HEPiX Spring 2022 online Workshop

Session

IT Facilities & Business Continuity

Apr 27, 2022, 11:45 AM

Online workshop

87. Next business day, or whenever we can

Mr Dennis van Dok

4/27/22, 11:45 AM

IT Facilities & Business Continuity

We've operated data center hardware from various major vendors in the last two decades. For most systems we took out expensive support contracts for three to five years so defective hardware (memory, hard drives, motherboards) would be replaced in one business day.
In recent years we have been noticing a considerable drop in the quality of delivering this support, where suppliers were unable...

91. SDCC Transition to the New Data Center

Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

4/27/22, 6:20 PM

IT Facilities & Business Continuity

The BNL Computing Facility Revitalization (CFR) project aimed at repurposing the former National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-I) building (B725) located on BNL site as a new data center for Scientific Data and Computing Center (SDCC). The CFR project finished the design phase in the first half of 2019, completed the construction phase by the end of FY2021, and entered the early occupancy...