SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

Kevin Casella (SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL), Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))
Description

Bi-weekly meetings between SDCC staff and Liaisons. Zoom connecting details are given below:

https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1616916563

By phone:       

+1 669 254 5252 US (San Jose)
+1 646 828 7666 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 161 691 6563

Wednesday December 23, 2020 Liaison Meeting Minutes

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/10378/

 

 

In addition to uploaded presentation materials, the following QA and discussion was noted:

Facility News

  • BlueJeans Video Conferencing contract expires 5/31/2021
  • please copy/transfer any saved video recordings
  • ITD is offering Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Network & Facility Operations

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Experimental Support

  • sPHENIX mock data challenge issues with GPFS and mem-intensive HTC jobs
  • sPHENIX requests possibility of setting aside a handful of high-mem dedicated machines
  • future of sPHENIX storage and SDCC transition to Lustre discussed

Fabric

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General Services

  • New unified MFA PrivacyIDEA for NX, 5 day session kill may be too short (asked ~2 weeks)
  • STAR RT will be at https://star-rt.sdcc.bnl.gov, for now email disabled working with ITD DNS
  • SDCC public website went live please test and give feedback
  • Liaisons can log in to be granted edit privileges, SDCC staff will review and publish edits
  • https://chat.sdcc.bnl.gov/sdcc/channels/website-feedback public SDCC channel for www feedback
  • SDCC web feedback encouraged to open RT ticket within ‘www’ queue at https://rt.racf.bnl.gov/rt/

Tools and Services

  • 3-month trial for Overleaf Server Pro (local deployment)
  • the licensed version will allow unlimited sharing
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