Mauro Morandin
(INFN)
15/04/2013, 09:00
Andrea Chierici
(INFN-CNAF)
15/04/2013, 09:20
Dr
Luca Dell'Agnello
(INFN)
15/04/2013, 09:30
We will give a status update on the Italian Tier1 center, hosted at CNAF.
Manfred Alef
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
15/04/2013, 09:45
Brief discussion of current status at GridKa, e.g. the completed LRMS migration.
Mr
Martin Bly
(STFC/RAL)
15/04/2013, 10:00
Update on status and plans for the RAL Tier1 and other activities at RAL.
Sebastien Gadrat
(CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
15/04/2013, 10:15
News and status of the CC-IN2P3 since the last Site Report.
Erik Mattias Wadenstein
(University of Umeå (SE))
15/04/2013, 11:00
Update on services, storage, computing, organisation, and other things at NDGF.
Christopher Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15/04/2013, 11:45
Presentation of recent developments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL) RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF).
Mr
Qi Fazhi
(IHEP)
15/04/2013, 12:00
The presentation describes the current status and latest news at IHEP(BEIJING-LCG2 Site),e.g.:the hardware status,storage systems,IPv6 testbed status and SDN (software defined network) plan and current status.
Michel Jouvin
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
15/04/2013, 14:25
Fundamental research labs in southern part of Paris, known as P2IO, have decided to build a common computing facility shared between labs and designed to be energy efficient. This involves the creation of a new datacenter as the first step. This project started one year ago has entered its construction phase and is expected to be available next Fall. This presentation will detail the...
Wayne Salter
(CERN)
15/04/2013, 15:15
This talk will address the topic of energy saving aspects of data centre operations and raise the question of whether HEPIX wishes to have a common effort on this topic, e.g. to set up a working group or to have a track at a future workshop on this topic.
Alvaro Gonzalez Alvarez
(CERN)
15/04/2013, 16:00
The current efforts on the version control and issue tracking services at CERN will be presented. Special attention to the new central git service, the integration between issue tracking and version control and future service deployments.
Dr
Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos
(CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
15/04/2013, 16:25
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Mr
Robert Frank
(The University of Manchester)
16/04/2013, 09:15
The year 2012 brought many changes and improvements to the Manchester Tier2.
Hardware upgrades to new and more energy efficient machines reduced the number of machines while keeping the available resources consistent. The whole network was upgraded to 10G, from 4x1G bonded connections for the storage elements and from 1G for all other machines. The external connection was already on 10G.
The...
Christopher John Walker
(University of London (GB))
16/04/2013, 09:30
Status and updates from QMUL, a WLCG Tier-2 site.
Shawn Mc Kee
(University of Michigan (US))
16/04/2013, 10:00
We will present an update on our site since the last report and cover our work with dCache, perfSONAR-PS, VMWare and changes underway to our node provisioning system. In addition we will discuss our new denser storage system from Dell, recent networking changes (including plans for 100G) and describe how we are integrating these into our site. We will conclude with a summary of what has...
Gianni Mario Ricciardi
(KiSTi Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))
16/04/2013, 10:15
Brief description of the status of GSDC computing and storage resources at KISTI.
Dr
Walter Schoen
(GSI)
16/04/2013, 11:00
News from GSI; new people, status Green Cube, new file server for lustre, status GSI TeraLink
Mrs
Murielle Gougerot
(LAPP / IN2P3 / CNRS (FR))
16/04/2013, 11:40
Lapp is one of the French IN2P3 labs located in Annecy-le-Vieux. In this presentation, we will explain how we moved our tape backup system from a local infrastructure to a centralized one.
We were using Networker (Legato) software for more than ten years with a small LTO2 library and we switched to a mutualized infrastructure powered by CC IN2P3 using Tivoli (IBM) software.
This talk will...
Mr
Joel Surget
(CEA/Saclay DSM/IRFU)
16/04/2013, 14:00
The IRFU use the Microsoft product SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) to manage all his Windows computers (1500 computers). SCCM manage the network installation, inventory, product installation and update, security patchs … since the 2003 version.
The 2 last releases of this product (SCCM 2012 in april 2012 and SCCM 2012 SP1 in January 2013) give us new possibilities. In particular...
Mr
Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch
(DESY)
16/04/2013, 14:25
DESY has been using Exchange for a long time and is actually still using version 2003 of Microsoft's groupware product. Currently we are investigating the use of Zimbra Collaboration Suite to abandon Exchange. The presentation will point to some interesting features and also arguments, why DESY has not planned to upgrade Exchange and also aspects of the sourrounding mail environment will be...
Michele Michelotto
(Universita e INFN (IT))
16/04/2013, 14:50
We measured HS06 on recent AMD and Intel processors. The results will be commented. As a side activity with colleagues of E-Fiscal project we compared the performances on Amazon EC2 cloud with corresponding configuration on virtual machines based on KVM
Wolfgang Friebel
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
16/04/2013, 16:10
Gridengine does not come with a graphical monitoring tool to watch the
activity on the batch farm. Commercial add ons like Arco and Unisight do provide limited monitoring based on the contents of a log file which however does contain only a minimum of information on running jobs. Therefore at DESY a batch monitoring software was developed to fill the gap. The system is in place at DESY for...
Dr
Stefano Dal Pra
(INFN)
16/04/2013, 17:00
Default behaviour of batch systems is to dispatch jobs to the lesser
loaded host, Thus spreading jobs almost uniformly across all the nodes in the
farm. On some circumstances it is however desirable to have some kind
of jobs running in the smallest possible set of nodes. Usecases and
packing variants are discussed, and test results are presented.
Dr
Arne Wiebalck
(CERN), Mr
Peter van der Reest
(DESY)
16/04/2013, 17:30
Shawn Mc Kee
(University of Michigan (US))
17/04/2013, 09:00
The LHC experiments have significantly evolved their distributed data management architecture over time. This resulted in the underlying WLCG infrastructure moving from a very rigid network topology, based on the MONARC model, to a more relaxed system, where data movement between regions or countries does not necessarily need to involve T1 centers. While this evolution brought obvious...
Bob Cowles
(BrightLite Information Security)
17/04/2013, 09:50
The eXtreme Scale Identity Management (XSIM) effort is seeking to capture the trust relationships between both large and small scientific collaborations and their resource providers so as to understand the evolution leading to the existing environment.
Based on analysis of interviews with representatives from Virtual Organizations and Resource Providers, XSIM will later be proposing a...
Mr
Romain Wartel
(CERN)
17/04/2013, 10:15
This presentation provides an update of the security landscape since the last meeting.
It describes the main vectors of compromises in the academic community and presents interesting recent attacks. It also covers security risks management in general, as well as the security aspects of the current hot topics in computing, for example identity federation and virtualisation.
Dave Kelsey
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
17/04/2013, 11:10
This talk will be an update on the activities of the IPv6 working group since the meeting in Beijing. CERN has now announced that they could run out of IPv4 addresses during 2014 so this has resulted in increased pressure on our activities. The working group has more active participation from the LHC experiments; we are also seeking out more WLCG Tier 1s and TIer 2s. Data transfer tests...
Francesco Prelz
(Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
17/04/2013, 11:35
A brief summary of the operational and technical issues found
on the IPv6 HEPix testbed over the last year is presented. The status of the issues that were reported to various software providers is also shown.
Mr
Riccardo Veraldi
(INFN)
17/04/2013, 12:00
In order to build a national infrastructure for High Availability and Disaster Recovery, we are deploying a dedicated DNS multimaster architecture. The architecture is based on bind DLZ (Dynamically Loadable Zones).
The new zone (ha.infn.it) is defined on top of a MySQL backend.
Two or more MySQL servers are configured as multi-master servers in order to allow the ha.infn.it zone to be...
Mr
Pedro Manuel Rodrigues De Sousa Andrade
(CERN)
17/04/2013, 14:25
The Agile Infrastructure (AI) project is establishing new tools and procedures to deliver a more flexible and dynamic management of CERN computer centres. From the infrastructure monitoring perspective the project is establishing a common monitoring architecture to simplify and improve the access to information about all computer centre resources. The AI monitoring area is working to deliver...
Mr
Evangelos (Vaggelis) Atlidakis
(CERN)
17/04/2013, 14:50
This presentation describes several Load Balancing paradigms of services within our puppet managed, CERN private, Openstack cloud. Our primary Load Balancer is HAProxy, which is combined with Corosync/Pacemaker cluster engine or DNS Load balancer. Specifically, we create small clusters of Load Balancers behind a service IP to guarantee front end failover. The aforementioned Load Balancers...
Yves Kemp
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
17/04/2013, 16:35
EGI.eu has recently conducted a survey among EGI sites on configuration management tools used for their Grid resources.
We will present the results of this survey.
DIMITRIOS ZILASKOS
(STFC)
17/04/2013, 17:00
Aquilon is a Quattor configuration database and management broker developed by by an investment to meet the needs of their large worldwide grid. Providing much better relational integrity to the Quattor configuraton database and a workflow that is both more agile and more disciplined, Aquilon can transform the use of Quattor to manage sites.
This talk will discuss the latest updates on the...
Wojciech Andrzej Ozga
(AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))
18/04/2013, 09:00
The CMS online cluster consists of more than 3000 computers. During the normal work it is used for the Data Acquisition of the CMS experiment at CERN. The sofisticated design and the dedicated software runned on the farm allows to collect up to 20TBytes of data per day.
Considering the huge amount of computing resources under control of the HLT farm, an Openstack cloud layer has been deployed...
Ian Collier
(UK Tier1 Centre)
18/04/2013, 09:25
The RAL Tier 1 has been making increasing use of virtualisation to provide a platform for development and increasingly production services. More recently we have a stablished a private cloud platform using StratusLab which is now being used extensively across the Tier 1 and the STFC Scientific Computing Department. This talk will discuss the current status and roadmap for the immediate future.
Dr
Keith Chadwick
(Fermilab)
18/04/2013, 09:50
Beginning in 2007, Fermilab has made extensive use of virtualization to deliver services in support of science. Many production services are deployed using virtualization and have realized significant cost savings while delivering improvements in performance and availability.
In 2010, Fermilab initiated the FermiCloud project to deliver a dynamic and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service...
Ian Peter Collier
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
18/04/2013, 11:10
This presentation provides an update on the status of the EGI Federated Cloud Task 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...
Christopher Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
18/04/2013, 11:35
This presentation discusses business continuity experiences at
BNL over the past few years, including cyber-security incidents, operational accidents and natural disasters. Based on these experiences, BNL has continuously adjusted its protocols and
responses in an effort to minimize degradation to the user
experience at our data center.
Maite Barroso Lopez
(CERN)
18/04/2013, 12:00
This talk will present the experience at CERN T0 on continuous service improvement. During the last years, we have made an explicit effort to understand and improve all service management aspects in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness. We will present the requirements, how they were addressed and share our experiences, the positive ones and the mistakes, describing how we measure,...
Dr
Vladimir Sapunenko
(INFN-CNAF)
18/04/2013, 15:00
efficiency of storage solution in a Multi-petabyte data center consist of multiple factors but the most important is the choice of a Storage model. From analysis of our Storage model which is in production for several years it comes evident that building storage system from PB-sized blocks permits to obtain higher performance at the cost of lower flexibility. It's also important to find right...
Toine Beckers
(DataDirect Networks)
19/04/2013, 09:00
DDN's web object scaler (WOS) offers an alternative approach to managing large scale distributed data. WOS is designed without the overheads associated with traditional filesystems that normally underpin higher-level distributed middleware system. File system checks, fragmentation, RAID sets and inode structures have been removed in WOS and a simple, efficient placement of objects directly to...
Dr
Arne Wiebalck
(CERN), Mr
Peter van der Reest
(DESY)
19/04/2013, 09:50
Summary of the BoF session on IPv6 and OpenAFS
Dr
Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos
(CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
19/04/2013, 10:05
In the framework of the “business continuity track” at Hepix 2013 spring workshop, we had the opportunity to discuss with the representatives of the Tecnoteca company which supports the cmdbuild software. We had a free discussion for this first face-to-face meeting rather than a organized session. The context of the discussion kept in the technical level. We are going present an indicative...
Christopher Huhn
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung)
19/04/2013, 11:05
GSI has combined several well-established - maybe old-fashioned - technologies into a framework that's capable of fulfilling diverse requirements and is able to keep up with the evoltionary changes in GSI's heterogeneous IT environment with relatively small effort.
