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CAF Setup<br />

• Setup since May 2006<br />

– 40 machines, each: 2 CPUs, 200 GB disk 8 TB<br />

– Standard <strong>CERN</strong> batch machines (lxbatch)<br />

• taken out of ALICE's LSF share<br />

– 5 as development partition, 35 as production partition<br />

• Machines are a xrootd disk pool<br />

– xrootd redirector and <strong>PROOF</strong> master on head node<br />

– Other nodes are xrootd disk servers and <strong>PROOF</strong><br />

slaves<br />

– Automatic staging from AliEn/CASTOR<br />

<strong>CERN</strong> <strong>Analysis</strong> <strong>Facility</strong> - <strong>PROOF</strong> <strong>for</strong> prompt physics analysis - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus 18

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