Jens Timmerman
(U)
23/04/2012, 14:00
IT Infrastructure and Services
EasyBuild is an open source build framework written in Python that enables you to install software in a repeatable and consistent way.
EasyBuild was motivated by the need for a system that would allow us to build and install multiple versions of a software package, built with different tool-kits in an automated manner. This whilst a huge number of software packages require us to divert...
Daniel Gomez Blanco
(CERN)
23/04/2012, 14:30
IT Infrastructure and Services
This presentation gives an introduction to the Database On Demand service at CERN. The need to offer support based on different database systems is on the rise within our user community. For example, one use case includes certain applications certified for running with non-Oracle databases (e.g. MySQL). Additional use cases are based on the desire expressed by user groups in being able to...
Giacomo Tenaglia
(CERN)
23/04/2012, 14:50
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will present the access management system used at CERN Database Services group for allowing intercommunication within the nodes of the various database clusters, used also for granting and maintaining access to database and application servers to administrators and users. Started as a simple SSH keys management tool, the system has evolved together with CERN IT infrastructure,...
Nils Høimyr
(CERN)
23/04/2012, 15:10
IT Infrastructure and Services
The talk will address the evolution of CERN computing infrastructure services such as CVS, SVN and TWiki as well as the Engineering Linux server infrastructure. Furthermore, the project to setup a central Issue Tracking Service based on Atlassian JIRA will be presented, along with a description of the IT BOINC application service for Volunter Computing.
Dr
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
(CERN)
23/04/2012, 16:00
IT Infrastructure and Services
The CERN Service Management project was born to fulfil the need of a global, homogeneous, and efficient service organization for all services provided to the users. On February 2011 the project entered in operation including in a first step services of the IT and GS departments. The CERN Service Management infrastructure is based on ITIL best practises and it includes a single Service Desk, a...
Eric Bonfillou
(CERN)
23/04/2012, 16:20
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will provide an overview of the CERN's new burn-in test system. It will mainly focus on the reasons why a new system is needed (operational factors, remote hosting adaptation) and how it is being implemented and evaluated. The first results will be presented as the acceptance of about 1500 servers relied on it.
James Adams
(STFC RAL)
23/04/2012, 16:40
IT Infrastructure and Services
ARTEMIS is a lightweight system developed at the STFC e-Science centre for collecting, viewing and analysing environmental data from distributed sensors in a data-centre environments.
Dr
Helge Meinhard
(CERN)
24/04/2012, 11:00
IT Infrastructure and Services
Over the past decade, CERN-IT has successfully managed thousands of machines for specific services in the CERN computer centre, using
dedicated home-grown tools for configuration, installation and monitoring. However, a more dynamic and flexible approach is needed in order to provide new services, reduce inefficiencies, address business
continuity, and cope with a remote extension to the...
Dr
Helge Meinhard
(CERN)
24/04/2012, 11:15
IT Infrastructure and Services
Configuration Management is not new to CERN. For more than a decade, CERN has build its own Quattor based Configuration Management infrastructure which is currently used to manage the configuration of several thousands machines. Experience shows that our infrastructure has several limitations. Moreover, it will not scale to manage configuration of systems on a heavily virtualised computer...
Mr
Pedro Manuel Rodrigues De Sousa Andrade
(CERN)
24/04/2012, 11:40
IT Infrastructure and Services
The Agile Infrastructure (AI) project will establish a flexible and dynamic management of CERN computer centre resources. From the infrastructure monitoring perspective the AI project is working towards a common monitoring architecture to allow accessing and correlating information about all computer centre resources. This new monitoring solution will simplify the sharing of monitoring data...
Jose Castro Leon
(Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
24/04/2012, 12:05
IT Infrastructure and Services
The Agile Infrastructure project leverages emerging OpenStack Cloud Computing framework and Puppet configuration tools to provide Infrastructure as a Service in a sustainable and scalable way, but also ensuring sufficient resource flexibility and availability. In this solution, different services will be connected and scheduled over the IaaS layer using the same entry point. Moreover, a common...
connie sieh
(Fermilab)
25/04/2012, 16:30
IT Infrastructure and Services
Current status of Scientific Linux.
Wayne Salter
(CERN)
26/04/2012, 11:10
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will provide an update on the two main infrastructure projects; namely the upgrade and consolidation of the CERN computer centre and the remote hosting project. As the tender for the remote hosting will have been recently adjudicated at the CERN Finance Committee in March, the talk will concentrate on the tender and the results. Nonetheless it will give an brief update on the...
Peter Gronbech
(Particle Physics)
26/04/2012, 11:40
IT Infrastructure and Services
To be filled by Peter
Eric Bonfillou
(CERN)
26/04/2012, 12:10
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will describe the new computing hardware procurement trends at CERN. It will focus on major architectural changes being put in place as well as describe how these are better fitting the power, cooling and space envelopes available in the CERN hosting facilities. The talk will underline how the simplification of these architecture tends to streamline the process of delivering...
Mr
Frederic Schaer
(CEA)
27/04/2012, 11:00
IT Infrastructure and Services
The GRIF monitoring infrastructure will be presented, along with the requirements, issues, and foreseen evolutions
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
27/04/2012, 11:30
IT Infrastructure and Services
Report from the recent Quattor Workshop in Budapest and update on developments in the Quattor toolset.
