HEPiX Spring 2015 Workshop

Session

Basic IT Services

26 Mar 2015, 09:00

Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road (Physics Department, Oxford University)

Conveners

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)

26. Status of Centralized Config Management at the RACF

William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)

26/03/2015, 09:00

Basic IT Services

It's simple enough to instantiate a new process in an existing environment; it can be much more challenging to foster acceptance of such a process in IT environments and cultures that are traditionally stagnant and resistant to change, and to maintain and optimize that process to ensure it continues to realize optimal benefit. To enhance our computing facility, we've already taken...

12. Configuration management at CERN: Status and directions

Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

26/03/2015, 09:25

Basic IT Services

CERN’s experience of migrating a large site to a Puppet-based and more dynamic Configuration Service will be presented. The presentation will review some of the challenges encountered along the way and describe future plans for how to scale the service and improve the overall automation of operations on the site.

69. Deployment and usage of MCollective in production

Stefan Dietrich (DESY)

26/03/2015, 09:50

Basic IT Services

Marionette Collective, also known as MCollective, is a framework for building server orchestration, monitoring, and parallel job execution. MCollective uses a modern "Publish Subscribe Middleware" for a scalable and fast execution environment. It is a powerful tool in combination with Puppet, due to the good integration. However it can be a challenging task to configure and deploy...

47. Quattor in 2015

James Adams (STFC RAL)

26/03/2015, 10:15

Basic IT Services

The Quattor community has been maintaining Quattor for over ten years and having recently held our 19th community workshop the pace of development continues to increase. This talk will demonstrate why Quattor is more than just a configuration management system, report on recent developments and provide some notable updates and experiences from sites.

24. Subtlenoise: sonification of distributed computing activity

Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))

26/03/2015, 11:05

Basic IT Services

The dominant monitoring system used in distributed computing consists of visually rich time-series graphs and notification systems for alerting operators when metrics fall outside of accepted values. For large systems this can quickly become overwhelming. In this contribution a different approach is described using the sonification of monitoring messages with an architecture which fits easily...

9. Towards a modernisation of CERN’s telephony infrastructure

Francisco Valentin Vinagrero (CERN)

26/03/2015, 11:30

Basic IT Services

IP-based voice telephony (VoIP) and the SIP protocol are clear examples of disruptive technologies that have revolutionised a previously settled market. In particular, open-source solutions now have the ascendancy in the traditional Private Branch eXchange(PBX) market. We present a possible architecture for the modernisation of CERN's fixed telephony network, highlighting the technical...

52. Updates from Database Services at CERN

Andrei Dumitru (CERN)

26/03/2015, 11:55

Basic IT Services

CERN has a great number of applications that rely on a database for their daily operations. From physics related databases to the administrative, sector there is a high demand to have a database system appropriate to the users' needs and requirements. This presentation gives a summary of the current state of the Database Services at CERN, the work done during LS1 and some insights into the...