Activities Overview from September 2010 to August 2011

Activities from Summer 2010 to Summer 2011:
Before October, but not mentioned in the last document:

• ARC-CE middleware enabled with High Availability (HA)
• Cream-CE installed with HA for job submission.
• Stablishment of XEN virtualization technology for most Service Nodes
• Old Worker Nodes from PhaseB distributed among Swiss universities

• Deployment of NFS with HA for Experiment’s software releases.
• Twiki migration to wiki.chipp.ch
• Maui scheduler replaced by Moab, purchased with support for Torque.
• New accounting system (from MON to APEL) deployment
• Security enhancement with ssh keys only, and review of firewall rules.
• New User Interface with 64 bits and local glite-Nagios
• Optimization of queue closure time for maintenances
• Reinstallation of Solaris storage nodes with Linux, for homogeneity.
• Lustre reformatting to ext4 FS to improve performance.
• PhaseD hardware and software deployment to meet the pledges in March 2011.
• GPFS installation as Scratch FS in parallel to Lustre, as a possible replacement.
• Pre-Production virtual system deployment to be able to test software before production.
• Lcg-CE old middleware decommission.
• glExec and Argus deployment for centrally managed blacklisting of users
• Early Adopters for EMI1 software releases (Cream, Argus, Apel, WN)
• CHIPP system administrators intruduction to Phoenix activities, for backup in case of an emergency
• Router in HA mode for Infiniband and Ethernet separaton from the same physical network, to simplify internal networking software stacks.
• Move to Lugano preparation started