Name: HEPiX Spring 2008
Start: 2008-05-05T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-05-09T13:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday 5 May 2008
09:00 Status report on LHC and the Experiments - Jos Engelen (CERN)
Status report on LHC and the Experiments (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Jos Engelen (CERN)
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
09:45 Organisational matters - Helge Meinhard (CERN)
Organisational matters
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:00 GridKa Site Report - Andreas Heiss (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE)

10:20 LAL and GRIF Site Report - Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)

11:10 TRIUMF Site Report - Steven McDonald (TRIUMF)

11:30 NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)

11:50 Status Report Finnish CMS-T2 HIP/CSC - Christof Hanke (CSC ltd.)

12:10 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC/RAL)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: CERN restaurants
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Virtualisation with Windows at CERN - Juraj Sucik (CERN)

14:15 Experience with Windows Vista at CERN - Rafal Otto (CERN)

14:45 Lifecycle management of Windows desktop applications - Sebastien Dellabella (CERN)

16:00 Scientific Linux Status Report - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)

16:30 SL Plenary Discussion - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)
15:15
15:15 - 15:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

15:15 CNAF site report - Vladimir Sapunenko (INFN)
17:00
17:00 - 17:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

17:00 CPU-level performance monitoring with Perfmon - Andreas Hirstius (CERN)
Tuesday 6 May 2008
09:00 LCG Update - Ian Bird (CERN)
LCG Update (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Ian Bird (CERN)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
09:30
09:30 - 11:40
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

09:30 GSI Site Report - Walter Schön (GSI)

09:50 NIKHEF site report - Paul Kuipers (NIKHEF)

10:10 PSI Site Report - Heiner Billich (Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:00 BNL Site Report - Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:20 SLAC site report - Chuck Boeheim (SLAC)
11:40
11:40 - 12:40
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:40 Inspire - Tibor Simko (CERN)

12:10 Data management and offline computing for LCLS - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 14:00
Room: CERN restaurants
14:00
14:00 - 18:10
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Updates and Experiences from the Genome Center's Data Center Construction Project - Gary Stiehr (The Genome Center at Washington University)

14:30 Remote Administration via Service Modules - Stefan Haller (GSI)

15:00 Amsterdam Tier1 Data Centre Infrastructure - Wim Heubers (NIKHEF)

16:00 AFS Monitoring: The CERN AFS Console - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

16:30 New Data Center at BNL -- Status Update - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:50 A Service-Based SLA Model - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:10 CluMan - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

17:40 Problem tracking at CERN - Eric Grancher (CERN)
Wednesday 7 May 2008
09:00 A review of the current technical activities in the CERN openlab - Sverre Jarp (CERN)
A review of the current technical activities in the CERN openlab (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Sverre Jarp (CERN)
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
09:45
09:45 - 12:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

09:45 Final Report from File Systems Working Group - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)

10:15 Options for medium-/long-term improvements to LHC mass storage and data management - Dirk Duellmann (CERN-IT)

11:15 Storage elements at BNL - Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:45 CASTOR Status and Plans - Sebastien Ponce (CERN)

12:15 Towards the new data management solution at CNAF - Vladimir Sapunenko (CNAF)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: CERN restaurants
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Handling large datasets at Google: Current systems and future directions - Sascha Brawer (Google)

14:30 FZK storage news - Silke Halstenberg (FZK)

15:00 The unbearable slowness of tapes - Charles Curran (CERN)

16:00 Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem - Stephan Wiesand (DESY)

16:30 Experience and Lessons learnt from running high availability databases on Network Attached Storage - Nilo Segura Chinchilla (CERN)

17:00 Lustre cluster in production at GSI - Walter Schön (GSI)
Thursday 8 May 2008
09:00 The (WLCG) Common Computing Readiness Challenge (CCRC'08) - Jamie Shiers (CERN)
The (WLCG) Common Computing Readiness Challenge (CCRC'08) (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Jamie Shiers (CERN)
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
09:45
09:45 - 13:15
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

09:45 EGEE status and plans - Bob Jones (CERN)

10:15 Implementation of the National Analysis Facility at DESY - Stephan Wiesand (DESY)

11:15 High Availability and Backup Strategies for the lustre MDS Server - Karin Miers (GSI)

11:45 A redundant Servercluster using SL5.1 and Xen - Klaus Steinberger (LMU München)

12:15 Indico at DESY - Alexander Krieg (DESY)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: CERN restaurants
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 The problem of managing 236 million user accounts - Emmanuel Ormancey (CERN) Geerd Dietger hoffmann (CERN)
14:30
14:30 - 17:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:30 Status report from the Benchmarking working group - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

15:00 The CERN benchmarking cluster - Alex Iribarren (CERN)

16:00 Benchmarking ATLAS applications - Franco Brasolin (INFN)

16:15 Benchmarking CMS applications - Gabriele Benelli (CERN)

16:30 Benchmarking ALICE applications - Peter Hristov (CERN)

16:45 Benchmarking LHCb applications - Hubert Degaudenzi (CERN)

17:00 Benchmarking Multi-core Processors in the NERSC Production Environment. - Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)
Friday 9 May 2008
09:00 LHC Networking to the Tier-1's, Present and Future - David Foster (CERN)
LHC Networking to the Tier-1's, Present and Future (LHC and Data Readiness)
- David Foster (CERN)
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
09:45
09:45 - 12:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

09:45 IPv6 experience in a mixed unix environment - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF / HPC2N / ACC)

10:15 Advanced Monitoring Techniques for the Atlas TDAQ Data Network - Matei Ciobotaru (CERN, UC Irvine, Politehnica Bucharest)

11:15 Operational security in a grid environment - Romain Wartel (CERN)

11:45 Cybersecurity Update - Lionel Cons (CERN)

12:15 Web applications security - Romain Wartel (CERN)