Scientific Computing Services set up a GPFS-based NFS storage cluster for MCC and released it for production work on Tuesday 2/11/2014. This storage model can be administered and managed with greater reliability and efficiency and will serve as the first storage offering of its kind for SLAC.
Scientific Computing Services met with representatives from Stanford, UCSC, and YFS, our support provider for AFS. AFS is a distributed file system used at many research and educational institutions. It provides a scalable, globally shared filesystem, and is a core underlying infrastructure for SLAC computing. The AFS presentation focused on current issues with AFS and features and enhancements that will be available in YFS later this year. YFS looks promising as a replacement for AFS at SLAC and we will continue to evaluate this file system over the coming months.