Jefferson LabSite Report

Kelvin Edwards

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Newport News, Virginia USA

Kelvin.Edwards@jlab.org

757-269-7770

http://cc.jlab.org

HEPiX – May, 2004

Security

• DOE Security review– Office of Assessment– First small unclassified lab to undergo this audit

Central Computing

• Sun systems – Upgrade to Solaris 8 complete, looking at Solaris 9

• Linux systems– Upgrade to EL3 nearly complete– RedHat Satellite server installed

Scientific Computing• Tape drives

– 9840 tape migration complete– Added 5 new 9940B drives– Added 3 new data movers

• Linux File Servers – 3 SATA Systems - hardware problems– Evaluating StorageTek B280 system

• 14 TB• 4 FC loops

• Batch Farm– Upgrading to EL3– Added 24 new systems– 50 older systems reallocated to grid batch farm (Open Science

Grid)

Scientific Computing (cont)

• Pentaquark Search– Data rate doubling to ~40MB/s– Upgrading current Hall B for support

• Hall D– New Experimental Hall– CD0 received last month– Expected data rate ~100MB/s

Projects

• Windows– Standard builds (Server, IIS, desktop, laptop)– Waiting for license agreement

• Email upgrade– Looking at Oracle Collaboration Suite, MS Exchange, Cyrus,

and several other open-source solutions– Separate Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus/mail servers

• Networks– Moving to VLans in a big way