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We continue to add about 5TB of new data a week bringing the total size of LAT data at SLAC to xxxTB (xxx L1 600TB (400TB Level 1 output, xxx 180TB MC and xxx 20TB reprocessed data). 4 new file yyyTB 30TB servers arrived at SLAC on Monday and hopefully by the time you are reading this the first one will have been installed averting the need to store older data only on tape. Although the LAT data is all kept on raid arrays with multiple redundant drives we have also acquired an addition 250TB of tapes so that we can continue to keep all data backed up in case of unanticipated disk problems.

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An email went out earlier this month to all Fermi LAT collaborators who had not yet completed the required computer security training. We were informed by the SLAC Cyber Security Team that beginning in January 2010, all non-SLAC employees who had not completed this training would have their SLAC computer accounts disabled. (The deadline for SLAC employees was July 2009.) These accounts are used for access to the glast-ground web site including data access, interactive logins (Linux), email access, and access to a variety of other web-based services. Don't get stuck!

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