Data transfer and HPSS storage of CS catalogs

[heather999]

As discussed this week at the CS meeting and in issue LSSTDESC/desc-help#11, there is a planned data transfer at NERSC from projecta to CFS. This includes the cosmoDC2 catalogs currently stored under /global/projecta/projectdirs/lsst/groups/CS. The CS group has identified those catalogs that should remain active on CFS (as well as stored to NERSC HPSS) and those that can be copied to HPSS and removed.

Here is the list of catalogs, and their sizes, that will remain available on the CFS:

• 1.3T BC
• 311G BPl
• 2.9T GalacticusLibraries
• 382G Outer_snapshots
• 1.5T all_v0.1.0
• 901G baseDC2_9.8C_v1.1_velocity_bug_fixes
• 2.6T baseDC2_snapshots_v0.1
• 259G baseDC2_cosmoDC2_v0.1_v0.2
• 8.7T cosmoDC2_v1.0.0_full_highres
• 34G cosmoDC2_v1.0.0_knots_addon
• 5.2T cosmoDC2_v1.1.3_rs_scatter_query_tree
• 43G cosmoDC2_v1.1.4_knots_addon
• 2.2G trial_triaxial_sats
• 82G um_snapshots
• 5.2T cosmoDC2_v1.1.4_rs_scatter_query_tree_double
• 171G plarsen_tmp

The list of catalogs that will be copied to NERSC HPSS and removed:

• 124G all_v0.2.0
• 225G all_v0.2.0_small
• 247M alphaq
• 901G baseDC2_9.8C_v1.1
• 8.7T cosmoDC2_v1.0.0
• 24G cosmoDC2_test_z0_1
• 1.4T cosmoDC2_v0.2.0
• 629G cosmoDC2_v1.0.1_small_test
• 5.2T cosmoDC2_v1.1.0
• 43G cosmoDC2_v1.1.0_knots_addon
• 5.2T cosmoDC2_v1.1.0_shear
• 63G mass_sheets_behind_z3
• 9.7G shear_addon

[JoanneBogart]

I believe these directories comprise the whole of /global/projecta/projectdirs/lsst/groups/CS/cosmoDC2. Are they all catalogs? Of the items in the top list, only about half are registered in GCR. Perhaps it's reasonable to call the others catalogs as well; I'd just like to confirm.

[heather999]

I think we would need to check with @evevkovacs and @yymao to see if all the catalogs that will remain on disk should be referenced in GCR.

[yymao]

No, not all of the subdirectories that CS asks to keep active on CFS need to be made available in GCRCatalogs. Some of these are intermediate data products that we don't expect regular end users to use.

[evevkovacs]

The other directories are mostly auxiliary data that were used to make the catalogs and need to be kept. We can rethink this if need be, but for now I think it makes sense to keep them in the catalogs directory. They are all relevant to past or ongoing work.

[katrinheitmann]

With the new filesystem, has this all been sorted out? If not, what else needs to be done? @heather999 @yymao @evevkovacs. Maybe it's possible to write a very brief conclusion and close this issue? Thanks!

[heather999]

We still want to back up all the catalogs and those that have been identified for removal can be removed from CFS.
There has been so much other work going on reorganizing CFS that I haven't gotten back to backing up the catalogs yet. I want to use this issue to keep track of my progress as things are copied to HPSS.

[wmwv]

@heather999 Can this be marked as done?

[heather999]

Unfortunately, not yet. Hoping to get this completed over the next couple of weeks.