SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 30 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

 

Network

• Migration Intervention was completed 8/21

• PHENIX central DB and dCache will move from 4-9 to 45-6

• SciZone/RHIC CH perimeter firewall upgrade had issues then rolled back successfully

• major legacy 1Gb copper and patch panel removal is underway for racks migrated to TOR

Storage

• 2PB additional RHIC central storage is in FY 2019 budget ETA to BNL soon (late ‘18)

HPSS

• normal operations; STAR tapes were delivered to BNL

General Services

• mail service restarted on all servers to strengthen security; TLS 1.0 will be disabled soon

• rftpexp servers interactive login and port forwarding will be restricted to address security

• user home directories and BlueArc data cut over to GPFS and the new to NetApp appliance

• NX was upgraded to latest release

Linux Farm

• TOR switch migration and re-IP of 800+ RHIC nodes completed 8/21 maintenance

• issue/bug with tcsh history file lock was found and fixed

• liaisons now have sudo privilege to su - any user within their experiment and clean batch

CSI

• normal operations; IC-cluster expansion in procurement

Services & Tools

• Mailman, Indico plugins, Invenio, Jupyter, in development not yet ready for general use

• LDAP/Kerberos will migrate into IPA and Keycloak (SSO/AUTH) will replace Shibboleth

• user impact - required to login to gateway and change password (first time only)

AOB

• Technology Talk on Jupyter Notebook scheduled 9/27 with Ofer Rind

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_30082018_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 Services & Tools

Speaker: Thomas Throwe (BNL)

14:50 → 15:00 AOB

Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)