AGLT2 is running smoothly, with no apparent issues.

Core count has exceeded 10000 for the first time since our establishment.

All dCache servers and WN are online from the Fall RBT purchases.  Equipment purchased with closeout funds is also now online and the Capacity Spreadsheet is up to date.

Some of the closeout funds were designated for replacement 1Gb and 10Gb switches.  The latter was necessary for the expansion of the UM WN complement.  We received an S4048-ON switch for this, and it is performing admirably.  The 1Gb N2048 switches are being used at both MSU and UM for public NIC connections for WN that still rely on those 1Gb NICs.  Consequent stage-in rates have nearly tripled as a result to 25-30MB/s for each connected WN.  Three of these switches are yet to install at MSU, but we expect this to complete within the next 2 weeks, resulting in only a small number of remaining 1Gb public NICs on the PC6248.

dCache was upgraded from 2.13.50 to 2.16.26.  The DB schema updates took ~5hours to complete, but left us with extremely slow write rates and many timeouts.  Discussion with dCache support lead us to vacuum some of the tables and restore our efficiency.  The adjustments we made are now part of the dCache upgrade scheme.

We expect sometime in the next 2 weeks to upgrade our gatekeepers to the just-released 3.3.21 version with HTCondor 8.4.11.