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23-27 April 2012
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
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We will report on the ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 which is co-located at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. We will describe some of our recent efforts at providing service resiliency and "business continuity" even if one of our two sites were offline for an extended period.
Presented by Shawn MC KEE
on
23 Apr 2012
at
10:20
ARTEMIS is a lightweight system developed at the STFC e-Science centre for collecting, viewing and analysing environmental data from distributed sensors in a data-centre environments.
Presented by James ADAMS
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23 Apr 2012
at
16:40
ASGC site report
Presented by Ms. Jinny CHIEN
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23 Apr 2012
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12:10
The Agile Infrastructure (AI) project will establish a flexible and dynamic management of CERN computer centre resources. From the infrastructure monitoring perspective the AI project is working towards a common monitoring architecture to allow accessing and correlating information about all computer centre resources. This new monitoring solution will simplify the sharing of monitoring data and pr
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Presented by Mr. Pedro Manuel RODRIGUES DE SOUSA ANDRADE
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24 Apr 2012
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11:40
Over the past decade, CERN-IT has successfully managed thousands of machines for specific services in the CERN computer centre, using
dedicated home-grown tools for configuration, installation and monitoring. However, a more dynamic and flexible approach is needed in order to provide new services, reduce inefficiencies, address business
continuity, and cope with a remote extension to the Tier-0
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Presented by Dr. Helge MEINHARD
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24 Apr 2012
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11:00
Configuration Management is not new to CERN. For more than a decade, CERN has build its own Quattor based Configuration Management infrastructure which is currently used to manage the configuration of several thousands machines. Experience shows that our infrastructure has several limitations. Moreover, it will not scale to manage configuration of systems on a heavily virtualised computer centre w
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Presented by Dr. Helge MEINHARD
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24 Apr 2012
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11:15
The Agile Infrastructure project leverages emerging OpenStack Cloud Computing framework and Puppet configuration tools to provide Infrastructure as a Service in a sustainable and scalable way, but also ensuring sufficient resource flexibility and availability. In this solution, different services will be connected and scheduled over the IaaS layer using the same entry point. Moreover, a common app
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Presented by Jose CASTRO LEON
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24 Apr 2012
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12:05
The current status of BEIJING-LCG2 Site Report
Presented by Jingyan SHI
on
24 Apr 2012
at
09:05
A summary of developments at BNL's RACF since the last HEPiX meeting.
Presented by Dr. Ofer RIND
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24 Apr 2012
at
09:25
This is a first face to face meeting after the initiative from CC-IN2P3 to start a collaboration around Grid Engine, with Scientific Sites using it.
In order to prepare the meeting and to discuss some concrete matter, a list of wanted functions of GridEngine requested to Oracle by CC-IN2P3 is given in a provisory wiki:
https://forge.in2p3.fr/projects/gess/wiki#Lack-of-functionalities
with als
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Presented by philippe OLIVERO
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24 Apr 2012
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17:05
CERN's current backup and archive service hosts 5.5 PB of data in more
than 1.6 billion files. We have over 1200 clients which back up or
restore an average of 50 TB of data each day. At the current growth
rate, we expect to have about 7 PB by the end of 2012.
In this contribution we present CERN's backup and archive service based
on the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. We show the architecture
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Presented by Alex IRIBARREN
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24 Apr 2012
at
14:35
CESNET, the Czech national research and education network provider,
does not only provide plain network connectivity. CESNET coordinates and builds e-infrastructure services nowadays. Among them, national storage facility is being put into operation. The aim of the project is to provide more than 15PB of storage in three geographically distributed data centers for research and science community.
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Presented by Jiri HORKY
on
24 Apr 2012
at
15:15
Business Continuity Efforts at Fermilab
Presented by Dr. Keith CHADWICK
on
25 Apr 2012
at
14:30
Some news from CC-IN2P3 since one year.
Presented by philippe OLIVERO
on
23 Apr 2012
at
11:00
This talk will provide an update on the two main infrastructure projects; namely the upgrade and consolidation of the CERN computer centre and the remote hosting project. As the tender for the remote hosting will have been recently adjudicated at the CERN Finance Committee in March, the talk will concentrate on the tender and the results. Nonetheless it will give an brief update on the progress wi
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Presented by Wayne SALTER
on
26 Apr 2012
at
11:10
News from CERN since the previous meeting in Vancouver
Presented by Dr. Helge MEINHARD
on
23 Apr 2012
at
11:40
The CHOS[1] software package combines a Linux kernel module, a
PAM module, and batch system integration to provide a mechanism
for concurrently supporting multiple Linux environments on a
single Linux system. This presentation gives an introduction to
CHOS and details how NERSC has deployed this utility on the PDSF
HPC system to meet the complex, and often conflicting, software
environment
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Presented by Larry PEZZAGLIA
on
25 Apr 2012
at
12:10
Comparative benchmarking of cluster hardware with the latest generations of processors and investigation on the influence of BIOS settings like symmetric multiprocessing and turbo mode.
Presented by Manfred ALEF
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25 Apr 2012
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08:45
In 2009 the RAL Tier-1 introduced a formal change control process as a means of driving cultural changes in the way we tested and deployed new services. Although designed from the bottom up, a mid term review found remarkable similarity with the ITIL model for change management. This talk describes how the process evolved, its impact on team culture, considers outcome metrics and discusses the cha
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Presented by Dr. John GORDON
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25 Apr 2012
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16:00
The talk tackles current trends in the computer security field. Recent security events, threats, risk management, ... Those are the points which are covered here, including the academic world.
Presented by Remi MOLLON
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26 Apr 2012
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16:00
To be filled by Peter
Presented by Peter GRONBECH
on
26 Apr 2012
at
11:40
One of the first cyber incidents was caused by an insect (a moth, in fact). Ever since then, the lower life forms have been trying to disrupt the virtual landscapes we construct for our users. As our virtual environments have evolved to be more complex, these other life forms have always evolved sufficiently to find new cracks in our defenses. As we continue down the current path we are reminded
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Presented by Bob COWLES
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26 Apr 2012
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16:30
This presentation gives an introduction to the Database On Demand service at CERN. The need to offer support based on different database systems is on the rise within our user community. For example, one use case includes certain applications certified for running with non-Oracle databases (e.g. MySQL). Additional use cases are based on the desire expressed by user groups in being able to easily d
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Presented by Daniel GOMEZ BLANCO
on
23 Apr 2012
at
14:30
DESY site report
Presented by Yves KEMP
on
24 Apr 2012
at
09:45
Increasing data volumes and demand for access impose serious challenges
for data storage infrastructures. Risk of data corruption increases over time, increase of disc size leads to an unacceptably long recovery time in usual RAID configurations.
Recently a new solution, erasure coding, has appeared in the Cloud. It is based on a mathematical construction and involves dividing the data into a la
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Presented by Dr. Vladimir SAPUNENKO
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24 Apr 2012
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16:05
This talk will present the access management system used at CERN Database Services group for allowing intercommunication within the nodes of the various database clusters, used also for granting and maintaining access to database and application servers to administrators and users. Started as a simple SSH keys management tool, the system has evolved together with CERN IT infrastructure, providing
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Presented by Giacomo TENAGLIA
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23 Apr 2012
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14:50
update on last years projects & developments
Presented by Tina FRIEDRICH
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24 Apr 2012
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09:35
This presentation introduces the EGI Task Force on Federated Clouds to the world wide Grid and Cloud communities. Building on the technology and expertise aggregated in over 10 years of successful provisioning and operation of a pan-European Grid Infrastructure, the Task Force further pushes the frontiers of Cloud interoperability enabling user communities to scale their computing needs across mul
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Presented by Ian COLLIER, Ian Peter COLLIER
on
27 Apr 2012
at
09:30
EasyBuild is an open source build framework written in Python that enables you to install software in a repeatable and consistent way.
EasyBuild was motivated by the need for a system that would allow us to build and install multiple versions of a software package, built with different tool-kits in an automated manner. This whilst a huge number of software packages require us to divert from th
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Presented by Jens TIMMERMAN
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23 Apr 2012
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14:00
In order to provide a scalable service, the AFS infrastructure at CERN currently undergoes an architectural change from Fibre Channel based fabrics towards external SAS based storage. This talk will present the design choices taken, cover the technologies involved, highlight the features and discuss limitations along with their potential solutions.
Presented by Mr. Jakub MOSCICKI
on
24 Apr 2012
at
16:35
The CERN Service Management project was born to fulfil the need of a global, homogeneous, and efficient service organization for all services provided to the users. On February 2011 the project entered in operation including in a first step services of the IT and GS departments. The CERN Service Management infrastructure is based on ITIL best practises and it includes a single Service Desk, a Serv
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Presented by Dr. Patricia MENDEZ LORENZO
on
23 Apr 2012
at
16:00
A single Grid (X.509) identity certificate together with an attribute certificate from a Virtual Organisation can be used by an appropriately authorised HEP user anywhere in the world to access WLCG resources wherever they may be. There are however many other non-Grid distributed computing services that HEP users also need to access; webs, wikis, mail lists, document databases, agenda systems, and
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Presented by Dr. David KELSEY
on
26 Apr 2012
at
15:10
Update on the status of the FermiCloud project.
Presented by Dr. Keith CHADWICK
on
27 Apr 2012
at
09:00
The Fermilab Site Report
Presented by Dr. Keith CHADWICK
on
23 Apr 2012
at
09:45
GSI site report
Presented by Walter SCHOEN
on
23 Apr 2012
at
11:20
Current status and latest news at GridKa, e.g.: - Hardware status - Storage systems - Middleware deployment
Presented by Dmitry NILSEN
on
24 Apr 2012
at
09:15
DESY IT supports a number of Batch systems for various scientific groups. As these gain more and more importance we investigated the open source versions of Gridengine to profit from freely available updates and features to be prepared for the challenges to come. We report about our experience during testing, migration and early production phase and will give an outlook on future plans with the So
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Presented by Pirmin FIX
on
25 Apr 2012
at
10:05
We received a dual socket machine with 2x Xeon E5 and 2x Opteron 62xx multicore processor. The HEP-SPEC06 measurements will be presented and compared with previous generation processors.
Presented by Dr. Michele MICHELOTTO
on
25 Apr 2012
at
09:05
CERN-DM and dCache.org will demonstrate a storage federation purly based on the http(s) protocol.
Presented by Fabrizio FURANO
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26 Apr 2012
at
09:40
We have performed several evaluation of new hardware during the last year ranging from the new generation of worker nodes to testing of a deduplication solution. In the talk, we present results from testing of deduplication technology from Fujitsu using synthetic data as well as real life backup and HEP experiment data. It is a common worry that the disk performance can hardly scale with increasin
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Presented by Jiri HORKY
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25 Apr 2012
at
09:30
In Europe the EIROForum are the 8 international organizations pursuing fundamental research in science and space exploration. In this context, CERN and several of the other organizations, including ESA and EMBL are forming a collaboration to engage with European industry in public-private partnerships to build a European Cloud infrastructure capable of supporting the missions of these organizatio
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Presented by Tony CASS
on
27 Apr 2012
at
10:00
In 2011, CC-IN2P3 changed its old custom batch System BQS by Oracle Grid Engine (OGE). After recalling brieflyly the reasons why we did it, this talk will present how we carried out this migration: the method, the different steps, the problems we have had to solve and I'll finish by the current situation, and how we are having a try to encourage a collaboration between sites running xGE clusters
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Presented by Philippe OLIVERO
on
25 Apr 2012
at
09:45
We will show recent improvements in our T1 infrastructure
Presented by Andrea CHIERICI
on
23 Apr 2012
at
11:30
Status of the IPv6 Deployment at Fermilab
Presented by Dr. Keith CHADWICK
on
26 Apr 2012
at
14:00
Based on ITIL best practices, the support of the overall business continuity is ensured by managing and controlling the risks that could seriously affect the corresponding services. The identification of the risks and the provision of measures to mitigate or eliminate the threats in the system will play an important role in achieving the level of service required to ensure the business continuity
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Presented by Dr. Patricia MENDEZ LORENZO
on
25 Apr 2012
at
15:00
Publishing images involves creating consistent uptodate images, and
managing image metadata. At DESY (HH), VM images are created using virt-install, kickstart, vmimagemanager, and puppet.
The HEPIX VWG has recently changed the image format due to multi core job requirements and the image list subscriber has provided an event interface to allow easier integration with clouds and projects such as
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Presented by Owen Millington SYNGE
on
25 Apr 2012
at
11:20
JLAB site update
Presented by Sandy PHILPOTT
on
24 Apr 2012
at
10:20
The GRIF monitoring infrastructure will be presented, along with the requirements, issues, and foreseen evolutions
Presented by Mr. Frederic SCHAER
on
27 Apr 2012
at
11:00
Update on recent developments in NDGF
Presented by Erik Mattias WADENSTEIN
on
23 Apr 2012
at
10:10
This talk will provide an overview of the CERN's new burn-in test system. It will mainly focus on the reasons why a new system is needed (operational factors, remote hosting adaptation) and how it is being implemented and evaluated. The first results will be presented as the acceptance of about 1500 servers relied on it.
Presented by Eric BONFILLOU
on
23 Apr 2012
at
16:20
To be filled by Peter
Presented by Peter GRONBECH
on
23 Apr 2012
at
12:00
PDSF is a commodity Linux cluster at NERSC which has been in
continuous operation since 1996. This talk will provide a
status update on the PDSF system and summarize recent changes at
the NERSC Center. Highlighted PDSF changes include the
conversion to xCAT-managed netboot node images, the ongoing
deployment of Scientific Linux 6, and the introduction of XRootD
for STAR.
Presented by Larry PEZZAGLIA
on
24 Apr 2012
at
10:10
PIC is a scientific-technological center providing High Throughput and Data Processing Services to various scientific disciplines: High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Life Sciences among others.
To fulfill these communities requirements it needs to maintain a steep capacity growth while keeping high levels of reliability. Thanks to technology improvements, in the last years it has be
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Presented by Gerard BERNABEU
on
23 Apr 2012
at
11:10
Developments at PSI over the last year, among them: introduction of 10GbE for fast detectors, introduction of AFS Object storage, GPFS + CTDB update
Presented by Dr. Derek FEICHTINGER
on
24 Apr 2012
at
10:00
A typical site report about the HEP computing activities at Institute of Physics in Prague will be extended by information about local users experience and participating institutions.
Presented by Jiri CHUDOBA
on
23 Apr 2012
at
09:30
This talk will describe the new computing hardware procurement trends at CERN. It will focus on major architectural changes being put in place as well as describe how these are better fitting the power, cooling and space envelopes available in the CERN hosting facilities. The talk will underline how the simplification of these architecture tends to streamline the process of delivering computing ca
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Presented by Eric BONFILLOU
on
26 Apr 2012
at
12:10
Report from the recent Quattor Workshop in Budapest and update on developments in the Quattor toolset.
Presented by Ian COLLIER
on
27 Apr 2012
at
11:30
An update on events at RAL
Presented by Mr. Martin BLY
on
24 Apr 2012
at
08:55
Spring 2012 HEPiX Site Report for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Presented by Randy MELEN
on
23 Apr 2012
at
12:20
Current status of Scientific Linux.
Presented by connie SIEH
on
25 Apr 2012
at
16:30
Overview of the changes since last site report.
Presented by Paul KUIPERS
on
23 Apr 2012
at
10:00
This talk will give an overview the status of business continuity at CERN currently and explain the steps that are planned to improve on this.
Presented by Wayne SALTER
on
25 Apr 2012
at
14:00
CERN IT is faced with a rich set of requirements when it comes
to the provisioning of storage services. This talk will give
an overview of the challenges and constraints, describe which
part of the phase space the current services (AFS, CASTOR, EOS)
cover and present the short- and mid-term storage strategy. In
addition, the current status of ongoing investigations of
alternative storage sol
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Presented by Mr. Jakub MOSCICKI
on
24 Apr 2012
at
14:00
Since the Vancouver HEPiX meeting in Oct 2011, the IPv6 working group has been busy expanding its IPv6 testbed and testing data management over IPv6. Work has also started on the full survey of the IPv6 readiness of all WLCG applications, software and tools. This talk will present our experiences to date and plans for the future. A second talk by Francesco Prelz will give more details about the ex
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Presented by Dr. David KELSEY
on
26 Apr 2012
at
14:30
The outcome of the first, extremely basic application tests that were performed on the dual-stack testbed that was set up by the HEPix IPv6 group is reported. Running sustained file transfers and deploying the File Transfer Service (FTS) over a mesh of 'gridftp' servers provided enough real-life issues for a first reality check.
Presented by Francesco PRELZ
on
26 Apr 2012
at
14:50
A new Infiniband based part of the lustre system is build at the
"Mini-Cube" at GSI. The connection to the IP based lustre part is realised with LNET routers.
Presented by Dr. Walter SCHOEN
on
24 Apr 2012
at
14:50
News from tape services for CASTOR at CERN
Presented by Alex IRIBARREN
on
24 Apr 2012
at
14:25
The talk will address the evolution of CERN computing infrastructure services such as CVS, SVN and TWiki as well as the Engineering Linux server infrastructure. Furthermore, the project to setup a central Issue Tracking Service based on Atlassian JIRA will be presented, along with a description of the IT BOINC application service for Volunter Computing.
Presented by Nils HøIMYR
on
23 Apr 2012
at
15:10
This talk will present the experience of CERN Database Services group in running NetApp filers to provide a highly available NFS-based NAS infrastructure.
Presented by Giacomo TENAGLIA
on
26 Apr 2012
at
10:10
Update on various virtualisation and cloud computing projects at the RAL Tier 1
Presented by Ian COLLIER
on
25 Apr 2012
at
11:40
This presentation will summarise the progress of the Virtualisation working group since the Vancouver meeting.
Presented by Tony CASS
on
25 Apr 2012
at
11:00
Presentation WD.
Presented by David SANFORD
on
26 Apr 2012
at
08:55
