Showing posts with label HEPiX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HEPiX. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2011

News Flash from ScotGrid Labs

In my last post, we investigating deployments of IPv6 on the test Cluster, the 1st one of which was using SLAAC to assign addressing to hosts. Interestingly enough it worked, first time out the tin.

An IPv6 Traceroute from the web is shown below:

traceroute to 2001:630:40:ef0:230:48ff:fe5a:4b7 (2001:630:40:ef0:230:48ff:fe5a:4b7), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  2001:1af8:4200:b000::1 (2001:1af8:4200:b000::1)  1.600 ms  1.813 ms  1.882 ms
 2  2001:1af8:4100::5 (2001:1af8:4100::5)  1.320 ms  1.392 ms  1.465 ms
 3  be11.crs.evo.leaseweb.net (2001:1af8::9)  2.587 ms  2.631 ms  2.619 ms
 4  linx-gw1.ja.net (2001:7f8:4::312:1)  8.475 ms  8.466 ms  8.453 ms
 5  ae1.lond-sbr4.ja.net (2001:630:0:10::151)  78.338 ms  78.388 ms  78.376 ms
 6  2001:630:0:10::109 (2001:630:0:10::109)  9.900 ms  9.479 ms  9.446 ms
 7  so-5-0-0.warr-sbr1.ja.net (2001:630:0:10::36)  13.320 ms  13.196 ms  13.317 ms
 8  2001:630:0:10::296 (2001:630:0:10::296)  18.705 ms  18.542 ms  18.793 ms
 9  clydenet.glas-sbr1.ja.net (2001:630:0:8044::206)  18.947 ms  18.931 ms  18.948 ms
10  2001:630:42:0:3e::9a (2001:630:42:0:3e::9a)  19.434 ms !X  18.214 ms !X  17.682 ms !X


The next phase of testing will be to enable a webserver to speak in both IPv4 and IPv6 using this access mechanism and then onto a Grid services .


I will post up a more detailed explanation of the mechanisms used for this soon.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Two Stacks are better than one

Leading on from the last post, we have also re-introduced a new test cluster. This infrastructure is housed within the same rack as our old worker nodes  but is completely independent of the production cluster. Supporting a Dell 8024F are 5 servers and a Dell 5000 series switch which are connected via an independent 1 gigabit fibre connection to the University's network.

The purpose of this cluster is to test IPv4/IPv6 dual stack connectivity for grid Services, the testing of switch based security mechanisms and SL6 NAT testing without fear of impacting the real cluster.

The IPv6 connectivity model testing will be in multiple phases which include:

* SLAAC
* IPv6 to IPv4 tunneling
* IPv6 Routing


This framework is designed to comply with the HEPIX IPv6 Project and to look at the possible connection models required by Tier-2s to utilise IPv6. Additionally, we will be testing a wide variety of Grid enabled applications and associated systems such as Nagios to investigate potential issues within a dual stack deployment.

More on this soon.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

HEPiX Summary

This week I 'ave mostly been attending Spring HEPiX 2007

I've summarised below some of the things I picked up on from the talks - Both slides and the video streams are available in the DESY Indico system.

Day 1 - Site Reports
LAL
WN's running SL4.4 64 bit with the ability to "fix" a VO to SL3 nodes
Evaluating LUSTRE
Lemon/Quattor for monitoring
Sun Thumper good.

LAPP (French T3)
Use GPFS/Woodcrest Blades (HP)
Cacti / Nagios / Ganglia
Developing own accounting tools for parsing Torque / Maui logs

PSI.ch
FreeNX desktops
SL5 Live CD
v12n - Use VMware / Eval Xen.
Use Lustre (on Cray) and GPFS (Linux clusters)

CASPUR
Mix of systems - IBM P5 / 2*Opteron clusters (Infiniband / Qsnet) / NEC SX6 / HP EV7.
GPFS / AFS / NFS
Xen / VMware
BNL
2*8500 robots using HPSS
Linux farm is big (>4700 CPUs, 1.3PB Local disk)
Nagios / Ganglia / Cacti
Temp Monitors distributed in datacentre - alert to RT Tickets.
Use both RT (helpdesk) and AT (assets) - also linked to OSG Footprints

GSI
OTRS Ticketing
Debian
1U boxes with 16 cores/32G RAM / 4 SATA Hot Swap disks for 8K Euro

RAL
2nd 8500 silo, perhaps with tape-passing interface
CASTOR problems
Disk problems fixed
Network upgraded

GridKa
Procurement via benchmark
How to connect 10GE to storage.

PDSF
HPSS
New Building
Blades

ScotGrid
Hey, We're great.

TRIUMF
Using BGP within the ATLAS network!
In-Row cooling
Dirvish / Amanda backups
Funky Videoconference room

INFN-T1
GPFS
RedEye (DIY) Monitoring System
Disk0Tape1 is CASTOR-2, D1T0 - GPFS / StoRM, D1T1 probably CASTOR-2
Nagios / MRTG / ntop

IN2P3
8500 robot
HPSS

CERN
Magnet issues
Firewall changes (no UDP)
Procurement via benchmark
Clampdown on Skype / p2p
Silent Data corruption
SLC3 support. SLC5 tests.

DESY
New Machine room
Nagios
8500 robot
Request Tracker / Zope

SLAC
Sun BlackBox, Thumpers, 8500


Phew. I'll write up the other days ASAP.