Conveners
Basic IT services: Basic IT services
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
- Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Basic IT services
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
- Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Basic IT services: Basic IT services
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
- Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Basic IT services: Basic IT services
- Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
Sven Sternberger
(D)
5/20/14, 12:10 PM
Basic IT Services
The talk will discuss the problems which arise
from managing and distributing secrets like
root passwords, keytabs, certificates
in a large site.
Secrets are needed in the process of installing and administrating
of compute and storage systems.
They should be accessible by authorized admins and
from the system they belong to. There should be a way to audit the
information to enforce...
Mr
Sylvain Reynaud
(CNRS)
5/22/14, 12:00 PM
Basic IT Services
Many of us need tools for service monitoring adapted to our site specificities, or tools to do custom processing on user data. Regardless of the use-cases, we have to develop (or get developed) applications that aggregate, process and format data from heterogeneous data sources.
Lavoisier (http://software.in2p3.fr/lavoisier) is a framework, which enables building such applications by...
Pedro Andrade
(CERN)
5/22/14, 2:00 PM
Basic IT Services
The agile infrastructure monitoring team is working on new solutions to modernise and improve how monitoring and analytics is done at CERN. We will give an update on these activities, in particular the recent progress on testing and adopting different open source technologies (e.g. hadoop, elasticsearch, flume, kibana) for the various monitoring architecture layers. We will report on the...
Ben Jones
(CERN)
5/22/14, 2:25 PM
Basic IT Services
As the Agile Infrastructure project scaled from being a development effort of a few peoplethat could sit in one meeting room to a production service for the CERN computer centre, what changes were needed to our service, tools and workflow? We will look at the technical challenges scaling the puppet infrastructure, scaling the development
effort of puppet code, and also the procedural changes...
Stefano Zilli
(CERN)
5/22/14, 2:50 PM
Basic IT Services
The CERN private cloud has been in production since July 2013 and has grown steadily to 60000 cores, hosting more than 5500 Virtual Machines for 370 users and 140 shared projects. New features have been made available this year like block storage and IPv6. This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of the infrastructure and of the plans for the next developments and...
Jerome Belleman
(CERN)
5/22/14, 3:15 PM
Basic IT Services
As the Agile Infrastructure is moving forwards at CERN, more and more services are migrating to it. New tools are put in place to get the most out of its strengths while we learn lessons from the problems we hit when converting services from Quattor. At CERN, a number of services have made some significant progress in the migration to the new infrastructure; the batch service, several...
Mr
Frederic Schaer
(CEA)
5/22/14, 4:10 PM
Basic IT Services
The IRFU site, member of the GRIF wLCG T2 site, decided to move from quattor to puppet in 2012. The migration was almost complete early april 2014.
This talk will focus mainly on the goals, the ways to achieve what we achieved, the manpower that was required, what we gained with puppet and the new challenges that we must now face as a T2 with this management tool.
Ian Peter Collier
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
5/22/14, 4:35 PM
Basic IT Services
A report on the status of the Quattor toolset, with particular emphasis on recent developments in both teh user and development communities.
Ben Jones
(CERN)
5/22/14, 5:00 PM
Basic IT Services
A year ago we began working with other sites to see how we could best share knowledge and effort amongst sites migrating to puppet. This talk will present a reminder of the working group, it's formation and mandate, and how puppet had been developing already amongst earlier adopters. We will discuss how puppet module development occurs in the wider puppet community, and what conventions the...
Larry Pezzaglia
(LBNL)
5/22/14, 5:25 PM
Basic IT Services
This talk will provide a case study of cluster consolidation at NERSC.
In 2012, NERSC began deployment of "Mendel", a 500+ node,
Infiniband-attached, Linux "meta-cluster" which transparently
expands NERSC production clusters and services in a scalable and
maintainable fashion. The success of the software automation
infrastructure behind the Mendel multi-clustering model...
