• 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