Merge pull request #1245 from Zarquan/20231120-zrq-rsap-update

Notes from the RSAP process

notes/zrq/20231120-01-rsap-update.txt

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+    Target:
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+        Update our RSAP request following comments from Deniza Chekrygina at STFC UKRI.
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+    Result:
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+        Work in progress ...
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+Thank you for submitting a resource request to IRIS for the allocation round for 2024/25. It contains almost all the requested information concerning your future hardware needs. However, I have some comments:
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+1.  There is a bit of a mismatch of information provided for the GAIA Core Processing (CP) and GAIA Data Mining (DM) platform.
+    For example, for CP 3.1.1A it says allocated, while in 3.1.2A for DM –provided.
+    For storage for the former, it says TB; for the latter, it says TiB.
+    For the CPU CP uses physical cores, and DM uses virtual cores.
+    This can be a bit confusing for reviewers to follow.
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+2.  In the table in 4.1.2, can you please specify if the RAM for each core or for all cores is shown in the CPU column?
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+3.  In section 5 you are writing that the request is for additional resources;
+    however, in 5.1 mention reducing your request from the currently allocated.
+    Can you please clarify?
+    Having read 5.1, I assume that the numbers in Table 5.1A are for the total request.
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+4.  I might have missed it, but I couldn’t find anything discussing DM requests at different providers.
+    There is some mention of storage for DR4 but not the CPU request.
+    Perhaps some information can be added to the computation model section of the document?
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+5.  Can you please confirm that in 5.2 you are requesting 2800 virtual cores in total
+    and not in addition to the current 700 virtual cores?
+    Your long-term forecast shows 2800 virtual cores as a total request for DM for the next three years.
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+    How do we check to see if we should use TB or TiB ?
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+    Compare what Openstack metadata says compared to actual disc space.
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