- OSG Technology Area is asking sites to transition to OSG SW release 3.3.x a.s.a.p. as they want to drop support for OSG 3.2 by ~August
- I have sent a respective announcement to the US ATLAS T2 list and received feedback from AGLT2 and MWT2 indicating lack of support for dccp in rel 3.3
- This was brought up by Xin at yesterday's OSG production operations meting. The OSG SW team is looking into the issue. US ATLAS Facilities are expected to receive a response from Brian Bockelman (who heads the OSG Technology Area)
- Smooth operation of the Tier-1 center over the course of the last 2 weeks, utilization of CPU at capacity
- Reprocessing of 2012 data running since late last week on T1s and T2s worldwide
- T1 at BNL is leading the league of sites by a large fraction: overall contribution of 33%, followed by RAL (9.5%) and SIGNET (8%), a lot of stress is on the tape system, excellent staging performance of up to 50TB/60k RAW data files retrieved from tape in 24h: http://dashb-atlas-job.cern.ch/dashboard/request.py/dailysummary#button=cpuconsumption&sites[]=All+T21&sitesCat[]=All+Countries&activities[]=reprocessing&resourcetype=All&sitesSort=5&sitesCatSort=0&start=2016-02-01&end=2016-02-03&timerange=daily&granularity=Hourly&generic=0&sortby=11&series=All
- At the T1 we are in the process of implementing the memory configuration as requested by ADC at the WLCG collaboration meeting
- We've made the following changes in AGIS. :
queue name maxrss(GB) minrss(GB)
BNL_ATLAS_2 8 2.5
BNL_PROD 5 0
BNL_PROD_MCORE 24 0
BNL_PROD_MCOREHIMEM 64 24
ANALY_XX queues 3 0
- The first part of FY16 disk storage procurement has arrived, ~2.3 PB of usable disk space.
- Article about BNL/ATLAS AWS cloud work in InformationsWeek at http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/brookhaven-lab-finds-aws-spot-instances-hit-sweet-spot/d/d-id/1324145