SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News & Announcements
Belle-II and LQCD clusters delivered, integrated, and soon to be production ready
procurement began for STAR/PHENIX storage solution to compensate for row22/row24 EOL
Robert Hancock joined SDCC to ramp up for Belle-II computing and member of storage team
knowledge transfer to transition dCache/xRootd support into storage management group
Network Operations
completing cleanup of legacy network
Arista switch SW upgrade finished
Belle-II and LQCD network completed
procurement began for 28x Arista 7020T ToR switches copper/fiber for replacement of s803/s804
first intervention for 1GbE tentatively by end of July
PHENIX dCache upgrade status
namesapce migrated from PNFS to Chimera; Postgres upgraded to 9.5
dCache upgraded to 3.2 latest golden release
1 core server and read pools upgraded to SL7, 8 write pools remain SL6 to upgrade SL7 soon
resolved name space mount, writing to dCache, file hopping, performance tuning
TBD replicate services, test/deploy NFS4, backup/tune Chimera, monitoring, billing, puppet
HPSS status
RHIC run 2018 raw data taking is now complete (end of run)
began the decommission of legacy powderhorn library removal tentatively by mid-July
STAR and ATLAS tapes were delivered PHENIX estimates are good through late summer
began planning delivery of IBM loaner library
General Services
New NFS appliance was delivered
New STAR GPFS HW was delivered
ensure license upgraded
RACF Linux Farm
SL7 upgrades completed today for PHENIX
retiring row22/row24 postponed until after STAR/PHENIX storage solution is completed
CSI resources
KNL and IC clusters have been stable and well utilized
LQCD cluster delivered, integrated, QA tested and validated, very near production ready
AOB