Workload management TEG workshop

3 Nov 2011, 09:00 → 4 Nov 2011, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Davide Salomoni (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT)), Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

First face-to-face (at CERN) and EVO workshop of the WLCG workload management technical evolution working group. All are welcome.
If you plan to attend F2F or by EVO please fill out this poll http://doodle.com/vc8p58mpgp3nx6xv

EVO details:

Title:          WM TEG meeting
Description:    Workload management technical evolution group meeting
Community:      WLCG

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL  http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MaMDMt2I2tD9De9I9tDI9a
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Thursday 3 November

09:00 → 12:30 Thursday am

13-3-005 is booked (Thanks, Pablo) from 9:00 to 14:00. It is a small room (up to 20 people), and it has a Projector, telephone conference capability and wireless.

09:00 lxcloud experience

Speaker: Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)

Slides lxcloud.pdf

09:45 Virtualization, cloud computing discussion

10:30 Coffee

10:45 LCG pilot factory

Speaker: Mr Andrey Kiryanov (B.P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - PNPI ()

Slides LCGPF.pdf

11:05 EMI roadmap for WM

Speaker: Marco Cecchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

Slides EMI_compute_TEG.pdf

11:45 Resource allocation and management discussion

Role of CEs, need for WMS, WN access reqmts

13:30 → 15:15 Thursday pm 1

We have 11am - 3.15pm (sharp) booking for 31-S-023. We can use this for a first short post-lunch session, then we have to move. Booking an EVO capable extended meeting as late as this one means bearing some inconvenience...

13:30 glideinWMS (CMS)

Speaker: Mr Igor Sfiligoi (University of California San Diego)

Slides glideinWMS_rc4.odp glideinWMS_rc4.pdf

14:10 WMAgent (CMS)

Speaker: Simon Metson (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides WMCoreWMAgent_for_wm_teg.pdf

14:30 DIRAC (LHCb)

Speaker: Ricardo Graciani Diaz (University of Barcelona (ES))

Slides DIRAC-Pilots.pdf

15:30 → 18:30 Thursday pm 2

We have the TH conference room 4-3-006 from 3:30-8:00pm

15:30 AliEn (ALICE)

Speaker: Pablo Saiz (CERN)

Slides Workload_TEG2.pptx

16:15 PanDA (ATLAS)

Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Slides PanDA-WMTEG-20111103.pdf

17:00 Coffee

17:15 Common ground, common lessons on pilots and frameworks discussion

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner: Currently 12 people according to Doodle. Proposal: La Meyrinoise pizza place in Meyrin

Friday 4 November

10:00 → 12:30 Friday am

On Friday we have 10am - 8pm: 31-S-023

10:00 Security requirements and models discussion

Maarten seed discussion with some slides?

Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides ML111104.pdf ML111104.ppt

11:00 Use of information services discussion

Lawrence seed discussion with some slides?

Speaker: Laurence Field (CLRC-RAL)

11:30 Second cloud/VM discussion

13:30 → 16:00 Friday pm

13:30 Drafting a joint presentation on pilots and frameworks

14:15 Document outline - assessment of the current situation with middleware, operations, and support structure

14:45 New computing models discussion

Framework evolution, potential commonality, role of virtualization and clouds, whole node, special resources (CPU, parallel)

15:30 Strategy for evolution of the technical implementation of WLCG WM discussion

Including clear statement of needs for WLCG, which can also be used to provide input to any external middleware and infrastructure projects