Smooth operations at capacity over the course of the last 2 weeks.

• observe >5000 low priority Event Server jobs in MCORE queue
• HI reconstruction MCORE jobs require >24GB of memory

Working on procurement

• Secondary Disk
  • Solution based on 14 RAID Inc 84-bay chassis with 8 TB Seagate PMR drives providing ~7.5 PB usable capacity. Status: ordered
• Compute
  • In the process of ordering ~40 kHS06 based on Intel/Broadwell equipped servers
    • Now offered in quantities by Dell and HP

AWS scaling

• Working with HTCondor team on scaling issues observed during the 100k core scaling test in March
• HTCondor team applied changes to their HTCondor <=> EC2 interaction protocol
  • Demonstrated ability to increase number of acquired VMs from 5k to 10k
  • They are now working on integrating the modified protocol component into a full release