Transcript FERMI SITE REPORT Lisa Giacchetti November 1, 2000 HEPiX/HEPNT General Computing News  UNIX OS Support list modifications     Decision to drop support for TRU64 Discussion underway to.

FERMI SITE REPORT
Lisa Giacchetti
November 1, 2000
HEPiX/HEPNT
General Computing News
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UNIX OS Support list modifications
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Decision to drop support for TRU64
Discussion underway to limit UNIX desktop support model to
Linux
Certifications for Solaris 8 and Linux 7 beginning
Mass Storage Systems
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Enstore in limited production use
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Utilised on farms, fnalu, sdss, cms
Serial Media working group decision: Exabyte
Mammoth 2
November 1, 2000
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General Computing News
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Evaluations/Investigations
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SAN technologies: SANergy, CXFS, GFS
Layer 4 switching
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Alteon, Cisco, Foundry
Possible uses: web, email, afs, analysis farm
PC/IDE Linux file servers (ala CERN)
2nd Linux vendor qualification starting 11/5
November 1, 2000
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RUN II Computing News
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March 2001 start date still on
CDF in commissioning run for past few weeks.
Many computing folks have been spending significant
time on RUNII operations discussions and MOU.
Farms
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D0 has 50 new farm nodes in acceptance test
CDF has 40 more on order
Both CDF and D0 working on migrating to KRB5
Strengthened Realm (700+users, 175+ machines
now in operation)
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This will include farms and offline computing facilities
November 1, 2000
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CMS Computing News
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New Hardware
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3 DELL 6400 4CPU servers w/ Dell hardware raid
40 Atipa dual 750Mhz 2u units
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In acceptance test phase
First purchase of systems from Atipa: integrated racked
solution. From shipping dock to burnin test in 3 days.
Also using the “FT farms” in standard Fermi farm config
Support
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Limited hardware and too many things to do: fall production
or R&D
Several computing folks are helping with WBS for US-CMS
Facility (Lehman review in November)
November 1, 2000
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Core Service Computing News
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Migration to Solaris based mail gateway completed
New e-mail list software implemented:
[email protected] or listserv.fnal.gov (web)
AFS services stable despite problems with hardware
raid (Nstor)
Investigating new print server options
Work on OS installation service for Linux, Irix
continuing. Solaris is problematic for us.
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Organizational News
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Lothar Bauerdick starts today has head of US-CMS
Computing Level 1 Manager
HEPNRC functions/staff cut back as result of DOE
review
OSS dept reorganization 10/5
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Focus is customer/service based not technology based
3 groups: Core Services (Mark Kaletka), Technical and
Office Computing (Tim Doody), and Scientific Computing
(Lisa Giacchetti)
November 1, 2000
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