US ATLAS Tier-3 Meeting

US/Central
ANL ASC

ANL ASC

Description
This meeting is aimed at those US ATLAS institutes planning to setup a new or a substantially improved Tier3 in the near future. EVO: 8 June 2010 Title: US ATLAS Tier3 Meeting: Day 1 Community: ATLAS Meeting Access Information: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MeMMMu292DD8Dt9e9nDv9e Phone Bridge ID: 1986114 9 June 2010 Title: US ATLAS Tier3 Meeting: Day 2 Community: ATLAS Meeting Access Information: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MIM9Ms2M22DBDl9I9nDa9I Phone Bridge ID: 1986125 EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers: --------------- - USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA) +1 626 395 2112 - Switzerland (CERN, Geneva) +41 22 76 71400 - USA (BNL, Upton, NY) +1 631 344 6100 - Canada (TRIUMF, Vancouver) +1 604 222 7700 - USA (MIT, Cambridge, MA) +1 617 715 469
Evo Recordings
Participants
  • Alexandre Vaniachine
  • Andrew Hanushevsky
  • Anyes Taffard
  • Attila Krasznahorkay
  • Austin Napier
  • Benjamin Brau
  • Brian Martin
  • Charles Waldman
  • Craig Blocker
  • Dale Finkelson
  • Dan Fraser
  • David Lesny
  • David Strom
  • Doug Benjamin
  • Frederick Luehring
  • Horst Severini
  • James Cochran
  • James Mueller
  • Justin Ross
  • Marco Mambelli
  • Mario Bondioli
  • Michael Bryant
  • Mine Altunay
  • Nils Krumnack
  • Paul Keener
  • Peter Loch
  • Philippe Laurens
  • R. Dean Schamberger
  • Rik Yoshida
  • Rob Gardner
  • Rochelle Lauer
  • Samya Zain
  • Sergei Chekanov
  • Sergey Panitkin
  • Sergey Uzunyan
  • Tao Qian
  • Vassilios Vassilakop
  • William Lockman
  • Yongsheng Gao
  • Yushu Yao
    • 09:00 11:30
      Introduction and T3g overview
      • 09:00
        Welcome to ANL ASC 20m
        Speaker: Rik Yoshida
        Slides
      • 09:20
        T3g Functionalities and Project Status 20m
        What can a T3g do, and how you will start building one
        Speaker: Rik Yoshida (ANL)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        T3g Infrastructure 20m
        Infrastructure considerations of a T3g -networking, power/cooling, space, sys. management, security, monitoring
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        T3g Hardware 20m
        Recommended hardware for a T3g
        Speaker: Walker Stemple (Dell)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Coffee/Discussion 50m
      • 11:10
        T3g Services 20m
        Overview of the software services needed
        Speaker: Rik Yoshida (ANL)
        Slides
    • 11:30 12:10
      T3g Components I
      • 11:30
        User Account Services 20m
        Creating and maintaining user accounts
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Software Environment:: ATLASLocalRootBase and ManageTier3SW 20m
        Managing T3g software and the user environment
        Speaker: Rik Yoshida (ANL)
        Slides
    • 12:10 13:40
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:40 15:00
      T3g Components II
      • 13:40
        CVMFS: web file system 20m
        Providing athena, detabase releases, conditions data
        Speaker: Yushu Yao (LBNL)
        Slides
      • 14:00
        Condor and ArCond 20m
        Batch environment and user interface
        Speaker: Sergei Chekanov (ANL)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        XrootD 20m
        Analysis data storage and management
        Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        T3g User Interface Experience 20m
        Speaker: Brian Martin (MSU)
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:45
      Coffee/Discussion 45m
    • 15:45 16:45
      Discussion with individual sites

      This time has been set aside for discussion of individual sites with T3 coordinators.

  • Wednesday, 9 June
    • 09:00 09:20
      Data Access at T3g
      • 09:00
        Grid (data) access 20m
        Obtaining ATLAS data at a T3g
        Speaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
        Slides
    • 09:20 10:20
      Support Issues
      • 09:20
        Support in setting up a T3g 20m
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        ATLAS T3 support 20m
        Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), Daniel van der Ster (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        OSG T3 support 20m
        Speaker: Marco Mambelli (OSG)
        Slides
    • 10:20 11:05
      Coffee/Discussion 45m
    • 11:05 12:05
      T3g within an existing computing infrastructure
      • 11:05
        Experience at Yale T3 30m
        Speaker: Rochelle Lauer (Yale)
        Slides
      • 11:35
        Experience at SMU 30m
        Speaker: Justin Ross (SMU)
        Slides
    • 12:05 13:35
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:35 14:55
      T3g Components III
      • 13:35
        T3 Panda 20m
        Job submission to local batch queues using Panda
        Speaker: Torre Wenaus (BNL)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        Security Issues 20m
        Computer security
        Speaker: Mine Altunay (OSG)
        Slides
      • 14:35
        Networking 20m
        Speaker: Dale Finkelson (Internet2)
        Slides
    • 14:55 15:55
      Near Future
      • 14:55
        Virtualization 30m
        Speaker: Yushu Yao (LBNL)
        Slides
      • 15:25
        PROOF farm 30m
        Speaker: Attila Krasznahorkay (NYU)
        Slides
    • 15:55 16:20
      Discussion/Feedback