NDPF News

Change in services

Following a major restructuring, your home directories and other account metadata should now be available again. Please report any problems to grid.sysadmin@nikhef.nl

Known issues

• none

Planned changes

• update of all worker nodes to CentOS4 and gLite 3.1 is planned for Wednesday August 15, 2007. During this upgrade, job submission will be suspended and running jobs drained. Note for VOs with locally installed software: your software installation and any tags you publish will NOT be affected by this upgrade. It is up to each VO to manage software across this upgrade.

Where to go for which service

User Interface

any local NIKHEF workstation running SLC4 is capable of acting as a UI. For those of you who have been granted access to the NFPD Centralised UI: use ui03.nikhef.nl

BDII and Information System

bdii03.nikhef.nl, or via LDAP ldap://bdii03.nikhef.nl/o=Grid

Computing Element

ce03.nikhef.nl

Resource Broker

rb03.nikhef.nl (currently: boszwijn.nikhef.nl)

Registration with one of the Dutch VOs is now avaialble from https://voms.grid.sara.nl:8443/vomses. This machine has taken over the role of "mu4" as of August 2007.