SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News and Announcements
HPC resources
CSI proposals review – 24 advanced to scientific review
RACF/SDCC Network Operations
RHIC Migration,ATLAS Dcache Migration – Status reports
Significant cleanup of CDCE - No unused fibres Conversion of compute node racks in CDCE Belle II dCache Storage upgrade - received new systems SciCore switch pair changes New SF installation SW upgrade is availble for the SciZone perimeter firewall - waiting confirmation from STAR New RACKS storage move to the BCF
Linux Farm – combining does not give much gain
See slides posted on agenda
HPSS status
RAW data taking for STAR – stopped yesterday as switching over to 27 G for STAR
Two silos have been decomissioned.
Waiting for quotes.
Scheduling to take down 9000 tapes end of July.
Working on Media software for STAR, ATLAS, PHENIX requirements.
Tapes are down for BRAHMS experiment
For PHOBOS experiment waiting for Peter Steinberg approval .
STAR – 2 PB of data taken, production at same rate.
General Services:
Issues with the RCF Mail server. Update next week (no changes in Roundcube web mailserver)
The RCF mail server (rcf.rhic.bnl.gov) will be migrated to new hardware/software soon. The frontend proxy will be swapped next week and would be done transparently.
The IP of the new rcf.rhic.bnl.gov would reside in the science zone.
RACF Linux Farm
BNL ATLAS systems upgraded to SL7 early this week
Added to the Shared pool for ATLAS (Row 51)
STAR shared pool is full
By May end all experiments except for PHENIX upgraded to SL7
PHENIX upgrade for SL7 - scheduled for after Quark Matter
Talking to condor developers regarding shared pool
600 switches migration - David Cortijo to help with the migration
CSI Resources
Stable output
KNL Bios upgrade next week including submit nodes - upgrade will be done in batches
IC – more tests to follow up
LQCD Late delivery in 3-4 weeks
Belle II delivery in June