SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News & Announcements

Maintenance Intervention ETA is 8/20 for NFS cut-in, T-O-R switch transition, and re-IP RHIC nodes

AFS RHEV filesystem requires 15 min maintenance an announcement will follow

 

Network Operations

BNL cloud is retired

TOR switches have been dispatched by procurement arrival at BNL ETA is by August

 

Storage Group none

 

HPSS status

round powderhorn silos decommissioning is complete

began repacking DST class from LTO4 tape to LTO7 tape

STAR had exclusive permission to raw ‘18

PHENIX tape purchase was delivered to BNL

 

General Services

SSL settings will be tweaked on the mail server (this should be transparent)

STAR GPFS appliance arrived

home directories have been migrated to the new appliance

request for experiments to do NFS home directory load testing emails were sent out

 

RACF Linux Farm

RHIC cvmfs repos are in place

 

CSI resources

we observed excessive buffering on Infiniband swiches

this is an ongoing investigation with the support of their engineers

GPFS was down for approximately 2 hours during the initial troubleshooting

 

AOB

electricians will require a brief downtime to service PDU feeds in CDCE room for safety

announcement will follow with a possible rolling downtime schedule for week of 7/30

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 1
      Facility News & Announcements
      Speaker: Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))
    • 2
      Network operations
      Speaker: Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
    • 3
      Storage Group Update
      Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 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: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)