SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Kevin Casella (SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL)
Description
BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News

  • DOE CIO memo requires MFA over all email especially IMAP

  • SDCC wrote a formal response to Cyber Security

  • questions and concerns should be brought to an SSIO

Network

  • CDCE electrical work complete and all systems are grounded

  • HPSS library was physically moved from BCF to CDCE

  • about 11K tapes will physically migrate from BCF to CDCE between now and Nov ‘19

  • UDP Flood incident July 23, 2019

General Services

  • NX instructions for choosing an alternative Window Manager

Storage Group

  • update the firmware on home directories storage and RHEV storage

  • 2 new STAR gpfs servers and new SSD storage coming

  • STAR received 200 TB capacity for gpfs storage

  • EIC received 300 TB capacity for gpfs storage

Collaborative Tools

  • self-hosted Rocket Chat – an open source collaborative messaging tool similar to Slack

  • admin page created to allow subgroups and a mechanism to approve/deny group requests

Linux Farm

  • Supermicro machines should arrive mid August

  • gpfs upgrade schedule over 4 weeks (25% Farm will drain at a time)

  • NSLS machines are provisioned

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