SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 20 Feb 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

• Terry Healy will join and work on BNLBox analytics, usage, scaleability

Network Operations

• preparations complete for B725 network equipment

• consolodation of services to RHEV

Storage (Disk and Tape)

• generating increased load on JBOD to test new storage monitoring system

• investigating plans to increase storage density

• HPSS wave of staging for ATLAS whereas STAR is currently light

General Services

• Reminder upcoming deadline for MFA email is 4/15/20

• roundcube webmail test server already updated with MFA and mobile friendly skin

• plan to cut over to production soon

• details will come at next meeting in two weeks

Fabric group

• Supermicro gave remote access for testing Intel’s Cascasde Lake Refresh CPUs

• These offer additional cores, higher clock frequencies and cache at same or lower price

• These may compete better with AMD for the upcoming Farm purchase

Services & Tools

• BNLBox analytics coming soon

1 Facility News & Announcements

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

2 Network Operations

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

3 Storage (Disk and Tape) group

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

4 General Services group

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

5 Fabric group

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

6 Service & Tools group

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

7 AOB