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Glasgow Site report

This report highlights the important discussions and strategies discussed at the UK HEP System Managers Meeting, including the move towards experiment/project based local computing, the future of grid computing for Monte Carlo and Analysis, and the increasing importance of laptops. It also covers the equipment, networking, Beowulf cluster, and desktop installation and updates discussed at the meeting.

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Glasgow Site report

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  1. Glasgow Site report David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  2. 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 David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  3. Equipment • > 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 David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  4. Laptops • 8 for ScotGRID (organised by P.Millar) • 4 For CDF • 3 For Detector Developers • ?? Personal Mixture of Windows 2000 and Linux David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  5. 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/SuperJanet router that happens to be on our campus David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  6. CDF • national CDF procurement • globus toolkit • OpenPBS (?) • D0’s 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) David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  7. Beowulf Cluster Scottish Cross-Connect Data Server David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  8. 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 David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  9. 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/) David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

  10. 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 David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 22/23 April 2002

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