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

 

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

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
      Services & Tools
      Speaker: Thomas Throwe (BNL)
    • 9
      AOB
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)