Jefferson Lab Site Report Kelvin Edwards Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Newport News, Virginia USA HEPiX – May, 2004

Security DOE Security review –Office of Assessment –First small unclassified lab to undergo this audit

Central Computing Sun systems –Upgrade to Solaris 8 complete, looking at Solaris 9 Linux systems –Upgrade to EL3 nearly complete –RedHat Satellite server installed

Scientific Computing Tape drives –9840 tape migration complete –Added 5 new 9940B drives –Added 3 new data movers Linux File Servers –3 SATA Systems - hardware problems –Evaluating StorageTek B280 system 14 TB 4 FC loops Batch Farm –Upgrading to EL3 –Added 24 new systems –50 older systems reallocated to grid batch farm (Open Science Grid)

Scientific Computing (cont) Pentaquark Search –Data rate doubling to ~40MB/s –Upgrading current Hall B for support Hall D –New Experimental Hall –CD0 received last month –Expected data rate ~100MB/s

Projects Windows –Standard builds (Server, IIS, desktop, laptop) –Waiting for license agreement upgrade –Looking at Oracle Collaboration Suite, MS Exchange, Cyrus, and several other open-source solutions –Separate Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus/mail servers Networks –Moving to VLans in a big way