UK HEP System Managers

10 May 2012, 10:30 → 11 May 2012, 15:20 Europe/London

Spectrum, ISIC (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Annual 2-Day UK HEP System Managers Meeting

Thursday 10 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:35 Morning Session

Welcome, Site Reports & Puppet.

11:00 Converting from cfengine to puppet

Speaker: Mark William Slater (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides hepsysman_puppet_2012.pdf

11:20 Puppet - Experiences at Cambridge

Speaker: Santanu Das (Unknown)

Slides Puppet_HepSysMan_2012.pdf

11:40 Puppet - Experience in the RAL Tier1

Speaker: Shaun De Witt (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides Puppet_Experience_at_RAL.pdf

11:50 Site Report - Glasgow.

Speakers: Andrew Pickford (CERN), David Crooks (University of Glasgow)

Slides Glasgow_HEPSYSMAN_May_2012_pdf.pdf

12:05 Site Report - RHUL

Speakers: Govind Songara (University of London (GB)), Dr Simon George (University of London (GB)), Mr Tom Crane

Slides HEPSYSMAN-RHUL-May2012.pdf

12:20 Site Report - Sheffield

Speaker: M Robinson (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Sheffield-Unkn)

Slides hepsysman2012Shefv2.pdf hepsysman2012Shefv2.pptx

12:35 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Afternoon - 1: Storage

Storage Session

13:30 Welcome. Introduction & aims of the afternoon

Speaker: Andrew Sansum (Particle Physics)

Slides AndrewSansumHEPSYSMAN_2012.pdf AndrewSansumHEPSYSMAN_2012.ppt

13:45 DPM roadmap

Speakers: Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon (University of Cadiz), Dr Markus Schulz (CERN), Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN)

Slides dpm-roadmap-hepsysman.pdf dpm-roadmap-hepsysman.pptx

14:00 CERN WebDAV

Speakers: Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon (University of Cadiz), Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN)

Slides DAV-GridPP.odp DAV-GridPP.pdf

14:15 StorageD

Speaker: Kevin O'Neill (STFC)

Slides storagedv2_overview-20120509.pdf storagedv2_overview-20120509.ppt

14:30 SDB

Speakers: Shaun De Witt (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)), Shaun De Witt (Unknown)

Slides SDB.pdf

14:45 Discussion

Speaker: Jens Jensen

15:15 → 15:45 Tea

15:45 → 17:30 Afternoon - 2: More Storage

15:45 Lustre

Speaker: Christopher John Walker (University of London (GB))

Slides 2012-Hepsysman-walker.pdf

16:05 Hadoop

Speaker: Dr Simon George (University of London (GB))

Slides Tier3_analysis_tuning.pdf

16:25 Filesystems

Speakers: Sam Skipsey (NeSC/Edinburgh University), Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides

• Filesystems-HEPSYSMAN.pdf
• FilesystemsWahid.pdf
• FilesystemsWahid.pptx

16:45 Panassus

Speaker: Jonathan Churchill

Slides HEPsysManPanasasTalk-10May12.pdf

17:00 Discussion

Speaker: Brian Davies (STFC RALLCG2 Tier1)

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Friday 11 May

09:30 → 10:45 Morning Session: MySQL Tutorial

09:30 MySQL Tutorial

Speakers: Ms Alison Packer, Richard Sinclair (STFC RAL)

Slides

• APEL-MySQL-APv2.pdf
• APEL-MySQL-APv2.pptx
• MySQL.pdf
• MySQL.pptx

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee (with graphics demonstration)

11:15 → 12:45 Morning - 2: Site Reports

11:15 Site Report - Lancaster

Speakers: Matthew Doidge (Lancaster University), Robin Long (Lancaster University)

Slides hepsysman2012lancsreport.pdf

11:30 Site Report - Oxford

Speaker: Ewan Christopher Mac Mahon (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)

Slides oxford-site-report.pdf UbuntuDesktops.pdf

11:45 Site Report - Edinburgh

Speaker: Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides ECDFSiteUpdate.pdf ECDFSiteUpdate.pptx

12:00 Site Report - Liverpool

Speaker: Robert Fay (University of Liverpool)

Slides Liverpool-hepsysman-2012.pdf Liverpool-hepsysman-2012.pptx

12:15 Site Report - Sussex

Speakers: Mr Christopher Jenkins, Mr Emyr James

Slides emyr_james.pdf

12:30 Site Report - Cambridge

Speaker: Santanu Das (Unknown)

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Afternoon: Site Reports & Wrap-Up

13:30 Hyperwall Demonstration

13:45 Site Report - Birmingham

Speaker: Mark Slater (Birmingham University)

Slides bham-hepsysman_2012.pdf

14:00 Site Report - QMUL

Speakers: Mr Alex Owen, Dr Chris Walker, Cozmin Timis (University of London (GB))

Slides QMULSiteReport2012.pdf

14:15 Site Report - RAL PPD

Speaker: Rob Harper (STFC)

Slides 20120511HEPSysMan_RALPPSiteUpdate.pdf 20120511HEPSysMan_RALPPSiteUpdate.pptx

14:35 Site Report - RAL Tier1

Speaker: Martin Bly (Unknown)

Slides 2012-05_HEPSysMan_RAL_-_Tier1_Site_Report.pdf 2012-05_HEPSysMan_RAL_-_Tier1_Site_Report.pptx

14:50 Wrap-Up

Speaker: Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides hepsysman-summary_May2012.pdf hepsysman-summary_May2012.ppt