1. 1/11/2000LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 LAL Site Report HEPix – Jlab Nov. 2000 Michel Jouvin jouvin@lal.in2p3.fr

2. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Main Resources (Unix) 600 Go NFS SMB Appletalk www Mail Print LSF Cluster (batch + interactive Compaq PWS500 Compaq DS20e Gb Ethernet DS20 PCXterm Experiments Servers (Dec, HP, Linux) AS 800 5/500 10 Mb Mechanical CAD (Alphas) Electronic CAD (Sun + Cadence) 100 Mb 40 Go

3. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Computing Resources Physics –Unix : 13 Alpha + 3 HP + 5 Linux + 2 Sun Oldest machines stopped (3 Alpha + 3 HP) –VMS : 1 Alpha + 1 Vaxstation End of support with LEP end of life ? Electronic CAD : 12 Sun  Cadence –Evaluating LSF use Mechanic CAD : 5 Alpha/Unix  Euclid –Should move to Catia (IBM? NT?)

4. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Desktop 150 X terminals –No significant decrease yet Microcomputers –100 Macs No increase but renewal –>130 PC Only NT supported, pressure for Linux (lowering) more and more used by physicists

5. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 PC Installation and Management Began to move to W2000 –New PCs installed with 2000 –NT domain moved to ActiveDirectory –Using group policies to enforce standard config SMS used for massive updates –120 PC registered 70% NT, 15% W2K, 8% W95, 7% W98 –Virus signature periodic update and SP No solution (yet?) for Mac...

6. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Linux Installation LAL uses Red Hat –6.1 in production, plan to move to 6.2 or 7.0 Linux on desktop –Not supported except for notebooks NFS filesystems not exported –Automatic installation working (Kixstart) –Pressure is lowering… –vmware offers an attractive alternative

7. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 PC Hardware Packaging Space begins to be a problem for us –Should buy 10 more PCs (server) shortly –Current tower packaging not convenient Look at 1U rackable PCs (dual CPU) –Few vendors IBM seems the leader –Significantly more expensive : #50% –Any experiences ?

8. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Mail Clients : Classical Execmail/Simeon is dead but still used Netscape/Outlook still not supported Replacing by Mulberry from Cyrusoft –Mac / Wxx / Unix –Supports IMSP and ACAP Preferences and AB on server Same AB as Execmail –Support LDAP for readonly AB –Advanced disconnected mode

9. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Mail Clients : Web Access Silkymail from Cyrusoft, Mulberry editor –Free, based on IMP, written in PHP (servlet) –http://www.cyrusoft.com Many advanced features –LDAP, AB searching, Mailbox browser Support IMSP, ACAP coming –Preferences and AB on server –AB common with Mulberry and Execmail

10. 1/11/2000 LAL Site Report - HEPix - JLab 2000 Metaframe / Wincenter Remains a crucial service –Growing number of simultaneous users Plan to start a second machine soon –Move to W2000 based Metaframe –Probably implement load balancing –Move from X11 on Metaframe to ICA clients on Unix