15–19 Apr 2013
CNAF Bologna (Italy)
Europe/Rome timezone

Session

IT Infrastructure

15 Apr 2013, 14:00
CNAF Bologna (Italy)

CNAF Bologna (Italy)

Conveners

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)
  • Iwona Sakrejda

IT Infrastructure

  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Iwona Sakrejda

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Iwona Sakrejda
  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Iwona Sakrejda
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Iwona Sakrejda
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Iwona Sakrejda

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Iwona Sakrejda

IT Infrastructure: IT Infrastructure

  • Helge Meinhard (CERN)
  • Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  • Iwona Sakrejda

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  1. Wayne Salter (CERN)
    15/04/2013, 14:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The CERN remote data centre in Budapest is now in operation, the first equipment deliveries have taken place and the network infrastructure, including the 1x100Gbps links is operational. By the time of this talk the first systems should also be in operation. This talk will therefore summarise the project since the last talk at the HEPIX spring meeting of 2012 and the experience gained so far.
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  2. Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
    15/04/2013, 14:25
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    Fundamental research labs in southern part of Paris, known as P2IO, have decided to build a common computing facility shared between labs and designed to be energy efficient. This involves the creation of a new datacenter as the first step. This project started one year ago has entered its construction phase and is expected to be available next Fall. This presentation will detail the...
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  3. Mr Martin Bly (STFC/RAL)
    15/04/2013, 14:50
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    In November 2012 the RAL Tier1 suffered two serious power failure incidents in a period of two weeks. The first was a general whole-site failure which was exacerbated by the loss of the UPS power supply, and the second was a power surge caused during work on the UPS supply feed and which damaged significant amounts of equipment. In both cases the Tier1 facility and other Scientific Computing...
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  4. Wayne Salter (CERN)
    15/04/2013, 15:15
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    This talk will address the topic of energy saving aspects of data centre operations and raise the question of whether HEPIX wishes to have a common effort on this topic, e.g. to set up a working group or to have a track at a future workshop on this topic.
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  5. Alvaro Gonzalez Alvarez (CERN)
    15/04/2013, 16:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The current efforts on the version control and issue tracking services at CERN will be presented. Special attention to the new central git service, the integration between issue tracking and version control and future service deployments.
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  6. Dr Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
    15/04/2013, 16:25
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    it will be specified
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  7. Lisa Pedrazzi (T)
    15/04/2013, 16:50
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    CMDBuild is an application finalized to manage the configuration database (CMDB) of objects and services used by the IT department of an organization, compliant with ITIL "best practices". During this talk we want to give a brief presentation of the project and the most successful . We will explain how the application could be effectively used and we will illustrate some examples to present...
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  8. Mr Joel Surget (CEA/Saclay DSM/IRFU)
    16/04/2013, 14:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The IRFU use the Microsoft product SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) to manage all his Windows computers (1500 computers). SCCM manage the network installation, inventory, product installation and update, security patchs … since the 2003 version. The 2 last releases of this product (SCCM 2012 in april 2012 and SCCM 2012 SP1 in January 2013) give us new possibilities. In particular...
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  9. Mr Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch (DESY)
    16/04/2013, 14:25
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    DESY has been using Exchange for a long time and is actually still using version 2003 of Microsoft's groupware product. Currently we are investigating the use of Zimbra Collaboration Suite to abandon Exchange. The presentation will point to some interesting features and also arguments, why DESY has not planned to upgrade Exchange and also aspects of the sourrounding mail environment will be...
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  10. Luis Fernandez Alvarez
    17/04/2013, 14:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The Agile Infrastructure project being developed at CERN is growing, scaling and adopted by more users every day. After several pre-production releases, the OpenStack private cloud has been refined and adapted to fit our requirements: scalability, resource flexibility and availability. The current version is close to a production state that will provide Infrastructure as a Service to the CERN...
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  11. Mr Pedro Manuel Rodrigues De Sousa Andrade (CERN)
    17/04/2013, 14:25
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The Agile Infrastructure (AI) project is establishing new tools and procedures to deliver a more flexible and dynamic management of CERN computer centres. From the infrastructure monitoring perspective the project is establishing a common monitoring architecture to simplify and improve the access to information about all computer centre resources. The AI monitoring area is working to deliver...
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  12. Mr Evangelos (Vaggelis) Atlidakis (CERN)
    17/04/2013, 14:50
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    This presentation describes several Load Balancing paradigms of services within our puppet managed, CERN private, Openstack cloud. Our primary Load Balancer is HAProxy, which is combined with Corosync/Pacemaker cluster engine or DNS Load balancer. Specifically, we create small clusters of Load Balancers behind a service IP to guarantee front end failover. The aforementioned Load Balancers...
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  13. Lionel Cons (CERN)
    17/04/2013, 15:15
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    CERN started to use messaging (as defined in MOM[1]) in 2008. Today, it is used in very different environments, from Grid monitoring to computer center management and even LHC controls. This presentation will briefly describe messaging and will detail how messaging services are provided at CERN, focusing on lessons learned inside CERN but also through European projects (EGGE, EMI and...
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  14. Ben Jones (CERN)
    17/04/2013, 16:10
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    As part of the CERN Agile Infrastructure project, we have been running the puppet component as a production service. With the benefit of the experience of running at larger scale with more users, we will describe the lessons we have learnt, and how we've evolved our original design. Looking to the future, we will present how we plan to support a multi-admin environment with a distributed...
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  15. Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
    17/04/2013, 16:35
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    EGI.eu has recently conducted a survey among EGI sites on configuration management tools used for their Grid resources. We will present the results of this survey.
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  16. DIMITRIOS ZILASKOS (STFC)
    17/04/2013, 17:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    Aquilon is a Quattor configuration database and management broker developed by by an investment to meet the needs of their large worldwide grid. Providing much better relational integrity to the Quattor configuraton database and a workflow that is both more agile and more disciplined, Aquilon can transform the use of Quattor to manage sites. This talk will discuss the latest updates on the...
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  17. Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    18/04/2013, 11:35
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    This presentation discusses business continuity experiences at BNL over the past few years, including cyber-security incidents, operational accidents and natural disasters. Based on these experiences, BNL has continuously adjusted its protocols and responses in an effort to minimize degradation to the user experience at our data center.
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  18. Maite Barroso Lopez (CERN)
    18/04/2013, 12:00
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    This talk will present the experience at CERN T0 on continuous service improvement. During the last years, we have made an explicit effort to understand and improve all service management aspects in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness. We will present the requirements, how they were addressed and share our experiences, the positive ones and the mistakes, describing how we measure,...
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  19. Dr Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
    19/04/2013, 10:05
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    In the framework of the “business continuity track” at Hepix 2013 spring workshop, we had the opportunity to discuss with the representatives of the Tecnoteca company which supports the cmdbuild software. We had a free discussion for this first face-to-face meeting rather than a organized session. The context of the discussion kept in the technical level. We are going present an indicative...
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  20. connie sieh (Fermilab)
    19/04/2013, 10:20
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    The status of Scientific Linux .
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  21. Christopher Huhn (GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung)
    19/04/2013, 11:05
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    GSI has combined several well-established - maybe old-fashioned - technologies into a framework that's capable of fulfilling diverse requirements and is able to keep up with the evoltionary changes in GSI's heterogeneous IT environment with relatively small effort.
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  22. Matteo Dessalvi (G)
    19/04/2013, 11:30
    IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
    Presentation
    As the number of servers, both bare metal as well as virtual machines, keeps increasing we need some tools that are not only able to store efficiently the logs but can also give us some insightful information from them. Logstash, in combination with the indexing capabilities of Elasticsearch, can be used to collect the logs from different kind of sources and aggregate them in such a way...
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