WLCG 2009 Data-Taking Readiness Planning Workshop

from to (Europe/Zurich)
at CERN ( 31-3-004 - IT Auditorium )
Description
Rapporteurs: Patricia Mendez Lorenzo & Roberto Santinelli (additional volunteers welcome!)
Material:
Go to day
  • Thursday, 13 November 2008
    • 09:00 - 13:00 2009 - Timetable & Planning
      Convener: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)
      • 09:00 LHC Operation in 2009 - Outlook 30'
        Speaker: Maria Girone (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:30 Report from C-RRB on Computing Resource Allocation for 2009 30'
        Speaker: Harry Renshall (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:00 CMS - Plan for shutdown and data-taking preparation 30'
        Speaker: Claudio Grandi (INFN Bologna)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:30 ATLAS - Plan for shutdown and data-taking preparation 30'
        Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:00 LHCb - Plan for shutdown and data-taking preparation 30'
        Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 11:30 ALICE - Plan for shutdown and data-taking preparation 30'
        Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 13:00 - 14:00 lunch break
    • 14:00 - 18:15 Experience from 2008 - Sites & Services
      Convener: Dr. John Gordon (STFC-RAL)
      • 14:00 Data Management Services 1h0'
        Speaker: Gavin McCance (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:00 Database Services 30'
        Speaker: Maria Girone (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:30 Tier2 Experiences 30'
        Speaker: Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 16:00 Tier1 Experiences 30'
        Speaker: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 16:30 Tier1 Reliability 30'
        Speaker: Dr. John Gordon (STFC-RAL)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 17:00 CERN / Tier0 Experiences 45'
        Speaker: Miguel Marques Coelho Dos Santos (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 18:00 - 19:00 break
    • 18:00 - 22:00 Workshop Drink
      Location: Restaurant number 1 - main building
  • Friday, 14 November 2008
    • 09:00 - 13:00 2009 Baseline Versions & Production Service Requirements
      Convener: Harry Renshall (CERN)
      • 09:00 Middleware 30'
        Speaker: Oliver Keeble (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:30 Storageware 30'
        Speaker: Dr. Flavia Donno (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:00 Status / Outlook of Critical Services 30'
        Speaker: Dr. Andrea Sciaba' (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:30 Analysis - Service Requirements 45'
        • Presentation plus discussion
        Speaker: Dr. Markus Schulz (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
        • ROOT/PROOF-based services 15'
          Speakers: Fons Rademakers (CERN), Gerardo GANIS (CERN)
          Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:15 Goals & Metrics for Data Taking Readiness "Challenge" 45'
        • Service validation if software is changed/upgraded
        • Specific tests (e.g. throughput) to ensure that no problems have been introduced
        • Tests of functions not yet tested (e.g. Reprocessing/data recall at Tier 1s)

        • “Simulated” downtime of 1-3 Tier1s for up to – or exceeding – 5 days (window?) to understand how system handles export including recall from tape
        • Scheduled(?) recovery from power-outages
        • Extensive concurrent batch load – do shares match expectations?
        • Extensive overlapping “functional blocks” – concurrent production & analysis activities
        • Reprocessing and analysis use cases (Tier1 & Tier2) and conditions "DB" load - validation of current deployment(s)
        • Tape rates - can sites support concurrent tape rates needed by all VOs it supports concurrently?

        • Oracle 11g release 2
        Speaker: (all)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:00 Data Management Futures 1h0'
        • Presentation plus discussion
        Speaker: Dirk Duellmann (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
    • 13:00 - 14:00 lunch break
    • 14:00 - 18:00 WLCG + Experiments Operations
      Convener: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)
      • 14:00 GGUS - Direct routing of tickets to all sites 20'
        Speakers: Torsten Antoni (GGUS, KIT-SCC), Diana Bosio (CERN), Maria Dimou (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 14:20 Monitoring / Dashboard Roadmap 40'
        Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)
        • Site Status Board 15'
          "SLS for Sites" - VO view of its sites
          Speaker: Pablo Saiz (CERN)
          Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
        • Site Monitoring 15'
          To provide a site view of VO activities at that site
          Speaker: Dr. Elisa Lanciotti (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
          Material: Slides pdf file
        • FTS monitoring 15'
          Speaker: Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN)
          Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 15:00 WLCG Operations - Post-mortem & Escalation Procedures, "Service Coordination", Downtime Handling, etc. 30'
        Speakers: Nicholas Thackray (CERN), Harry Renshall (CERN), Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN), Olof Barring (CERN), Maria Girone (CERN)
        Material: Changes powerpoint file document pdf file
      • 15:30 Experiment Operations 30'
        Speaker: Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 16:00 SMART MoU Targets 20'

        • Specific
        • Measurable
        • Achievable
        • Relevant
        • Time related
        Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow WLCG Memorandum of Understanding link
      • 16:20 2009 WLCG Collaboration and Review workshops - proposals 10'

        • dCache Tier-1 workshop on January 14th and 15th in FZK (Jos)
        • WLCG Collaboration workshop, 21-22 March, Prague (agenda).
        • Review workshop prior to EGEE'09 in Barcelona
        • Review workshop co-located with OGF 27
        • Potential workshop covering Asia-Pacific region

        • Future / further workshops at CERN??? If yes, when?? where??
          • IT amphitheatre probably too small - other possibilities 50%, 100%, 200% bigger...
        Speaker: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)
        Material: ATLAS 2008 post-mortem workshop (for info) link
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Workshop Summary
      Convener: Dr. Jamie Shiers (CERN)
      Material: slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 16:30 Rapporteurs' report(s) 30'
        Speakers: Rapporteurs, Dr. Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD), Dr. roberto santinelli (CERN/IT/GD), Alberto Aimar (CERN), Jeremy Coles (Physics Department)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file