Operations Progress Report July-August 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
- RT Tickets
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- 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)
- RCE Usage
