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Glasgow Site report

Detailed analysis of desktop, server, networking setups & future plans. Includes Linux & Windows systems, video conferencing, software, and concerns about scalability and technology upgrades.

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Glasgow Site report

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  1. Glasgow Site report • Strategy • Linux for Analysis and Monte Carlo • Windows NT 4 for Detector Development and Administration • Video conferencing • desktop via Internet, room based via ISDN in dept and use of Comp Service Video Conferencing Suite • Computation on own desktop or local farm • support from within HEP group David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  2. Network • own Class C network for HEP group with direct connection to Campus backbone router • Campus connection to SuperJanet provides some limited firewalling • physical connections via departmental structured wiring • moving from 10 Mbps repeated Ethernet to 100 Mbps switched ethernet • mbone routing David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  3. Desktop • Mid range PC, good 17” monitor, £ 4 years old. We currently have approx. 40 PCs • Dual Bootable NT/Redhat in principle - currently W95 or WNT or Redhat/Mandrake with KDE/Gnome • video capture and sound (not all yet) • existing 4 x DEC 3400, 1 x Alphastation 200 and 7 x Xterms to be phased out shortly David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  4. Desktop Software • Windows • Window 95, Windows NT, Office 97, IE5, Netscape 4.61,Hummingbird eXceed 6.1, Adobe Acrobat 4, Framemaker 5.5,Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, Gsview/Ghostscript, ssh, pfe, Novell Netware, Origin, Orcad, Microsoft Visual Studio, Labview • Linux • looking for ideas on a suitable configuration • GNOME, StarOffice, something from HEPiX ???????? David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  5. Servers • existing AlphaServer 2100 4/200 to be phased out over next year • Linux server(s) for file serving and remote logon • twin proc Xeon with external 750/620 GB Raid, DLT stacker, Redhat - currently under development • Linux farms for production • currently 4 x Fermi-Redhat 5.2 Pentiums for Atlas and CDF David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  6. Server Software • Digital Unix 4.0D, CERN library, AFS, Samba, CAP, Zephyr, HEPiX login, TeX, partial gnu, pine, tk/tcl, tcpwrappers, imap, pop, apache • Linux - much the same as Digital Unix + LPRng (?), Arla vs Transarc AFS, batch (?) David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  7. Future • CDF JIF Award with Oxford,... • Atlas JREI bid for Tier 2 with Edinburgh,… • departmental ISDN video conferencing facility • final commissioning of first Linux Server David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

  8. Concerns • miniature “Computing Service” model does not scale down to Research Group level • any move to Windows 2000 • what should a Linux desktop look like ? • is ASIS worth investigating • mobile computing • impact of grids David Martin / UK HEP System Managers Meeting 21/22 March 2000

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