Prof.
Jan Ridky
(Institute of Physics AS CR)
4/23/12, 9:00 AM
Rupert Leitner
(Inst. of Particle and Nuclear Phys.)
4/23/12, 9:07 AM
Jiri Chudoba
(Institute of Physics)
4/23/12, 9:30 AM
Site Reports
A typical site report about the HEP computing activities at Institute of Physics in Prague will be extended by information about local users experience and participating institutions.
Paul Kuipers
(Nikhef)
4/23/12, 10:00 AM
Site Reports
Overview of the changes since last site report.
Erik Mattias Wadenstein
(Unknown)
4/23/12, 10:10 AM
Site Reports
Update on recent developments in NDGF
Shawn Mc Kee
(High Energy Physics)
4/23/12, 10:20 AM
Site Reports
We will report on the ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 which is co-located at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. We will describe some of our recent efforts at providing service resiliency and "business continuity" even if one of our two sites were offline for an extended period.
Gerard Bernabeu
(U)
4/23/12, 11:10 AM
Site Reports
PIC is a scientific-technological center providing High Throughput and Data Processing Services to various scientific disciplines: High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Life Sciences among others.
To fulfill these communities requirements it needs to maintain a steep capacity growth while keeping high levels of reliability. Thanks to technology improvements, in the last years it...
Andrea Chierici
(INFN-CNAF)
4/23/12, 11:30 AM
Site Reports
We will show recent improvements in our T1 infrastructure
Dr
Helge Meinhard
(CERN)
4/23/12, 11:40 AM
Site Reports
News from CERN since the previous meeting in Vancouver
Randy Melen
4/23/12, 12:20 PM
Site Reports
Spring 2012 HEPiX Site Report for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Jens Timmerman
(U)
4/23/12, 2:00 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
EasyBuild is an open source build framework written in Python that enables you to install software in a repeatable and consistent way.
EasyBuild was motivated by the need for a system that would allow us to build and install multiple versions of a software package, built with different tool-kits in an automated manner. This whilst a huge number of software packages require us to divert...
Daniel Gomez Blanco
(CERN)
4/23/12, 2:30 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
This presentation gives an introduction to the Database On Demand service at CERN. The need to offer support based on different database systems is on the rise within our user community. For example, one use case includes certain applications certified for running with non-Oracle databases (e.g. MySQL). Additional use cases are based on the desire expressed by user groups in being able to...
Giacomo Tenaglia
(CERN)
4/23/12, 2:50 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will present the access management system used at CERN Database Services group for allowing intercommunication within the nodes of the various database clusters, used also for granting and maintaining access to database and application servers to administrators and users. Started as a simple SSH keys management tool, the system has evolved together with CERN IT infrastructure,...
Nils Høimyr
(CERN)
4/23/12, 3:10 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
The talk will address the evolution of CERN computing infrastructure services such as CVS, SVN and TWiki as well as the Engineering Linux server infrastructure. Furthermore, the project to setup a central Issue Tracking Service based on Atlassian JIRA will be presented, along with a description of the IT BOINC application service for Volunter Computing.
Dr
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
(CERN)
4/23/12, 4:00 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
The CERN Service Management project was born to fulfil the need of a global, homogeneous, and efficient service organization for all services provided to the users. On February 2011 the project entered in operation including in a first step services of the IT and GS departments. The CERN Service Management infrastructure is based on ITIL best practises and it includes a single Service Desk, a...
Eric Bonfillou
(CERN)
4/23/12, 4:20 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will provide an overview of the CERN's new burn-in test system. It will mainly focus on the reasons why a new system is needed (operational factors, remote hosting adaptation) and how it is being implemented and evaluated. The first results will be presented as the acceptance of about 1500 servers relied on it.
James Adams
(STFC RAL)
4/23/12, 4:40 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
ARTEMIS is a lightweight system developed at the STFC e-Science centre for collecting, viewing and analysing environmental data from distributed sensors in a data-centre environments.
Dmitry Nilsen
4/24/12, 9:15 AM
Site Reports
Current status and latest news at GridKa, e.g.: - Hardware status - Storage systems - Middleware deployment
Dr
Ofer Rind
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
4/24/12, 9:25 AM
Site Reports
A summary of developments at BNL's RACF since the last HEPiX meeting.
Tina Friedrich
(Diamond Light Source Ltd)
4/24/12, 9:35 AM
Site Reports
update on last years projects & developments
Dr
Derek Feichtinger
(PSI)
4/24/12, 10:00 AM
Site Reports
Developments at PSI over the last year, among them: introduction of 10GbE for fast detectors, introduction of AFS Object storage, GPFS + CTDB update
Larry Pezzaglia
(LBNL)
4/24/12, 10:10 AM
Site Reports
PDSF is a commodity Linux cluster at NERSC which has been in
continuous operation since 1996. This talk will provide a
status update on the PDSF system and summarize recent changes at
the NERSC Center. Highlighted PDSF changes include the
conversion to xCAT-managed netboot node images, the ongoing
deployment of Scientific Linux 6, and the introduction of XRootD
for STAR.
Dr
Helge Meinhard
(CERN)
4/24/12, 11:00 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
Over the past decade, CERN-IT has successfully managed thousands of machines for specific services in the CERN computer centre, using
dedicated home-grown tools for configuration, installation and monitoring. However, a more dynamic and flexible approach is needed in order to provide new services, reduce inefficiencies, address business
continuity, and cope with a remote extension to the...
Dr
Helge Meinhard
(CERN)
4/24/12, 11:15 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
Configuration Management is not new to CERN. For more than a decade, CERN has build its own Quattor based Configuration Management infrastructure which is currently used to manage the configuration of several thousands machines. Experience shows that our infrastructure has several limitations. Moreover, it will not scale to manage configuration of systems on a heavily virtualised computer...
Mr
Pedro Manuel Rodrigues De Sousa Andrade
(CERN)
4/24/12, 11:40 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
The Agile Infrastructure (AI) project will establish a flexible and dynamic management of CERN computer centre resources. From the infrastructure monitoring perspective the AI project is working towards a common monitoring architecture to allow accessing and correlating information about all computer centre resources. This new monitoring solution will simplify the sharing of monitoring data...
Jose Castro Leon
(Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
4/24/12, 12:05 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
The Agile Infrastructure project leverages emerging OpenStack Cloud Computing framework and Puppet configuration tools to provide Infrastructure as a Service in a sustainable and scalable way, but also ensuring sufficient resource flexibility and availability. In this solution, different services will be connected and scheduled over the IaaS layer using the same entry point. Moreover, a common...
Mr
Jakub Moscicki
(CERN)
4/24/12, 2:00 PM
Storage & Filesystems
CERN IT is faced with a rich set of requirements when it comes
to the provisioning of storage services. This talk will give
an overview of the challenges and constraints, describe which
part of the phase space the current services (AFS, CASTOR, EOS)
cover and present the short- and mid-term storage strategy. In
addition, the current status of ongoing investigations of
alternative storage...
Alex Iribarren
(CERN)
4/24/12, 2:25 PM
Storage & Filesystems
News from tape services for CASTOR at CERN
Alex Iribarren
(CERN)
4/24/12, 2:35 PM
Storage & Filesystems
CERN's current backup and archive service hosts 5.5 PB of data in more
than 1.6 billion files. We have over 1200 clients which back up or
restore an average of 50 TB of data each day. At the current growth
rate, we expect to have about 7 PB by the end of 2012.
In this contribution we present CERN's backup and archive service based
on the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. We show the...
Dr
Walter Schoen
(GSI)
4/24/12, 2:50 PM
Storage & Filesystems
A new Infiniband based part of the lustre system is build at the
"Mini-Cube" at GSI. The connection to the IP based lustre part is realised with LNET routers.
Jiri Horky
(Institute of Physics)
4/24/12, 3:15 PM
Storage & Filesystems
CESNET, the Czech national research and education network provider,
does not only provide plain network connectivity. CESNET coordinates and builds e-infrastructure services nowadays. Among them, national storage facility is being put into operation. The aim of the project is to provide more than 15PB of storage in three geographically distributed data centers for research and science...
Dr
Vladimir Sapunenko
(INFN)
4/24/12, 4:05 PM
Storage & Filesystems
Increasing data volumes and demand for access impose serious challenges
for data storage infrastructures. Risk of data corruption increases over time, increase of disc size leads to an unacceptably long recovery time in usual RAID configurations.
Recently a new solution, erasure coding, has appeared in the Cloud. It is based on a mathematical construction and involves dividing the data into...
Mr
Jakub Moscicki
(CERN)
4/24/12, 4:35 PM
Storage & Filesystems
In order to provide a scalable service, the AFS infrastructure at CERN currently undergoes an architectural change from Fibre Channel based fabrics towards external SAS based storage. This talk will present the design choices taken, cover the technologies involved, highlight the features and discuss limitations along with their potential solutions.
philippe olivero
(CC-IN2P3)
4/24/12, 5:05 PM
Miscellaneous
This is a first face to face meeting after the initiative from CC-IN2P3 to start a collaboration around Grid Engine, with Scientific Sites using it.
In order to prepare the meeting and to discuss some concrete matter, a list of wanted functions of GridEngine requested to Oracle by CC-IN2P3 is given in a provisory wiki:
https://forge.in2p3.fr/projects/gess/wiki#Lack-of-functionalities
with...
Manfred Alef
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
4/25/12, 8:45 AM
Computing & Batch Services
Comparative benchmarking of cluster hardware with the latest generations of processors and investigation on the influence of BIOS settings like symmetric multiprocessing and turbo mode.
Dr
Michele Michelotto
(INFN Padua & CMS)
4/25/12, 9:05 AM
Computing & Batch Services
We received a dual socket machine with 2x Xeon E5 and 2x Opteron 62xx multicore processor. The HEP-SPEC06 measurements will be presented and compared with previous generation processors.
Jiri Horky
(Institute of Physics)
4/25/12, 9:30 AM
Computing & Batch Services
We have performed several evaluation of new hardware during the last year ranging from the new generation of worker nodes to testing of a deduplication solution. In the talk, we present results from testing of deduplication technology from Fujitsu using synthetic data as well as real life backup and HEP experiment data. It is a common worry that the disk performance can hardly scale with...
Philippe Olivero
(Unknown)
4/25/12, 9:45 AM
Computing & Batch Services
In 2011, CC-IN2P3 changed its old custom batch System BQS by Oracle Grid Engine (OGE). After recalling brieflyly the reasons why we did it, this talk will present how we carried out this migration: the method, the different steps, the problems we have had to solve and I'll finish by the current situation, and how we are having a try to encourage a collaboration between sites running xGE clusters.
Pirmin Fix
(DESY)
4/25/12, 10:05 AM
Computing & Batch Services
DESY IT supports a number of Batch systems for various scientific groups. As these gain more and more importance we investigated the open source versions of Gridengine to profit from freely available updates and features to be prepared for the challenges to come. We report about our experience during testing, migration and early production phase and will give an outlook on future plans with...
Tony Cass
(CERN)
4/25/12, 11:00 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
This presentation will summarise the progress of the Virtualisation working group since the Vancouver meeting.
Owen Millington Synge
4/25/12, 11:20 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
Publishing images involves creating consistent uptodate images, and
managing image metadata. At DESY (HH), VM images are created using virt-install, kickstart, vmimagemanager, and puppet.
The HEPIX VWG has recently changed the image format due to multi core job requirements and the image list subscriber has provided an event interface to allow easier integration with clouds and projects such...
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
4/25/12, 11:40 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
Update on various virtualisation and cloud computing projects at the RAL Tier 1
Larry Pezzaglia
(LBNL)
4/25/12, 12:10 PM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
The CHOS[1] software package combines a Linux kernel module, a
PAM module, and batch system integration to provide a mechanism
for concurrently supporting multiple Linux environments on a
single Linux system. This presentation gives an introduction to
CHOS and details how NERSC has deployed this utility on the PDSF
HPC system to meet the complex, and often conflicting,...
Wayne Salter
(CERN)
4/25/12, 2:00 PM
Business Continuity
This talk will give an overview the status of business continuity at CERN currently and explain the steps that are planned to improve on this.
Dr
Keith Chadwick
(Fermilab)
4/25/12, 2:30 PM
Business Continuity
Business Continuity Efforts at Fermilab
Dr
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
(CERN)
4/25/12, 3:00 PM
Business Continuity
Based on ITIL best practices, the support of the overall business continuity is ensured by managing and controlling the risks that could seriously affect the corresponding services. The identification of the risks and the provision of measures to mitigate or eliminate the threats in the system will play an important role in achieving the level of service required to ensure the business...
Dr
John Gordon
(Particle Physics)
4/25/12, 4:00 PM
Business Continuity
In 2009 the RAL Tier-1 introduced a formal change control process as a means of driving cultural changes in the way we tested and deployed new services. Although designed from the bottom up, a mid term review found remarkable similarity with the ITIL model for change management. This talk describes how the process evolved, its impact on team culture, considers outcome metrics and discusses the...
connie sieh
(Fermilab)
4/25/12, 4:30 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
Current status of Scientific Linux.
Fabrizio Furano
(CERN)
4/26/12, 9:40 AM
Storage & Filesystems
CERN-DM and dCache.org will demonstrate a storage federation purly based on the http(s) protocol.
Giacomo Tenaglia
(CERN)
4/26/12, 10:10 AM
Storage & Filesystems
This talk will present the experience of CERN Database Services group in running NetApp filers to provide a highly available NFS-based NAS infrastructure.
Wayne Salter
(CERN)
4/26/12, 11:10 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will provide an update on the two main infrastructure projects; namely the upgrade and consolidation of the CERN computer centre and the remote hosting project. As the tender for the remote hosting will have been recently adjudicated at the CERN Finance Committee in March, the talk will concentrate on the tender and the results. Nonetheless it will give an brief update on the...
Peter Gronbech
(Particle Physics)
4/26/12, 11:40 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
To be filled by Peter
Eric Bonfillou
(CERN)
4/26/12, 12:10 PM
IT Infrastructure and Services
This talk will describe the new computing hardware procurement trends at CERN. It will focus on major architectural changes being put in place as well as describe how these are better fitting the power, cooling and space envelopes available in the CERN hosting facilities. The talk will underline how the simplification of these architecture tends to streamline the process of delivering...
Dr
Keith Chadwick
(Fermilab)
4/26/12, 2:00 PM
Security & Networking
Status of the IPv6 Deployment at Fermilab
Dr
David Kelsey
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
4/26/12, 2:30 PM
Security & Networking
Since the Vancouver HEPiX meeting in Oct 2011, the IPv6 working group has been busy expanding its IPv6 testbed and testing data management over IPv6. Work has also started on the full survey of the IPv6 readiness of all WLCG applications, software and tools. This talk will present our experiences to date and plans for the future. A second talk by Francesco Prelz will give more details about...
Francesco Prelz
(Sezione di Milano)
4/26/12, 2:50 PM
Security & Networking
The outcome of the first, extremely basic application tests that were performed on the dual-stack testbed that was set up by the HEPix IPv6 group is reported. Running sustained file transfers and deploying the File Transfer Service (FTS) over a mesh of 'gridftp' servers provided enough real-life issues for a first reality check.
Dr
David Kelsey
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
4/26/12, 3:10 PM
Security & Networking
A single Grid (X.509) identity certificate together with an attribute certificate from a Virtual Organisation can be used by an appropriately authorised HEP user anywhere in the world to access WLCG resources wherever they may be. There are however many other non-Grid distributed computing services that HEP users also need to access; webs, wikis, mail lists, document databases, agenda systems,...
Remi Mollon
(CERN)
4/26/12, 4:00 PM
Security & Networking
The talk tackles current trends in the computer security field. Recent security events, threats, risk management, ... Those are the points which are covered here, including the academic world.
Bob Cowles
(SLAC)
4/26/12, 4:30 PM
Security & Networking
One of the first cyber incidents was caused by an insect (a moth, in fact). Ever since then, the lower life forms have been trying to disrupt the virtual landscapes we construct for our users. As our virtual environments have evolved to be more complex, these other life forms have always evolved sufficiently to find new cracks in our defenses. As we continue down the current path we are...
Dr
Keith Chadwick
(Fermilab)
4/27/12, 9:00 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
Update on the status of the FermiCloud project.
Ian Peter Collier
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
4/27/12, 9:30 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
This presentation introduces the EGI Task Force on Federated Clouds to the world wide Grid and Cloud communities. Building on the technology and expertise aggregated in over 10 years of successful provisioning and operation of a pan-European Grid Infrastructure, the Task Force further pushes the frontiers of Cloud interoperability enabling user communities to scale their computing needs across...
Tony Cass
(CERN)
4/27/12, 10:00 AM
Grid, cloud and virtualization
In Europe the EIROForum are the 8 international organizations pursuing fundamental research in science and space exploration. In this context, CERN and several of the other organizations, including ESA and EMBL are forming a collaboration to engage with European industry in public-private partnerships to build a European Cloud infrastructure capable of supporting the missions of these...
Mr
Frederic Schaer
(CEA)
4/27/12, 11:00 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
The GRIF monitoring infrastructure will be presented, along with the requirements, issues, and foreseen evolutions
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
4/27/12, 11:30 AM
IT Infrastructure and Services
Report from the recent Quattor Workshop in Budapest and update on developments in the Quattor toolset.
