RACF/SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 1 Mar 2018, 14:00 → 15:16 US/Eastern

3-192 (Bldg 510)

BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

• Facility News IC cluster expansion ETA 4/6

 

 

• Phenix dCache incremental upgrades testing ; production will wait to follow Quark Matter

 

 

• Network Operations

second Arista 7508R chassis / dCache migration done Ceph testing next

replacement of s805, s780/s781 switches in progress

replacement of s246 equipment is coming replacement expected by April

front end replacement for Simons Foundation before their 4-rack delivery in April

CDCE conversion to spine-and-leaf infrastructure for compute node racks ongoing

new Linux Farm & General Services infrastructure commissioned in CDCE

 

 

• General Services Status Quo

 

 

• CSI clusters preparations for upcoming IC-expansion ETA 4/6

 

 

• HPSS overview review tape orders and inventory in readiness for RHIC run

 

 

• RACF Linux Farm

new shared pool 20kHS06 / 2.2kCore now resources will likely grow

runs in a general-queue-like mode with more generous parameters

4G mem and 2 day guarantee / 5 day hard limit

RHEL7 / Singularity / CVMFS / GPFS / NFS / SDCC home directories mounted

access by flocking CPU_Experiment == “sdcc”

 

 

• AOB access to HPSS tape resources for CSI clusters

 

1 Facility News & Announcements

Speaker: Shigeki Misawa (BNL)

2 PHENIX dCache upgrade status

Speaker: Ofer Rind (BNL)

3 Network operations

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Slides azaytsev_NETOPS_status_01032018_v1.pdf

4 General Services

Speakers: Mr Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy, Mr Tejas Rao (Brookhaven National Lab)

5 CSI clusters

Speaker: Mr Costin Caramarcu (BNL-RACF)

6 HPSS overview

Speaker: Ognian Novakov (Brookhaven National Lab)

7 RACF Linux Farm

Speaker: William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)

Slides shared-pool-thursday.pdf

8 AOB

Speaker: Shigeki Misawa (BNL)