1. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 1 NIKHEF Site report HEPiX April 1999 RAL

2. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 2 Central Servers SUN SPARC SOLARIS 2.6 –HOMEDIRECTORY/FILE SERVICE (smb, nfs, aufs) –NIS, MAIL, DNS, WWW, FTP –LOGIN DELL PC WINDOWS NT 4.0 –HOMEDIRECTORY/FILE SERVICE –PDC/BDC, WINS, BROWSING –WINDOWS NT APPLICATION SERVICE In future integration of fileservice and user administration

3. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 3 Desktop systems Hardware19991998 –X-terminals 50 50 –HP workstations 25 40 –SUN workstations 50 70 –SGI workstations 20 20 –Apple Macintoshes 40 60 –PC’s200150 –laptops 20 5

4. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 4 Desktop OS PC replaces workstation (HP, SUN) –WINDOWS NT85 –WINDOWS 95/9865 –LINUX50 Number of LINUX desktop increases (due to availibility of Windows application under LINUX) Increasing number of laptops –WINDOWS98/95/NT (LINUX)

5. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 5 LINUX at NIKHEF –SUSE 5.0 DESY (ZEUS/HERMES) user group –REDHAT 5.2 CERN related users First NIKHEF linux users (1997) related with DESY-ZEUS/HERMES preferred SUSE. NIKHEF standard (1998): REDHAT5.2 (most activities focussed on CERN) Version policies of SUSE and REDHAT differ (in the past) SUSE 6.1 and REDHAT5.2 similar ( no guarantee for future)

6. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 6 UNIX/NT integration Windows NT desktop –PCXware ( X server software ) Running X application on a UNIX host UNIX desktop –Windows Application Server Running NT application on a Windows server in an X- window –

7. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 7 Server hardware Dell PowerEdge 2300 Configuration: 1 x Pentium II 400 MHz(max: 2 x PII ) 1 x 256 MB(max: 4 x 256 MB)

8. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 8 Server software –Microsoft Windows NT terminal Server ability to host multiple, simultaneous client sessions –Citrix Metaframe enable remote client sessions (ICA) session management –Citrix ThinConnect enable remote client sessions (X11)

9. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 9 How does it work? rsh saruman x11 logon to Windows NT domain X window with NT 4.0 desktop environment

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12. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 12 Windows applications under UNIX Typical application available –MS office –MS project Not available –VisualC++ –CAD/CAM –Videoconferencing tools

13. April 1999 NIKHEF site report Ronald Boontje 13 Final remarks Central servers UNIX/NT integration of file service and user administration Desktop Linux desktop systems with availability of Windows office applications utilise local processing power better then Windows NT desktops in an HEP environment. (HEP applications are running under UNIX)