Transcript SLAC Site Report Chuck Boeheim Asst Director of Computing Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

SLAC Site Report
Chuck Boeheim
Asst Director of Computing
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Experiment Status
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BaBar
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Now taking data until August, achieving record
luminosities
Data has been reprocessed into new root format
Other experiments
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Glast - updated expected downlink rate 10x
Accelerator research - starting to use MPI cluster
Kavli - MPI interests, plus some data-intensive
projects
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Storage Expansion
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OS Status
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Linux
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RedHat Enterprise 3 (RHEL3) rolling out to most servers
and desktops
Begun weekly RedHat service meetings (by phone)
About 20 issues opened so far with them (missing function,
driver issues)
Have yum-based service to pull updates to systems.
Working out how to update mobile/offsite systems
(up2date?)
ALDI project to automate desktop upgrades
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OS Status
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Solaris
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Solaris 2.9 on most servers now
Mac OS X
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Currently unsupported
Support requested by some groups, notably Kavli
Some interest in performance as a file server
Great concern over costs of support of new
platform (3 to 5 FTE?)
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Managed systems, including desktops
Solaris 9
Solaris 8
Solaris 7
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Redhat 6.2
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Redhat 7.2
7.3
RHEL3
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Platform LSF
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SLAC has been helping to motivate Platform
to offer attractive cluster licensing terms
Platform now has world-wide HEP terms
available
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Windows Status
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Migrated from Citrix Metaframe 1.8 to Citrix XPe
Built Windows software installation site (XWeb) to manage
and track software distribution
Final stages of rolling out Exchange 2003
Rolled out Checkpoint Firewall's to protect internal resources
Switched anti-virus software from CA InoculateIT to Symantec
Migrated from Office XP to Office 2003
Rolled out Microsoft SQL Server for central Windows
applications (Citrix, XWeb, NetIQ, Solid Edge, etc...)
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