Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Pacman mirror to be switched off

The Tier 1 at RAL currently hosts a Pacman mirror of the ATLAS software. The Pacman mirror is designed for people to use if they are installing their own version of the ATLAS software on their local machine. However the software can also be downloaded direct from CERN which is what most people (who want their own copy of the software) appear to be doing as the RAL mirror has had very low usage in the last year (in December there were just 67 files accessed). Software releases for Tier 2s are automatically downloaded from CERN as well. The machine the RAL mirror is on is being retired soon and unless anybody has any major objections the mirror will not be moved onto a new machine. This machine will be switched off at the start of next week, (1/2/10).