SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 2 Aug 2018, 14:00 → 15:05 US/Eastern

3-192 (Bldg 510)

John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News & Announcements

Ongoing office re-assignments may continue through end of summer

August 20 maintenance: TOR switches/ re-IP farm/ cut over home directories from BlueArc to GPFS

Power interventions allowed electricians to provide grounding safety requirements this week

More power interventions may follow more information will be announced

Sensaphone power failure notification system was tested successfully during the poweroff

 

Network Operations

finalizing third round of legacy equipment retirement now

New equipment deployment and procurement of 28x Arista 7020 TOR switches copper/fiber underway

DNS clean-up for RHIC farm 1GbE subnets

phase out lsstnfs2 and lsstmgr1 (farm subnet 184)

RE-ip and virtualization of xrdstar0[1,2] (farm subnets 204/206)

retiring Brahms compute node rcas0006 (subnet 6)

retiring legacy PHENIX dCache DTN node phnxdoor03

PHENIX central DB and dCache move from 4-9 to 45-6: phnxdbrcf[1,2,4,5,7] and phnxcore0[3,4]

 

Storage Group

XRootD STAR appliance is ready and should be cut in to production transparent to users

 

HPSS status

Monday 7/30 HPSS had a service interruption (2 hours down)

PHENIX tapes have been delivered to BNL

 

General Services

8/20 user home directories will cut over from BlueArc to GPFS behind maintenance window

 

RACF Linux Farm

Power Intervention is nearly done nodes were drained according to schedule and transparent to users

8/20 TOR migration and re-IP behind maintenance window

 

CSI resources

IC-cluster expansion will add 54 nodes in 3 racks early phase of procurement has begun

 

AOB

request for dCache monitoring page to show status of pools online/offline

14:00 → 14:10 Facility News & Announcements

Speaker: Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))

14:10 → 14:20 Network operations

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

azaytsev_NETOPS_status_02082018_v2.pdf

14:20 → 14:25 Storage Group Update

Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:25 → 14:30 HPSS status

Speaker: David Yu (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:30 → 14:35 General Services

Speakers: Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Tejas Rao (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:35 → 14:40 RACF Linux Farm

Speakers: Christopher Hollowell (RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility), William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)

14:40 → 14:45 CSI resources

Speaker: Mr Costin Caramarcu (BNL-RACF)

14:45 → 14:50 AOB

Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)