Operations Progress Report July-August 2013

September 17, 2013
  • Reporting Period Updates:
    • Updated tape backup infrastructure from LTO4 to LTO6. Tripling tape capacity and increasing backup throughput.
    • Re-designed RCE projects backup strategy to reduce failures and extend tape as a viable medium for research data backups
    • Implemented new RCE Project space cost-recovery model.
    • Working with CGIS Building Operations we increased data center temperatures to save energy but keep the room within normal parameters.
    • Upgraded numerous websites from php-5.2 to php-5.3 to resolve security issues.
    • New DoD compliant harddisk erase system put in place to comply with HRDSP requirements
    • Completed upgrade of our system and service monitoring software.
    • Worked with Data Science staffers with implementation of new Jenkins CI system
    • Continued bug fixes and enhancement requests in RCE6 beta
  • Open issues, questions, or needs
    • None at this time
  • Metrics
    • RT Tickets
      • 117 new tickets escalated to Operations, 118 tickets resolved
      • 39 new project tickets created, 58 project tickets resolved, 177 remaining project tickets
    • RCE Usage
      • RCE login nodes, users: 90
      • Interactive compute nodes, Users: 69 | Processing Hours: 30,060.4, (3.43 CPU years)
      • Batch compute nodes, Users: 15 |  Processing Hours: 121,599.1 (13.88 CPU years)