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Jefferson LabSite Report Sandy Philpott Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 12000 Jefferson Ave. Newport News, Virginia USA 23606 Sandy.Philpott@jlab.org 757-269-7152 http://cc.jlab.org Fall 2006 HEPiX – JLab
Topics • JLab news • Computing news • DoE Site Assistance Visit • Computing Projects
JLab News • 12GeV Accelerator Upgrade project with new Experimental Hall anticipates DoE Critical Decision-2 approval Spring ’07 Significant funding becomes available Significant increase in computing requirements • New Information Technology Division Scientific Computing – merge Lattice QCD and Physics data processing efforts; DAQ remains in Physics Division Computing and Networking Infrastructure – most of former Physics Computer Center Management Information Systems–business computing Electronic Media – including web services, Library
Computing News • WAN connection upgraded to OC-192 • 10 gigabit to E-LITE • Connects to the NLR – National Lambda Rail • US DoE Site Assurance Visit • RHEL4 64bit computing … wait for RHEL5? • Glue-X Collaboration proposal includes OSG infrastructure for data analysis • New $1.5M Lattice QCD cluster anticipated Spring07
DoE Site Assistance Visit • CybSec personnel and resource numbers • Patch Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Configuration Management • Publicly available systems / visitor network • Wireless inside JLab’s network (WPA, remove WEP) • Network segmentation, Enclave structure • Personally owned devices – protect; control configuration • Audit logs, parsing • Session lock and login attempts • Data center physical security • Inventory control • User culture
Computing Projects • Two factor authentication • Network segmentation/Enclaving • Infiniband switching fabric • Cisco IOS-like management? • Fabric for Storage? • Mass storage system upgrades • JASMine enhancement - common API for diverse clients, including experiment halls, batch farm, parallel cluster, Storage Resource Manager, user command line • Silo capacity and throughput increases • 100+MB/sec DAQ systems; 10sPB data storage • OSG installation • Has been on hold due to lack of resources • Revisit and reopen this project • LQCD cluster procurement and installation • 10GigE data path • Scientific Computing integration • OSs, schedulers, etc.
Long Range Balance of fulfilling the computing requirements for the science program with meeting the cybersecurity requirements of a U.S. national lab.