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HEPiX/HEPNT Computing News: Certifications, Storage Systems, and Collaborations

Stay updated on UNIX OS support, certification statuses, mass storage systems, and collaboration efforts in the computing sector. Explore developments in Kerberos authentication, experimental farms, and new hardware acquisitions.

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HEPiX/HEPNT Computing News: Certifications, Storage Systems, and Collaborations

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  1. FERMI SITE REPORT Lisa Giacchetti HEPiX/HEPNT

  2. General Computing News • UNIX OS Support list modifications • Solaris 8 certification finished. • Linux 7.1 not yet geared up. • Tru64 5.x certification and freeze not likely. • General question on certification being forced by Linux • Mass Storage Systems • Enstore in production use • Utilised on farms, fnalu, sdss, cms • HPSS to be retired this Fall. • Serial Media working group decision: Exabyte Mammoth 2 • Working with ADIC and Exabyte to resolve issues. HEPiX/HEPNT

  3. General Computing News • General Kerberos Authentication deployment now beginning. Goal of covering the whole site by 12/31/01. (Talks by Mark (Tues) and Dane later) • Testing an Xterm replacement that can do Kerberos (demo ?) • Stage 2 of NGOP prototype. (talk by Tanya Levshina) • Evaluations/Investigations • Combined compute farm and storage concepts. • SAN technologies: mostly background • Layer 4 switching • Alteon, Cisco, Foundry • Possible uses: web, email, afs, analysis farm • PC/IDE Linux file servers in early production (6 servers ~ 10 TB) • Involvement in PPDG is making Grid connections for us. • SC2000(1) outreach efforts with SLAC viewed as successful. HEPiX/HEPNT

  4. RUN II Computing News • First Run II collisions in the Tevatron early April. Both experiments taking commissioning detectors and DAQ. • Farms • D0 has 100 farm nodes in production. 100 more in October. • CDF has 90 farm nodes in production. 64 more on order now • Both CDF and D0 in operation in KRB5 Pilot Realm. • CDF had demonstrated date at rate through full system. D0 commissioning L3 system. • Both experiments using large disk cache’s heavily for early analysis. HEPiX/HEPNT

  5. CMS Computing News • New Hardware • FY01 budget issues resolving and expect to make several procurements yet this year. • Enhanced Analysis system • Test and prototype systems • Expanded production farm • Support • Meeting held at Brookhaven for US CMS and Atlas to exchange experience. • Overlapping demands of production and R&D are quite stressful on the system now. HEPiX/HEPNT

  6. Core Service Computing News • Selected Sophos email gateway virus scanner. • Selected LSI Logic Fibre disk for AFS server upgrade. • Still investigating new print server options. • Recent patch deploy showed 1082 customers for AutoRPM service for Linux. • 231 offsite. • 732 updated 1st night • Work on OS installation service for Linux, Irix continuing. HEPiX/HEPNT

  7. Organizational News • Matthias Kasemann replaces Tom Nash as Computer Security Executive effective June 1. • Dane Skow will become Deputy Computer Security Executive. • Mark Kaletka will become OSS Department Head. HEPiX/HEPNT

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