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

HEPiX Spring 2008

from Monday, 5 May 2008 (09:00) to Friday, 9 May 2008 (13:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

5 May 2008

6 May 2008

7 May 2008

8 May 2008

9 May 2008

09:00	Status report on LHC and the Experiments - Jos Engelen (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
09:45	Organisational matters - Helge Meinhard (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:00	Site reports (until 12:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:00	GridKa Site Report - Andreas Heiss (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:20	LAL and GRIF Site Report - Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:40	--- Coffee break ---
11:10	TRIUMF Site Report - Steven McDonald (TRIUMF) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:30	NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:50	Status Report Finnish CMS-T2 HIP/CSC - Christof Hanke (CSC ltd.) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides slides slides slides
12:10	RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC/RAL) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

09:00	LCG Update - Ian Bird (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
09:30	Site reports (until 11:40) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:30	GSI Site Report - Walter Schön (GSI) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
09:50	NIKHEF site report - Paul Kuipers (NIKHEF) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:10	PSI Site Report - Heiner Billich (Paul Scherrer Institut) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	BNL Site Report - Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:20	SLAC site report - Chuck Boeheim (SLAC) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:40	HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank" (until 12:40) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:40	Inspire - Tibor Simko (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
12:10	Data management and offline computing for LCLS - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

09:00	A review of the current technical activities in the CERN openlab - Sverre Jarp (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
09:45	Storage technology (until 12:45) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:45	Final Report from File Systems Working Group - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:15	Options for medium-/long-term improvements to LHC mass storage and data management - Dirk Duellmann (CERN-IT) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:45	--- Coffee break ---
11:15	Storage elements at BNL - Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:45	CASTOR Status and Plans - Sebastien Ponce (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
12:15	Towards the new data management solution at CNAF - Vladimir Sapunenko (CNAF) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

09:00	The (WLCG) Common Computing Readiness Challenge (CCRC'08) - Jamie Shiers (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Paper Slides
09:45	HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank" (until 13:15) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:45	EGEE status and plans - Bob Jones (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:15	Implementation of the National Analysis Facility at DESY - Stephan Wiesand (DESY) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:45	--- Coffee break ---
11:15	High Availability and Backup Strategies for the lustre MDS Server - Karin Miers (GSI) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:45	A redundant Servercluster using SL5.1 and Xen - Klaus Steinberger (LMU München) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
12:15	Indico at DESY - Alexander Krieg (DESY) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

09:00	LHC Networking to the Tier-1's, Present and Future - David Foster (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
09:45	Networking infrastructure and computer security (until 12:45) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
09:45	IPv6 experience in a mixed unix environment - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF / HPC2N / ACC) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:15	Advanced Monitoring Techniques for the Atlas TDAQ Data Network - Matei Ciobotaru (CERN, UC Irvine, Politehnica Bucharest) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
10:45	--- Coffee break ---
11:15	Operational security in a grid environment - Romain Wartel (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
11:45	Cybersecurity Update - Lionel Cons (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
12:15	Web applications security - Romain Wartel (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Applications and operating systems (until 17:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00	Virtualisation with Windows at CERN - Juraj Sucik (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
14:15	Experience with Windows Vista at CERN - Rafal Otto (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
14:45	Lifecycle management of Windows desktop applications - Sebastien Dellabella (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides Windows_Application_Lifecycle_(PPT).pdf Windows_Application_Lifecycle_(PPT).ppt Windows_Application_Lifecycle_(PPTX).pdf Windows_Application_Lifecycle_(PPTX).pptx
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Scientific Linux Status Report - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Paper Slides
16:30	SL Plenary Discussion - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Paper Slides
15:15	Site reports (until 15:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:15	CNAF site report - Vladimir Sapunenko (INFN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
17:00	CPU technology (until 17:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:00	CPU-level performance monitoring with Perfmon - Andreas Hirstius (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

12:40	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Data centre management, availability and reliability (until 18:10) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00	Updates and Experiences from the Genome Center's Data Center Construction Project - Gary Stiehr (The Genome Center at Washington University) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
14:30	Remote Administration via Service Modules - Stefan Haller (GSI) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:00	Amsterdam Tier1 Data Centre Infrastructure - Wim Heubers (NIKHEF) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	AFS Monitoring: The CERN AFS Console - Arne Wiebalck (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:30	New Data Center at BNL -- Status Update - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:50	A Service-Based SLA Model - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
17:10	CluMan - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
17:40	Problem tracking at CERN - Eric Grancher (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

12:45	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Storage technology (until 17:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00	Handling large datasets at Google: Current systems and future directions - Sascha Brawer (Google) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
14:30	FZK storage news - Silke Halstenberg (FZK) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:00	The unbearable slowness of tapes - Charles Curran (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem - Stephan Wiesand (DESY) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:30	Experience and Lessons learnt from running high availability databases on Network Attached Storage - Nilo Segura Chinchilla (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Paper Slides
17:00	Lustre cluster in production at GSI - Walter Schön (GSI) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides

12:45	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank" (until 14:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00	The problem of managing 236 million user accounts - Geerd Dietger hoffmann (CERN) Emmanuel Ormancey (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
14:30	CPU technology (until 17:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30	Status report from the Benchmarking working group - Helge Meinhard (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides benchmarking.pdf benchmarking.ppt benchmarking.ppt
15:00	The CERN benchmarking cluster - Alex Iribarren (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee break ---
16:00	Benchmarking ATLAS applications - Franco Brasolin (INFN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:15	Benchmarking CMS applications - Gabriele Benelli (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:30	Benchmarking ALICE applications - Peter Hristov (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
16:45	Benchmarking LHCb applications - Hubert Degaudenzi (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
17:00	Benchmarking Multi-core Processors in the NERSC Production Environment. - Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides