SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 7 Mar 2019, 14:00 → 15:05 US/Eastern

3-192 (Bldg 510)

John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Kevin Casella (SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL)

BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News & Announcements

• RHIC run 2019 so far so good

 

Network Operations

• Usertrust CA blocked by BNL-Cyber on 2/28/2019, affecting ATLAS and Belle-2

• Follow up is in progress with a mechanism to avoid similar occurrences

• SciZone Perimeter Firewall Configuration is effort underway, documenting FW rules

• New unfirewalled DMZ subnet 198.125.210.0/25 is provisioned for upcoming CSI

• BNL Campus Network Core failover test succesfully done by ITD on 3/2/2019

• 19 racks of retired legacy RHIC storage being removed from SDCC

• New ATLAS T1 storage installation in CDCE underway

• New BelleII/LQCD HPSS mover system are being built in CDCE into racks 44-[2,3]

 

HPSS status

• raw data collection ramped up after 3/1 to 1Gbps bandwidth

• current configuration is good

 

General Services

• GPFS has been stable again, fs is responsive and load improved; NFS/AFS are stable

• STAR GPFS was suffering heavy IOPS

• Jerome deleted input data from gpfs01 and moved to XRootD (Hitachi JBOD)

• the system has been improved ever since, however

• Jerome expressed concerns for future viability of this solution

 

Linux Farm

• shared pool operational for STAR and PHENIX currently

• cgroups on bandwidth between dCache/condor batch

• T3 compute scheduled to move into shared pool Mon 3/11

 

CSI Resources

• normal operations

 

Services & Tools

• no announcement

14:00 → 14:10 Facility News & Announcements

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

14:10 → 14:15 Network operations

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

azaytsev_NETOPS_status_07032019_v1a.pdf

14:15 → 14:20 Storage Group Update

Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:20 → 14:25 HPSS status

Speaker: David Yu (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:25 → 14:30 General Services

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

14:30 → 14:35 RACF Linux Farm

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

14:35 → 14:40 CSI resources

Speaker: Mr Costin Caramarcu (BNL-RACF)

14:40 → 14:45 Services & Tools

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

14:45 → 14:50 AOB

Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)