Access to MGHPCC is still allowed with scheduling and preparation.  Not a major limitation for us in practice.

Added two new NESE gateway nodes for gridftp transfers.  NESE nodes working, working with ADC guys moving more into production.   New AGIS site and BU_NESE and new NESE_DATADISK will be "nucleus" site has been created.  Being tested by ADC.   New storage has arrived except for a couple of management switches from DELL which have been delayed until this month. 

Ordering broken fans for various C6000 chassis failures. 

Rolling kernel updates are in process on the worker nodes. 

SLATE node installed (atlas-slate01.bu.edu) and first pass at installation attempted.  We'll be in touch with SLATE team soon.

Proceeding to prepare a large volume tape tier for NESE & NET2.   Aiming for initial ~30PB storage with ~0.5PB front end.  Meeting with vendors (IBM, SpectraLogic and Quantum).   Want to compare notes with Xin and BNL. 

Smooth operations otherwise in the past two weeks except that the site isn't really getting saturated.