1. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 RAL Particle Physics Department Site Report

2. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 PPD & Computing Group PPD: Approximately 80 staff and 20 visitors. Computing Group: –Dave Kelsey – Group Leader –Barry Saunders; Kevin Dunford; Gareth Smith – PPD support. –Steve Traylen; Martin Bly; (Phil Radden) – Grid support.

3. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 Overview Windows desktops with LINUX or Windows servers. Where LINUX desktop needed prefer 2 nd PC. Numbers of laptops rising. In general not replacing desktop. Pool of laptops for loan.

4. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 Departmental Unix Systems. We did have: –Two LINUX servers (RedHat 6.1, 6.2) and user disk served by HP-UX server linked by FDDI. We now have: –No FDDI. –Three Linux servers all running RH 7.3, one of which has a RAID user disk. As before, backups to the datastore. LINUX/Apache web server with content on AFS.

5. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 GRID systems Compusys rack, will form basis of our contribution to Southern Tier 2. Originally: 7 dual 1.4GHz Pentiums, plus 0.8TB disk with a server node. Compute nodes in the grid (GridPP & EDG). RH6.2. Recently added 12 dual 2.4GHz Xeon nodes. (Will bring in with RH7.3)

6. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 Windows Desktops still NT4, produced using cloning methods. Looking at XP. Laptops Windows2000. Changes to Windows Servers: In general move to Windows 2000 servers (still in NT4 domain). New HP/Compaq Proliant ML350 server with 450GB Raid (4*150GB disks) as new filestore, will turn off Alpha/NT4 file server. New backup device, ADIC Scalar24 with SDLT320 drive. Use with BackupExec.

7. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 Windows Servers continued Xerox ‘Docushare’ server updated. New version of software running on upgraded hardware (replaced motherboard, CPU, memory). HP/Compaq Proliant ML350 dual cpu, repacement Citrix server.

8. Gareth Smith RAL PPD HEP Sysman. April 2003 Other things…… Temperature sensor and automatic trip of power added to computer room. MasterClass – provision of 37PCs for three days.) Flat screen monitors. Policy to only buy when we need more monitors or specific reason.