RAL Site report John Gordon ITD October 1999 [email protected].
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Transcript of RAL Site report John Gordon ITD October 1999 [email protected].
Summary
• Linux Farm
• NT Farm (Monday)
• Suns for BaBar (Friday)
• Disk and Tape
• Security(Wednesday)
• Y2K
Linux
• Linux in use in most parts of CLRC
• Formed a user group to share experiences
• For central HEP systems more Linux cpu power than any other system
Hardware Configuration
• Twenty built to measure PCs– SuperMicro Dual Motherboard (with SCSI)
– Two Pentium II 450
– 10GB 5400rpm IDE HDA
– 256MB ECC memory
– 100Mbit Ethernet (tulip or Intel)
– Cheap graphics card
– Usually run without monitor - (BIOS must allow this)
Pounds per MHz
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
350MHz 400MHz 450MHz 500MHz
Dual PentiumSingle Pentium
Cloning
• Presently trivial but labour intensive– System image created by dd onto SCSI tape
– memory resident Linux system run from floppy (Tom’s Root and Boot)
– dd from tape to system disk
• Need to become smarter!– Kickstart?
– Drive Image (or similar software)?
– Any other suggestions?
Software
• Redhat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36)
• ARLA (Free AFS Software)
• Generic NQS 5.4 - Free but not recommended - evaluating commercial products
• Mainly Fortran 77 - therefore use g77 compiler (egcs 1.1.1). Some C++
• autorpm for system updates
Summary
• Procurement Lessons
• System Monitoring
• Redhat 5.2 needed several changes
• Problems
Plans
• Need to move to Redhat 6.0 (or 6.1)
• Disk mirroring for interactive service?
• Next expansion will be late Autumn. Probably based on dual Pentium 600.
• Possibly further expansion early next year (probably Pentium)
• Further expansion 2H2000 when Multi-processor AMD Athlon systems will be extremely interesting possibility.
Disk
• Always growing
• 1.25TB general user disk servers
• 4.5TB for BaBar
• Plan to test an IDE server
Tape
• 30TB IBM3590 in 3494 robot
• STK robot idle - considering upgrade to Eagle drives.