<p>Looking to coordinate buys for FY18</p>

<p>Power maintenance Sept. 25, will absorb part of HU equipment to the BU pods.</p>

<p>Plan to turn off Bestman on Sept. 25, go to Gridftp only.</p>

<p>NESE hardware at MGHPCC, 1/2 cabled, upgrading NET2&lt;-&gt;NESE networking path to multi 100Gb/s.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On the agenda:</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0. Orders for remaining FY18 hardware.</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. Complete absorption &amp; retirement of HU_ queues.</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. Networking upgrade.</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. RH7 upgrade + do something about GPFS client.</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4. Plan IPv6 for NESE gateways.&nbsp; Test NESE as ATLAS storage endpoint.&nbsp;</p>