RACF/SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News and Announcements
Institutional Cluster – Delivery of 2 racks – April 1st week
PHENIX dCache upgrade Status
Currently testing version 2.16 – Reconfiguration, DB schema update,testing at each step
Postgres update issues, Currently dccp transfer issues.
Schedule – 1 more update and integration
PHENIX testing
ATLAS currently at version 3.0
See slides posted on agenda
RACF/SDCC Network Operations
RHIC Migration,ATLAS Dcache Migration – Status reports
See slides posted on agenda
General Services:
PHENIX DB servers upgrade – finished installation and configuration
Coverity software update – coverity browser update to version 8.7.1 and testing
RACF Linux Farm
Condor - checking feasibilty of running high memory jobs on temporary shared pool.
TotalView – only 2 STAR users – so planning to stop update with next version release.
Planning Expansion.
LDAP , NSCD consistency issues on STAR nodes causing problems with resolving the secondary group – restarted service. Node also has hardware errors.
ATLAS - SL7 upgrade issues
CSI Clusters
HPC clusters overview – IC and KNL
See slides posted on agenda
HPSS status
Monitoring HPSS
Run 18 DATA for the STAR group - already 15 TB data taken
Taku Izubuchi – Questions regarding access to TAPE mechanisms.
AOB -
Tom Throwe Indico upgrade done
2 major changes – Resolve the serach feature(moved to plugins)
Compulsary needs an account to upload files to Indico
Feature to have SSO authentications