Name: US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at SLAC
Start: 2007-11-28T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2007-11-30T18:00:00+01:00
Location: SLAC

Wednesday 28 November
- 09:00 → 09:30
  
  LHC and ATLAS status 30m
  
  Speaker: Jim Shank
  
  Slides
- 09:30 → 10:00
  
  Facilities Status and Plans 30m
  
  Speaker: Michael Ernst
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Facilities Integration Program 30m
  
  Speaker: Rob Gardner
  
  Slides
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee 30m
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  Production and Analysis 1h
  
  Process and functional requirements at US ATLAS Tier2 and Tier3 centers including PandaMover, Pathena, Autopilot, and DQ2 30 minutes presentation - 30 minutes discussion
  
  Speaker: Kaushik De
  
  Slides
- 12:00 → 12:45
  
  Shift operations, troubleshooting, discussion 45m
  
  A discussion moderated by Mark Sosebee, including an introduction to the ELOG shift logging system
  
  Slides
- 12:45 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 45m
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Fabric Services: Storage management - Xrootd 30m
  
  Speaker: Dr Ofer Rind (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
  
  Slides
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Proof and Xrootd for Tier3 centers 30m
  
  Speaker: Bruce Mellado
  
  Slides
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  xrootd 30m
  
  Next generation xrootd/olbd and its performance Posix filesystem interface for xrootd using FUSE
  
  Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
  
  Slides
- 16:00 → 16:20
  
  Coffee 20m
- 16:20 → 16:50
  
  Fabric Services: Analysis Queues 30m
  
  (Condor, PBS) functionality and configuration examples for setting up analysis queues
  
  Speakers: Mark Sosebee (UTA), Robert Ball (High Energy Physics)
  
  Slides
Thursday 29 November
- 08:30 → 09:30
  
  Fabric Hardware 1h
  
  - Compute Servers - OS choices (32/64 bit, etc) - Installation management - Disk Subsystems Configuration, resilience, performance, etc… suitable in the context of Tier-2 & Tier-3 centers, Sizing of Tier-3’s relative to physics analysis tasks and expected funding profile.
  
  Speakers: Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 09:30 → 09:50
  
  Fabric Services: Nagios monitoring 20m
  
  Speaker: Dr Tomasz Wlodek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 09:50 → 10:20
  
  Network optimization and load tests 30m
  
  Speaker: Dr Dantong Yu (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
  
  Slides
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  Coffee 30m
- 10:50 → 12:20
  
  Fabric Services: Storage management - dCache 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Ted Hesselroth (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:15 → 14:45
  
  Optimizing data transfers 30m
  
  Report from WG Findings / Analysis Mechanisms to improve the performance
  
  Speaker: Dr Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
  
  Slides
- 14:45 → 15:15
  
  OSG Grid Middleware 30m
  
  - Setting up a CE – Hands-on w/ installation & configuration - Installation and usage of client tools - The OSG Information System – how it works and what’s in there
  
  Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
  
  Slides
- 15:15 → 15:45
  
  US ATLAS Services: panda-based release installations 30m
  
  Progress on installation of releases using Panda Demonstration at WT2
  
  Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (BNL)
  
  Slides
- 15:45 → 16:15
  
  US ATLAS Services: Running entire physics analysis chain w/ Panda, proof & xrootd 30m
  
  A full demonstration based on a “real” analysis scenario
  
  Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (BNL)
  
  Slides
- 16:15 → 16:45
  
  Coffee 30m
- 16:45 → 17:15
  
  US ATLAS Services: distributed data management tools 30m
  
  Installation of DQ2 site services Installation, use of DQ2 user tools Mangement of data transfers to Tier2's Monitoring: DDM, FTS, etc
  
  Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 17:15 → 17:45
  
  US ATLAS Services: data management at the site 30m
  
  Local data integrity: filesystem, LRC and files on disk, review of community tools Space management at the site, policies Managing replication requests (discussion) - data distribution required for analysis jobs (AODs/ESDs) - out-of-band requests for specific datasets (eg. specific RDOs) - user-produced data hosting and publication
  
  Speaker: Mr Patrick McGuigan (UTA)
  
  Slides
Friday 30 November
- 09:00 → 09:20
  
  Site reports: AGLT2 20m
  
  Slides
- 09:20 → 09:40
  Site reports: MWT2 20m
  Slides
  
  MWT2-11-30-2007.pdf
  
  MWT2-11-30-2007.ppt
  
  MWT2-11-30-2007.ppt.pdf
- 09:40 → 10:00
  
  Site reports: NET2 20m
  
  Slides
- 10:00 → 10:20
  Site reports: SWT2 20m
  Slides
  
  OCHEP-SWT2-status-1107.pdf
  
  SWT2(UTA).pdf
  
  SWT2(UTA).ppt
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  Coffee 30m
- 10:50 → 11:10
  
  Site reports: WT2 20m
  
  Speaker: Wei Yang (SLAC)
  
  Poster
- 11:10 → 11:30
  
  Site reports: Tier1 20m
- 11:30 → 13:10
  
  Planning and Discussion 1h 40m
  
  Speaker: Michael Ernst
  
  Slides

US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at SLAC

Redwood Conference Room C, D

SLAC