid.org/gluex/group/halld/

Please try it out!

Best regards,

Alex

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PS:

In the process, we also backed up and deleted the builds for many 
defunct operating systems from the group disk:

Linux_CentOS7-x86_64-gcc8.3.1-cntr
Linux_RHEL7-x86_64-gcc4.8.5
Linux_RHEL7-x86_64-gcc5.3.0
Linux_RHEL7-x86_64-gcc4.8
Linux_RHEL8-x86_64-gcc8.5.0
Linux_RHEL8-x86_64-gcc8.5
Linux_CentOS7-x86_64-gcc4.8.5
Linux_CentOS7-x86_64-gcc4.8
Linux_Alma9-x86_64-gcc11.4.1-cntr
Linux_RHEL9-x86_64-gcc11.4.1
Linux_Alma9-x86_64-gcc11.4.1

The backups can be found on tape under:

 > /mss/home/gluex/backups/releases/


-- 
Alexander Austregesilo

Staff Scientist - Experimental Nuclear Physics
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, VA
aaustreg at jlab.org
(757) 269-6982