Thursday April 9, 2020 Liaison Meeting Minutes
Facility News
- Masood Zaran joined SDCC staff June 22
- Upcoming Technology Talk on CVMFS in July will be announced
- Next Liaison Meeting Topical Discussion will be on Federated IdM
Facility Operations
Network
- CFR transition to B725 is again underway and accelerating after delays from MINSAFE
- GP Lustre MDS servers being delivered next week
- FY2020 RHIC/ATLAS compute racks being delivered next week
- 2 x 14 TB JBOD storage purchases are being procured
- New monitoring servers expected before end of FY 2020
- New CSI storage, network and tape expected before end of FY 2020
Storage
- Guangwei has left HPSS group
- New HPSS library will be fibre-attached SCSI we need to prepare HPSS core server (ETA 10/2020)
- dCache new status page with two tests pool status and dcdoor status is in grafana monitoring
- dCache checksum improvements for staging to HPSS
- may need a periodic cleanse for PHENIX dCache no error handling of corrupt files / bad copies
General Services
Fabric
- FY2020 RHIC/ATLAS compute racks being delivered next week
- new release candidate for singularity will go on play machine for testing
- cadaver command line WebDAV client currently testing on T3 interactive nodes
- plan to push cadaver everywhere on the farm next week
Services & Tools
- surge of users for BNLBox cloud storage
Topical Discussion: Web CMS and General Back-end Infrastructure
- upgrade to Drupal
- plans for user-facing websites
- content migration and management
- timelines
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