1. CASPUR Site Report Andrei Maslennikov Lead - Systems Amsterdam, May 2003

2. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20032 Contents Update on central computers Storage news Slab Downloads Projects for year 2003

3. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20033 Central computers IBM SMP: - Acquired 3 new frames with 80 POWER-4 CPUs at 1.1 GHz and 144 GB of RAM - New machines run AIX 5.2+. AFS and SGEEE operate smoothly - One of the older POWER-3 frames will soon be dismissed HP SMP: - Got 8 4-CPU ES45 nodes at 1.2GHz, 64GB of RAM and 1.2 TB of local FC disk - Tru64 5.1a on all nodes + AFS + SGEEE - In future will probably migrate to True Cluster (AFS via Translator) - Dismissed 4100 cluster Itanium-2: - 5 biprocessor nodes (1 front-end at 900 MHz and 4 batch at 1 Ghz) - Being installed now - Arriving soon: 2 quadriprocessors for 6 months (collaboration with Intel) NEC SX-6i: - On loan for 6 months since April 2003: 4GB RAM, 8 GFLOP

4. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20034 Storage news AFS: 4 cells on site and 5 outside - OpenAFS 1.2.8 on Linux, in production since 6 months. - Main Servers: 3 Supermicros at 2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM Disk system: Infortrend IFT-6300 IDE/FC - Vice partitions in SGI XFS - Stand-alone backup server on GigE (up to 4 parallel streams on LTO/FC) - Current capacity: 2.3 TB - Very stable - Migration to KRB5: successfully tested MIT+HEIMDAL for both Unix and Windows. Now looking at HEIMDAL-only. Plan to conclude the migration in 2003.

5. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20035 Storage news NFS - New server with 2 TB, adding another 2TB in June Supermicro 2GHz / 2GB, disk systems – Infortrend 6300 IDE/FC - Runs Mountain View Data (MVD) software - Their own kernel, XFS-enabled - Volume management, multiple snapshots possible - Excellent performance and low cost (<1 KUSD/server) - Old NetApp with 1.3 TB still alive, but will soon be dismissed (1-year maintenance costs as a new 2 TB FC RAID array)

6. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20036 CASPUR: principal resources in 2003 IBM – 216 CPUs (375 -1100 MHz) Itanium2 – 18 CPUs (0.9-1 GHz) HP 60 CPUs (667 – 1200MHz) FC RAID SYSTEMS 14 TB AFS 2.3 TB 3x SM 2.8 GHz FC SAN NFS 4TB SM 2.8 GHz Gigabit IP FC TAPE SYSTEMS 30 / 60 TB

7. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20037 SLAB Storage Laboratory - Renewed the machines (now 2-way Xeons 2.8 GHz / 2GB / FC 2 Gbit) - New, faster storage on FC (Infortrend arrays) - New interesting devices for SAN interconnects over WAN - More hadware arriving (new tape drives, new iSCSI units) - Just finished several test programs, results will be presented tomorrow

8. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20038 Downloads Public domain software for download - 4 architectures: AIX 5.1, Solaris 8, Tru64 5.1, Linux - Large group of products already compiled - May be used directly off AFS. - Official opening date: June 1, 2003 - Entry point: http://afs.caspur.it/afs/italia/project/casishttp://afs.caspur.it/afs/italia/project/casis - Other downloads at http://www.caspur.it/download :http://www.caspur.it/download - AFS-aware SSH binary builds - Tape Dispatcher and CASPUR Staging II systems - CASPUR BigBox (Customized RH distribution)

9. A.Maslennikov - Amsterdam 20039 Some projects for year 2003 Staging IIa - General clean-up of the code - Improved logging - Staging into/outside AFS - Hooks for a distributed solution (redundant database, remote FC tapes) ControlHost II - Autoconf - General clean-up - Packaging for download Technology tracking - New tape devices: Sony SAIT, IBM LTO2 - New FCIP and iSCSI products from CISCO and HP Machine room and labs - Barcode-based inventory system - KVM / IP, remote switching, all kinds of alarms