SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

Kevin Casella (SDCC), Ofer Rind (BNL), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL)
Description
BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News

  • HEPiX is this week

  • Software and Computing Round Table forming BNL/JLAB with EIC

  • Jose is leaving BNL to join RAL

Network Operations

  • New RHIC central storage 2 disk array and server pairs deploying in CDCE [43-4]

  • First racks of dedicated NSLS-II storage Lustre deploying in BGL [79-5]

  • New HPSS movers and infrastructure in CDCE row 44S

  • HPSS silo migration from BCF to CDCE next phase planned Nov 18-19 2019

  • DUNE dCache starting up in CDCE row41 with spare HW – need BNL Cyber resolution

  • B515 SciCore & Merged FE replacement migration to CDCE

  • Merging of former RHIC and ATLAS service blocks into one served by new SciCore

  • Request initial configuration of B725 central network infrastructure purchase Q3 FY2020

  • ‘Facility Layouts’ public chat: https://chat.sdcc.bnl.gov/sdcc/channels/facility-layouts

  • Backed up in BNLBox: https://bnlbox-test.sdcc.bnl.gov/index.php/f/12584353

Storage

  • 11/12 proposed date to replace STAR gateway

General Services

  • Mattermost chat update now has granular permissions, video chat and screen-share coming

  • replacement of rcf3 ongoing with new LaTeX and CUPS servers

  • 4/15/20 has been announced as a deadline for email MFA requirement

Services & Tools

  • sPHENIX meeting to set up a document repo

  • current BNL Box users will receive instructions for migrating data from old system

  • sPHENIX kernels are now available for Jupyter

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 14:00 14:10
      Facility News & Announcements 10m
      Speaker: Ofer Rind (BNL)
    • 14:10 14:15
      Network Operations 5m
      Speaker: Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
    • 14:15 14:25
      Storage (Disk and Tape) group 10m
      Speakers: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Tim Chou (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 14:25 14:30
      General Services group 5m
      Speakers: Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Mizuki karasawa (Sdcc), Tejas Rao (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • 14:30 14:35
      Fabric group 5m
      Speakers: Christopher Hollowell (RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility), William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)
    • 14:35 14:40
      Service & Tools group 5m
      Speaker: Ofer Rind (BNL)
    • 14:40 14:45
      AOB 5m