HEPiX Autumn 2023 Workshop

from Monday, October 16, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 20, 2023 (5:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 16, 2023
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 18, 2023
Oct 19, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
AM
8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:30 AM)
9:30 AM
Opening Session (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Welcome - Peter van der Reest  
9:40 AM Introduction to UVic and Logistics - Randall Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))  
10:00 AM An introduction to HEPiX  
10:30 AM --- Morning break ---
11:00 AM
Site Reports 1 (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Canadian ATLAS Tier-1 Site Report - Mr Di Qing (TRIUMF)  
11:15 AM USATLAS SWT2 Center Site Report - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
11:30 AM BNL Site Report - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Tony Wong  
11:45 AM The Digital Research Alliance of Canada - Patrick Mann (Digital Alliance of Canda)  
9:00 AM
Basic IT Services and End User Services 2 (until 9:25 AM)
9:00 AM Graylog-as-a-service: using Kubernetes to rescue a service from ancient hardware - Dr Sonia Taneja (Diamond light source)  
9:25 AM
Site Reports 2 (until 10:25 AM)
9:25 AM ASGC Site Report - Mr Eric Yen (ASGC)  
9:40 AM KEK Site Report - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)  
9:55 AM AGLT2 Site Report - Ms Wenjing Dronen  
10:10 AM Diamond Light Source Site Report - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source)  
10:25 AM --- Tuesday morning break ---
10:50 AM
Site Reports 2 (until 11:35 AM)
10:50 AM RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)  
11:05 AM Nikhef overview and site report - Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef)  
11:20 AM LHEP site report - Gianfranco Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
11:35 AM
Vendor talk (until 12:00 PM)
11:35 AM DDN - Importance of checkpoints with LLM  
9:00 AM
Joint HEPIX-LHCONE session (until 10:10 AM)
9:00 AM LHCOPN and LHCONE update - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)  
9:40 AM Ensuring Use of IPv6 after it is deployed - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
10:10 AM
News from the HEPiX board - Peter van der Reest (until 10:15 AM)
10:10 AM Election of third co-chair  
10:15 AM --- Wednesday morning break ---
10:55 AM
Networking & Security 2 (until 11:45 AM)
10:55 AM Sustainable Self-Inspection Initiatives for Improving Information Security at KEK - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)  
11:20 AM Our new router is a Nokia, but can it play snake? - Bart van der Wal (NIkhef)  
11:45 AM
Group Photo (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation and Operating Systems (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM The CERN IT Linux strategy (after the recent events in the EL eco-system) - Alex Iribarren (CERN)  
9:25 AM Linux at DESY - Peter van der Reest  
9:40 AM Discussion  
10:40 AM --- Thursday morning break ---
11:10 AM
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation and Operating Systems (until 12:00 PM)
11:10 AM Building a cloud-native ATLAS Tier 2 on Kubernetes - Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))  
11:35 AM Overview of the Coffea-Casa Analysis Facility hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
9:00 AM
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 9:50 AM)
9:00 AM IDAF@DESY: Status & Outlook - Christian Voss  
9:25 AM Data centre adventures during building renovations - Floris Bieshaar (Nikhef)  
9:50 AM
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (C&F) (until 10:40 AM)
9:50 AM Carbon negative computing? - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
10:15 AM Canadian ATLAS Tier-1 Analytics Infrastructure - Fernando Fernandez Galindo (TRIUMF (CA))  
10:40 AM --- Friday morning break ---
11:10 AM
Workshop Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks (until 11:55 AM)
11:10 AM Call for participation - Mary Hester  
11:15 AM Closing Remarks - Peter van der Reest  
11:55 AM --- End of scheduled Workshop ---
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
invited talk: digital humanities (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM The Digital Humanities, and its Foundation for Open Social Scholarship - Ray Siemens (University of Victoria)  
2:00 PM
Basic IT Services and End User Services 1 (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM Zimbra at DESY -- what comes next? - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch  
2:25 PM InvenioRDM at the SDCC - Louis Ralph Pelosi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
2:50 PM Deploying dCache in Kubernetes - Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)  
3:15 PM --- Afternoon break ---
3:45 PM
Computing & Batch Services (until 5:00 PM)
3:45 PM Update on ARM for WLCG - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))  
4:10 PM HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Christopher Henry Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
4:35 PM The 2023 HTCondor workshop in Europe - Helge Meinhard (CERN)  
5:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:00 PM --- Tuesday lunch and HEPIX Board meeting ---
2:00 PM
Vendor talk (until 2:25 PM)
2:00 PM Sustainable Immersion Cooling for HPC: The Path to Energy Efficiency and Environmental Responsibility - Mr Eliot Ahdoot (Hypertec Systems Inc.)  
2:25 PM
Basic IT Services and End User Services 2 (until 3:05 PM)
2:25 PM The DESY User Registry - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch  
2:50 PM NET2: a first example of OpenShift/OKD for Tier 2 provisioning and cluster management in US ATLAS - Eduardo Bach (University of Massachusetts (US))  
3:05 PM
Vendor talk (until 3:15 PM)
3:05 PM Vendor Introduction - Weka  
3:15 PM --- Tuesday afternoon break ---
3:35 PM
Computing and Batch Services (until 4:50 PM)
3:35 PM Migrating to Slurm from Grid Engine: Politics, Partitions and Problems - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source) Murray Collier  
4:00 PM Quantum Assisted Calorimeter Simulation - J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin (TRIUMF)  
4:25 PM From Generative to Interactive AI: Towards Artificial General Intelligence? Use on Local Data and Applications Examples - Mr Imed Magroune (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP//LIS)  
4:50 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM
Site Reports 3 (until 6:05 PM)
5:00 PM IHEP Site Report - Xiaowei Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
5:15 PM FZU Site Report - Jiri Chudoba (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
5:30 PM HIP site report - Tomas Lindén (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
5:45 PM CERN site report - Jarek Polok (CERN)  
12:00 PM --- Wednesday lunch ---
1:30 PM
Invited talk - Ocean Network Canada (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM Ocean Networks Canada: Continuously Delivering Multidisciplinary Data from the Deep - Benoit Pirenne (Ocean Networks Canada)  
2:00 PM
Networking & Security 3 (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM MFA for SSH at Diamond Light Source - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source)  
2:25 PM Securing the RAL campus - Liam Atherton  
2:50 PM New Security Trust and Policies - for WLCG and other Research Infrastructures - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
3:15 PM --- Wednesday afternoon break ---
3:45 PM
Storage and Filesystems - Peter van der Reest Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 6:00 PM)
3:45 PM Exploring storage technologies for HPSS disk caches - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
4:10 PM An even more Efficient Nordic Dcache Interface to TSM - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
4:35 PM The Design and Progress of Data Management and Data Service for HEPS - Hao Hu (Institute of High Energy of Physics)  
5:00 PM --- Break ---
5:10 PM Ceph in 2023 and Beyond - Dr Dan van der Ster (Clyso)  
5:35 PM Deploying and Running Ceph Clusters for Analysis Facilities at RAL - Robert Appleyard  
12:00 PM --- Thursday lunch ---
1:30 PM
P-One neutirno experiment invited talk (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM The P-One ocean-based neutrino experiment - status and prospects - Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)  
2:00 PM
New Experiments (until 2:25 PM)
2:00 PM An Square Kilometer Array Regional Centre: Scaling Digital Research Infrastructure for Astronomy in Canada - Stephen Gwyn (National Research Council, Canadian Astronomy Data Centre)  
2:25 PM
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 2:50 PM)
2:25 PM Oxford Computer Room Air Conditioning upgrades - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))  
2:50 PM --- Thursday afternoon break ---
3:20 PM
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 5:00 PM)
3:20 PM Maintaining a legacy data centre - Floris Bieshaar (Nikhef)  
3:45 PM Configuration management in the PDP group at Nikhef - Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef)  
4:10 PM Supporting Distributed Subatomic Physics Computing in Canada - Leslie Groer (University of Toronto (CA))  
4:35 PM The new BaBar Long Term Data Analysis facility - Dr Marcus Ebert (University of Victoria)  
5:00 PM
Transfer time (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM --- Conference dinner ---