Software & Computing Workshop

from Monday 4 April 2011 (08:00) to Friday 8 April 2011 (19:50)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Apr 2011
5 Apr 2011
6 Apr 2011
7 Apr 2011
8 Apr 2011
AM
10:00
Software & Computing Plenary (until 12:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
10:00 Status and News - Jim Shank (Boston University)  
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10:20 ATLAS clouds and T2Ds - Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS)  
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10:40 Status report on LHC Open Network Environment (LHCONE) - Artur Jerzy Barczyk (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
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11:25 Software news/status - David Rousseau (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL))  
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11:45 Distribution Model for 2011 Datasets - Dr Beate Heinemann (LBNL and UC Berkeley)  
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09:00
Reconstruction - Rolf Seuster (MPI Munich) (until 12:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
09:00 Introduction - Rolf Seuster (MPI Munich)  
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09:15 Job Monitoring from inside Reco_trf - Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL) - Un)  
09:35 Status of new Pixel Clustering - Cecile Lapoire (University of Bonn)  
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09:55 Updates from Muon Merger - TBA  
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10:15 Short reports from subsystems for Deliverables for rel 17  
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09:00
ADC R&D and TaskForces -Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL) Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) Dr Alexei Klimentov (BNL) (until 12:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
09:00 Introduction - Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL) Dr Alexei Klimentov (BNL)  
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09:15 Tier3 Monitoring TF - Danila Oleynik (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)) Artem Petrosyan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)) Julia Andreeva (CERN)  
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09:35 Multicores TF - Douglas Smith (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)  
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09:55 XROOTD Federation and File level Caching TF - Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow) Charles George Waldman (University of Chicago)  
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10:15 --- Coffe and Tea ---
10:30 Cloud Computing R&D - Dan van der Ster (CERN) Kaushik De (UT-Arlington) Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)  
11:00 NoSQL Databases R&D - Vincent Garonne (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown) Maxim Potekhin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))  
11:20 Event Data Caching R&D - Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL)  
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Supplementary: storage layout - Peter Van Gemmeren
11:40 Discussion and Conclusions  
09:00
Distributed Data Management - Vincent Garonne (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown) Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow) Cédric Serfon (LMU München) (until 12:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
09:00 DDM: Status and Plans - Vincent Garonne (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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09:30 DQ2 Clients - Angelos Molfetas (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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09:50 Site Services - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)  
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10:10 Improving Sonar Rates: UK Experience - Dr Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester)  
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00 LFC Consolidation - Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow)  
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11:30 Infrastructure Monitoring - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)  
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11:50 Operational Challenges in 2011 - Cédric Serfon (LMU München)  
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09:00
Simulation - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Dr Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh) (until 13:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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09:00
Physics Analysis Tools/Distributed Analysis - Karsten Koeneke (CERN) Amir Farbin (University of Texas at Arlington) Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Dan van der Ster (CERN) (until 12:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
09:00 Introduction - Amir Farbin (University of Texas at Arlington) Karsten Koeneke (CERN)  
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09:20 Group Production - Junji Tojo (KEK)  
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09:40 DAOD and D3PD experiences - David Cote (CERN)  
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10:00 TAG - Qizhi Zhang (High Energy Physics Division-Argonne National Laboratory-Unknown)  
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
10:45 Distributed Analysis News - Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Dan van der Ster (CERN) Alexander Read (Fysisk institutt)  
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10:50 Distributed Analysis User Survey - Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Dan van der Ster (CERN)  
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11:45 Ganga Status & Job Bookkeeping - Manoj Jha (Department of Physics)  
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12:00 Panda client tools status - Tadashi Maeno (BNL)  
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09:00
Software & Computing Plenary - Hans von der Schmitt (MPI for Physics, Munich) Jim Shank (Boston University) (until 12:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
09:00 Software infrastructure summary - Steve Lloyd (Queen Mary, University of London)  
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09:10 Event Management Board summary - R D Schaffer (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL))  
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09:20 Reconstruction summary - Rolf Seuster (MPI Munich)  
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09:30 Core and Performance Management Board summary - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))  
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09:40 R&D/Task Force and Prodsys summary - Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS)  
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10:00 Group Production Challenges - Junji Tojo (KEK)  
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10:20 --- Coffee ---
10:40 DDM (V3) - Vincent Garonne (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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11:00 Distributed Analysis wrap up - Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)  
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11:20 ADC Monitoring Summary - Jaroslava Schovancova (Institute of Physics - Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR)  
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11:40 Database Summary - Dr Dario Barberis (Genoa University/INFN)  
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12:00 ICB summary and closing remarks - Eric Christian Lancon (IRFU-CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA)) Hans von der Schmitt (MPI for Physics, Munich)  
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PM
14:00
ATLAS Distributed Computing Operations - Stephane Jezequel (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP)) I Ueda (Department of Physics Particle Physics) (until 18:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
14:00 T0 operation - Guido Negri (Unknown)  
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14:20 Activity on MC production - Borut Kersevan (Jozef Stefan Institute) Borut Paul Kersevan (Jozef Stefan Institute)  
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14:40 GDP Operation report - Dr Rodney Walker (LMU) Dr Alexandre Vaniachine (ANL)  
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15:10 DDM Operation - I Ueda (U-Tokyo/ICEPP) Cédric Serfon (LMU München)  
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15:40 ADCoS/Comp@P1/Squad/AMOD/DAST : roles - Jaroslava Schovancova (Institute of Physics - Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR)  
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16:00 Results from GangaRobot/Hammercloud functional testing for distributed user analysis - Federica Legger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)  
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14:00
EMB - R D Schaffer (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL)) Vivek Jain (Indiana) (until 16:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
14:00 Introduction - RD/VJ  
14:20 Status of Truth - Andy Buckley  
14:35 Status of Jets - Pierre-Antoine Delsart  
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14:50 Status of Trigger - Fabrizio Salvatore  
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15:05 Status of Track information  
15:20 the new way to monitor consimption - Ilija Vukotic  
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15:40 Persistent Layout Studies - Peter van Gemmeren  
12:30
ICB (until 14:00) (40/4-C01)
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16:00
ADC Monitoring - Jaroslava Schovancova (Institute of Physics - Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR) Alexander Read (Fysisk institutt) (until 19:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
16:30 Introduction - Jaroslava Schovancova (Institute of Physics - Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR)  
ADC Monitoring Homepage
Introduction
Job monitoring convergence
16:40 Site monitoring in CMS - Andrea Sciaba (CERN)  
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16:55 ATLAS SSB -- experience from Cloud Squads and ADCoS point of view - Alessandra Doria (INFN) Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester) Andreu Pacheco Pages (IFAE)  
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17:10 ATLAS Site Status Board - Jaroslava Schovancova (Institute of Physics - Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (ASCR)  
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17:25 DDM dashboard 2.0 - David Tuckett  
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17:40 Pilot factory monitoring - Peter Allan Love (Physics Department-Lancaster University-Unknown)  
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17:55 Controlling and utilizing global job centric monitoring for PanDA - Joachim Schultes (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)  
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18:10 PandDA Monitor development - Valeri Fine (BNL)  
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18:25 Global Job Monitor - Laura Sargsyan (Yerevan Physics Institute)  
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18:40 Dashboard Historical Views: A complete Job Accounting solution for ATLAS - Edward Karavakis (CERN)  
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19:00 Discussion  
16:30
Group Production - Junji Tojo (KEK) (until 18:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
16:30 Introduction - Junji Tojo (KEK)  
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16:50 Software coordination for group production (from PAT) - Karsten Koeneke (CERN)  
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17:10 Group space with global quota - I Ueda (U-Tokyo/ICEPP)  
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17:30 Monitoring of group production tasks - Stephane Jezequel (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))  
17:50 Discussions  
14:00
CVMFS status and plans - Doug Benjamin (Duke University) Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) (until 15:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
14:00 Introduction - Doug Benjamin (Duke University)  
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14:10 CVMFS overview - Jakob Blomer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen-Unknown-Unknown)  
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14:30 CVMFS and nightlies - Dr Alexander Undrus (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, USA)  
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14:45 CVMFS and Grid SW installation - Alessandro De Salvo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma 1)  
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15:00 CVMFS deployment - Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)  
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15:20 Conclusions - Doug Benjamin (Duke University)  
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15:30
PanDA, Production System, Software Development -Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL) Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) (until 18:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
15:30 PanDA server developments and plans - Tadashi Maeno (BNL)  
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15:50 PanDA pilot developments and plans - Paul Nilsson (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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16:10 Extending PD2P for T1-T1 transfers - Kaushik De (UT-Arlington)  
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16:40 Prodsys developments and plans - Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)  
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17:10 Autopyfactory developments, deployment in US, usage at T3's - Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow)  
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17:30 Status of PanDA for Tier 3's - Dr Alden Stradling (UT Arlington)  
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17:45 Rebrokerage behavior - Dr Alden Stradling (UT Arlington)  
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18:00 Development plans, priorities, timeline - Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL)  
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15:30
SIT - Steve Lloyd (Queen Mary, University of London) (until 18:30) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
15:30 RTT - Brinick Simmons (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University College London)  
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15:45 Information protection - Gilbert Poulard (CERN)  
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16:00 Documentation/Mail/Twiki - Maria Smizanska (Lancaster University)  
16:15 Platforms/Compilers/Librarian Issues - Emil Obreshkov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))  
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16:30 Nightlies - Dr Alexander Undrus (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, USA)  
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16:45 Tag Collector - Jerome Fulachier (LPSC Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC))  
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17:00 CMT & Kit Distribution - Grigori Rybkine (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire)  
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17:15 Savannah - David Rousseau (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Paris)  
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17:25 one AtlasRelease project ? - David Rousseau (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL))  
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17:35 Software Validation - Dr Mark Hodgkinson (University of Sheffield)  
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17:50 SVN Access Manager - Dr Samir Ferrag (University of Glasgow)  
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13:30
Distributed Analysis - Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Dan van der Ster (CERN) Prof. Alexander Read (University of Oslo) (until 15:00) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
13:30 Distributed Analysis User support - Mark Slater (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham)  
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13:45 Job Output Merging - Mr Hurng-Chun Lee (NIKHEF)  
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14:00 Studies on user analysis activities - Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))  
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14:20 Discussion and Common Analysis suite developments  
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13:30
Physics Analysis Tools - Karsten Koeneke (CERN) Amir Farbin (University of Texas at Arlington) (until 17:00) (40/4-C01)
13:30 TAG validation - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)  
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13:40 TAG Discussion - Amir Farbin (University of Texas at Arlington)  
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14:45 D3PD Updates - Attila Krasznahorkay (New York University)  
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15:15 Standard Selections - Karsten Koeneke (CERN)  
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15:45 Documentation - Louise Heelan (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Arlington)  
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16:10 DAOD and D3PD experiences - David Cote (CERN)  
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14:00
Databases -Dr Dario Barberis (Genoa University/INFN) Elizabeth Gallas (Oxford) (until 19:50) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
14:00 Update on LCG Persistency packages - Dr Andrea Valassi (CERN)  
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14:15 News on the Conditions DB and related tools - Mikhail Borodin (Moscow Physical Engineering Inst. (MePhI)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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14:30 Conditions tags - Mathieu Plamondon (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Victoria-Unkno)  
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14:45 Data Quality Defects DB - Peter Onyisi (University of Chicago)  
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15:00 Online Standby database and DB disconnection tests - Florbela Tique Aires Viegas Marcin Blaszczyk  
15:15 Sliding window on PVSS data in ATONR and ADCR application issues - Gancho Dimitrov (BNL)  
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15:30 DCS Data Viewer: status and new developments - Stefan Winkelmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg-Unknown-Unknown)  
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15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 AMI news - Dr Solveig Albrand (LPSC)  
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16:30 Data Periods in COMA - Elizabeth Gallas (Oxford)  
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16:35 DB releases and Geometry DB in Frontier - Mr Vakhtang Tsulaia (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)  
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16:50 Frontier news - John DeStefano (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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17:05 AGIS news - Alexey Anisenkov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP)-Unknown-Unknown) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
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17:20 TAG DB Monitoring, Performance, Scalability - Florbela Tique Aires Viegas  
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17:40 TAG related Services - Dr Jack Cranshaw (ANL)  
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18:50 --- Farewell drink for Florbela in the B.40 hall ---
16:00
CORE SOFTWARE/PMB (until 19:30) (42/3-002)
16:00 --- First meeting in new building 42! Exit from back of bdg 40 lobby and enter annex central door. Conf room is to the right ---
16:05 athenaMP Validation - Dr Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)  
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16:25 update on ConfigurableFactory - Martin Woudstra (University of Massachusetts)  
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16:45 Removing hidden log messages - Dr Charles Leggett (LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY) Dr Thomas Kittelmann (University of Pittsburgh)  
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16:55 callgraph analysis & performance tools - Roberto Agostino Vitillo (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)  
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17:15 PMB update: Brief updates on Tier0 performance and other developments - Dr Thomas Kittelmann (University of Pittsburgh)  
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17:35 Strategy for CPU Optimization, a discussion - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))  
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13:30
Simulation Workshop II - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Dr Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh) (until 19:30) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
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