april 25, 2001hepix/hepnt fermi site report lisa giacchetti

April 25, 2001 HEPiX/HEPNT

FERMI SITE REPORT

Lisa Giacchetti


General Computing News UNIX OS Support list modifications

Solaris 8 certification finished. Linux 7.1 not yet geared up. Tru64 5.x certification and freeze not likely. General question on certification being forced by Linux

Mass Storage Systems Enstore in production use

Utilised on farms, fnalu, sdss, cms HPSS to be retired this Fall.

Serial Media working group decision: Exabyte Mammoth 2 Working with ADIC and Exabyte to resolve

issues.


General Computing News General Kerberos Authentication deployment now beginning.

Goal of covering the whole site by 12/31/01. (Talks by Mark (Tues) and Dane later)

Testing an Xterm replacement that can do Kerberos (demo ?) Stage 2 of NGOP prototype. (talk by Tanya Levshina) Evaluations/Investigations

Combined compute farm and storage concepts. SAN technologies: mostly background Layer 4 switching

Alteon, Cisco, Foundry Possible uses: web, email, afs, analysis farm

PC/IDE Linux file servers in early production (6 servers ~ 10 TB) Involvement in PPDG is making Grid connections for us. SC2000(1) outreach efforts with SLAC viewed as successful.


RUN II Computing News First Run II collisions in the Tevatron early April.

Both experiments taking commissioning detectors and DAQ.

Farms D0 has 100 farm nodes in production. 100 more in

October. CDF has 90 farm nodes in production. 64 more on order

now Both CDF and D0 in operation in KRB5 Pilot Realm. CDF had demonstrated date at rate through full

system. D0 commissioning L3 system. Both experiments using large disk cache’s heavily

for early analysis.


CMS Computing News New Hardware

FY01 budget issues resolving and expect to make several procurements yet this year.

Enhanced Analysis system Test and prototype systems Expanded production farm

Support Meeting held at Brookhaven for US CMS and Atlas to

exchange experience. Overlapping demands of production and R&D are

quite stressful on the system now.


Core Service Computing News Selected Sophos email gateway virus scanner. Selected LSI Logic Fibre disk for AFS server

upgrade. Still investigating new print server options. Recent patch deploy showed 1082 customers

for AutoRPM service for Linux. 231 offsite. 732 updated 1st night

Work on OS installation service for Linux, Irix continuing.


Organizational News Matthias Kasemann replaces Tom Nash as

Computer Security Executive effective June 1. Dane Skow will become Deputy Computer

Security Executive. Mark Kaletka will become OSS Department

Head.

april 25, 2001hepix/hepnt fermi site report lisa giacchetti

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