SDCC Liaison Meeting

US/Eastern
3-192 (Bldg 510)

3-192

Bldg 510

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

  • stable operations

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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