RACF/SDCC Liaison meeting minutes - 1/18/2018

1. Ofer Rind - Phenix Dcache Upgrade - new servers with SL6 for now, probably will be tested with SL7 later
Testing SQL, configuration, database copy over. Probably scheduled for end of February?

2. David Yu - HPSS - tape drive configuration
 Jerome Lauret for STAR - Counting house data transfer to HPSS, NDC
Data taking in March.

3. Chris Hollowell - RACF Linux Farm - New servers arrived last week.
 Q/A procedures going on RHIC and ATLAS this week.
Testing  SL6 servers for Dcache upgrade.
Patched interactive nodes for Meltdown/Spectre issues.
For STAR systems, which was recently upgraded to SL7,there are AFS related patch problems, cache inconsistency with  STAR group compilation coding.

4.Shigeki Misawa/Tony Wong - Changes to Liaison Meetings – See slides posted on agenda

CSI Developments/Future Clusters 

5. Alexandr Zaytsev - RACF/SDCC Network Operations – See slides posted on agenda
RHIC Migration, Dcache Migration

6. Costin Caramarcu - Status of the CSI Clusters – See slides posted on agenda
Firmware update done, vendors were onsite. Nodes stable as of Thursday afternoon. 
Microcode patches.
IC and KNL Hackathons coming up.

7. Tom Throwe - Status of Jupyter notebook – See slides posted on agenda
Currently being used with Python. Installed Anaconda environment.
Stuart Campbell stated Jupyter is also used at NSLS II - beamlines using Jupyter, share notebooks, Anaconda environment, coding.
Used for training.
Besides Slurm interface, others indicated a HTCondor interface would be useful.

8. General Services - Jason Smith, Tejas Rao, Saroj Kandasamy - RHEV VM upgrades will be scheduled for Meltdown/Spectre issues. 
Affects AFS for RHEL7 systems. Gateways/NX servers to also be scheduled for upgrades.

9. John Hover - BNL Cloud - Status and future plans – See slides posted on agenda
Small scale projects, Can interact with Jupyter front-end.
Mark Hybertsen indicated stronger interest if BNL Cloud is configured with a shared file system.