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US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at SLAC

Europe/Zurich
Redwood Conference Room C, D (SLAC)

Redwood Conference Room C, D

SLAC

Research Office Building (Building 48)
Michael Ernst (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
MEETING WEBSITE (SLAC)
US ATLAS Integration Program - minutes
    • 1
      LHC and ATLAS status
      Speaker: Jim Shank
      Slides
    • 2
      Facilities Status and Plans
      Speaker: Michael Ernst
      Slides
    • 3
      Facilities Integration Program
      Speaker: Rob Gardner
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee
    • 4
      Production and Analysis
      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
    • 5
      Shift operations, troubleshooting, discussion
      A discussion moderated by Mark Sosebee, including an introduction to the ELOG shift logging system
      Slides
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • 6
      Fabric Services: Storage management - Xrootd
      Speaker: Dr Ofer Rind (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
      Slides
    • 7
      Proof and Xrootd for Tier3 centers
      Speaker: Bruce Mellado
      Slides
    • 8
      xrootd
      Next generation xrootd/olbd and its performance Posix filesystem interface for xrootd using FUSE
      Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee
    • 9
      Fabric Services: Analysis Queues
      (Condor, PBS) functionality and configuration examples for setting up analysis queues
      Speakers: Mark Sosebee (UTA), Robert Ball (High Energy Physics)
      Slides
    • 10
      Fabric Hardware
      - 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
    • 11
      Fabric Services: Nagios monitoring
      Speaker: Dr Tomasz Wlodek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      Slides
    • 12
      Network optimization and load tests
      Speaker: Dr Dantong Yu (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
      Slides
    • 10:20
      Coffee
    • 13
      Fabric Services: Storage management - dCache
      Speaker: Ted Hesselroth (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
      Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 14
      Optimizing data transfers
      Report from WG Findings / Analysis Mechanisms to improve the performance
      Speaker: Dr Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
      Slides
    • 15
      OSG Grid Middleware
      - 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
    • 16
      US ATLAS Services: panda-based release installations
      Progress on installation of releases using Panda Demonstration at WT2
      Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (BNL)
      Slides
    • 17
      US ATLAS Services: Running entire physics analysis chain w/ Panda, proof & xrootd
      A full demonstration based on a “real” analysis scenario
      Speaker: Tadashi Maeno (BNL)
      Slides
    • 16:15
      Coffee
    • 18
      US ATLAS Services: distributed data management tools
      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
    • 19
      US ATLAS Services: data management at the site
      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