US ATLAS Distributed Facility Workshop at UC Santa Cruz

→ America/Los_Angeles
Alumni Room (University Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz)

Alumni Room

University Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Michael Ernst (Unknown), Robert W. Gardner (University of Chicago)
Description
The next US ATLAS Computing Facilities face-to-face meeting to discuss a number of topics pertaining to evolving the distributed facility with new capabilities and services while maintaining on-going operations for ATLAS production and analysis. Topics:  
  • ATLAS requirements and US ATLAS Facility storage deployments 
  • Network performance, LHCONE
  • Support for multicore queues
  • Federated data access deployments and operations
  • Supporting analysis and improving performance
  • Wide area caching issues
  • Cloud queues - virtualizing the Tier 1 and Tier 2s
  • Campus Infrastructures & multi-science support with OSG

Hosted by the University of California Santa Cruz, the 1.5 day meeting will be co-located with a 1.5 day OSG Campus Infrastructures Community meeting which will immediately follow the US ATLAS meeting. Both meetings will take place at University Center on campus.  Note: if you plan to also attend the OSG CIC meeting you must register for it separately. 


Local support at UC Santa Cruz: Mykell Discipulo
Participants
  • Tuesday 13 November
    • 08:30 → 09:30
      Coffee & Registration 1h
    • 09:30 → 10:00
      Evolving ATLAS Computing Model and Requirements 30m
      Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 10:00 → 10:30
      Program of Analysis Support for the US ATLAS Physics Community and US ATLAS computing facilities 30m
      Speaker: Rikutaro Yoshida (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 10:30 → 10:50
      Coffee 20m
    • 10:50 → 11:20
      Impacts and Requirements of ATLAS Production Services on US ATLAS Computing Facilities 30m
      Speakers: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 11:20 → 12:00
      Discussion 40m
    • 12:00 → 13:15
      Lunch (catered) 1h 15m
    • 13:15 → 13:45
      Performance and Analysis Workflow Issues 30m
      Speaker: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))
      Slides
    • 13:45 → 14:15
      Virtualized Facility Resources 30m
      Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
      Slides
    • 14:15 → 14:30
      Facility Virtualization Experience at MWT2 15m
      Speaker: Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)
      Slides
    • 15:00 → 15:20
      Coffee break 20m
    • 15:20 → 15:40
      FAX Deployments, Services, and on-going Xrootd Integration with ATLAS storage systems 20m
      Speaker: Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 15:40 → 16:00
      Towards FAX Usability 20m
      Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
      Slides
    • 16:00 → 16:30
      Facility Implications for WAN Data Access and Caching 30m
      Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 16:30 → 17:30
      Discussion 1h
    • 19:30 → 21:45
      Dinner (self-pay) 2h 15m

      Restaurant TBD

  • Wednesday 14 November
    • 08:30 → 09:00
      Coffee 30m
    • 09:00 → 09:20
      Networking, Throughput, and LHCONE 20m
      Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 09:20 → 10:00
      Analysis support issues, virtual analysis facilities, and Tier 3s 40m
      Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))
      Slides
    • 10:00 → 10:20
      Management of User Requested Data to US ATLAS resources 20m
      Speaker: Armen Vartapetian (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
      Slides
    • 10:20 → 10:40
      Coffee 20m
    • 10:40 → 11:00
      Site Lightning Report: T1 20m
      Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 11:00 → 11:10
      Site Lightning Report: AGLT2 10m
      Speaker: Dr Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
      Slides
    • 11:10 → 11:20
      Site Lightning Report: MWT2 10m
      Speaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
      Slides
    • 11:20 → 11:30
      Site Lightning Report: NET2 10m
    • 11:30 → 11:40
      Site Lightning Report: SWT2 10m
      Speaker: Patrick Mcguigan (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
      Slides
    • 11:40 → 11:50
      Site Lightning Report: WT2 10m
      Speaker: Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      Slides
    • 11:50 → 12:10
      Adjourn 20m
    • 12:10 → 13:40
      Lunch - on your own 1h 30m