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Familiy Meeting Januar 24, 2012
dCache installation workshop
Introduction ( 1/4 h )
- 'release notes' of previous 12 months
- FHS mentioning
- IT HIT mentioning
- New dCache license AGPL (implications)
- New Media (Customer information services)
- RSS Feed
- Google Plus
- User Forum, announcements should be made available on static web pages
- Release policy for next 12 month.
Improved File (re)distribution ( 1 hours , Gerd )
- High level view
- Introduction of mechanisms/algorithms
- News on the migration module for file reshuffling
gPlazma2 ( 1 h - 1.5 h )
- Theory
- Why gPlamza2
- High level design
- How about ARGUS
- Configuration files and things
- Hands-on migration to gPlazma 2
- default setup
- complicated setup with GRID plus individual users
- vo-role-mapping
- kpwd or NIS
Protocols
- pNFS ( 1.5 - 2.0 hours )
- Complete server/client installation procedure including Kerberos and LDAP
- All on authentication and authorization
- Hands-on (maybe together with gPlazma)(Oleg)
- Andreas : Kerberos preparation
- Some words on x509 and pNFS
- Complete server/client installation procedure including Kerberos and LDAP
- xrootd ( 1/4 hours )
- What's new in dcache : enableing xrootd redirector
- WebDAV ( 1/4 hours )
- Basic authentication
- IT-Hit imbedded WebDAV client in broswer
- Authenticate against KDC
Black Magic ( 1 - 1.5 hours )
- Postgres (Sergey)
- Postgres tuning (How to run in-memory, Postgres profiling)
- Postgres backup
- Postgres high availability
- File system tuning (Christoph)
- Blocksizes and scheduler
- Present possible configurations of FS's (xfs, ext4 blah blah)
Bits and Pieces ( 0.5 )
- Instructions on how to migrate to FHS (dCache no longer root) (Christoph)
- New web administaration interface (Tanja)
Related Topics and reports ( 1 hours )
- PIC : on Nagios probes
- LMU : distribution of files based on billing DB
- DESY : Birgit report on DESY Photon science
- Wuppertal : Sergey on virtualization of biling DB
- Paul: WLCG Teg working group results
The usual Promises ( 1/4 hours )
- 3 Tier
- HDFS, GPFS
Title | Min | Max |
---|---|---|
Introduction | 1/4 | 1/4 |
Improved File (re)distribution | 1 | 1 |
gPlazma2 | 1 | 1.5 |
Protocols | 2 | 2.5 |
Black Magic | 1 | 1.5 |
Bits and Pieces | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Related Topics and reports | 1 | 1 |
The usual Promises | 1/4 | 1/4 |