LAL Site Report Michel Jouvin LAL IN

LAL Site Report Michel Jouvin LAL / IN 2 P 3 jouvin@lal. in 2 p 3. fr 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

Main Resources Electronic CAD (20 Sun CPUs) DS 20 ESA 12000 FC 1, 5 TB HDS 9570 4 TB FC Gb Ethernet • NFS • SMB • Appletalk • www • Mail • Print Linux Experiments (40 CPUs) GRID Fram (40 CPUs) DS 20 e Xterm Alpha Experiments (8 CPUs) Mac (100) PC (300) 100 Mb 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004 LSF Cluster 100 Go

Main Resources Changes • More Linux CPUs – 25 dual Opteron 2, 2 installed (IBM e 325, 1 U) • Linux upgrade to Scientific Linux – Currently installed on all new machines (i 386 or amd 64) – Proposed on desktop, preconfigured with Kickstart • Network : new switch with 10 Gbs uplink – Xtrem. Networks Summit 400 (48 Gb ports) – Used by Opteron farm – Plan to replace central switch (Cabletron SSR 8000) next year 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

Mail Service • Authenticated SMTP in production – Required to relay through LAL mailer (roaming users, home access…) – Based on Sendmail + SASL – Password management integrated in npasswd used for NIS passwords • LAL extensions to npasswd • Spam : Bayesian filtering useful – Filtering efficiency : ~95% – Slow learning curve for this filter (~3 months) – Need to feed filter db with undetected SPAM once a month at least • New patterns appear on a regular basis • Undetected SPAM collection need to be automated ? • Plan to move to Cyrus v 2 – SIEVE for filtering at message delivery (server based) 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

Windows Infrastructure… • IN 2 P 3 forest in production – 11 labs in production – All IN 2 P 3 labs should participate – No problem so far… • Move of LAL AD domain to IN 2 P 3 forest delayed – Planned this summer but time is missing – Challenge : transparent to users, preserving GPOs – By the end of the year ? • Pressure growing as this is requirement to use national repository for mechanical CAD/CAM (CATIA Smar. Team PDF) 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

… Windows Infrastructure • SMS : key management component for LAL – Complements AD based tools – Deployment of security patches, SPs and system upgrades • SUS feature pack (presented at Edinburgh meeting) • Based on SMS inventory and logging capabilities (push model) – Plan to upgrade to SMS 2003 • Better integration of SUS features • Integration with Active. Directory • Virus attack caused by a problem in CISCO ACLs – Few machines affected (unpatched machines, proactive patching critical) – Checking is time consuming… 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

Printing : Multi-Site Printer Wizard • Based on CERN Printer Wizard (Windows only) – Management of LPR based printers by an unprivileged user – Printers described in a central database – Support any LPD/LPRng server • Now supports the concept of Site – Work done in common between CERN and LAL – Allow to use the same client on several sites • Each site has its own database of printers – In production at LAL since last summer – Very appreciated by our users involved in CERN experiments • Could be used/supported by other sites to help traveling users 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

GRID • Strong involvement from LAL in EDG / LCG / EGEE – LCG Tier 2 (plan to do in common with DAPNIA) – 4 FTE including PTB leader (Cal Loomis) • Still 1 additional open position to fill (2 years European contract) – Fabric : currently 40 CPU (1/3 Xeon 3 Ghz, 2/3 Opteron 2. 2 Ghz) • Recent machines running SL – Current focus : middleware deployment, Quattor integration • Xtrem. Web : a P 2 P computing project – Partnership with LRI (Orsay, computing research) for 4 years – Significant resources : 30 CPUs (Xeon 3 Ghz, Opteron 2. 2 Ghz) – LAL interest : use of P 2 P resource as a fabric via OGSA 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004

Miscellaneous Projects • Unattended Linux installation server – Currently based on Kickstart for initial installation – Still planning to investigate EDG WP 4 Quattor • Initial installation and updates • Servers and desktops • In conjunction with EGEE involvement • Serial Console Management with SLAC/CERN tool – Presented at Hepix by C. Boeheim and H. Meinhard • Conference organization tool – In. Di. Co installation in progress • EU project based on CERN Agenda, presented at Edinburgh • Automatic visitor registration and DHCP quarantine 19/10/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - BNL 2004