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CASPUR Site Report

CASPUR Site Report. Andrei Maslennikov Lead - Systems Amsterdam, May 2003. Contents. Update on central computers Storage news Slab Downloads Projects for year 2003. Central computers. IBM SMP: - Acquired 3 new frames with 80 POWER-4 CPUs at 1.1 GHz and 144 GB of RAM

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CASPUR Site Report

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  1. CASPUR Site Report Andrei Maslennikov Lead - Systems Amsterdam, May 2003

  2. Contents • Update on central computers • Storage news • Slab • Downloads • Projects for year 2003 A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  3. Central computers • IBM SMP: • - Acquired 3 new frames with 80 POWER-4 CPUs at 1.1 GHz and 144 GB of RAM • - New machines run AIX 5.2+. AFS and SGEEE operate smoothly • - One of the older POWER-3 frames will soon be dismissed • HP SMP: • - Got 8 4-CPU ES45 nodes at 1.2GHz, 64GB of RAM and 1.2 TB of local FC disk • - Tru64 5.1a on all nodes + AFS + SGEEE • - In future will probably migrate to True Cluster (AFS via Translator) • - Dismissed 4100 cluster • Itanium-2: • - 5 biprocessor nodes (1 front-end at 900 MHz and 4 batch at 1 Ghz) • - Being installed now • - Arriving soon: 2 quadriprocessors for 6 months (collaboration with Intel) • NEC SX-6i: • - On loan for 6 months since April 2003: 4GB RAM, 8 GFLOP A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  4. Storage news • AFS: 4 cells on site and 5 outside • - OpenAFS 1.2.8 on Linux, in production since 6 months. • - Main Servers: 3 Supermicros at 2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM • Disk system: Infortrend IFT-6300 IDE/FC • - Vice partitions in SGI XFS • - Stand-alone backup server on GigE (up to 4 parallel streams on LTO/FC) • - Current capacity: 2.3 TB • - Very stable • - Migration to KRB5: successfully tested MIT+HEIMDAL for both • Unix and Windows. Now looking at HEIMDAL-only. Plan to • conclude the migration in 2003. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  5. Storage news • NFS • - New server with 2 TB, adding another 2TB in June • Supermicro 2GHz / 2GB, disk systems – Infortrend 6300 IDE/FC • - Runs Mountain View Data (MVD) software • - Their own kernel, XFS-enabled • - Volume management, multiple snapshots possible • - Excellent performance and low cost (<1 KUSD/server) • - Old NetApp with 1.3 TB still alive, but will soon be dismissed • (1-year maintenance costs as a new 2 TB FC RAID array) A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  6. CASPUR: principal resources in 2003 IBM – 216 CPUs (375 -1100 MHz) HP 60 CPUs (667 – 1200MHz) Itanium2 – 18 CPUs (0.9-1 GHz) Gigabit IP NFS 4TB SM 2.8 GHz AFS 2.3 TB 3x SM 2.8 GHz FC TAPE SYSTEMS 30 / 60 TB FC RAID SYSTEMS 14 TB FC SAN A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  7. SLAB • Storage Laboratory • - Renewed the machines (now 2-way Xeons 2.8 GHz / 2GB / FC 2 Gbit) • - New, faster storage on FC (Infortrend arrays) • - New interesting devices for SAN interconnects over WAN • - More hadware arriving (new tape drives, new iSCSI units) • - Just finished several test programs, results will be presented tomorrow A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  8. Downloads • Public domain software for download • - 4 architectures: AIX 5.1, Solaris 8, Tru64 5.1, Linux • - Large group of products already compiled • - May be used directly off AFS. • - Official opening date: June 1, 2003 • - Entry point:http://afs.caspur.it/afs/italia/project/casis • - Other downloads athttp://www.caspur.it/download : • - AFS-aware SSH binary builds • - Tape Dispatcher and CASPUR Staging II systems • - CASPUR BigBox (Customized RH distribution) A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

  9. Some projects for year 2003 • Staging IIa • - General clean-up of the code • - Improved logging • - Staging into/outside AFS • - Hooks for a distributed solution (redundant database, remote FC tapes) • Technology tracking • - New tape devices: Sony SAIT, IBM LTO2 • - New FCIP and iSCSI products from CISCO and HP • ControlHost II • - Autoconf • - General clean-up • - Packaging for download • Machine room and labs • - Barcode-based inventory system • - KVM / IP, remote switching, all kinds of alarms A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 2003

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