Transcript FERMILAB HEPiX Site Report Fall 1999 INTRODUCTIONS  FERMI HEPiX Attendees:  Dane Skow Dept. Head Operating System Support  Lisa Giacchetti Group Leader Central Systems  Don.

FERMILAB
HEPiX Site Report
Fall 1999
INTRODUCTIONS
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FERMI HEPiX Attendees:
 Dane
Skow Dept. Head Operating System Support
 Lisa Giacchetti Group Leader Central Systems
 Don Petravick Department Head High Performance
and Parallel Computing
 Bonnie Alcorn Group Leader Integrated Administration
LIFE IN GENERAL
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FT ‘99 extended until after Y2K
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Work now underway to make sure the systems will run
smoothly over the holiday break and past the y2k boundary
FERMI designated CMS Regional
Computing Support Center
 Mike Witherell started as new director in
July
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RUNII: General
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RUN II start date pushed back to March ‘01
RFP for RUN II Offline analysis systems final
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SGI won the bid for both CDF and D0
This purchase acquired first round of offline
analysis resources for both CDF and D0
On the order of 5000 Specint95 per experiment
Machines are installed and in integration state
Both collider experiments will hold a Mock
data challenge in the next two months
RUN II: Mass Storage
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EMASS Robots installed
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Various support groups are being trained to
operate the robot
Still no decision on tape drives
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Contenders: SONY AIT II, Exabyte Mammoth II, Quantum
Super DLT
RUN II: Farms
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RFP process for phase I of the RUN II farms took up
most of summer
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Of 5 bidders only 3 ended up as contenders for the split win
Eternal Graphics (50) and Hi Tech USA (100) were winners
Systems arrived 9/20 and are going through acceptance tests
right now
– Tests include SETI to exercise CPU, bonnie to exercise disk and
a third test to exercise network
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IO servers for these systems not yet in place
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This work will be done in December/January
SECURITY
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Continuing issues with computer security
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FERMI Strong Authentication
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Exploits occurring regularly
Methods of automating patch installs and keeping up to date
being investigated
User education a key component but difficult to implement
Use of kerberos to secure passwords
Preliminary deployment occuring now
For details see report given yesterday
Continued deployment of ssh and other security
enhancing tools (tcpwrappers, tripwire)
UNIX OS Support
Current UNIX usage numbers:
Solaris
Linux
IRIX
Fall '99
Spring '99
Digital
UNIX
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
AIX
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E-Mail Services
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IMAP Server Update
– Third IMAP server put into production in July (4
CPU Dell system using hardware raid)
– Migrated many of the heavy IMAP users to it
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Actively planning for a replacement for
the FNAL mail gateway