LAL Site Report

							LAL Site Report

    Michel Jouvin
    LAL / IN2P3
 jouvin@lal.in2p3.fr
                                   General News
   LAL has a new director : Guy Wormser
        Strong support to GRID effort
   GRID group officially « blessed »
        Leader : Cal Loomis (permanent position)
                Formerly G. Wormser
        Coordination of LAL grid related efforts
                Not EGEE/LCG only : XtremWeb (collabarotion with CS)
                Computing engineers AND experiments members
        Involved in GRIF project


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                                          Main Resources
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                                                  Electronic CAD
                                                  (20 Sun CPUs)                   Alpha
                                                                               Experiments




                                                                                              LSF Cluster
                          DS20                                                  (8 CPUs)


                       •NFS
                                                                                  Linux
                       •SMB
                                                                               Experiments
                       •Appletalk
HDS 9570                                                                        (60 CPUs)
                       •www
  9 TB        FC       •Mail
                       •Print

                                                                                             HDS
                          DS20e                                                 GRID Fram    9570
                                                                                (50 CPUs)
                                                                                             3 TB

         Gb Ethernet        Xterm         Mac (100)        PC (300)
         100 Mb
         10 Mb

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                                Main HW Changes
   20 dual Opteron 2,2Ghz installed
        1/3 for GRIF T2
   6TB installed, 9TB on order
        ½ for GRIF T2
                2 Linux machines connected to SAN (QL2340)
                Single attachment, plan to look for path failover later
                SRM based SE using LCG DPM (2 disk servers)
        SATA extension to HDS 9570V
                Acceptable cost : 12 k€ for 4,5 TB (Raid5)
                Very easy and flexible integration in current LAL
                 infrastructure


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                                       OS Updates

   Scientific Linux everywhere (3.0.5)
        Currently installed on all new machines (i386 or
         amd64, 32 bits)
        Upgrade of RH 7.2/9 machines (25) by the end of year
                Will be done with Quattor (fresh installation)
   Deploying LCG UI on all LAL physics servers (20)
        Done with Quattor : easy to install and maintain
        VOMS with local VOs for non LHC users



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                                         Quattor
   In production for GRID and non GRID machines
        Easy and flexible sharing of configuration information,
         removing duplication
        Upgrade SL 3.0.4  3.0.5 done with Quattor
        Currently reinstalling all pre-Quattor machines
        Original CDB not used, replaced by SVN + http
   Starting multi-sites usage for GRIF
        1 day Quattor tutorial held Sept. 30th
        DAPNIA : ½ day to setup specific configuration and
         install 2 test nodes
                Common configuration database, 1 Quattor server/node

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                              Collaborative Tools :
                                      SPIP
   Web collaborative edition : SPIP
        A « Content Management » solution
        Collaborative/concurrent edition of Web pages
                Individual authentication and privileges
                Basic workflow
        Easy site structure/navigation (re)organization
                URLs independant of site structure
        Forums
        Look and feel customized through CSS
                LAL implemented a Plone-like (http://grif.fr) and a CNRS-like
                 (http://www.lal.in2p3.fr) look and feel
   Used by several LAL groups
        Main LAL Web site, GRIF Web site, LAL support

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                              Collaborative Tools :
                                      Trac
   Tools for project management integrating
        A WiKi (based on MoinMoin) : http://projects.edgewall.com/trac
        An issue tracker (trouble ticket system)
                Ticket submission through Web or email
        A roadmap manager based on milestones
        A SVN browser
        Very clean plug-in API (0.9+) : all main features are plug-ins
                Same model as Eclipse : Trac core is just a plug-in manager
   Cross reference between all types of information
   Very attractive when you need documentation + action
    follow-up
                SW development, computing operations, GRIF…


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                               Collaborative Tools :
                                     Agenda
   At the very beginning
        LAL director wants to publish its agenda…
   Web-based agenda sharing
        Currently using phpICalendar
        WebDAV upload/download of ICS files
                Compatible with a lot of clients : Mac, Sunbird, Mulberry…
                Interoperable with CERN CDS Agenda and (InDiCo)
                Difficult sharing between multiple writers (file granularity)




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                   Windows Infrastructure
   IN2P3 forest still very successfull
        12 labs in production
        Move of LAL AD domain to IN2P3 forest still delayed :
         lack of manpower
        Running well, management cost very low…
   New machines installed with WXP SP2
        No migration plan for WXP SP1
        Can be done on demand with SMS
   Antivirus : successful move to McAfee
        + : MSI deployment

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