• dCache downtime scheduled for 03/24~03/26 (48h), for upgrade to version 5.2, for support of SRR and TPC, plus many other bug fixes and improvements
  • CPU utilization fluctuated recently, stable now though
    • not enough pilots
    • job router changes on CEs
  • draining and rebooting partial WNs in the farm, in a rolling fashion
    • upgrade cvmfs to 2.7.0
    • add cvmfs-x509-helper package for LIGO jobs
  • R&D 
    • Data Carousel exercise/RPVLL reprocessing 
      • going well. BNL staging throughput 3GB/s+, best among T1s
      • need more requests to stress the system
    • MAS
      • "moving" instead of "copying" unused datasets from DATADISK to BNL_LAKE
      • running jobs on the BNL_LAKE_UCORE PQ