Tags: view all tags

Welcome to the PPD IT Forum TWiki

This TWiki is the home for information about the IT Forum of the Particle Physics Department. It is currently under construction - please contact Kevin Dunford if you have any queries

Table reference and Action statuses

Current status and date	Indicate what status the action is on and the date
Contributor initial comment	Any member of PPD Staff or visitor can request an IT issue both PPD and STFC to be debated.
PPD IT forum open discussion	Any member of PPD Staff or visitor can have their say on the contributors initial comments
Possible action	A request that the PPD IT forum would like the PPD Computer Group to review
Possible action (PPD Computer group)	PPD Computer group comments based on the PPDIT forum request
Action	An action on the PPD Computer Group. Or a request that has 0% impact on any IT, such as gathering information from elsewhere
Ongoing action	Status of the ongoing action
Action completed	A date when the action was completed and a brief comment if required

Once there has been an update to this twiki page emails will be sent to: Kristian Harder, John Baines, Raja Nandakumar, Ian Tomalin and Manny Olaiya, Tim Adye, Robin Middleton, Alfons Weber, Bruce Gallop and Group Leaders and the PPD Computer Group will be C.c’ed.

PPD related actions

PPD IT forum - Proposed actions - PPD IT
PPD IT forum - Actions and Ongoing actions - PPD IT Agreed and ongoing actions are moved here
PPD IT forum - Actions Completed - PPD Completed actions are moved here

STFC related action

PPD IT forum - Proposed actions - STFC IT
PPD IT forum - Actions and Ongoing actions - STFC IT Agreed and ongoing actions are moved here
PPD IT forum - Actions Completed - STFC IT Completed actions are moved here

What do you like and general comments

PPD computing system is very good. I am mostly seeing this from a Linux perspective.
The Linux infrastructure is good, and we get all the support we need.
For the few things that do not work properly on Linux, the Windows Terminal Server is an excellent
General comment - Excellent service from PPD IT support & I think it's a very good idea to renew this forum.
Terminal servers
Very high up-time of most services
General comment - Thanks for excellent work to all of the computing department! All the problems I have had so far have been solved very quickly.
So I like the PPD flexibility with Linux. Eg that we can use linux and the NAS linux boxes. NAS boxes are something we are looking into more in CMS.

Kevin Dunford's response to these likes and general comments

In general you are all happy with the level of support you receive from the PPD Computer Group.
The Windows terminal server is highlighted as an important service heavily used by non-Windows O/S users.
High up-time of services - I can only speak from the PPD Windows server side. This is one of the reasons why I come in early to do out of hour's server maintenance.

Computing/PPDITForum Web Utilities

Topic revision: r9 - 2014-06-24 - KevinDunford