US ATLAS Facilities Workshop at Southern Methodist University

America/Chicago
Heroy 153 (Southern Methodist University)

Heroy 153

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX
Justin Ross (SMU), Michael Ernst (Unknown), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Description
Technical Overview:
  • Review of data placement strategies and implications for facilities planning
  • Whole node scheduling & Athena MP
  • Processor/ worker node technology review including benchmarks
  • Virtualization & Configuration management; provisioning for the Cloud (and timelines for functionality)
  • Xrootd federation
  • New OSG middleware packaging, rpms for compute and worker node client
  • OSG technology directions and plans
  • DYNES and LHCONE
  • CVMFS deployment & scalability status
Lodging:
  • Radisson Hotel Central Dallas
  • 214-750-6060
  • The group is SMU Department of Physics
  • $85 per night
  • The Raddison is walking distance to campus, no car will be needed if you stay here.
  • Book before Sept 30.
Directions to campus: http://smu.edu/maps/

Airports:  Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW) and Dallas Love Field (DAL)
Love Field is very close to campus, a minimal cab ride.  DFW is a bit further.  A few major airlines fly into Love Field and Southwest only flies into Love Field.

If you have any trouble with flighs or accomodations please email me (ross(at)smu.edu) or call me 469-248-7571.

Meeting:  We will be in the Heroy Building which is directly attached to the Fondren Science building where the Physics Department is.  We will be in Heroy 153: http://smu.edu/maps/flash/default.asp?b=27.  There isn't much visitor parking on this side of campus.  Visitor parking is available on the other end of campus: http://smu.edu/maps/flash/default.asp?b=50.

Remote Participation (EVO):
  • Meeting URL, here
  • Phone Bridge  ID: 398 5586
  • EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers:
    • Switzerland (CERN, Geneva) +41 22 76 71400
    • USA (BNL, Upton, NY) +1 631 344 6100
    • Skype (tm) (World-wide)  See: here

Tuesday night dinner:  Peggy Sue's.  Good Texas BBQ.  $15 per person excluding alcohol, that will be on your own, but they do have.
Dinner is:  Brisket, Sausage, Turkey, Cole Slaw, Corn, Green Beans, Peach Cobbler and Ice Cream.  Non Alcoholic drink included. 
Participants
  • Akhtar Mahmood
  • Alden Stradling
  • Allen Hughes
  • Armen Vartapetian
  • Cui Lin
  • Don Kline
  • Doug Benjamin
  • Fred Luehring
  • Horst Severini
  • Jason Zurawski
  • Jim Cochran
  • John Hover
  • Justin Ross
  • Mark Neubauer
  • Mark Sosebee
  • Michael Ernst
  • Nathan Yehle
  • Paolo Calafiura
  • Patrick McGuigan
  • Randy Preston
  • Robert William Gardner Jr
  • Sarah Williams
  • Saul Youssef
  • Shawn McKee
  • Shin Taeksu
  • Torre Wenaus
  • Val Hendrix
  • Vassilios Vassilakopoulos
  • Wei Yang
  • Tuesday, 11 October
    • 09:00 09:10
      Welcome 10m
      Speaker: Justin Ross (SMU)
    • 09:10 09:20
      Cloud Activities at CSU Fresno 10m
      Speaker: Cui Lin (CSU Fresno)
      Slides
    • 09:20 10:00
      Review of Facilities Requirements and Overview 40m
      Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
    • 10:00 10:20
      Planning in the Facilities Integration Program 20m
      Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
      Slides
    • 10:20 10:50
      US ATLAS Analysis Support and the Facilties 30m
      Speaker: Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.)
      Slides
    • 10:50 11:10
      Coffee 20m
    • 11:10 11:40
      CPU, Disk, Pledges and Requirements Discussion 30m
    • 11:40 12:10
      Zeus Racks & PDU Infrastructure & other highlights for compute node, storage and network technologies 30m
      Speaker: Roger Goff (Dell)
    • 12:10 13:40
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:40 14:00
      Virtualized Worker Node 20m
      Speaker: Dr Alden Stradling (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
      Slides
    • 14:00 14:45
      Program of work for Cloud developments 45m
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
      Slides
    • 14:45 15:30
      Cloud Computing Discussion 45m
    • 15:30 15:50
      Coffee 20m
    • 15:50 16:20
    • 16:20 16:40
      Facility Networking, PerfSONAR monitoring, etc 20m
      Speaker: Jason Zurawski (Internet2)
      Slides
    • 16:40 17:00
      Analysis Performance and IO Optimization 20m
      Speaker: Dr Jack Cranshaw (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 17:00 17:20
      Whole Node Scheduling Discussion 20m
      Slides
  • Wednesday, 12 October
    • 09:00 09:20
      Status of AutoPyFactory: Features, implementation, deployment in US and beyond. 20m
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
      Slides
    • 09:20 09:50
      PD2P Caching and Job Brokering Update 30m
      Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 09:50 10:20
      Analysis Queues: Performance & Capacities 30m
      Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
      Slides
    • 10:20 10:40
      Tier 2D Operational Issues 20m
      Speaker: Mark Sosebee (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
      Slides
    • 10:40 11:00
      Coffee 20m
    • 11:00 11:20
      Federated Identity Management 20m
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
    • 11:20 11:50
      Data Federation with Xrootd 30m
      Speaker: Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:20
      dCache Locality Aware and Federation Prospects 30m
      Speaker: Dr Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
      Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:30
      Tier 3 Storage Survey and Status of Tools for Tier 3 access, futures 30m
      Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))
      Slides
    • 14:30 15:00
      Deploying OSG with yum and rpms 30m
      Speaker: Alain Roy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
      Slides
    • 15:00 17:00
      Open Discussions (various, TBD)
      • 15:00
        CVMFS deployment 20m
      • 15:20
        OSG Issues - CE and WN update 20m