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

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
      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
      CSI resources
      Speaker: Mr Costin Caramarcu (BNL-RACF)
    • 7
      Collaborative Tools
      Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Brandon Weindorf
    • 8
      RACF Linux Farm
      Speakers: Christopher Hollowell (RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility), William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)
    • 9
      AOB
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory)