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| Monday Apr 15 | |
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| Windows 2000 coordination group meeting | |
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 | Various site reviews (10-15 minutes per site) [ram] |
| 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 | Site review again [ram] |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.30 | Brainstorming session on:
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| 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| Tuesday Apr 16 | |
| 09:15 | Summary of the Monday W2K Coordination Group meeting [ram] [pdf] |
| 09:30 | Jack Schmidt (FNAL) Windows 2000 in the Fermilab Security Environment [ram] [pdf] |
| Fermilab is in the midst of their Windows 2000 rollout. The lab has a set of security restrictions approved by the DOE that have a direct affect on or domain design and implementation. I will higlight issues that have come up and how the Windows 2000 Migration team is working with the lab Computer Security team to follow the security policy set by the lab but still allow OU Administrators control over their environment- and meet the deadlines set by the lab and DOE! | |
| 10.00 | Dennis Wisinski Windows NT to 2000/XP Migration at SLAC [ram] [pdf] |
| SLAC is in the planning and design stage for a site-wide conversion to Windows 2000/XP, a project we hope to have completed by June 2003. On the infrastructure side, I cover early design decisions regarding DNS, Active Directory architecture, network topology, and test-lab construction. On the client side I discuss some of the more important issues considered in the selection of Windows XP as the target platform for user migration. | |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 | Reinhard Baltrush (DESY) The start of the Windows 2000/XP project at DESY [ram] [pdf] |
| A overview about the project plan of the latterly started Windows 2000/XP project at DESY. | |
| 11.30 | Alberto Pace (CERN) Status of Windows 2000 deployment at CERN [ram] [pdf] |
| 11.45 | Michael JouvinIN2P3 ActiveDirectory project [ram] [pdf] |
| Several labs of IN2P3 decided to investigate the possibility to setup a national ActiveDirectory infrastructure with the intent to start production in automn. | |
| 12.00 | Brian Scott (SLAC) Windows Storage at SLAC [ram] |
| 12.30 | Alberto Pace (CERN) Deployment of Exchange Pilot as a new Messaging infrastructure at CERN [ram] [pdf] |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.30 | Enrico M.V. Fasanelli (INFN Lecce) W2K integration in the Kerberos 5 based AFS cell [ram] [pdf] |
| 15.00 | Alberto Pace (CERN) New trends in Web and Global applications developement [ram] [pdf] |
| A large part of the computing industry is currently focussed in developing global applications using a new set of standards based on well defined XML schemas and Web technologies. The presentation will introduce these standards and discuss implementation issues, infrastructure requirements, interoperability, namespace and security models and their foreseeable consequences. Demonstrations will be made using the recently released Microsoft .NET framework. Keywords: XML, XML Schema, HTTP, WebDav (Web Distributed Authoring and versioning), SOAP (Simple Object Oriented Protocol), Web Services, WSDL (Web Services Description Language), UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration), Kerberos, Electronic Passport. | |
| 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 | Gareth Smith (RAL) Security Issues: The approach at RAL [ram] [pdf] |
| The approach to computer security being taken at RAL will be described and systems in place will be briefly outlined. Some of the security failures will be described along with the measures taken to prevent them occurring again. Finally the main security challenges will be highlighted. It is hoped that this talk will provoke some discussion. | |
| 16:30 | Gareth SmithWindows Status at RAL [ram] [pdf] |
| 16:45 | Joel Surget W2K at DAPNIA: our domain today -- a new W2k domain tomorrow [ram] [pdf] |
| To be defined | |
| Wednesday Apr 17 | |
| 08:50 | Registration |
| 09:00 | Welcome and an introduction to INFN Laboratories in Catania - Luciano Calabretta (INFN LNS) [ram] |
| 09:30 | Maria Dimou CERN Site Report [ram] [html] |
| 09.45 | Sandy.Philpott JLAB Site Report [ram] [html] |
| 10.00 | Lisa Giacchetti FNAL Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 10.15 | Corrie Kost TRIUMF Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| The site review will stress aspects of the tentative funding approval given to a 1500 CPU farm / tape & disk storage system to be located at the UBC campus and connected to TRIUMF via a Gigabit link. | |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 10.50 | Michael Jouvin LAL Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 11.05 | Paul Kuipers NIKHEF Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 11.20 | Cary Whitney LBL Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 11.35 | Chuck Boeheim SLAC Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 11.50 | Andrei Maslennikov CASPUR Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 12.10 | Silvia Arezzini INFN Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Wojcik Wojciech CCIN2P3 Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| This site report gives the update of the hardware/software changes in IN2P3 Computer Center since last HEPiX meeting. | |
| 14.15 | Pierrick Micout Saclay Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 14.30 | John Gordon RAL Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| 14.45 | Peter Van Der Reest (DESY) DESY Site Report [ram] [pdf] |
| Overview of the IT Infrastructure at DESY | |
| To be defined | |
| 16.00 | Trip to Taormina + Social Dinner at Taormina |
| Thursday Apr 18 | |
| 9.00 | Alf Wachsmann (SLAC) Linux Hardware Evaluation at SLAC [ram] [pdf] |
| SLAC is currently evaluating hardware for Linux batch machines from 11 different vendors. I shall report about our testing procedures, criteria, and results. | |
| 09:30 | Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR) CASPUR Storage Lab [ram] [pdf] |
| We have set up our Storage Laboratory to test and compare various storage-related solutions. Will be discussed: architecture, current program of tests and first results. Buzzwords: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI-over-LAN/WAN, GFS, GPFS, Sanergy, AFS, NFS, RFIO. | |
| 10.00 | Alan Silverman (CERN) Computer Centre Shutdown/Startup [ram] [pdf] |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 | Maurizio Davini (Physics Department PISA)Clustering with openMosix [ram] [pdf] |
| openMosix is a spin off the original Mosix project due to Moshe Bar. It's a software package that enhance Linux kernel ( x86 version) with cluster capabilities. openMosix allows for the automatic and transparent migration of processes to other nodes in the cluster. | |
| 11.30 | Wofgang Friebel (CERN) An AFS administration framework [ram] [pdf] [html] |
| A framework will be described that was developed at CERN to simplify the AFS administration. It consists of several perl modules that provide a homogeneous interface to AFS functions and to the management of AFS space (grouping of volumes, delegation of administration privileges). Based on that framework a tool was written to manage the AFS space for working groups and experiments. Other existing tools are being converted to use the new interface. | |
| 12.00 | Alan Lovell (CERN) CERN CVS Service [ram] [pdf] |
| After realising that a number of groups had to set up and maintain their own CVS servers, a project has been set up to address this question globally. Requirements have been collected and possible implementations are being evaluated to address these requirements within the resource constraints of the division. | |
| 12.30 | Sandy Philpott (JLAB) Cfengine [ram] [pdf] [html] |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Alan Lovell (CERN) CERN PRINT Service Status Update [ram] [pdf] |
| The PRINT service offers network printer spooling to the whole CERN site. The clients use a DNS table to address the server that corresponds to the printer in a transparent way, this allows to distribute the spooling for load balancing and disaster recovery. The system is currently running in three old PCs. A hardware upgrade is coming soon. A system software upgrade is required for security reasons. This has implications on Appletalk protocol support. Spooler software and filter upgrades are also in the pipeline. | |
| 14.20 | Lisa Giacchetti (FNAL) Who let the Dog(s) in!? [ram] [pdf] |
| 14.50 | Alan Lovell (CERN) ASISwsmp (ASIS with RPM backend) [ram] [pdf] |
| There is currently a joint effort of PC and ADC group to provide a versionof the ASIS Workstation Manager (ASISwsm) that manages the ASIS client configuration using RPMs for the ASIS products concerned rather then checking all the files in the ASIS file tree. This move improves greatly performance of the ASIS client. | |
| 15.10 | Roberto Barbera (INFN) Grid activities at ALICE [ram] [pdf] |
| ALICE is one of the four approved experiments which will run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), on the way to be built at CERN. The main goal of ALICE is the study of the so called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) expected to be formed when, in ult... | |
| 15.40 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 | Alan Lovell (CERN) Solaris 8 certification status at CERN [ram] [pdf] |
| Until now only unofficial support for Solaris 8 (HW0401) has been provided at CERN. Work is under way to provide full support to Solaris 8 (HW0202) and at the same time upgrade the Solaris installation server hardware. Solaris 8 is the first Solaris version to feature DHCP/BOOTP support for network installations which changes considerably the installation procedure that was previously relying on the RARP protocol. A new version of the Sun development environment (Forte Developer 7) has been provided on request of CMS. It has been tested to successfully solve C++ template compatibility problems present in previous versions. | |
| 16.30 | Tanya Levshina (FNAL) NGOP Status Report [ram] [pdf] |
| Fermilab Distributed Management System (NGOP) has been deployed since January, 2000. It is monitoring about 600 nodes. New features implemented since the last HEPIX as well as future steps to improve NGOP will be presented. | |
| 17.00 | Helge Meinhard (CERN) Computer Centre Supervision at CERN with PVSS [ram] [pdf] |
| 17.30 | Cary Whitney Linux Storage Solutions |
| PDSF has been fortunate to have the opportunity to beta and evaluate two types of NFS storage for our cluster. I would like to present our findings; the performance of these units and compare them to more traditional options. I have been release from NDA's to give the presentation, but the slide will be made public in the May/June time frame. | |
| Friday Apr 19 | |
| 9.00 | Alan Silverman (CERN) Large System SIG report [pdf] |
| 09.30 | John Gordon (RAL) The UK Grid for Particle Physics [pdf] |
| RAL will host a Tier1 Centre for all LHC experiments but the centre will need to do more than that. It will also be a TierA Centre for the BaBar Grid as well as participating in the DataTAG, InterGrid, and the grid work of CDF and D0. The computing workload of existing experiments will also need to be supported. I will describe how RAL and other UKI sites plan to meet these diverse challenges. | |
| 10.00 | Luca Dell'Agnello (INFN CNAF) A prototype for INFN Tier 1 Regional Center [pdf] |
| We discuss briefly the present status and future plans for the prototype of Italian Tier1 Regional Center, a computing facility for HEP community (LHC experiments, CDF, VIRGO). Our aim, in the next years, is to study potential issues arising in a large-scale production environment (the RC is already used by some experiments) and to develop, or adopt, suitable solutions. Our activity has presently strong interactions with DataGRID, DataTAG, INFN-GRID, GLUE and LHC experiments Data Challenges. | |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 | Giuseppe Sava (INFN Catania) INFN-GRID testbed monitoring system [pdf] |
| Inside the INFN-GRID testbed, a distributed monitoring system is used to control the network and computing resources in order to evaluate several critical factors such as the reachability of hosts and the availability of services. The system also enables the activation of automatic faults notification via e-mail. In this talk we describe the architecture and the features offered by the opensource package Netsaint the monitoring system is based on, as well as the implementation of several add-ons oriented to the control of some real- life problems. The use of a simple web portal with clickable geographical map for GRID collaboration in Italy is shown. The use of Netsaint in the testbed of Alice experiment, involving a large number of geographic-scale distributed computing resources is also shown. A very short demo will be provided. | |
| 11.30 | David Kelsey (RAL) Grid Security - status and issues [pdf] |
| I describe the current status of Grid security, i.e. Authentication and Authorisation, in the EU DataGrid project and some of the HEP Grid projects in the USA. Current plans to improve Authorisation are presented. There are many issues and problems to be solved before this will scale to a full LHC-scale Grid. What impact will all this have on HEP Computer Centres? | |
| 12.00 | Jan Iven (CERN) Fabric Management [pdf] [html] |
| 12.30 | John Gordon (RAL) LCG YAG? The LHC Computing Grid - yet another grid? [pdf] |
| The LHC Computing Grid is a next generation grid deployment project. It intends to use the developments of current Grid projects (EDG, iVDGL, PPDG, CrossGrid, and the various national grids) to build a prototype production grid for the computing needs of the LHC. I will describe the project and how it could interface with HEPiX. | |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| To be defined | |
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