SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 16 May 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

General Services

• ITD plans to release an Indico test environment details coming soon

• Rafael will ask developers about adding new members in bulk

• Initial plan likely includes authentication SDCC/ITD AD/CILogon

• call for further testing NX

 

Storage Group

• T3 can’t mount PHENIX pnfs

• call for testing XCache

 

HPSS status

• STAR tape library moving from RCF room to CDCE room

• LTO5/LTO6 access may be affected for a few weeks until completion

 

Linux Farm

• PPM finalized purchase for RHC/ATLAS/BelleII awarded to AMD/Supermicro ~8 weeks ETA

• arrival of 8 new machines for RHIC/T3 interactive access

• plan is to move current interactive physical hosts to Virtual Machines

• ~ 2 week schedule for the migration

• proposal to revisit HTCondor policy: hold jobs that ran > 3 days as opposed to evict/restart

• demo of new condor monitoring using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash

 

AOB

• Liaisons asked for status of making our CVMFS available to OSG for replication

• SDCC responded with internal discussion should first be taken offline more info will follow

1 Facility News & Announcements

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

2 Network operations

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

3 General Services

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

4 Storage Group Update

Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5 HPSS status

Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

9 AOB

Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)