Name: Future computing in particle physics
Start: 2011-06-15T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-06-17T19:00:00+01:00
Location: e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

Future computing in particle physics

from Wednesday 15 June 2011 (14:00) to Friday 17 June 2011 (19:00)

Monday 13 June 2011
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Wednesday 15 June 2011
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and Overview - Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)

14:10 Atlas computing challenges - Jim Shank (Department of Physics-Boston University)

14:30 CMS strategic and tactical choices for multicore computing - Giulio Eulisse (FERMILAB)

15:20 Atlas software challanges - David Rousseau (CERN)

15:40 ATLAS Distributred Computing Plans for the Future - Alexei Klimentov (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

16:00 Issues with Simulating Events at High Luminosity in ATLAS - John Derek Chapman (Cavendish Lab., Dept. of Physics-University of Cambridge)

16:30 Discussion
18:00 Whisky Tasting Welcome Reception - Wishart David
Whisky Tasting Welcome Reception
- Wishart David
18:00 - 19:00
Including Lecture on The Malt Whisky Cluster Vortex and Private Tour of Surgeons Museum. Sponsored by Dell.
Thursday 16 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

09:00 Manycore/gpu hardware: industry view - Roger Goff (DELL)

09:30 Progress and plans on multicore for Atlas - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

10:00 Atlas whole node plans - Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh) Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

10:20 Performance of Multi-Core Batch Nodes in a HEP Environment - Manfred Alef (KIT)
10:40 Coffee and Discussion
Coffee and Discussion
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Cramond Room
11:10
11:10 - 12:40
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

11:10 LLVM - Rolf Seuster (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG))

11:30 Optimization Using Tracing JITs - Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

12:00 Performance analysis tools - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)) Roberto Agostino Vitillo (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)) Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

12:20 CVMFS - Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Cramond Room
13:40
13:40 - 15:00
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

13:40 non-ROOT I/O - Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

14:10 Remote I/O for users and future of CMS I/O layers. - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)

14:40 Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects - Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari) Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh)
15:00 Tea
Tea
15:00 - 15:10
Room: Cramond Room
15:10
15:10 - 17:00
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

15:10 Atlas Analysis Model Perspectives - Amir Farbin (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Arlington)

15:30 Implementing parallel algorithms for data analysis in the ROOT/RooFit package - Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

15:50 Experiences on using GPU accelerators for data analysis in ROOT/RooFit package - Yngve Sneen Lindal (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitens. Univ. (NTNU))

16:10 TMVA method optimisation feasiblity study - Andrew John Washbrook (CERN)

16:20 Discussion - Future Plans
19:30 Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Cramond Room Agua Restaurant, Apex City Hotel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh (Note: there are two Apex hotels in Grassmarket...)
Friday 17 June 2011
09:00
09:00 - 12:40
Room: Cramond Room
Contributions

09:00 Perspectives on ATLAS tracking and the upgrade - Markus Elsing (CERN)

09:20 Track reconstruction on GPUs - Christian Schmitt (Institut fuer Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)

10:20 HLT: Z Finder - Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh)

10:30 Kalman filter - Dmitry Emeliyanov (Particle Physics)

10:50 Bytestream decoding and cluster formation - Jacob Howard (CERN)

11:10 Discussion

11:30 GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL - Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari)

12:00 Matrix Element analyses - Robert Harrington (Boston University)

12:20 Programming hybrid architectures with OpenMP accelerator directives - Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Cramond Room

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