RACF/SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News & Announcements
PHENIX dCache upgrade status
operational issues between HPSS/dCache being worked out
version 2.16 we have a cell communication problem not yet solved testing configuration changes
Network Operations
retirement of s710 legacy Arista 7508E switch in Sigma-7
replacement of s805 and s780/s781 switches
replacement of legacy s246 switch
new Simons Foundation
CDCE conversion of compute node racks to spine-and-leaf infrastructure
SciZone perimeter firewall 1+1 pair SW upgrade to fix SSH IPv6 traffic offloading (RACFCL2018-24)
General Services
RACF Linux Farm
update on the new shared pool
Utilization is good
access by flocking from STAR, the theory nodes rlnxsp0[1,2], or PHENIX submit nodes phnxel7[1,2]
open to all in SDCC, no MOU is needed
contact <willsk@bnl.gov> or <tony@bnl.gov> for help getting access to shared pool
CSI resources
IC Cluster expansion new compute racks scheduled for delivery 3/30
KNL firmware released to fix bug in micro-controller unit of the power supplies
HPSS status
move tape drives from DST to RAW to keep up with bandwidth for RHIC run
review recent tape delivery, tape count, and burn rate to plan next buy; wait for now
AOB