#  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)



 

 

 



 

 

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