1. RAL PPD Tier 2 (and stuff) Site Report Rob Harper HEP SysMan 30 th June 2009 1

2. 2 Steve Dallison

3. 3 Outline The last year –Things we did and stuff we bought Where we are now The next year –What is coming up Some non *nix stuff

4. 4 Over the last year Performance Hardware Other stuff Issues

5. 5 Performance 1,382,736 jobs in year to 2009-05-31 –Cluster has been underutilised much of the time Availability 93% over last 6 months –Lower than we had hoped But not entirely our fault!

6. 6 Jobs Run

7. 7 Hardware Most purchasing was for GridPP 70 new SuperMicro twins (1120 cpu cores)‏ 25 new 20TB Viglen storage nodes (about 450TB of usable space)‏ Assorted new hardware for service nodes, etc. Not all new kit is yet fully commissioned

8. 8 Other Stuff Tested SL5 WN Logging with rsyslog (to 2 hosts)‏ Setting up machines and services for assorted projects Desktop Linux –Talked to users –One test (SL5) box set up

9. 9 Issues Air conditioning –Several failures, including twice in one week after Xmas Site power –Big power cut –Planned work (on short notice) The Sun Building Management System R89 delays and movement schedules

10. 10 Where We Are Now ~613 TB Storage –dCache version 1.9.1-7 1584 CPU cores –2740 kSI2k Ahead of 2009 GridPP pledges

11. 11 The next year Consolidate storage in R1, CPU in lab R27 Replacing RGMA and BDII hosts with virtual machines Local private network for IPMI, RAID, APC, etc. New machines to host VO software. An SL5 CE –Getting ready to move to all SL5 some time. –CREAM for added yumminess. Desktop Linux (again!)‏ LHC data? Networking...

12. 12 Networking: now Nortel 55xx stack in R1 Similar switches installed in R27 but not yet stacked Interconnected through RAL site networking –2 * 1GB links to R27 –1 * 10GB to R1

13. 13 Networking: planned Establish stack in R27 Connect machine rooms with direct 10GB fibre link Hopefully add second 10GB link later

14. 14 Not just *nix… Windows Macs Other services

15. 15 Windows Moving to Windows 2008 domain (as I speak!) Recent desktop machines running Vista Business VMs for some legacy software Laptops running Vista Ultimate with Bitlocker encryption (older laptops encrypted with Pointsec) Remote reporting/updating to our own WSUS (Windows Updates) service and Sophos Enterprise server

16. 16 Mac An increasing number of Apple computers in the department Support still not “official” but provided on a best efforts basis Sophos antivirus –if you want to heckle this, wait for next year when we announce this for Linux! –Pointsec encryption

17. 17 Some General Stuff Visitors’ network –Authenticated wireless access coming up... Promoting the use of WebDAV for remote file access, rather than PPTP (CERN already use this)

18. 18 So… We have the technology… We’re doing pretty well, but are underutilised Now we need to work on –Reliability –Getting everything commissioned promptly –Improving our infrastructure