• Meltdown & Spectre
  • interactive nodes and CEs are patched, farm nodes will follow in a rolling fashion
  • performance degradation
    • almost none in our HS06 measurement
    • ADC reports ~7% hit in KV tests
• extra CPUs added to the ATLAS farm (~15kHS06) during the holiday break, to help reprocessing etc campaigns.
  • New compute nodes purchase arrived, will be brought online in the next weeks.