DAPNIA site report

Monday 24 May 2004 DAPNIA/Pierre-Francois Honore 1

DAPNIA site report


● Network : RENATER, Nortel Contivity VPN● Computer Center : CCIN2P3● Grid : EGEE

● dapnia.saclay.cea.fr AFS cell– Status, Future

● Workstations : XP, Linux


● 1993: first installation at Saclay on IBM AIX and HP UX 9 inside CERN cell

● 1995: first official DAPNIA cell drives by IBM RS 6000 using TRANSARC license (no home directory)

● 1996: new server IBM 43P with AFS 3.5 and 9 Go of disk

● 2002: upgrade to AFS 3.6 on AIX 4.3.3.10

Transarc AFS


2003 Migration to OpenAFS● Authentification and file servers on 2 Dell

PCs running RH Linux 9 with OpenAFS 1.2.9 used by HEP physicists (1 TB)

● 1 Dell PC running RH Linux 7.3 with 200 GB of SCSI drives used by astrophysicists

Used as software and data repository and few home

OpenAFS


AFS Future

Test bench :– Server running on FC 1– Client (compiled from openafs.org CVS)

running on Debian sid with kernel 2.6.6

Kerberos5

FC2, CERN CEL, or HEP distribution ?


Windows

● Migration to Windows XP : PXE installation + automatic update– Laptop issue

● Integration in CEA domain● 1 WT Server for RDP access with rdesktop

clients


● 150 PCs Dell running RH Linux 7 to 9 and some Debian knoppix managed with apt-get, Cfengine

● 5 nodes μcluster with FC 1 : Oscar (SIS, Ganglia, PBS), openMosix, pvfs, 2.6 kernel

Since December 2003, 20 WhiteBox Enterprise Linux now apt upgraded to CEL.

Last week, 2 Scientific Linux installed

Standard services : NIS, NFS, AFS, cups

Linux at DAPNIA


Install using kickstart with PXE boot and a local mirror (http + apt) of the RPMs : global management tool : hardware, software, upgrade ?

Laptop issue : security patch, disk mirroring

Upgrade path : Debian (knoppix TS, anaconda), FC, FedoraLegacy, CERN, HEP

Linux at DAPNIA

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