1. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT FERMI SITE REPORT Lisa Giacchetti

2. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT General Computing News UNIX OS Support list modifications Solaris 8 certification finished. Linux 7.1 not yet geared up. Tru64 5.x certification and freeze not likely. General question on certification being forced by Linux Mass Storage Systems Enstore in production use Utilised on farms, fnalu, sdss, cms HPSS to be retired this Fall. Serial Media working group decision: Exabyte Mammoth 2 Working with ADIC and Exabyte to resolve issues.

3. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT General Computing News General Kerberos Authentication deployment now beginning. Goal of covering the whole site by 12/31/01. (Talks by Mark (Tues) and Dane later) Testing an Xterm replacement that can do Kerberos (demo ?) Stage 2 of NGOP prototype. (talk by Tanya Levshina) Evaluations/Investigations Combined compute farm and storage concepts. SAN technologies: mostly background Layer 4 switching Alteon, Cisco, Foundry Possible uses: web, email, afs, analysis farm PC/IDE Linux file servers in early production (6 servers ~ 10 TB) Involvement in PPDG is making Grid connections for us. SC2000(1) outreach efforts with SLAC viewed as successful.

4. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT RUN II Computing News First Run II collisions in the Tevatron early April. Both experiments taking commissioning detectors and DAQ. Farms D0 has 100 farm nodes in production. 100 more in October. CDF has 90 farm nodes in production. 64 more on order now Both CDF and D0 in operation in KRB5 Pilot Realm. CDF had demonstrated date at rate through full system. D0 commissioning L3 system. Both experiments using large disk cache’s heavily for early analysis.

5. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT CMS Computing News New Hardware FY01 budget issues resolving and expect to make several procurements yet this year. Enhanced Analysis system Test and prototype systems Expanded production farm Support Meeting held at Brookhaven for US CMS and Atlas to exchange experience. Overlapping demands of production and R&D are quite stressful on the system now.

6. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT Core Service Computing News Selected Sophos email gateway virus scanner. Selected LSI Logic Fibre disk for AFS server upgrade. Still investigating new print server options. Recent patch deploy showed 1082 customers for AutoRPM service for Linux. 231 offsite. 732 updated 1 st night Work on OS installation service for Linux, Irix continuing.

7. April 25, 2001HEPiX/HEPNT Organizational News Matthias Kasemann replaces Tom Nash as Computer Security Executive effective June 1. Dane Skow will become Deputy Computer Security Executive. Mark Kaletka will become OSS Department Head.