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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Michael Ernst
Planning and Discussion
- Michael Ernst
11:30 - 13:10
Room: Redwood Conference Room C, D

Choose timezone