US ATLAS Transparent Distributed Facility Workshop

Europe/Zurich
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

Friday Center on the Campus of the University of North Carolina
Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Description
US ATLAS Facility meeting co-located with the OSG All Hands Consortium meeting hosted by RENCI, North Carolina
OSG All Hands Consortium Meeting Website
US ATLAS Facility twiki (background information and notes)
Participants
  • Fred Luehring
  • Michael Ernst
  • Nurcan Ozturk
  • Patrick McGuigan
  • Robert GARDNER
  • Saul Youssef
  • Shank Jim
  • Shawn McKee
    • 09:00 10:45
      Operations and FDR
      • 09:00
        Introduction, schedule, required capabilities 30m
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)
      • 09:30
        Supporting Users and Coordinating Operations in the Facility 30m
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        FDR - Results so far, schedule and challenges 45m
        Speaker: James Herbert Cochran Jr (Iowa State University)
        Slides
    • 10:45 11:00
      Coffee break 15m
    • 11:00 12:45
      Distributed Analysis
      • 11:00
        A distributed analysis demonstrator using Pathena analysis queues on Tier2 facilities 30m
        Speaker: Ms Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Data distribution and placement strategies 45m
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)
        Slides
    • 12:45 13:45
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:45 15:30
      Tier3 Analysis
      • 13:45
        Tier3 analysis scenarios, revisited 45m
        Speaker: Amir Farbin (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        ATLAS data and the Tier3 30m
        - access tools and methods for Tier3-based analyses - uploading and registering user datasets
        Speaker: Marco Mambelli (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Deployment and use of PROOF/xrootd in the Facility 30m
        Speaker: Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:30
      Tier3 Facilities
      • 15:30
        Equipping Tier3 Centers: an example Tier3 20m
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University)
        Slides
      • 15:50
        Equipping Tier3 Centers: SMU Tier3 plans 20m
        Speaker: Justin Ross (SMU)
        Slides
    • 16:30 16:45
      Coffee break 15m
    • 16:45 18:05
      Preparations for First Data
      • 16:45
        First data scenarios (discussion) 1h
        - based on what has been learned in FDR and present and near-term capabilities - sharpen near term goals - setting user expectations
      • 17:45
        Summary and next steps 20m
        Review action items from the meeting
        Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)