US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at SLAC
from
Wednesday 28 November 2007 (09:00)
to
Friday 30 November 2007 (18:00)
Monday 26 November 2007
Tuesday 27 November 2007
Wednesday 28 November 2007
09:00
LHC and ATLAS status
-
Jim Shank
LHC and ATLAS status
Jim Shank
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
09:30
Facilities Status and Plans
-
Michael Ernst
Facilities Status and Plans
Michael Ernst
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:00
Facilities Integration Program
-
Rob Gardner
Facilities Integration Program
Rob Gardner
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:30
Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
11:00
Production and Analysis
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Kaushik De
Production and Analysis
Kaushik De
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
Process and functional requirements at US ATLAS Tier2 and Tier3 centers including PandaMover, Pathena, Autopilot, and DQ2 30 minutes presentation - 30 minutes discussion
12:00
Shift operations, troubleshooting, discussion
Shift operations, troubleshooting, discussion
12:00 - 12:45
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
A discussion moderated by Mark Sosebee, including an introduction to the ELOG shift logging system
12:45
Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
14:30
Fabric Services: Storage management - Xrootd
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Ofer Rind
(
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
)
Fabric Services: Storage management - Xrootd
Ofer Rind
(
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
15:00
Proof and Xrootd for Tier3 centers
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Bruce Mellado
Proof and Xrootd for Tier3 centers
Bruce Mellado
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
15:30
xrootd
-
Andrew Hanushevsky
(
STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
)
xrootd
Andrew Hanushevsky
(
STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
Next generation xrootd/olbd and its performance Posix filesystem interface for xrootd using FUSE
16:00
Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
16:20
Fabric Services: Analysis Queues
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Robert Ball
(
High Energy Physics
)
Mark Sosebee
(
UTA
)
Fabric Services: Analysis Queues
Robert Ball
(
High Energy Physics
)
Mark Sosebee
(
UTA
)
16:20 - 16:50
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
(Condor, PBS) functionality and configuration examples for setting up analysis queues
Thursday 29 November 2007
08:30
Fabric Hardware
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Robert Petkus
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Christopher Hollowell
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Fabric Hardware
Robert Petkus
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Christopher Hollowell
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
- 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.
09:30
Fabric Services: Nagios monitoring
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Tomasz Wlodek
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Fabric Services: Nagios monitoring
Tomasz Wlodek
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
09:30 - 09:50
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
09:50
Network optimization and load tests
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Dantong Yu
(
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
)
Network optimization and load tests
Dantong Yu
(
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
)
09:50 - 10:20
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:20
Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:50
Fabric Services: Storage management - dCache
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Ted Hesselroth
(
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
)
Fabric Services: Storage management - dCache
Ted Hesselroth
(
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
)
10:50 - 12:20
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
14:15
Optimizing data transfers
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Shawn McKee
(
University of Michigan ATLAS Group
)
Optimizing data transfers
Shawn McKee
(
University of Michigan ATLAS Group
)
14:15 - 14:45
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
Report from WG Findings / Analysis Mechanisms to improve the performance
14:45
OSG Grid Middleware
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Robert GARDNER
(
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
)
OSG Grid Middleware
Robert GARDNER
(
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
)
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
- 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
15:15
US ATLAS Services: panda-based release installations
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Tadashi Maeno
(
BNL
)
US ATLAS Services: panda-based release installations
Tadashi Maeno
(
BNL
)
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
Progress on installation of releases using Panda Demonstration at WT2
15:45
US ATLAS Services: Running entire physics analysis chain w/ Panda, proof & xrootd
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Tadashi Maeno
(
BNL
)
US ATLAS Services: Running entire physics analysis chain w/ Panda, proof & xrootd
Tadashi Maeno
(
BNL
)
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
A full demonstration based on a “real” analysis scenario
16:15
Coffee
Coffee
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
16:45
US ATLAS Services: distributed data management tools
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Hironori Ito
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
US ATLAS Services: distributed data management tools
Hironori Ito
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
16:45 - 17:15
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
Installation of DQ2 site services Installation, use of DQ2 user tools Mangement of data transfers to Tier2's Monitoring: DDM, FTS, etc
17:15
US ATLAS Services: data management at the site
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Patrick McGuigan
(
UTA
)
US ATLAS Services: data management at the site
Patrick McGuigan
(
UTA
)
17:15 - 17:45
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
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
Friday 30 November 2007
09:00
Site reports: AGLT2
Site reports: AGLT2
09:00 - 09:20
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
09:20
Site reports: MWT2
Site reports: MWT2
09:20 - 09:40
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
09:40
Site reports: NET2
Site reports: NET2
09:40 - 10:00
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:00
Site reports: SWT2
Site reports: SWT2
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:20
Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
10:50
Site reports: WT2
-
Wei Yang
(
SLAC
)
Site reports: WT2
Wei Yang
(
SLAC
)
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
11:10
Site reports: Tier1
Site reports: Tier1
11:10 - 11:30
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D
11:30
Planning and Discussion
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Michael Ernst
Planning and Discussion
Michael Ernst
11:30 - 13:10
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D