Scientific Computing and Data Facilities

Read more about How to add user to EIC COmanage community

To be able to log in to the https:⁄⁄eic-zenodo.sdcc.bnl.gov the user will need to be enrolled in the EIC COmanage community and group.

Read more about Site Monitoring and Triage

Useful Links for Monitoring US ATLAS Grid Sites

Site-oriented dashboards:
- US tier 2 federations on site-oriented dashboard.

Read more about Declaring Site Downtimes

Sites periodically need to declare a downtime, either one scheduled in advance (maintenance, etc.), or in some cases in response to a critical outage (power, cooling, etc.). In the latter case the ability to declare the outage quickly is useful in terms of informing ATLAS about the problem. This can avoid a situation where the site is down, but if the outage has not yet been reported then the site may begin receiving problem tickets like GGUS.

US sites have two options for declaring downtimes:

Read more about Certificate-Key Management in Windows

The Windows operating system includes a built-in Certificate Manager that stores user and server certificates and keys. One must use the Windows Certificate Manager in order to add a certificate-key pair to, remove from, or export certificate-key pairs from Chrome and other, similar applications.

Read more about Digital Management Policy

SDCC Digital Management Policy

SDCC Digital Management Policy (PDF, 187KB, last updated Mar. 2, 2021)

Experiment Digital Management Policies

Table of experiments where BNL is the lead laboratory, contact information for those experiments, and where available, links to their Data Management Policy

Read more about Indico login instructions

Indico Migration Steps to Federated ID

If you're currently logged into indico, please log out. You can also use an incognito window so that no cookies from your existing login interfere.

https://indico.bnl.gov/

Click on Login, then Federated Authentication:

Read more about About dCache

Overview

dCache is a sophisticated system that allows transparent access to files on disk or stored on magnetic tape drives in hierarchical storage managers (HSMs). dCache is a joint venture between the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), and Nordic e-Infrastructure collaboration (NeIC).

Read more about User Accounts

Obtaining a computer account on SDCC systems requires a valid guest appointment or employment at BNL and successful completion of BNL Cyber Security Training (GE-CYBERSEC). Once these prerequisites are complete, new users can “Get Started” by visiting the SDCC home page at https://www.sdcc.bnl

Read more about Change SDCC Password

How to change SDCC facility passwords

SDCC facility users can change their Kerberos and/or email passwords using the following procedures:

Read more about DMARC Policy

Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) Policy

BNL Cyber Security has implemented an email authentication policy called DMARC, a domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy that relies on the DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) and SPF (sender policy framework) email authentication protocols.