Welcome to SLAC

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Welcome to SLAC

• Chuck Boeheim
• Assistant Director of Computing
• OpenAFS Best Practices Workshop

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About SLAC

• SLAC is one of the premier institutions for
  particle accelerators, high-energy physics, and
  synchrotron radiation.
• SLAC is a department of Stanford University.
• SLAC is funded by the US Department of Energy
  Office of Science.

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SLAC Computing

• Data Intensive Science
• Collect, Store, Disseminate 1TB/day
• Total collection almost 1.4PB
• World's largest database
• Disk cache 300TB
• Batch farm 3500 Processors
• Linux, Solaris

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SLAC Collaboration

• Physics experiments have large collaborations
• BaBar has 600 members from 75 institutions in 10
  countries
• AFS is centrally important to this effort
• Other tools are the Web and various Grid efforts

SLAC is the first U.S. Web site
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AFS at SLAC

• SLAC has 8 fileservers with 4TB of disk
• AFS is used for
• All user home directories
• Group work space
• Code repositories
• Web space
• The world-wide nature of AFS makes collaboration
  possible

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Our Hopes for this Workshop

• Promote discourse among AFS developers and users
• Encourage and Educate each other
• Focus on AFS Administration
• Give back to the AFS community