lecture LHC Computing Comprehensive Review
Date/Time: from Monday, 14 November 2005 (08:00) to Tuesday, 15 November 2005 (18:00) (Europe/Zurich)
Location: CERN
Chairperson: Les Robertson
Description:
The presentations to the full LHCC by the LCG Comprehensive Review referees is available in the attached material.
Material: more information link
Monday, 14 November 2005 09:00 ->10:15 Overview - Global Collaboration (60-6-002)    
Monday, 14 November 2005 10:15 ->12:45 Applications Area (60-6-002)    
Monday, 14 November 2005 10:30 ->14:55 Fabric (IT Auditorium)    
Monday, 14 November 2005 14:00 ->16:00 Tour of the Computer Centre + Distributed Analysis Demo (IT Auditorium)    
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 09:00 ->14:00 Grid Deployment - Service Challenges (IT Auditorium)    
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:00 ->16:30 Management (IT Auditorium)    
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:45 ->18:00 Closed session: LHCC Referee Meeting (IT Auditorium)    

 
 Monday, 14 November 2005
Overview - Global Collaboration (09:00 ->10:15 )
Referees:
Mario Martinez-Perez*, Junji Haba, Sijbrand de Jong, Patricia McBride
Chairperson: Les Robertson
 09:00
Summary of the Past Year (35')   transparencies powerpoint file   Les Robertson  
 09:35
Middleware status (25')   transparencies powerpoint file   Frederic Hemmer (CERN)  
Status and progress of the middleware used by the centres whose resources are made available to LCG through the EGEE grid
F. Hemmer and M. Lamanna  
10:00  COFFEE (15')

Applications Area (10:15 ->12:45 )
Referees:
Paul Dauncey*, Carsten Niebuhr, Michel Gonin, Vladimir Kekelidze
Chairperson: Pere Mato
 10:15
AA Phase II planning and status (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Pere Mato (CERN)  
 10:45
The ROOT project in LCG (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Rene Brun (CERN)  
 11:15
Databases developments in POOL (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Giacomo Govi (CERN)  
 11:45
Status of Generator project (30')   transparencies powerpoint file   Paolo Bartalini (U. of Florida)  

Fabric (10:30 ->14:55 )
Referees:
Davide Salomoni*, Rainer Mankel, Junji Haba, Dominique Boutigny, Rolf Landua
Chairperson: Bernd Panzer-Steindel
 10:30
Disk versus Tapes, status and outlook (15')   transparencies powerpoint file   Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)  
 10:45
Tape storage at FNAL (10')   transparencies pdf file   Ian Fisk (FNAL)  
 10:55
Tape storage at IN2P3 (10')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Fabio Hernandez (IN2P3)  
 11:05
Status and plans for CASTOR2 (20')   transparencies powerpoint file   Olof Barring (CERN)  
 11:25
Status and plans for dCache (20')   transparencies pdf file   Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)  
 11:45
Procurement procedures at CERN (update) (10')   transparencies powerpoint file   Tony Cass (CERN)  
 11:55
Procurement procedures at FNAL (15')   transparencies pdf file   Ian Fisk (FNAL)  
 12:10
Procurement procedures at IN2P3 (15')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Fabio Hernandez (IN2P3)  
 12:25
Status of Fabric management at CERN (15')   transparencies powerpoint file   German Cancio Melia (CERN)  
13:00  LUNCH (1h55')

Tour of the Computer Centre + Distributed Analysis Demo (14:00 ->16:00 )
Chairperson: Massimo Lamanna
 14:00
Demo session (5')   transparencies powerpoint file   Lamanna, M (CERN)  
 14:05
LHCb distributed analysis demo (20')    
Charpentier, Ph (CERN)  
  • LHCb demo (15')
Maier, A (CERN)  
 14:25
CMS distributed analysis demo (20')    
Andreeva, J (CERN)  
  • Experience in using CMS-CRAB (5')
Zanetti, M (Uni - INFN Padova)  
  • CMS demo (10')
Andreeva, J (CERN)  
 14:45
ATLAS distributed analysis demo (20')    
Liko, D (CERN)  
  • User job submission via the ATLAS production system (10')
Armin Naivz, Santiago Gonzalez de la Hoz, Hurng-Chun Lee  
  • ATHENA submission via GANGA (5')
Liko, D (CERN)  
 15:05
ALICE distributed analysis demo (20')    
  • Introduction (5')
Panos Christakoglou, Andreas Peters and Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
  • ALICE SC2005 Demo (15')
Peters, A (CERN)  
15:25  (5')
 15:30
Tour of the Computer Centre (30')   Kleinwort, T  


 
 Tuesday, 15 November 2005
Grid Deployment - Service Challenges (09:00 ->14:00 )
Referees:
Dominique Boutigny*, Sijbrand de Jong*, Rainer Mankel, Davide Salomoni, Junji Haba, Rik Yoshida
Chairperson: Ian Bird
 09:00
Introduction and overview (30')   transparencies powerpoint file   Ian Bird (CERN)  
- Operations status
- Baseline services status
- VO Boxes
- Interoperation/Interoperability
- Open issues
 09:30
SC3 Report and Plans for SC4 (30')   more information powerpoint file pdf filedown arrow   Jamie Shiers (CERN)  
 10:00
Experiment summary of SC3 (40')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Nick Brook (Bristol)  
Summary from 4 experiments - rapporteur
10:40  Coffee (20')
 11:00
Tier 1 and Tier 2 summary (45')    
Mirco Mazzuccato (CNAF)  
Ian Fisk (FNAL)  
Graeme Stewart (Glasgow)  
 11:45
Security - open issues (15')   transparencies powerpoint file   Ian Neilson (CERN)  
 12:00
Spare time for discussion (30')    
12:30  LUNCH (1h30')

Management (14:00 ->16:30 )
Referees:
Francesco Forti*,  Bernard Peyaud, Patricia McBride, John Martin
Chairperson: Les Robertson
 14:00
Status of distributed databases (3D) (30')   agenda link   transparencies powerpoint filedown arrow   Dirk Duellmann, Gordon Brown  
 14:30
Management (1h0')   transparencies powerpoint file   Les Robertson  
 15:30
Planning for Phase 2 (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Alberto Aimar  
 16:00
Wide Area Network Status (30')   transparencies powerpoint file   David Foster  

Closed session: LHCC Referee Meeting (16:45 ->18:00 )
Chairperson: Patty McBride