WLCG Collaboration Workshop (Tier0/Tier1/Tier2)

from Saturday, 21 March 2009 at 09:00 to Sunday, 22 March 2009 at 20:00 (Europe/Zurich)
at Prague ( Co-located with CHEP 2009 )

Description

This workshop will have a strong WLCG operations focus. Topics include:

Service operations, e.g. data management & storage services, databases, analysis services;
Operations procedures and tools - reporting of problems, escalation, "Service Incident Reports", suspension of sites in case of major and/or prolonged problems (response targets etc.)
Downtime handling: scheduled, unscheduled, at risk etc.
Support issues: use of team and alarm tickets, targets for response to incidents, ...
Monitoring: VO-views, site views, aligning official availability with VO tests and production results, ...

Material:

Prague metro map

WLCG Beer Tasting Session

Go to day

Saturday, 21 March 2009

09:30 - 09:40 Workshop introduction, goals and logistics 10'

Speakers:	Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN), Milos Lokajicek
Material:	CHEP 2009 home page Slides

09:40 - 09:45 Status of the LHC Machine - Timeline included in following report 5'

Material:

Agenda of Chamonix 2009 LHC Performance workshop

Summary of Chamonix workshop

09:45 - 10:30 WLCG Roadmap for 2009/2010 45'

Speaker:	Dr. Ian Bird (CERN)
Material:	Slides

10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 12:20 Experiment Roadmaps for 2009/2010 1h20'
Based on proposal from Luca, Fabio and Gonzalo, itself based on the LHCb style. See here for more information.

Assumes an LHC run from September / October 2009 until autumn 2010, with only a short break at Christmas.

Speakers:	Philippe Charpentier (CERN), Matthias Kasemann, Dr. Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa), Kors Bos (NIKHEF), Peter Hristov (CERN), Dr. Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)
Material:	Proposal from CCRC'08 planning meeting Slides

ATLAS

Speaker:	Kors Bos (NIKHEF)
Material:	Slides

CMS

Speaker:	Matthias Kasemann (CERN/DESY)
Material:	Slides

ALICE

Speaker:	Dr. Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)
Material:	Slides

LHCb

Speaker:	Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
Material:	Slides

12:20 - 12:30 CCRC'09 Discussion - part 1 10'
12:30 - 14:00 lunch break

14:00 - 15:00 WLCG Site Reviews - Status and Outlook 1h0'

Speaker:	Dr. Ian Bird (CERN)
Material:	Slides

15:00 - 15:30 WLCG DB Service Reviews 30'

Speaker:	Maria Girone (CERN)
Material:	Slides

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 WLCG DM Service Reviews and DM Outlook 2h0'

Report from dCache workshop held at FZK in January 2009 30'

Goals of the workshop. Motto: yes we can, stability is coming to dCache.

Speaker:	Mr. Jos VanWezel (FORSCHUNGZENTRUM KARLSRUHE)
Material:	Minutes Slides agenda

Report from CASTOR external operations F2F meeting held at RAL in February 30'

Speaker:	Barbara Martelli (INFN CNAF)
Material:	Slides agenda

Summary of experiments' DM requirements for 2009 30'

Speakers:	Dr. Flavia Donno (CERN), Dr. Andrea Sciabà (CERN)
Material:	Slides

DM futures - ideas, panel discussion and proposal for future workshop 1h0' Suggestions include:

Cost of ownership - what are the real costs of "curating" (and serving...) large volumes of HEP data?
using HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) as a WLCG SE - Brian Bockelman, Nebraska
Planning for long-term access to data - the LHC data archive?

Speaker:	Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)
Material:	Slides

18:00 - 18:20 WLCG Tier0 Network Intervention - Did Work at outside sites suffer? 20'

18:30 - 20:30 WLCG Beer Tasting session

Details here.

Location:

Potrefená Husa, Na Verandách restaurant. ( Potrefená Husa, Na Verandách restaurant )

Sunday, 22 March 2009

09:00 - 09:30 WLCG Analysis Services Working Group Session 30'

Speaker:	Dr. Markus Schulz (CERN)
Material:	Slides

09:30 - 10:30 Supporting WLCG Analysis Services and Analysis Users 1h0'

Speakers:

Dr. Massimo Lamanna (CERN), Dr. Dan van der Ster (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Introduction 20'

Speaker:	Dr. Massimo Lamanna (CERN)
Material:	Slides

Case Study: User Support in ATLAS (and LHCb) 20'

Speaker:	Dr. Dan van der Ster (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
Material:	Slides

Discussion 20'

10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 WLCG Operations Session 1h30'

Operations procedures and tools - reporting of problems, escalation

Speaker:	Nicholas Thackray (CERN)
Material:	Slides

Service Incident Reports - When? Why? How?

Speaker:	Olof Barring (CERN)
Material:	CERN FIO incident reports GridPP incident template Slides

Suspension of sites in case of major and/or prolonged problems (response targets etc.)

Speakers:	Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow), Nicholas Thackray (CERN)
Material:	Slides

Action plans from sites in case of major and/or prolonged problems (response targets etc.)

Speaker: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)

LHCOPN operations and Grid interactions

Speakers:	Mr. Guillaume Cessieux (IN2P3-CC), Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)
Material:	Slides

12:30 - 13:30 lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 WLCG Operations Session 1h30'

Downtime handling: scheduled, unscheduled, at risk etc.

Speaker:	Pablo Saiz (CERN)
Material:	Slides

Monitoring: VO-views, site views, aligning official availability with VO tests and production results, ...

Speakers:	Dr. Elisa Lanciotti (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)), Julia Andreeva (CERN)
Material:	GridMAP Site View Slides

Support issues: use of team and alarm tickets, targets for response to incidents, ...

Speaker:	Julia Andreeva (CERN)
Material:	Slides

Automatic Resource & Usage Monitoring

Speaker:	Steve Traylen (CERN)
Material:	Slides

LHCOPN operations and Grid interactions (slides above)
Meet the SCOD ("Service Coordinator On Duty")

Speaker: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)

15:00 - 15:30 Remaining Issues, Summary and Outlook 30'

Material:

ATLAS proposal for STEP09 (aka CCRC'09)

CMS proposed STEPs for scale testing

Workshop summary

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 WLCG Collaboration Board meeting [agendas] - (tentative - for CB members only!)

Convener: Prof. Mike Vetterli (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY)
18:00 - 20:00 (CHEP) Welcome Reception