SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

Description
BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News & Announcements

There is a Technology Meeting scheduled for Thursday 5/3 on BNLBox

 

PHENIX dCache upgrade status

upgraded to version 3.2 golden release, upgrading to SL7

QuarkMatter ends 5/19 targeting 6/1 for OS upgrades

 

Network Operations

T3 rewiring and converting to TOR by 6/1 on scheduled

decision to perform replacement of legacy 1Gb of RHIC farm with 28 TOR switches

(excluding 2009/2010 Farm purchases in row 22, 24, part of 23 we expect to retire)

This will coincide with re-IP of all the converted racks to /27 layout (29 nodes per TOR)

 

HPSS status

RHIC run 2018 raw data taking no issues

review of projections against tape inventory, current tape order, planning future tape orders

 

General Services

STAR GPFS migration to new hardware, and update to version 4.2

2 x NetApp E5700 at 21 Gb/s (each) approximate 70% faster than old hardware

3 PB capacity, merging /gpfs01 and /gpfs03

currently GPFS is not backed up let us know if something requires backups

NFS support contract ends 6/30/18

home directories will move to the new NFS system the rest will move to /gpfs01

this process will be disruptive and time consuming

home directories will be backed up through NDMP

upgrade NX and upgrade servers to RHEL 7

 

RACF Linux Farm

5/8 T3 OS upgrades

6/14 PHENIX OS upgrades

shared pool is in production and growing as we retire and re-provision hardware

 

CSI resources

IC expansion in production

CSI proposals were paused because IC allocations seemed oversubscribed

IC expansion is helping and we can again review CSI proposals

 

AOB

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    • 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))
    • 4
      HPSS status
      Speaker: David Yu (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • 5
      General Services
      Speakers: Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Tejas Rao (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • 6
      RACF Linux Farm
      Speakers: Christopher Hollowell (RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility), William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)
    • 7
      CSI resources
      Speaker: Mr Costin Caramarcu (BNL-RACF)
    • 8
      AOB
      Speaker: Shigeki Misawa (BNL)