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Outline NL P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology research organization d. Cache user administration

NL research organization NWO ◦ traditional lines FOM, STW, … institutes, universities ◦ Nikhef

Supermicro d. Cache (setup) Evaluated possible solutions ◦ replacing gluster 3 VM’s ◦ master

d. Cache (usage) NFS ◦ high load, bugs found Thanks d. Cache Team for

user administration separate UNIX / Windows ◦ >20 years ◦ user / group existence

information screens (I) many stand-alone ◦ events xibo. org. uk ◦ php web server

information screens (II) client display ◦ many layouts regions ticker ◦ schedule ◦ android

cluster Fujitsu Primergy RX 2530 ◦ 58 nodes ◦ 2 x 12 cores E

cloud Juniper QFX 10008 ◦ 36 x 40 Gb/s (2) ◦ 16 x 10

procurement 3 or 4 parties ◦ not always real competition one P. Kuipers Nikhef

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Outline NL P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology research organization d. Cache user administration information screens cluster cloud procurement

NL research organization NWO ◦ traditional lines FOM, STW, … institutes, universities ◦ Nikhef (FOM), … new P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology NWO (per 1 -1 -2017) ◦ domains: exact, social, technical, medical ◦ institutes ◦ administration

Supermicro d. Cache (setup) Evaluated possible solutions ◦ replacing gluster 3 VM’s ◦ master ◦ billing DB ◦ metadata DB + NFS server 5 P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology Supermicro ◦ Opteron 6320, 128 GB RAM, 110 TB disk Centos 6

d. Cache (usage) NFS ◦ high load, bugs found Thanks d. Cache Team for fixing ◦ Centos 7 local farm ◦ /dcache appending to files P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology ◦ xrootd ◦ gridftp

user administration separate UNIX / Windows ◦ >20 years ◦ user / group existence / capitalization / membership LDAP ◦ pushed to Windows AD P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology ◦ users (nikhef. nl) ◦ computers (ad. nikhef. nl)

information screens (I) many stand-alone ◦ events xibo. org. uk ◦ php web server ◦ client windows / android / linux (beta) minix (android) + xibo license (both low cost) ◦ users / groups P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology per screen / part

information screens (II) client display ◦ many layouts regions ticker ◦ schedule ◦ android no powerpoint P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology text data no auto-start embedded video cookies

cluster Fujitsu Primergy RX 2530 ◦ 58 nodes ◦ 2 x 12 cores E 5 -2650 2. 20 GHz ◦ 8 GB/core ◦ 5 Samsung 480 GB SSD /tmp 2. 1 GB ◦ 17. 04 HEP SPEC/core P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology

cloud Juniper QFX 10008 ◦ 36 x 40 Gb/s (2) ◦ 16 x 10 Gb/s core router ◦ 100 Gb/s Netherlight Arista and Juniper switches (2 x 40 Gb/s) Fujitsu cluster P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology ◦ 10 Gb/s per machine Openstack / Opencontrail ◦ MPCS / EVPN, offloading traffic

procurement 3 or 4 parties ◦ not always real competition one P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology broker ◦ SURFnet, SURFsara, Nikhef ◦ compute- and storage-equipment, maintenance ◦ general or specific ◦ contact manufacturer order through broker ◦ see offers made to broker

Questions? P. Kuipers Nikhef Amsterdam Computer. Technology