pre-GDB on Volunteer Computing

Tuesday Nov 11, 2014, 10:30 AM → 4:30 PM Europe/Zurich

31/S-028 (CERN)

Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR)), Nils Hoimyr (CERN)

Monthly meeting of the WLCG Grid Deployment Board See also Twiki GDB area for actions and summaries

Minutes https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20141111

10:30 AM → 10:40 AM Introduction

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM BOINC

BOINC is the principal middleware used in Volunteer Computing projects. Introduction to BOINC in general and the BOINC service at CERN.

Speaker: Nils Hoimyr (CERN)

Slides BOINC-preGDB.pdf

11:10 AM → 11:40 AM Xtremweb

Xtremweb platform for Desktop Grids

Speaker: Dr oelg lodygensky (LAL - IN2P3 - CNRS)

Slides CERN-GDB.pdf

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM LHC@home

Accelerator beam simulations with Sixtrack under LHC@home - user point of view Theory MC simulations on CernVM "Test4Theory" experience.

Speakers: Ben Segal (Unknown), Dr Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

Slides

• BOINC_VM_preGDB.pdf
• BOINC_VM_preGDB.ppt
• SixTrack_LHC@home.pdf
• SixTrack_LHC@home.pptx

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 2:40 PM ATLAS

Volunteer computing in ATLAS, status of ATLAS@home

Speakers: Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)), David Cameron (University of Oslo (NO)), Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides atlasathome_pre-gdb_11.11.14.pdf atlasathome_pre-gdb_11.11.14.pptx

2:40 PM → 3:10 PM CMS

CMS prototype with BOINC and CernVM

Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)

Slides CMS@home.pdf CMS@home.pptx

3:10 PM → 3:40 PM LHCb

Status of volunteer computing in LHCb and "Beauty" pilot project with BOINC and CernVm

Speaker: Federico Stagni (CERN)

Slides LHCbBOINC.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Discussion

Discussion and proposed strategy for volunteer computing in LCG

LHC@home portal http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/

Slides preGDB-discussion.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Conclusions