US ATLAS Transparent Distributed Facility Workshop

chaired by Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO), Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)
Tuesday, 4 March 2008 from to (Europe/Zurich)
at University of North Carolina
Friday Center on the Campus of the University of North Carolina
Description
US ATLAS Facility meeting co-located with the OSG All Hands Consortium meeting hosted by RENCI, North Carolina 
Participants Michael Ernst; Robert GARDNER; Fred Luehring; Nurcan Ozturk
Material:
Support Email: rwg@hep.uchicago.edu
Go to day
  • Tuesday, 4 March 2008
    • 09:00 - 10:45 Operations and FDR
      • 09:00 Introduction, schedule, required capabilities 30'
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)
        Material: Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf file
      • 09:30 Supporting Users and Coordinating Operations in the Facility 30'
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:00 FDR - Results so far, schedule and challenges 45'
        Speaker: James Herbert Cochran Jr (Iowa State University)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
    • 11:00 - 12:45 Distributed Analysis
      • 11:00 A distributed analysis demonstrator using Pathena analysis queues on Tier2 facilities 30'
        Speaker: Ms. Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 11:30 Data distribution and placement strategies 45'
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
    • 13:45 - 15:30 Tier3 Analysis
      • 13:45 Tier3 analysis scenarios, revisited 45'
        Speaker: Amir Farbin (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 14:30 ATLAS data and the Tier3 30'
        - access tools and methods for Tier3-based analyses
        - uploading and registering user datasets
        Speaker: Marco Mambelli (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:00 Deployment and use of PROOF/xrootd in the Facility 30'
        Speaker: Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Tier3 Facilities
      • 15:30 Equipping Tier3 Centers: an example Tier3 20'
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:50 Equipping Tier3 Centers: SMU Tier3 plans 20'
        Speaker: Justin Ross (SMU)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 16:30 - 16:45 Coffee break
    • 16:45 - 18:05 Preparations for First Data
      • 16:45 First data scenarios (discussion) 1h0'
        - 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 20'
        Review action items from the meeting
        Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)