SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 23 Jan 2020, 14:00 → 15:00 US/Eastern

3-192 (Bldg 510)

Kevin Casella (SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL), Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))

BlueJeans Meeting ID: 819 381 923

Facility News

• Tom Throwe will be SDCC co-ISSO with John McCarthy, taking over for John Hover

• Several current job openings now including S4 Physicist jobid 2028

Network Operations

• Network equipment for B725 being purchased 10 x Arista 7500R3 + linecards/transceivers

• DCIM expansion in CDCE onto CDU of rows 46S-49S and eventually 50N

Storage (Disk and Tape)

• last week issues with 32GB Host Bus Adapter, after downgrade to old firmware it’s OK

• data carousel Round-2 new model from CERN

• increased read performance: 30K read requests now 100 Mb/sec compared to 20 Mb/sec

• PHENIX dCache 1 PB sPHENIX raw data added

General Services

• updates to new user request form

• Coverity licenses updated last week

Fabric group

• INERGEN fire-suppression tanks in SDCC are old, suffering loss of pressure

• refill would be expensive

• in order to eliminate this system DOE requires backups and no critical infrastructure

• New purchase will soon go out for bid sweet spot between the following

• 96 cores Cascade Lake; 4 x 1.9 TB SSD for IO; dual-attached 1 GbE bond; software RAID

• 128 cores AMD Rome; 5 x 1.9 TB SSD for IO; dual-attached 1 GbE bond; software RAID

• migrated legacy Linux Farm Vms to new RHEV

Services & Tools

• BNLBox Policy Proposal:

• Default 50 GB quota but can be increased up to 1 TB with request and approval via RT

• Requests beyond 1 TB need to be discussed and evaluated in fairness among programs

• Archival tape access not default, but CSI has defined a charge-back model based on LQCD

14:00 → 14:10 Facility News & Announcements

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

Liaison_Meeting_01_23_20.pdf

14:10 → 14:15 Network Operations

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

azaytsev_NETOPS_status_23012020_v2.pdf

14:15 → 14:25 Storage (Disk and Tape) group

Speakers: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Tim Chou (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:25 → 14:30 General Services group

Speakers: Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Louis Pelosi, Mizuki karasawa (Sdcc), Tejas Rao (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:30 → 14:35 Fabric group

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

14:35 → 14:40 Service & Tools group

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

BNLBox_Policy_Proposal.pdf

14:40 → 14:45 AOB