Transcript LAL Site Report HEPix – Jlab Nov. 2000 Michel Jouvin [email protected] 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000

LAL Site Report
HEPix – Jlab Nov. 2000
Michel Jouvin
[email protected]
1/11/2000
LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000
Main Resources (Unix)
40
Go
Electronic CAD
(Sun + Cadence)
Mechanical CAD
(Alphas)
DS20
•NFS
•SMB
•Appletalk
•www
•Mail
•Print
600
Go
Compaq PWS500
Compaq DS20e
Experiments
Servers
(Dec, HP, Linux)
AS 800 5/500
Gb Ethernet
100 Mb
10 Mb
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Xterm
PC
LSF Cluster
(batch + interactive
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Computing Resources
• Physics
– Unix : 13 Alpha + 3 HP + 5 Linux + 2 Sun
• Oldest machines stopped (3 Alpha + 3 HP)
– VMS : 1 Alpha + 1 Vaxstation
• End of support with LEP end of life ?
• Electronic CAD : 12 Sun  Cadence
– Evaluating LSF use
• Mechanic CAD : 5 Alpha/Unix  Euclid
– Should move to Catia (IBM? NT?)
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Desktop
• 150 X terminals
– No significant decrease yet
• Microcomputers
– 100 Macs
• No increase but renewal
– >130 PC
• Only NT supported, pressure for Linux (lowering)
• more and more used by physicists
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PC Installation and Management
• Began to move to W2000
– New PCs installed with 2000
– NT domain moved to ActiveDirectory
– Using group policies to enforce standard config
• SMS used for massive updates
– 120 PC registered
• 70% NT, 15% W2K, 8% W95, 7% W98
– Virus signature periodic update and SP
• No solution (yet?) for Mac...
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Linux Installation
• LAL uses Red Hat
– 6.1 in production, plan to move to 6.2 or 7.0
• Linux on desktop
– Not supported except for notebooks
• NFS filesystems not exported
– Automatic installation working (Kixstart)
– Pressure is lowering…
– vmware offers an attractive alternative
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PC Hardware Packaging
• Space begins to be a problem for us
– Should buy 10 more PCs (server) shortly
– Current tower packaging not convenient
• Look at 1U rackable PCs (dual CPU)
– Few vendors
• IBM seems the leader
– Significantly more expensive : #50%
– Any experiences ?
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Mail Clients : Classical
• Execmail/Simeon is dead but still used
• Netscape/Outlook still not supported
• Replacing by Mulberry from Cyrusoft
– Mac / Wxx / Unix
– Supports IMSP and ACAP
• Preferences and AB on server
• Same AB as Execmail
– Support LDAP for readonly AB
– Advanced disconnected mode
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Mail Clients : Web Access
• Silkymail from Cyrusoft, Mulberry editor
– Free, based on IMP, written in PHP (servlet)
– http://www.cyrusoft.com
• Many advanced features
– LDAP, AB searching, Mailbox browser
• Support IMSP, ACAP coming
– Preferences and AB on server
– AB common with Mulberry and Execmail
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Metaframe / Wincenter
• Remains a crucial service
– Growing number of simultaneous users
• Plan to start a second machine soon
– Move to W2000 based Metaframe
– Probably implement load balancing
– Move from X11 on Metaframe to ICA clients
on Unix
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