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LIVE VIDEO You will need the RealPlayer system in order to view the videos. The links in the table below bearing the title of each talk will take you to the saved video of the indicated talk. Wednesday, October 23 HEPiX-HEPNT 8:00 Registration 8:30 Lisa Giacchetti (Chair) HEPiX-HEPNT Welcome | [ Powerpoint ] [Web ] Start of the HEPiX-HEPNT meeting. Introduction, status, goals... 9:00 Site Reports Rochelle Lauer YALE | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Ofer Rind BNL | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Wojciech Wojcik CCIN2P3 | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Pierrick Micout Saclay | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] 10:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Site Reports Cary Whitney LBL/NERSC | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Michel Jouvin LAL | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Knut Woller DESY | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] John Gordon RAL | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Frederic Hemmer (CERN) Exchange 2000 Pilot at CERN | [ Powerpoint ][ PDF ] [abstract] 2:00 Emmanuel Ormancey (CERN) Fighting SPAM at CERN [ Powerpoint ]][ PDF ] [abstract] 2:30 David Kelsey (RAL) LCG/EDG Grid Security - update and plans | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] The LHC Computing Grid project (LCG) is now making plans for deploying a phase-1 Grid next year. This talk will present an update on security developments in the EU DataGrid (EDG) project since the last meeting and will describe the issues that need to be considered, negotiated and agreed between computer centres and virtual organisations as we move towards production quality Grids 3:00 Coffee Break 3:30 Bob Cowles (SLAC) Security Update Fall 2002 | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 4:30 Joe Klemencic (FERMI) Windows IP Security Filters | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] This discussion will focus around the many different uses of Windows Ip Security Filters beyond simple encrypted transport. Topics will include methods FNAL are investigating for use to secure traffic at a host level using IP Security Filters, along with presenting their usefulness in creating single-purpose hosts, disabling access to rogue services, authenticity verification and central management. Thursday, October 24 HEPiX-HEPNT 8:30 Cary Whitney (LBL) Cluster Hardware Database | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] This is a project whose goal is to create a DB of the cluster hardware and maintain a record of repair action and configuration of each node. There will be a demo of the current db and discussion of some future development. 9:00 Maria Dimou (Cern) New CERN IT User Support model and relevant survey results from some HEP | [ Web ] The flow of handling users' questions in CERN/IT will be described and relevant information received from other labs will be summarised in this talk. The areas covered include: . problem resolution flow . quality control of answers . metrics to measure user satisfaction 9:30 Sandy Philpott (JLAB) JLAB Print Services ala CERN: An Update | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Philippe Defert (CERN) Evolution of the CERN Printing Service [ Powerpoint ]][ Web ] This talk is authored by Ignacio Reguero and Samuel Lown. A discussion of the CERN print service upgarde campaign. 11:00 Philippe Defert (CERN) Status of the Central CVS service at CERN | [PDF] [Web] Author: Juan Manuel Guijarro Review of the setup and current status the central CVS service at CERN, going from selected architecture to main achievements, as well as pending issues. 11:30 Marc Mengel (FERMI) Update on NGOP | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Michel Jouvin (LAL) W2000 Remote Installation Services | [Powerpoint] [Web] [abstract] 2:00 Frederic Hemmer (CERN ) Wrapup of W2K Migration | [ PDF ][ Powerpoint ] [abstract] 2:30 Bob Cowles (SLAC) SLAC Windows Migration | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Report on SLAC's progress in the migration to Windows 2000 Servers and Windows XP Clients 3:00 Coffee Break 3:30 Corrie Kost (Triumf) High speed, High Volume, Long Distance Data Transfer | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 4:30 Chris Brew (FERMI) IO Benchmarks - How do they relate? | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 4:45 Rochelle Lauer (YALE) Are Blade Servers Right for HEP? | [ PDF ][ Web ] This talk describes HP (Compaq) Blade Servers. A brief description of the hardware and software is presented. The capcabilites and possibilities for use in HEP are explored. Friday, October 25 HEPiX-HEPNT 8:30 Alan Silverman(Cern) Large System SIG | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Review of recent surveys conducted by the SIG; First impressions of the second Large Cluster Workshop; Ideas on HEPiX-HEPNT providing technical input to grid projects 9:00 Ian Bird (CERN) LCG and HEPiX-HEPNT | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] How best to share information between the LCG and sites in the HEPiX-hepnt context. 9:30 Lisa Giacchetti (FERMI) AFS: What is everyone doing? | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Various people have expressed an interest in learning what other sites are doing in regard to AFS and support for it. This time slot is reserved so that discussion can take place. 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Jean-Yves Nief (IN2P3) The BaBar Tier A at CC-IN2P3 | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] A description of how the BaBar Tier A works at CC-IN2P3 (e .g. hardware software, problems, users' needs) as well as perspectives and the evolution of the Tier A. 11:00 Yannick Patois (IN2P3) CVS Setup at CC-IN2P3 and DataGrid 'edg-build' tool | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] This talk presents the way the CC-IN2P3 at Lyon setup it's CVS servers for experiments and some custom made build tools created for the European Datagrid Project. The first part of the talk focuses on the CVS server setup and the second part concentrates on the edg-build tool which automatically generates RPM packages from a remote CVS repository. 11:45 Steve Timm (FERMI) Measurements of Hardware Reliability in the Fermilab Farms | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] [abstract] 12:15 Lunch 1:30 Philippe Defert (CERN) Software Package Management System for the EU Datagrid | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] Installing and maintaining software in each node of a comp uter center is not a simple task. The analysis of the installation part of the f abric management work package will be shown which leads to new design considerati ons. The model developed for this work pacakge of the EU DataGrid project is the n presented. the design of the ASIS client updater will be changed using this this model as a proof of concept for the future DataGrid tool suite which could be available during 2003. 2:00 Tim Smith (CERN) Managing a farm without user jobs would be eaiser [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] A batch farm is much more than just boxes, an OS and the raw batch scheduler code. A significant investment of effort is required in configuring and reconfiguring to match the user requirements and collecting, analysing and presenting user accounting statistics. In addition diverse system protections are required to approximate to a user sand-box environment. When the batch farms are run as shared resources, the competition for resources, demonstration of fairness and protection of one set of users from another complicate the issues even further. I will chart out the course we are steering through these problems using LSF. 2:30 Cary Whitney (LBL) Linux filesystem performance via NFS | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] A presentation of our performance numbers for various Linux filesystems via NFS. Our goal was to see what filesystem gave the best NFS performance and compared that with some commercial NAS. 3:00 Lisa Giacchetti Meeting Close | [ Powerpoint ][ Web ] 3:30 Coffee Break