Prof.
Yifang Wang
(IHEP)
15/10/2012, 09:00
Gang Chen
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
15/10/2012, 09:20
Dr
Jingyan Shi
(IHEP)
15/10/2012, 09:30
The presentation will show the current status of BEIJING LCG Site and our next plan.
Lucien Philip Boland
(University of Melbourne (AU)),
Sean Christopher Crosby
(University of Melbourne (AU))
15/10/2012, 09:45
Details of the upgrades and changes that have recently been made at the Australian Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale.
Erik Mattias Wadenstein
(Unknown)
15/10/2012, 11:00
Overview of new developments at the distributed NDGF tier-1. New hardware, new organization and new lessons learned will feature.
Shawn Mc Kee
(University of Michigan (US))
15/10/2012, 11:30
We will present an update on our site since the last report and cover our work with VMware, dCache and perfSONAR-PS. In addition we will discuss our new denser storage system from Dell, recent networking changes and describe how we are integrating these into our site. We will conclude with a summary of what has worked and what problems we encountered and indicate directions for future work.
Steven Timm
(Fermilab)
15/10/2012, 11:45
We present recent developments in the Scientific Computing Facilities at Fermilab. We will discuss continued improvements in site networking and wide area networking. We will show significant developments in physical facilities. We will present an overview of major computing and organizational activities in support of the scientific program.
Mr
Peter van der Reest
(DESY)
15/10/2012, 12:20
The site report will discuss changes and developments at the Hamburg and Zeuthen sites since Spring.
Dr
Yaodong CHENG
(Institute of High Energy Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences), Mr
hu qingbao
(IHEP)
15/10/2012, 14:00
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the open standard cloud computing platform for both public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects delivering various components...
Steve Traylen
(CERN)
15/10/2012, 14:30
The CERN Agile Infrastructure aims to redesign the work flow of machine and
configuration management within CERN IT. As the AI project approaches
production the main software components , OpenStack , Puppet, Foreman have
now been deployed with several iterations of scale and stability. We present
the current status and next steps for the project.
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
15/10/2012, 16:00
Aquilon is a Quattor configuration database and management broker developed by by an investment to meet the needs of their large worldwide grid. Providing much better relational integrity to the Quattor configuraton database and a workflow that is both more agile and more disciplined, Aquilon can transform the use of Quattor to manage sites.
This talk will discuss RAL Tier 1 experiening...
Pawel Grzywaczewski
(CERN)
15/10/2012, 16:30
Use your device (computer or portable device) as your main tool for unified communication. Check presence of your colleagues, make phone calls, get call notifications, listen to your voice mailbox, answer mails and send instant messages. Do it from any place around the world with internet access.
The presentation will summarize our experience in integrating Microsoft Lync, Alcatel PBX and...
Pat Riehecky
(Fermilab)
15/10/2012, 17:00
The underlying infrastructure of Scientific Linux is starting to change. These changes should make the environment more stable and higher performing with a greater feature set. This presentation will detail some of the plans and progress thus far.
Benjeman Jay Meekhof
(University of Michigan (US))
16/10/2012, 09:00
This presentation will discuss the challenges of efficiently provisioning and deploying switch and host OS configurations enabling our collaboration to monitor, access, and repair the distributed instrument. Additionally we will cover some of the ongoing challenges post-deployment as regards configuration tracking, service verification, and monitoring the overall status of the DYNES instrument...
Mr
Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch
(DESY)
16/10/2012, 09:30
Business processes are integral parts of every day (non-technical) administrative tasks. Many of these tasks at DESY are still paper-bound. A joint project of DESY-Administration and High-Energy-Physics department was started to provide the organisational and technical prerequisites for establishing electronic workflows by using business process management systems (BPMS) as well as an identity...
Pat Riehecky
(Fermilab)
16/10/2012, 10:00
This presentation will provide an update on the current status of Scientific Linux, descriptions for some possible future goals, and allow a chance for users to provide feedback on its direction.
Steven Timm
(Fermilab)
16/10/2012, 11:00
The Condor Batch System has been used at Fermilab for a decade
in the Run II Reprocessing and Analysis, the USCMS Tier 1 facility, and the FermiGrid General Purpose Grid Cluster. In this talk I present
an overview of the operational stability, the scalabilty, and the
best practices we have learned to build a 27,000 job slot campus grid
using the Condor system.
Manfred Alef
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
16/10/2012, 12:00
This talk describes the scheduled migration to another LRMS at GridKa:
- Problems and limitations of the LRMS which is currently used at GridKa
- Selection and tests of a new one
- Configuration details, e.g. fair-share configurations, and experiences with a first sub-cluster which is already managed by the new LRMS
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
16/10/2012, 15:00
A working group has been investigating alternatives to Castor for disk only storage at the RAL Tier 1. Requirements have been gathered and we are now deploying test instances of a number of technologies. This talk will discuss both the reasons for the project, requirements and the current status and findings.
Mr
Thierry DESCOMBES
(CNRS IN2P3)
17/10/2012, 09:25
ZNeTS is an acronym for "The Network Traffic Supervisor". It is a tool for monitoring and recording machines traffic during months.
ZNeTS is a network tool for network introspection and a response to the legal need, in France, to store one year traffic traces.
ZNeTS is very easy to deploy whatever the architecture of your network.
ZNeTS identifies compromised local machines (by...
Mr
YEN Eric
(ASGC)
17/10/2012, 10:15
Update of e-Science infrastructure at ASGC will be reported. Focus will cover the international networking, computing and storage infrastructure, overall continuous operation improvement including the data center, e-Science application and virtual research framework, as well as the development of distributed cloud.
Marek Elias
(Institute of Physics AS CR (FZU))
17/10/2012, 11:30
we present updates since Vancouver about our IPv6 testbed at FZU. We have setup nagios, smokeping several middleware services and several computing centre management procedures.
Dr
David Kelsey
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
17/10/2012, 12:00
This talk will provide an update on the activities of the IPv6 working group since the Prague meeting.
Aresh Vedaee
(CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
17/10/2012, 14:00
Report from the BOF session the day before
philippe olivero
(CC-IN2P3)
17/10/2012, 14:30
CC-IN2P3 has been running OGE for more than one year now. After describing the current context, I will report the difficulties encountered, solved or not, and the new enhancements we would like to get.
Andreas Haupt
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
17/10/2012, 15:00
All the currently available Gridengine implementations don't provide any authenticated access with the default setup. This opens a big and easily exploitable security hole which might be considered severe especially in multi-community clusters.
This talk will describe in detail the attack vector available in such setups. It will furthermore give a step-by-step guide to activate the...
Erik Mattias Wadenstein
(Unknown)
17/10/2012, 16:00
Many compute clusters in the nordics run Slurm, this includes the grid connected ones. This talk looks at the experience, which parts works well, what could use improvements, and some comparisons to other batch systems.
Dr
Giacinto Donvito
(INFN-Bari)
17/10/2012, 16:30
We will show all the work done in order to install and configure the batch system itself together with the security configuration needed. In this presentation we will show the results of the deep testing that we have done on SLURM, in order to be sure that it will cover all the needed functionalities like: priorities, fairshare, limits, QoS, failover capabilities and others. We will report...
Dr
jianhui Li
(no 4, south 4 street, zhongguancun, haidian district, beijing, china)
18/10/2012, 09:30
In order to solve big data challenge in scientific research, a scientific data cloud has been planed to build in Chinese Academy of Sciences, which constitutes 12 data centers and one data archive center, and will provide big data online storage, data backup ,data archive and data intensive analysis services.This talk will introduce the infrastructure, key technology, including distributed...
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
18/10/2012, 10:00
Follow up to talk at last HEPiX - describing recent developments & roadmap.
Detailed abstract to follow.
Dr
John Gordon
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
18/10/2012, 11:30
Running jobs all over the world requires a method of recording and aggregating usage of users and VOs to present the worldwide view of that usage. The APEL Accounting systema has done that successfully for the cpu usage in the worldwide LHC Computing Grid since 2004. This presentation will cover the evolution of APEL and all the other systems who helped collect the data. It will also report on...
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
18/10/2012, 12:00
A report on various projects investigating and using cloud computing technologies across the Scientific Computing Department.
David Gutierrez Rueda
(CERN)
18/10/2012, 14:00
The latest changes on CERN’s Data Center Network will be presented, including the migration to High-End Brocade routers, tests and introduction of 100Gbps in the Core of the LCG and bandwidth increase on the firewall system. At the same time, a Network Architecture for the Data Center extension at Wigner will be discussed.
Dr
David Kelsey
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
18/10/2012, 14:30
This talk will present an update on the activities in Federated Identity since the last HEPiX meeting.
Mr
Sebastian Lopienski
(CERN)
18/10/2012, 15:00
This talk gives an update on security trends, and issues affecting computers, software applications and networks during the last months. It includes information on emerging types of vulnerabilities and recent attack vectors, and provides an insight into the cyber-security world of 2012. New security tools developed at CERN will also be presented.
This talk is based on contributions and...
Mr
Fabio Hernandez
(IN2P3/CNRS Computing Center and IHEP Computing Center)
18/10/2012, 16:00
In this contribution we present our experience building a prototype of an open source software system for operating online file repositories of extensible capacity.
Built on the well-understood client-server architecture model, the system can be used by computing centers looking at solutions for providing online storage services for their individual users. The client-side component runs on...
Andrei Maslennikov
(CASPUR/CINECA)
18/10/2012, 16:30
Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino
(CERN)
18/10/2012, 17:00
Helix Nebula, the Science Cloud, is a collaborative effort of several European organizations, including CERN, ESA and EMBL, to engage with European industry in public-private partnerships to build a European cloud infrastructure capable of supporting the missions of these organisations.
During the initial pilot phase of Helix Nebula, the ATLAS experiment at CERN was selected as one of the...
Frédéric AZEVEDO
(CC-IN2P3)
19/10/2012, 09:00
IN2P3 Computing Center cares about the quality of its services and tries to improve processes and tools using ITIL best practices.
In this talk, I'll describe what we are doing on quality. I'll show the different ongoing work : the ticketing system, the CMDB, the service catalog, the business continuity plan, the identity management, ... .
I'll take some time to go deeper into the...
Martin Bly
(STFC-RAL)
19/10/2012, 09:30
Details of the new e-Infrastructure South services at RAL, including the 4.5PB Panasas installation and the GPU service.
Mr
Sebastian Lopienski
(CERN)
19/10/2012, 10:00
Mobile computing is clearly on the rise – but developing mobile applications, especially for multiple platforms, is a considerable effort. Fortunately, there is an alternative to native apps: web sites that are optimized for mobile devices and touch screens. In this presentation, I will discuss both solutions, and will present a hybrid approach. The presentation will also include a brief...
Dr
Wolfgang Friebel
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
19/10/2012, 11:30
The talk wants to introduce netdisco, which is used at DESY for network inventory and has been enhanced slightly. A command line interface for the netdisco DB developed at DESY should be covered as well.
The concept of using netflow data to understand and analyze network traffic should be discussed, which is especially suitable for sites with high traffic. Programs that can deal with...
Michel Jouvin
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
IT Infrastructure, Services, Business Continuity
Presentation
Fundamental research labs in southern part of Paris, known as P2IO, have decided to build a common computing facility shared between labs and designed to be energy efficient. This involves the creation of a new datacenter as the first step. This project started one year ago is about to enter its construction phase. This presentation will detail the requirements and technical design and...
