US ATLAS Computing Facilities Face-to-Face at SLAC

Session

Workshop Summary and Discussions

2 Dec 2022, 08:30

Build 48, Redwood Room A/B/C/D (SLAC)

Conveners

Workshop Summary and Discussions: Planning Discussions

• Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
• Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

Workshop Summary and Discussions: Workshop Discussion and Plans 2

• Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
• Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

Description

We will present on near term plans, results from this workshop and assign follow-up homework, as appropriate.

24. Tier-2 Procurement Process / Milestones

Fred Luehring (Indiana University (US))

02/12/2022, 08:30

Fred will discuss the proposed milestones and procurement process for our Tier-2, leaving time to discuss the main points amongst the facility.

25. Facility Data Challenge Planning

Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

02/12/2022, 09:00

Shawn will summarize what is known about the upcoming WLCG Network Data Challenge and describe possible areas the USATLAS facilities could participate, leaving time for discussion.

34. Extended Discussion Session

02/12/2022, 09:30

Use this slot to continue discussions about Tier-2 procurement and/or Data Challenge activities from the Facility.

We could also discuss the timeline and steps for allowing our sites to find the next operating system after RHEL7/CentOS7 becomes deprecated in 2024. Need about 10-15 minutes describing what is known and what critical areas need to be explored. Leave 15-20 minutes for...

35. Tokens, HTCondor, Storage and our Facilities

Brian Hua Lin (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

02/12/2022, 10:30

We need to lay out the issues with the evolution of our infrastructure to tokens, replacing x.509. HTCondor 10.x will remove support for x.509 and our sites should already be capable of transitioning to this. However, storage still requires x.509 and the issues around replacing x.509 with tokens should be discussed.

Brian and Ofer should summarize the issues and lead a discussion on...

36. Workshop Review and Final Discussions

02/12/2022, 11:00

We need to summarize the workshop and allow follow-up discussions on any remaining topics we weren't able to spend sufficient time on.

NOTE: Let's use this Google doc to capture facility action items: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H0hKN3M37RzVJ3DLZK437SIXdLczGCmpUWyc10KTo8Y/edit?usp=sharing