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CERN openlab Board of Sponsors CERN IT: Some Strategic Directions. David Foster Deputy IT Department Head CERN May 2011. Outline. 7 Strategic Directions in 2011, a high level view Excluding Physics and EU related activities. 1. User Empowerment. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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CERN IT Department
CH-1211 Genève 23
Switzerlandwww.cern.ch/it
CERN openlab Board of Sponsors
CERN IT: Some Strategic Directions
David FosterDeputy IT Department Head
CERNMay 2011
CERN IT Department
CH-1211 Genève 23
Switzerlandwww.cern.ch/it
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Outline
• 7 Strategic Directions in 2011, a high level view– Excluding Physics and EU related activities
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1. User Empowerment
• Long history of constraining end-user devices– Limited hardware combinations– Limited software combinations (Windows)
• Times have changed– Users expect greater choice– Users expect support– Security is mandatory– Budgets have not increased
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Mobile Growth
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Desktop Changes
• Mac’s on the upward slope• Linux desktops slightly down• Windows (including oscilloscopes) constant
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Implications for IT
• IT much more enabling than controlling• Support models have to change– Facilitate “Community Support” which means
Social Support Frameworks– Need to grow valuable social networks
• Interoperability testing more important• Usability testing more important (design
for experience)
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2. Service Support
• More rigorous treatment of service support throughout the organisation as we become a “World Lab”– Based on ITIL methodology.– Applied to all CERN services.– Using SaaS from Service-Now.com
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Single point of entry
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Fast access to required actions
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3. Exploitation of Networking
• Large scale international collaborations need large scale networking.
• LHCOPN provides nx10Gbps from CERN to the Tier-1 Centers.
• LHCONE intends to provide a world wide network facility to provide high performance capabilities between Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 centers.– Responds to the new “peer” model of data access
across Tier sites.– A blueprint for other sciences.
http://lhcone.net
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LHCONE
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High Level Architecture
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Status Today• LHCONE launched on March 31st
– Started shared VLAN service including two initial sites: CERN, Caltech– Verified connectivity and routing– First data exchanged on March 31st
• Active Open Exchange Points:– CERNLight, NetherLight, StarLight (and MANLAN)
Monitoring of Transatlantic segment (US LHCNet)
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4. Security
• Security has increasingly become part of the overall fabric – Integrated into the overall approach for systems management.
• Software updates and exploit fixes.
– Increasingly integrated into work practices and policies.• Awareness campaigns and policies on network connections.
– Use of intrusion detection mechanisms• Increasing use of data mining techniques, a data management
problem in its own right.
• At a pure networking level, firewalling and real-time detection lags behind the networking bandwidth increases– Firewalling a 100G connection? – Move firewalling away from the core to the edge?
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5. Clouds • On-going process for creating another (greener) computer
center “elsewhere”– Has evolved to an IaaS type of idea.– Will need to re-visit operational models.– Virtualisation will be key.– Some services may be considered as a “private cloud”
• A mix of private and commercial cloud services should be foreseen– Already using SaaS in service management– Some promising trends including possible dedicated R&E networking
to cloud centres in the US• Much interest now in evolving Grids to take advantage of Cloud
technologies and perhaps visa-versa– Use of commercial offerings in combination with the private facilities.
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Status of the T0 Hosting Call
• Significant Interest expressed:– 23 proposals from Belgium, Germany (2), Switzerland (2), Spain (2), Finland,
France, Hungary (3), Norway (7), Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom (2)
• Significant differences in the proposals– Some proposals require significant capital expenditure– 1.07 < PUE < 1.6– 100 m2 < floor space < 1000 m2
– 1 KW/m2 < Power Density < 30 KW/m2
– 8 proposals > 2.5 MW– Many facilities are currently non existing
• Electricity price vary significantly in Europe– Between 44 CHF/MWh and 320 CHF/MWh– Sometimes much cheaper for academic institutions– Most important factor in the operation costs
• Enough interest to launch a formal call for tender this yearCERN IT: Some Strategic Directions – David Foster
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6. Content
• Information management increasingly important– What is the reliability and authenticity of information?
Important for external image including branding.– Structure is important for SEO– Content management for improved maintenance (and lower
cost) – Long term digitization, archiving and preservation of information
• Matching tools to roles is something new– Designers, Implementors, Authors– Investing in Drupal and Sharepoint
• Structuring the information space is difficult– The role of “cern.ch” – Internal vs external, departmental vs public etc …
• Allow users to manage their information space– Create “My” portals to reduce the information space to a
relevant and manageable amount for the individualCERN IT: Some Strategic Directions – David Foster
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Open Access
• CERN heavily involved in the “Open Access” movement– Liberalisation of access to information on scientific results.– CERN leading the Scoap3 initiative negotiating with the
publishers to maintain rights of the authors.• http://scoap3.org/
– Open Access publishing now becoming the norm for the experiments.
– Invenio technology used extensively for digital repositories and libraries.• arXiv are migrating to Invenio.
– http://arxiv.org/help/support/arxiv_busplan_Apr2011
• NASA astronomical data system (ADS) are migrating to Invenio.
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7. Knowledge and Technology Transfer apart from openlab
In house (software) Technologies
– Invenio-Indico– Quattor– Castor– LFC/DPM
Collaboration with institutions– WHO– UNOSAT
Knowledge & Outreach– HepIX– CSC– VIPs– ISF– Advisory Groups
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Did you know...?
• WHO is connected via CERN to the Commodity Internet
• UNOSAT staff and servers hosted at CERN
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• Philosophy: promote web-based citizen participation in science projects as an appropriate low cost technology for scientists in the developing world.
• Partners: CERN, UN Institute for Training and Research, University of Geneva • Sponsors: IBM, HP Labs, Shuttleworth Foundation • Technology: open source platforms for internet-based distributed collaboration• Projects:
– Computing for Clean Water optimizing nanotube based water filters by large scale simulation on volunteer PCs– AfricaMap volunteer thinking to generate maps of regions of Africa from satellite images, with UNOSAT– LHC@home new volunteer project for public participation in LHC collision simulations, using VM technology
• Plans: Training workshops in 2011 in India, China, Brazil and South Africa
Collaboration with the General Public:Citizen Cyberscience Centre
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