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

Thursday September 30, 2021 Liaison Meeting Minutes

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/13321/

 

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

Facility News

  • Welcome to Vincent Garonne, taking over  SDCC Services & Tools Group
  • SDCC and NPP groups will begin a joint meeting series
  • Chris and Hiro from SDCC with Kolja and Cedric from NPP will co-org this

Experimental Support

  • future of Invenio RDM, a document system available to experiments deployed at SDCC
  • we have a new pre-production version which needs more testing
  • requirements a flexible API to support OSTI DOI
  • timeline for Zenodo port to new Invenio RDM version

Fabric

  • sPHENIX PO is out for bid
  • PHENIX has suffered recently from STAR jobs stuck in a loop to stat afs
  • we plan to update the afs client and further investigate
  • encouraging experiments to get off afs as support is declining
  • other communities are moving away from afs
  • discussion with LQCD split and migration to B725 data center

General Services

  • NX OTP +/- window fixed by augmenting the response time from 30 s to 90 s
  • still troubleshooting disconnect/reconnect issues
  • can replicate with laptop that sleeps and tries to reconnect
  • will try updating settings for timeout and keep alive

Tools and Services

  • dCache operations now implements on on-call rotation
  • RT tickets are still the suggested mechanism for reporting issues
  • on-call team will improve operational readiness, performance, scaleability and response times

AOB

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