Glasgow Site report

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• Glasgow Site report

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Strategy

• move to experiment/project based local computing
• grid is the future for Monte Carlo and Analysis
• laptops are becoming more important
• move towards self management and self support of
  desktops

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Equipment

• gt 60 Desktop PCs of ages up to 5½ years
• Windows 95, NT, 2000
• Linux ( RedHat 6.1 and 7.2)
• 1 Tbyte File Server 2 years old
• RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.19 NFS3 patches
• CDF
• ScotGRID

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Laptops

• 8 for ScotGRID (organised by P.Millar)
• 4 For CDF
• 3 For Detector Developers
• ?? Personal
• Mixture of Windows 2000 and Linux

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Networking

• within HEP - mostly switched 100baseT
• dual 1GBit /s on Campus backbone
• Campus LAN and WAN link are currently in a tender
  process for upgrade
• Internet connection is via the ClydeNET-MAN/SuperJ
  anet router that happens to be on our campus

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• CDF
• national CDF procurement
• globus toolkit
• OpenPBS (?)
• D0s SAM (Sequential data Access via Meta-data
  http//d0db.fnal.gov/sam/)
• 8 x 700 MHz Xeon IBM xSeries 370, 4GB memory,
  1TB disk
• AIT-3 tape library (no photo)

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• 59 IBM X Series 330 dual 1 Ghz Pentium III with
  2GB memory
• 2 IBM IBM X series 340 dual 1GHz Pentium III
  with 2GB memory and dual ethernet
• 3 IBM IBM X series 340 dual 1GHz Pentium III
  with 2GB memory and 100 1000 Mbit/sec Ethernet
• 1 TB disk
• LTO/Ultrium Tape Library
• Cisco Ethernet Switches
• No Myrinet high performance interconnect for MPI
  style computing

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Desktop Installationand Update

• Windows NT
• manual installation by me from crib sheet, no
  updates
• particle domain in trust relationship with
  departmental physics domain
• Windows 2000
• factory, user
• Redhat Linux
• via m4 generated kickstart file and nfs
• minor updates via autorpm (http//www.autorpm.org/
  )

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Concerns

• Self Management
• inefficiency from lack of opportunity to develop
  and access skill
• inefficiency from duplication of effort
• Security
• self management
• mixing of research, teaching and administrative
  IT
• Grid developers wanting root access
• DAQ users wanting administrator rights