CANCELED: US ATLAS Computing Facility (Possible Topical)

Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 13:00 → 15:25 US/Eastern

Facilities Team Google Drive Folder

Zoom information

Meeting ID:  993 2967 7148

Meeting password: 452400

Invite link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/99329677148

 

 

13:00 → 13:05 WBS 2.3 Facility Management News

Speakers: Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Dr Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

13:05 → 13:10 OSG-LHC

Speakers: Brian Hua Lin (University of Wisconsin), Matyas Selmeci

13:10 → 13:30 WBS 2.3.1: Tier1 Center

Convener: Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

13:10 Tier-1 Infrastructure

Speaker: Jason Smith

13:15 Compute Farm

Speaker: Thomas Eric Smith (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

13:20 Storage

Speakers: Carlos Fernando Gamboa (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unkno), Carlos Fernando Gamboa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

13:25 Tier1 Operations and Monitoring

Speaker: Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:30 → 13:40 WBS 2.3.2 Tier2 Centers

Updates on US Tier-2 centers

Conveners: Fred Luehring (Indiana University (US)), Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US))

• Reasonable running over the past two weeks with small reductions in production.
  • All sites: Two outages caused by Oracle at CERN: 10/6/2026 and 10/17/2026.
  • NET2 A certificate expired at NET2 and there was delay getting a new IGTF certificate because UMass had changed certificate providers.
  • OU had problems with getting new storage to work stably and their were outbound transfer failures.
• The quarterly reporting is due.
  • Please update the services sheet to reflect what versions of the OS, Storage SW, Queuing SW, etc. as of 9/30/2026.
    • This will really help Fred write the quarterly report.
  • Please update the capacity sheet to reflect recent server retirements.
  • I still need the NET2 report.
  • Rafael and I looked at the milestones earlier this week and entered changes but let us know if you have any changes or additions.
    • We requested to retire the FY26 milestone to have new compute servers in production because no one bought any.
• The negotiations with Dell are grinding to a close.
  • The "final" quotes are listed on the Final Quotes Sep-Oct 2027 sheet.
  • Storage up more than a factor of two.
  • The final quote for S3248T-ON switch was significantly worse than the initial quote and Dell discontinued the less expensive S3048T-ON switch.
    • Dell is going "back to finance" to address this.
    • Dell is looking at providing 7 year service contracts (quotes provide 5 year service contracts).
• I believe that all needed information for the next increment of funding has been sent to Stony Brook.
  • We will get 2 month full cost extension of the current CA which will be followed by a one year no cost extension. This should eliminate the time pressure to issue POs and then receive the equipment.
    • Chris Bee requested each tier 2 provide him with their personnel and travel costs for the extension period and this was completed last Friday.

13:40 → 13:50 WBS 2.3.3 Heterogenous Integration and Operations

HIOPS

Convener: Rui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

13:40 HPC Operations

Speaker: Rui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

13:45 Integration of Complex Workflows on Heterogeneous Resources

Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

13:50 → 14:10 WBS 2.3.4 Analysis Facilities

Convener: Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

13:50 Analysis Facilities - BNL

Speaker: Qiulan Huang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

• Jupyter nodes automated deployment status

  • Fixed and merged the JupyterHub Puppet code for the landing page

  • The Condor configuration is in place
• Will reshape interactive nodes into half as many (8x -> 4x) attsub’s w/ double the resources regarding to the requests from ATLAS users.
  
  • Aim to have more CPU cores for the parallel workflow

13:55 Analysis Facilities - SLAC

Speaker: Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:00 Analysis Facilities - Chicago

Speaker: Fengping Hu (University of Chicago (US))

14:10 → 14:30 WBS 2.3.5 Continuous Operations

Conveners: Ivan Glushkov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:10 ADC Operations, US Cloud Operations: Site Issues, Tickets & ADC Ops News

Speaker: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

14:15 Services DevOps

Speaker: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))

14:20 Facility R&D

Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

14:25 Cybersecurity plan(s)

Speakers: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)), Shigeki Misawa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:30 → 14:40 AOB