ATLAS Distributed Computing Technical Interchange Meeting

Asia/Tokyo
The University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo

Sanjo-Kaikan Hall, Hongo Campus 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo https://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-e.html
Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Hiroshi Sakamoto (University of Tokyo (JP)), I Ueda (University of Tokyo (JP))
Participants
  • Alessandro De Salvo
  • Alessandro Di Girolamo
  • Alexandre Vaniachine
  • Alexei Klimentov
  • Andrej Filipcic
  • Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky
  • Armin Nairz
  • Artur Barczyk
  • Cedric Serfon
  • David Malon
  • Doug Benjamin
  • Eric Christian Lancon
  • Gancho Dimitrov
  • Giampaolo Carlino
  • Hironori Ito
  • Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Horst Severini
  • I Ueda
  • Ian Bird
  • Ilija Vukotic
  • Jhen-Wei Huang
  • Jing-Ya You
  • Kaushik De
  • Lucien Boland
  • Maxim Potekhin
  • Michael Ernst
  • Paul James Laycock
  • Paul Nilsson
  • Richard Mount
  • Sean Crosby
  • Shawn Mc Kee
  • Simone Campana
  • Stephane Jezequel
  • Tadashi Maeno
  • Thomas LeCompte
  • Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Torre Wenaus
  • Wahid Bhimji
  • Wei Yang
  • Wolfgang Ehrenfeld
    • 13:00 17:10
      Dedicated meeting with Japanese NREN http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/ (NII)

      http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/

      NII

      13:00 gather at ICEPP (Faculty of Science Bldg.1 10F) at 13:00 and move to NII.

      Convener: Hiroshi Sakamoto (University of Tokyo (JP))
      • 14:00
        ATLAS Data Flow 1h
        Speakers: Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Simone Campana (CERN), Stephane Jezequel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
        • model 20m
          Slides
        • throughputs, statistics 20m
          Slides
        • Tokyo and French sites in ATLAS data flow 20m
          Slides
      • 15:00
        Update on networking in the US 20m
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Break 15m
      • 15:35
        LHCONE status 20m
        Speaker: Artur Jerzy Barczyk (California Institute of Technology (US))
        Slides
      • 15:55
        SINET connections to Europe and US 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Michihiro Aoki (NII (JP))
        Slides
      • 16:15
        LHCONE for Tokyo 20m
        Speaker: Tomoaki Nakamura (University of Tokyo (JP))
        Slides
    • 13:00 18:00
      ProdSys2 planning meeting
      Conveners: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)), Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
    • 09:00 09:30
      Registration
    • 09:30 10:00
      Introduction
      • 09:30
        Introduction 10m
        Speaker: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      • 09:40
        Welcome 10m
        Speaker: Hiroshi Sakamoto (University of Tokyo (JP))
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Tokyo Tier2 10m
        Speaker: Tomoaki Nakamura (University of Tokyo (JP))
        Slides
    • 10:00 12:00
      Networks in Production and Analysis Workflows
      Conveners: Michael Ernst (BNL), Simone Campana (CERN), Stephane Jezequel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
      • 10:00
        ATLAS Use Cases requiring Network Services 15m
        Speaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Data Transfer Scheduling with FTS 3 30m
        - Introduction, status and deployment models - How will Rucio use and interact with FTS 3? - What is the right level for "network-awareness" - the transfer scheduler (FTS) or the DDM layer?
        Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), Cedric Serfon (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:45
        Transparency in Networks - End-to-End Performance Data Collection/Aggregation and Problem Diagnositics with perfSONAR 25m
        Where are we regarding deployment, functionality, benefit and what is missing?
        Speaker: Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Setting up Federated Data Stores - What is the recommended configuration? 50m
        Speakers: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)), Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh (GB)), Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h B-001, 002 (Sanjo-Kaikan)

      B-001, 002

      Sanjo-Kaikan

    • 13:00 16:30
      Networks in Production and Analysis Workflows
      Conveners: Michael Ernst (Unknown), Simone Campana (CERN), Stephane Jezequel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
      • 13:00
        Communication needs in agile computing environments 20m
        We can dynamically acquire 1000's of processors from commercial clouds, but can we also get adequate network connectivity, just in time we need it?
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 13:20
        Site Configuration and Transfer Performance in the Wide Area Network environment 25m
        Are our transfer engines delivering optimal per-stream performance, what is limiting the performance?
        Speaker: Hironori Ito (BNL)
        Slides
      • 13:45
        Wide Area Network Data Access Requirements in Analysis 45m
        - Data movement in end-to-end analysis work flows - Implications of the new analysis model proposed by the Analysis Model Study Group - How much data do we replicate through PD2P (for long-term usage) vs. planned replication? What would be the right mix in the future given limited disk space?
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Summary of LHCONE Point-to-Point Workshop and Discusson on SDN 20m
        Speaker: Artur Jerzy Barczyk (California Institute of Technology (US))
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Overview of the SINET 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Motonori Nakamura (NII)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        coffee/tea 20m
      • 15:30
        Specifying the ATLAS Network Needs - an open discussion guided by some fundamental questions 1h
        - How much networking do we need? Can we deduce the future needs by looking at what we have used in the past? - Is it sufficient to be agnostic/reactive and use what's been offered to ATLAS, or would there be an advantage of being proactive? - Potential of Network-aware Applications in ATLAS - what would be the benefits and what are suitable areas?
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (Unknown)
        Slides
    • 18:00 20:00
      Reception Party Sanjo Kaikan, Basement floor

      Sanjo Kaikan, Basement floor

    • 09:00 12:10
      Producton System. plenary session
      Conveners: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
      • 09:00
        Monte-Carlo production wish list, constraints of current system, MC prod manager tools 20m
        Speaker: Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Group production wish list, missing tools, monitoring 20m
        Speakers: Ms Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington), Paul James Laycock (University of Liverpool (GB))
        GP_wish_list
        more info
        webtools_RH
      • 09:40
        ATLAS meta-data : present and future. ADC software components and meta-data 20m
        Speaker: Dr David Malon (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        DEFT. Status. Near term and 2014 plans 20m
        Speaker: Maxim Potekhin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 10:20
        JEDI. Alpha version. Status and plans 30m
        Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 10:50
        coffee break 20m
      • 11:10
        Database aspects of ATLAS distributed computing 20m
        Speaker: Gancho Dimitrov (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Event service and other new features. 20m
        Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 11:50
        List of topics for afternoon session 20m
    • 12:10 13:00
      Lunch 50m B-001, 002 (Sanjo-Kaikan)

      B-001, 002

      Sanjo-Kaikan

    • 13:00 16:00
      Producton System. plenary session
      • 13:00
        Production System 2 : Technical Design Report 40m
        Speakers: Maxim Potekhin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Sasha Vanyashin (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        NO&RH comments
        Slides
      • 13:40
        Group Production and AMSG comments to TDR 20m
        Speaker: Paul James Laycock (University of Liverpool (GB))
      • 14:00
        Round table discussion 2h
        Event Index consideration for Tokyo TIM (D.Barberi
      • 15:00
        coffee/tea 20m
    • 17:00 17:30
      gathering for transport to dinner venue

      the bus departs 17:30 sharp

    • 18:00 20:00
      Workshop Dinner Funasei, Shinagawa

      Funasei, Shinagawa

    • 10:00 12:20
      Leadership and High-Performance Computing
      Convener: Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)
      • 10:00
        Summary of HPC Prospects across ATLAS 20m
        Speaker: Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Experience with the BlueGene at ANL 20m
        Speaker: Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Experience with HPC systems in Europe 20m
        Speaker: Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Plans for exploitation of the ORNL Titan machine 20m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Philip Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Integrating HPC into the ATLAS Distributed Computing environment 20m
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Discussion 20m
        Paper
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h 2F-203, B-002 (Sanjo-Kaikan)

      2F-203, B-002

      Sanjo-Kaikan

    • 13:00 15:00
      round table discussion and summary
      Conveners: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Hiroshi Sakamoto (University of Tokyo (JP)), I Ueda (University of Tokyo (JP))