1. Hepix spring 2012 Summary SITE: http://indico.cern.ch/contributionListDisplay.py?confId=160737

2. Monitoring at GRIF Frédéric SCHAER Nagios+nrpe+pnp+rrdcached Vendor HW monitoring sensors : using nagios checks

3. Nagios tricks Compression : – Nrpe_check output|bzip2 | uuencode – Nagios check_nrpe |bunzip2 | uudecode RRD cache daemon: – http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.4/rrdcached

4. CERN Infrastructure Projects by Wayne SALTER New computing rooms Remote hosting –Reliable hosting of CERN equipment in a separated area with controlled access –Including all infrastructure support and maintenance –Wigner Data Centre in Budapest New facility due to be ready at the end of 2012 3 blocks of 275m² each with six rows of 21 racks with average power density of 10kW and A+B feeds to all racks 725m² in an existing building but new infrastructure 3 blocks of 275m² each with six rows of 21 racks Expect to go into full production January 2014

5. Western Digital The company announced on March 8th, 2012 that it completed the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. SAS drives

6. CHroot OS (L. Pezzaglia, NERSC) If we run one job per core on a 100-node cluster with 24 cores per node, we will have 2400 VMs to manage Each VM mounts and unmounts parallel filesystems Each VM will be joining and leaving shared serviceswith each reboot Shared services (including filesystems) mustmaintain state for all these VMs CHOS fulfills most of the use cases for virtualization in HPC with minimal administrative overhead and negligible performance impact Users do not interact directly with the “base” OS CHOS provides a seamless user experience Users manipulate only one file ($HOME/.chos), and the desired environment is automatically activated for all interactive and batch work

7. IPv6: David Kelsey F. Prelz Already found a few problems OpenAFS, dCache, UberFTP FTS & globus_url_copy Large sites (e.g. CERN and DESY) wish to manage the allocation of addresses – Do not like autoconfiguration (SLAAC) World IPv6 Launch Day: 6 June 2012 “The Future is Forever” Permanently enable IPv6 by 6 th June 2012

8. Data Storage at CERN Jakub T. Moscicki Now:

9. Data Storage at CERN Jakub T. Moscicki Evolution

10. CERN EOS EOS comes with features required for a very large Analysis Facility – integrated with a popular protocol in the experiments (xrootd) – fast metadata access (10x compared to Castor) – data replicated at the file level across independent storage units (JBODs) – lost replicas are automatically recreated by the system, no loss of service by the client – operations simplified: power-off a disk or machine at any time without loss of service (service availability) – known issues: in-memory metadata – EOS is freely available (GPL) but not packaged/supported off- the-shelf by us

11. EOS: Future Future: m+n block replication – stored on independent storage units (disk/servers) – different algorithms possible double, triple parity, LDPC, Reed Solomon – simple replication: 3 copies, 200% overhead, 3 x streaming performance – 10+3 replicaton: can lose any 3, remaining 10 are enough to reconstruct, 30 % storage overhead

12. Hardware evaluation 2012 Jiří Horky Deduplication test: HV: Fujitsu Eternus CS800 S2 – All zeros: dedup ratio 1:1045 – /dev/urandom, Atlas data: 1:1.07 – Backups: 1:2.8 – snapshots of VM: 1:11.7 How many disks are needed for 64 core worker nodes? – 3-4 SAS 2.5” 300GB 10kRPM drives in RAID0

13. Cyber security http://www.sourceconference.com/boston/sp eakers_2012.asp