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Panofsky Auditorium
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Note: the speaker's name is a link to his or her email address,
and the talk title is a link to the powerpoint or postscript
slides for the talk. Links to RealVideo archives of the talks
will be added as they are recorded during the week. You may view the live
broadcast using the either RealPlayer G2 or RealPlayer 5.0:
Live Broadcast: 
Monday, October 4
Tuesday, October 5
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 |
Christian Trachimow (DESY) |
A scripting host for domain automation tasks [Powerpoint]
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Transaction Server / Message Queue Server, Security, synchronous
and asynchronous execution of scripts, event driven execution
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| 9:30 |
Tami Kramer (CERN) |
The Fight Against Viruses
[Powerpoint]
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The fight against viruses on NICE PC's at CERN.
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| 10:00 |
Jack Schmidt (FNAL) |
Commerical Products for Security
[Powerpoint]
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Experiences with commercial products for Security- STAT (Security Test and
Analysis Tool) and SPQuery (identifies what patch level a system is at as
well as pushing out patches.)
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Jack Schmidt (FNAL)) |
Domain Migration to Windows 2000
[Powerpoint]
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How to Merge NT4 domains using basic tools, and whether to do this before
Windows 2000.
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| 11:30 |
Alan Silverman (CERN) |
CERN's New Windows Strategy
[Powerpoint]
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(Author: Frederic Hemmer, CERN)
CERN bases its Windows architecture today on a client/server model (NICE)
which has been described fully in previous HEPNT and CHEP meetings. We
review the current status and options for moving forward both client and
server parts weighing the pros and cons of each option. Finally we present
our recommendation for the next 12-24 months in advance of a full Windows
2000-based solution.
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| 12:00 |
Dora Merelli, Saclay, DAPNIA |
Deploying Windows 2000 [Powerpoint]
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We are trying to see how to deploy Windows 2000 Professional (in the NICE
environment), without (for the moment) having any Win2000 Domain.
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| 12:30 | Lunch | SLAC Cafeteria |
| 14:00 |
Rand Morimoto |
Migration to Windows 2000 in Large Research Environments
[Powerpoint]
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The talk will address suggested migration paths from Windows NT4 to Windows
2000, suggested implementation paths, and real life experience from working
with 7 major companies in planning and migration (a combined 185,000 seats
of Windows and Unix users). It will also cover integrating a Windows 2000
environment into an existing Unix-based DNS enterprise.
Rand is the author of Osborne McGraw's 900-page book titled "Windows 2000
Design and Migration"
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Panel | Windows 2000 Panel |
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Wednesday, October 6
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 |
Richard Mount |
Welcome/Computing at SLAC
[Powerpoint]
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Richard Mount, the Director of SLAC Computer Services, will
welcome the attendees to this joint meeting of HEPNT and HEPiX,
and will talk about some of the developments in physics and
computing at SLAC.
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| 9:30 |
Helene Jamet (IN2P3) |
LDAP Progress Report
[Powerpoint]
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- LDAP servers deployement over IN2P3 laboratories
- our LDAP Web interface tools
- LDAP HEP directory service ?
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| 10:00 |
Warren Mathews (SLAC) |
HEP Networking
[Powerpoint]
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The performance of networks used by HEP and
in particular the feasibility of the goals for Wide
Area Networking in the computer model for BaBar and
future accelerators.
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Wolfgang Friebel (DESY) |
Towards a tool for common sysadmin tasks under UNIX and NT - A Proposal
[Powerpoint]
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The commercially available System Administration
tools are expensive and do not cover all of our needs.
It is proposed to build our own tools by heavily using
already available software. One option - starting with
an OO design and perl based code is discussed in more detail.
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| 11:30 | Joseph Palumbo (Caspur) |
Project GENTES: AFS authentication for Windows NT
[Powerpoint]
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The CASPUR AFS Gina is a DLL (derived from ND_gina by G.L. Dobbins) that
replaces the standard Windows NT authentication module. This module allows
an AFS user to login on a Win NT machine, even if he does not have a local
account and maps the user AFS home directory on a local logical drive
(P:). Moreover, all the user desktop/applications settings are preserved
between logons.
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| 12:00 |
John Gordon (RAL) |
A Firewall for Cheapskates |
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Worried by prevalence of malicious scanning attacks, too poor to
buy a profesional firewall solution capable of handling a busy site and
afraid of the complexity of it, CLRC has implemented a strategy of router
filters to offer some protection. This talk describes what we did and why
and where we are going now.
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| 12:30 | Lunch | SLAC Cafeteria |
| 14:00 |
Bob Cowles (SLAC) |
Methods for ridding HEP Sites of Cleartext Passwords
[Powerpoint]
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| Matt Crawford (FNAL) |
A Comparison of Password Vulnerabilities
[Powerpoint]
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This talk will compare the threats of
password compromise under several different
authentications schemes, including traditional
Unix, Unix with SSH, Windows NT, Kerberos, and
hardware token systems.
| | Ian Bird (JLAB) |
Jefferson Lab's password security implementation
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| Matt Crawford
(FNAL) |
Kerberos Implementation at Fermilab
[Powerpoint]
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Fermilab's pilot implementation of Kerberos will be presented. It
includes features to guard against accidental exposure of Kerberos
passwords and to allow secure access by users who have no special
software available. Future development directions will be included
as time permits.
| | Wolfgang Friebel (DESY) |
Securing Mail Access with Kerberos and SSL
[Powerpoint]
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| Alf Wachsmann (DESY) |
Kerberos Implementation at DESY
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| Alan Silverman (CERN) |
Authentication at CERN
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 |
Chuck Boeheim (SLAC) |
Tour of SLAC |
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We will have a walking tour to some of SLAC's experimental areas.
We will start from the auditorium lobby at 16:00 and walk to IR-2
to see the BaBar control room, and to the Collider Hall to see the
SLD detector. The hardy walkers may continue to see the
accelerator housing. The walk is about 10 minutes each way.
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| 19:00 | Workshop Dinner
at Scott's Seafood |
Thursday, October 7
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 | Site Reports |
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Site Reports |
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| 11:45 |
Ian Bird |
An Alternative to LSF
[Powerpoint]
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Ian will talk about work at Jefferson Lab on alternative batch systems.
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| 12:00 |
Chuck Boeheim |
Joint Linux Projects
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Some people have expressed interest in a project to jointly
develop a HEP Linux environment. This session will attempt to
assess interest in such a project and form up a working group.
A mailing list has been set up to continue discussions, named
hepix-linux@slac.stanford.edu. See
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/HEPIX-LINUX/ for
subscription and archive information.
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| 12:30 | Lunch | SLAC Cafeteria |
| 14:00 |
Chafia Tifra (IN2P3) |
IN2P3 ATM Network
[Powerpoint
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| 14:30 |
Jean-Rene Rouet (CCIN2P3) |
HelpDesk System at CCIN2P3
[Powerpoint]
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The helpdesk system at CCIN2P3 is an application
developed by CCIN2P3 engineers on a UNIX based system. This
application uses WEB and Database technologies. The talk will
present information on our goals and a description of the
system as well as a demonstration.
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| 15:00 |
Philippe Defert (CERN) |
An HEPiX X11 desktop project: pros and cons
[Powerpoint]
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A small introduction to GNOME and KDE will be
followed followed by an update to the talk given at HEPiX
in RAL (April 99). A discussion will then be started with
the following questions:
- Do we need standardisation for desktop environments ?
- Do we start a follow to HEPiX X11: the HEPiX X11 Desktop
project ?
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| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 |
Steve Salkeld (Platform) |
LSF Futures
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| 17:00 |
Chuck Boeheim |
LSF User's Group |
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Current and prospective users of LSF will meeting with Platform Computing
representatives to work on possible common licensing terms for HEP sites.
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Friday, October 8
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 |
Dane Skow (Fermi) |
Linux Cluster Tools Development
[Powerpoint] |
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I will review experiences and projects
underway at FNAL for larger scale (300+ node) linux farms
deployment. We have implemented a workgroup customization
feature witin our site installation facility. We are working
on further simplifications of (re)installations and
configuration management. We are just beginning an upgrade
of our monitoring tools
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| 9:30 |
Thomas Davis |
Linux and NFS
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This talk will focus on issues involving the
performance of NFS on the LINUX platform. Differences in
performance and upcoming improvements in the linux client
will be discussed. Benefits of using knfs for the linux
server will all be addressed.
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| 10:00 |
Otis Graf (IBM) |
HPSS Status
[Powerpoint]
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Otis will discuss HPSS Releases, requirements, status, and installations.
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Nicholas Sauter (SSRL) |
Remote Collaboration Environment for Protein Crystallography
[Powerpoint]
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Four X-ray beamlines at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation
Laboratory are dedicated to atomic structure determination
of biological macromolecules. Over 200 outside groups are
scheduled annually for shifts which typically last 2 days.
This high throughput environment poses several computing
challenges: First, the users need to communicate with
outside collaborators. We have developed a distributed
control system to allow remote monitoring (including live
video), and equipment manipulation. Second,
~20 Tbytes /year of data must be archived, which will
require the high capacity HPSS tape system at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center. Finally, researchers need to access
data regardless of whether they are on-site, for which
purpose we are making NT and Unix platforms available
through the internet.
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| 11:30 |
John Gordon (RAL) |
A UK Data Facility for BaBar
[Powerpoint]
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RAL's HEP facilities have hitherto been for the
use of all HEP experiments. The particular demands of BaBar,
both in terms of amounts of data and the use of Objectivity,
have forced us to set up a dedicated facility for UK
BaBar physicists. This presentation describes the issues,
the Sun-based solution, and the work still to be done to
provide access to multi-Terabytes for UK physicists.
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| 12:00 |
Randall Burris (Oak Ridge) |
Testbed for High Performance Storage
[Powerpoint]
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As computers become more capable, researchers
of all types are finding it necessary to store massive
quantities of data generated by simulations or experiments
and to retrieve them at high rate for analysis or
visualization. As a consequence, strong needs have arisen
for storage systems tuned for particular needs; significant
improvements in storage speed and access control; database
management systems capable of use with hierarchical storage
systems; utilization of new media and new types of storage
devices and development; and testing and use of user-written
storage applications.
The Office of Science has established Probe as a testbed
for challenging storage projects. Probe has installations
at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Energy
Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Both sites will
be using High Performance Storage System (HPSS) software for
investigations into optimizing data rates utilizing
data-moving servers from various vendors, for
proof-of-principle and optimization studies of applications
with intense storage needs, for very high rate transfers to
visualization systems, for tuning high data rate transfers
over next-generation wide-area networks and for studies of a
variety of storage interfaces and devices.
This presentation will describe the two installations, tests
that are already planned and projects which we believe will
benefit from the use of the facility.
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| 12:30 | Lunch | SLAC Cafeteria |
| 13:30 |
Andy Hanushevsky (SLAC) |
OOFS Users Meeting
[Powerpoint] |
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An opportunity for people involved in implementation of OOFS at other sites
to meet to discuss implementation issues.
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| 14:00 |
Don Petravick (FNAL) |
Status of the ENSTORE Project and HPSS at FNAL
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| 14:20 |
Martin Gasthuber (DESY) |
The Eurostore Project
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| 14:40 |
Tony Cass (CERN) |
The CASTOR Project
[Powerpoint]
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| 15:00 |
Tony Cass (CERN) |
HPSS Experience at CERN
[Powerpoint]
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| 15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 |
Rolf Rumler (IN2P3) |
BaBar Storage at Lyon
[Powerpoint]
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| 16:10 |
Andy Hanushevsky (SLAC) |
Mass Storage for BaBar at SLAC
[Powerpoint]
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| 16:30 |
Razvan Popescu (BNL/RHIC) |
Mass Storage at RHIC
[Powerpoint]
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| 16:50 |
Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN) |
Closing Remarks
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Page Owner: Chuck Boeheim.
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