05/19/2003 1CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

CEA Saclay site report

Amsterdam

05/19/2003 2CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

New security scheme

•four separate levels:

– Departemental networks behind firewalls

– « CEAnet interne » behind a central firewall

– « CEAnet externe » behind a filtered router

– « DataGRID » behind the first router of Saclay

•New scheme for « CEAnet externe » :

– Filters for each IP services and servers even for udp services above the 1024 limit …

– No answer to outside ping

05/19/2003 3CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

connections

•telnet and ftp services forbiden: acces through ssh only

•Acces to DAPNIA machines from external world:

– HEP:

• 10 DELL GX 260 running Linux

• 2 SUN

– Nuclear physics

• 2 SUN

– Astrophysics

• 1 SUN

•« bbftp » service opened:

– 2 Linux machines

•VRVS local reflector soon

•Each new connection must be discussed with the CEA security managers …

05/19/2003 4CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

AFS migration

•Open AFS 1.2.9 soon on Linux

•« dapafs01 » : IBM AIX 4.3.3 with IBM AFS 3.6:

– Should be replaced soon

– Third server on the « Orme des Merisiers site » ?

•Usage by Astrophysics people now also

•Upgrade open questions :

– RPMs versus « bos install » for the server side

– Binaries only or recompilations

– « ext2 » file systems only

– 8 gigabytes partitions

05/19/2003 5CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

Workstations

•Windows:

– Windows XP by default with Office XP

– Windows 2000 for older machines

– NICE NT services stopped

– Phasing out of NT 4 domains soon

– Windows Terminal Server

•Linux

– Red Hat (from 6.1 to 8.0)

– AFS clients

•Mac OS X:

– No real support

– AFS clients

– Accepted for some experiments

– 1 laptop for tests

05/19/2003 6CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

Mail

•New project :

– Windows Exchange 2000

– For the whole CEA community

– Beginning next year ?

– Phasing out of all the SMTP servers ?

05/19/2003 7CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

Computer center

•We are using the IN2P3 computer center:

– Three years « contract »

– For HENP people but interest from:

• Some Astrophysics experiments

• Life Science services for DataGRID or PCRD6 new projects

•Some people are using the CEA computer center located in Grenoble

– FUJITSU VPP 5000/15

– COMPAQ SC 256

•There are some discussion to move this computer center to another CEA center and to change some machines …

05/19/2003 8CEA – DAPNIA - Saclay

GRID

•DataGRID:

– 7 PCs running Linux Red Hat 6.2 and edg 1.4.x

– Possible integration of new machines from the Life Science services of Saclay and Grenoble

– Special sub-network

•6th framework of EU:

– EGEE

– HEAVEN

•E-toile : french project

– VTHD network

– Cluster installed in Saclay

•CEA Grid : new project (Saclay only for the moment).