Following an unexpected power outage on Thursday, May 30th, Scientific Computing Services restored services within 4 hours of the return of power and chilled water to Building 50. SCS also responded to the failure of a controller in the PCDS/LCLS Lustre storage system, returning it to service by Friday evening. The restoration of services enabled the Scientific Computing community to continue with their experiments and programs.
Scientific Computing Services worked with Datacenter Technical Coordinators to modernize the server management infrastructure in Building 50. New server installations no longer require obsolete serial communications hardware. This will reduce cost overheads and shorten the amount of time required for initial system setup and deployment.
Cyber Safety (critical to keep all Lab computing services in operation)
Scientific Computing Services responded to requests from the visiting KPMG team related to Unix accounts, elevated privileges, security, system management, logging, monitoring and the process for handling changes. This provided the IG Audit review team with information and substantiation of how SLAC handles the centrally-managed systems and services.