HEPiX Autumn 2023 Workshop

from Monday 16 October 2023 (08:00) to Friday 20 October 2023 (17:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Opening Session (until 10:30)
09:30 Welcome - Peter van der Reest  
09:40 Introduction to UVic and Logistics - Randall Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))  
10:00 An introduction to HEPiX  
10:30 --- Morning break ---
11:00
Site Reports 1 (until 12:00)
11:00 Canadian ATLAS Tier-1 Site Report - Mr Di Qing (TRIUMF)  
11:15 USATLAS SWT2 Center Site Report - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
11:30 BNL Site Report - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Tony Wong  
11:45 The Digital Research Alliance of Canada - Patrick Mann (Digital Alliance of Canda)  
09:00
Basic IT Services and End User Services 2 (until 09:25)
09:00 Graylog-as-a-service: using Kubernetes to rescue a service from ancient hardware - Dr Sonia Taneja (Diamond light source)  
09:25
Site Reports 2 (until 10:25)
09:25 ASGC Site Report - Mr Eric Yen (ASGC)  
09:40 KEK Site Report - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)  
09:55 AGLT2 Site Report - Ms Wenjing Dronen  
10:10 Diamond Light Source Site Report - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source)  
10:25 --- Tuesday morning break ---
10:50
Site Reports 2 (until 11:35)
10:50 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)  
11:05 Nikhef overview and site report - Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef)  
11:20 LHEP site report - Gianfranco Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
11:35
Vendor talk (until 12:00)
11:35 DDN - Importance of checkpoints with LLM  
09:00
Joint HEPIX-LHCONE session (until 10:10)
09:00 LHCOPN and LHCONE update - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)  
09:40 Ensuring Use of IPv6 after it is deployed - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
10:10
News from the HEPiX board - Peter van der Reest (until 10:15)
10:10 Election of third co-chair  
10:15 --- Wednesday morning break ---
10:55
Networking & Security 2 (until 11:45)
10:55 Sustainable Self-Inspection Initiatives for Improving Information Security at KEK - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)  
11:20 Our new router is a Nokia, but can it play snake? - Bart van der Wal (NIkhef)  
11:45
Group Photo (until 12:00)
09:00
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation and Operating Systems (until 10:40)
09:00 The CERN IT Linux strategy (after the recent events in the EL eco-system) - Alex Iribarren (CERN)  
09:25 Linux at DESY - Peter van der Reest  
09:40 Discussion  
10:40 --- Thursday morning break ---
11:10
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation and Operating Systems (until 12:00)
11:10 Building a cloud-native ATLAS Tier 2 on Kubernetes - Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))  
11:35 Overview of the Coffea-Casa Analysis Facility hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
09:00
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 09:50)
09:00 IDAF@DESY: Status & Outlook - Christian Voss  
09:25 Data centre adventures during building renovations - Floris Bieshaar (Nikhef)  
09:50
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (C&F) (until 10:40)
09:50 Carbon negative computing? - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
10:15 Canadian ATLAS Tier-1 Analytics Infrastructure - Fernando Fernandez Galindo (TRIUMF (CA))  
10:40 --- Friday morning break ---
11:10
Workshop Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks (until 11:55)
11:10 Call for participation - Mary Hester  
11:15 Closing Remarks - Peter van der Reest  
11:55 --- End of scheduled Workshop ---
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
invited talk: digital humanities (until 14:00)
13:30 The Digital Humanities, and its Foundation for Open Social Scholarship - Ray Siemens (University of Victoria)  
14:00
Basic IT Services and End User Services 1 (until 15:15)
14:00 Zimbra at DESY -- what comes next? - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch  
14:25 InvenioRDM at the SDCC - Louis Ralph Pelosi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
14:50 Deploying dCache in Kubernetes - Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)  
15:15 --- Afternoon break ---
15:45
Computing & Batch Services (until 17:00)
15:45 Update on ARM for WLCG - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))  
16:10 HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Christopher Henry Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
16:35 The 2023 HTCondor workshop in Europe - Helge Meinhard (CERN)  
17:00 --- Reception ---
12:00 --- Tuesday lunch and HEPIX Board meeting ---
14:00
Vendor talk (until 14:25)
14:00 Sustainable Immersion Cooling for HPC: The Path to Energy Efficiency and Environmental Responsibility - Mr Eliot Ahdoot (Hypertec Systems Inc.)  
14:25
Basic IT Services and End User Services 2 (until 15:05)
14:25 The DESY User Registry - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch  
14:50 NET2: a first example of OpenShift/OKD for Tier 2 provisioning and cluster management in US ATLAS - Eduardo Bach (University of Massachusetts (US))  
15:05
Vendor talk (until 15:15)
15:05 Vendor Introduction - Weka  
15:15 --- Tuesday afternoon break ---
15:35
Computing and Batch Services (until 16:50)
15:35 Migrating to Slurm from Grid Engine: Politics, Partitions and Problems - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source) Murray Collier  
16:00 Quantum Assisted Calorimeter Simulation - J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin (TRIUMF)  
16:25 From Generative to Interactive AI: Towards Artificial General Intelligence? Use on Local Data and Applications Examples - Mr Imed Magroune (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP//LIS)  
16:50 --- Break ---
17:00
Site Reports 3 (until 18:05)
17:00 IHEP Site Report - Xiaowei Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
17:15 FZU Site Report - Jiri Chudoba (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
17:30 HIP site report - Tomas Lindén (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
17:45 CERN site report - Jarek Polok (CERN)  
12:00 --- Wednesday lunch ---
13:30
Invited talk - Ocean Network Canada (until 14:00)
13:30 Ocean Networks Canada: Continuously Delivering Multidisciplinary Data from the Deep - Benoit Pirenne (Ocean Networks Canada)  
14:00
Networking & Security 3 (until 15:15)
14:00 MFA for SSH at Diamond Light Source - Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source)  
14:25 Securing the RAL campus - Liam Atherton  
14:50 New Security Trust and Policies - for WLCG and other Research Infrastructures - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
15:15 --- Wednesday afternoon break ---
15:45
Storage and Filesystems - Peter van der Reest Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 18:00)
15:45 Exploring storage technologies for HPSS disk caches - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
16:10 An even more Efficient Nordic Dcache Interface to TSM - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
16:35 The Design and Progress of Data Management and Data Service for HEPS - Hao Hu (Institute of High Energy of Physics)  
17:00 --- Break ---
17:10 Ceph in 2023 and Beyond - Dr Dan van der Ster (Clyso)  
17:35 Deploying and Running Ceph Clusters for Analysis Facilities at RAL - Robert Appleyard  
12:00 --- Thursday lunch ---
13:30
P-One neutirno experiment invited talk (until 14:00)
13:30 The P-One ocean-based neutrino experiment - status and prospects - Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)  
14:00
New Experiments (until 14:25)
14:00 An Square Kilometer Array Regional Centre: Scaling Digital Research Infrastructure for Astronomy in Canada - Stephen Gwyn (National Research Council, Canadian Astronomy Data Centre)  
14:25
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 14:50)
14:25 Oxford Computer Room Air Conditioning upgrades - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))  
14:50 --- Thursday afternoon break ---
15:20
IT Facilities & Business Continuity (until 17:00)
15:20 Maintaining a legacy data centre - Floris Bieshaar (Nikhef)  
15:45 Configuration management in the PDP group at Nikhef - Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef)  
16:10 Supporting Distributed Subatomic Physics Computing in Canada - Leslie Groer (University of Toronto (CA))  
16:35 The new BaBar Long Term Data Analysis facility - Dr Marcus Ebert (University of Victoria)  
17:00
Transfer time (until 18:00)
18:00 --- Conference dinner ---