WLCG Collaboration Workshop (Tier0/Tier1/Tier2)

21 Mar 2009, 09:00 → 22 Mar 2009, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

Co-located with CHEP 2009 (Prague)

This workshop will have a strong WLCG operations focus. Topics include:

• Service operations, e.g. data management & storage services, databases, analysis services;
• Operations procedures and tools - reporting of problems, escalation, "Service Incident Reports", suspension of sites in case of major and/or prolonged problems (response targets etc.)
• Downtime handling: scheduled, unscheduled, at risk etc.
• Support issues: use of team and alarm tickets, targets for response to incidents, ...
• Monitoring: VO-views, site views, aligning official availability with VO tests and production results, ...

Prague metro map Metro_prague.gif

WLCG Beer Tasting Session http://www.particle.cz/conferences/chep2009/wlcgbeer.htm

Saturday 21 March

09:30 → 09:40 Workshop introduction, goals and logistics

Speakers: Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN), Milos Lokajicek

CHEP 2009 home page http://www.particle.cz/conferences/chep2009/homepage.aspx

Slides wlcg-collaboration-workshop-intro.pdf wlcg-collaboration-workshop-intro.ppt

09:40 → 09:45 Status of the LHC Machine - Timeline included in following report

Agenda of Chamonix 2009 LHC Performance workshop http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=45433

Summary of Chamonix workshop http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=52248

09:45 → 10:30 WLCG Roadmap for 2009/2010

Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides IGB-CHEP-Roadmap-210309.pdf IGB-CHEP-Roadmap-210309.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Experiment Roadmaps for 2009/2010

Based on proposal from Luca, Fabio and Gonzalo, itself based on the LHCb style. See here for more information.

Assumes an LHC run from September / October 2009 until autumn 2010, with only a short break at Christmas.

Speakers: Dr Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa), Kors Bos (NIKHEF), Matthias Kasemann (Unknown), Dr Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD), Peter Hristov (CERN), Philippe Charpentier (CERN)

Proposal from CCRC'08 planning meeting http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=25342

Slides ALICE_WLCG_CB_Prague_21_03_2009.pdf ALICE_WLCG_CB_Prague_21_03_2009.ppt

12:20 → 12:30 CCRC'09 Discussion - part 1

12:30 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 WLCG Site Reviews - Status and Outlook

Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides IGB-CHEP-SiteReviews-210309.pdf IGB-CHEP-SiteReviews-210309.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 WLCG DB Service Reviews

Speaker: Maria Girone (CERN)

Slides CHEPservice-reviews.pdf CHEPservice-reviews.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 WLCG DM Service Reviews and DM Outlook

18:00 → 18:20 WLCG Tier0 Network Intervention - Did Work at outside sites suffer?

18:30 → 20:30 WLCG Beer Tasting session

Details here.

Sunday 22 March

09:00 → 09:30 WLCG Analysis Services Working Group Session

Speaker: Dr Markus Schulz (CERN)

Slides User_AnalysisWorkGroupWLCG.pdf User_AnalysisWorkGroupWLCG.ppt

09:30 → 10:30 Supporting WLCG Analysis Services and Analysis Users

Speakers: Dr Dan van der Ster (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)), Dr Massimo Lamanna (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WLCG Operations Session

12:30 → 13:30 lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 WLCG Operations Session

15:00 → 15:30 Remaining Issues, Summary and Outlook

ATLAS proposal for STEP09 (aka CCRC'09) CCRC09-Atlas-vs1(2).pdf CCRC09-Atlas-vs1(2).pptx

CMS proposed STEPs for scale testing CMS-STE09.pdf

Workshop summary workshop-summary.pdf workshop-summary.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 WLCG Collaboration Board meeting [agendas] - (tentative - for CB members only!)

18:00 → 20:00 (CHEP) Welcome Reception