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Lucien Boland and Sean CrosbyResearch Computing
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
~1 Minute Introduction
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
2012 - Year of Transition
• old staff new staff• old data hall (4kw/r) new data hall
(16kw/r)
• local storage SAN• KVM XenServer• Debian/RHEL SL6• cfengine puppet• NFS CVMFS• gLite 3.2 UMD
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
rm -rf /melb/home/tjdycerm -rf /melb/home/fifieldt
mkdir /melb/home/lucienmkdir /melb/home/scrosbymkdir /syd/home/swasnik
New staff
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
New Data Hall
Data Hall 1 – 4kW / rackData Hall 2 – 16kW / rack
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Shared SAN storage
Dell MD3600f Shared Storage
8 TiB
Local disk
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Citrix XenServer Advanced
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
SL6
Scientific Linux 6(and XenServer)SL 5
RHEL 6
Debian
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Puppet
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Grid Middleware Upgrades
• gLite 3.2 to UMD-1• NFS to CVMFS• DPM NFS testing• Joining federated xrootd cluster
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Tools
• Fault Monitoring: Nagios (Puppet)• Perf Monitoring: Ganglia• Network Monitor: Perfsonar• Authentication:
Kerberos/OpenLDAP• Logging: rsyslog• Documentation: dokuwiki• Tickets & projects: redmine• Remote Mang: openVPN
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Tools
• SVN to git• Deprecated hardware for backups
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Infrastructure
• Virtualization farm– Dell MD3600f connected to 2 Dell
R620s and 2 R710s– Citrix XenServer Advanced for
HA/failover• IPMI SOL – (IMM, DRAC, ILO)• Build – DHCP, PXE, Kickstart,
Puppet
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Cloud Project
• Nectar Cloud – Federally funded• 1.5 year project to deploy software
to run Tier 3 and Tier 2 grid infrastructure on the Australian National Research Cloud (NECTAR).
• 2 developers started recently• 1 developer being sought (close 25
Oct)
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
2013
• Disk growth from 700TB to 800TB– purchase 300TB (inc. replace old
disk)• CPU growth from 6000HEPSPEC to
7000 HEPSPEC
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HEPiX Beijing 2012 – Lucien Boland and Sean Crosby
Issues
• Delivering disk and CPU• Dell C6145 performance• DPM disk• Dealing with out of warranty
equipment
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Thanks for Listening