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, May 5, 2008 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 9, 2008 (1:00 PM)

Monday, May 5, 2008
9:00 AM Status report on LHC and the Experiments - Jos Engelen (CERN)
Status report on LHC and the Experiments (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Jos Engelen (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:45 AM Organisational matters - Helge Meinhard (CERN)
Organisational matters
- Helge Meinhard (CERN)
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
10:00 AM Site reports
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC/RAL)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CERN restaurants
2:00 PM Applications and operating systems
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Virtualisation with Windows at CERN - Juraj Sucik (CERN)

2:15 PM Experience with Windows Vista at CERN - Rafal Otto (CERN)

2:45 PM Lifecycle management of Windows desktop applications - Sebastien Dellabella (CERN)

4:00 PM Scientific Linux Status Report - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)

4:30 PM SL Plenary Discussion - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)
3:15 PM Site reports
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

3:15 PM CNAF site report - Vladimir Sapunenko (INFN)
5:00 PM CPU technology
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

5:00 PM CPU-level performance monitoring with Perfmon - Andreas Hirstius (CERN)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
9:00 AM LCG Update - Ian Bird (CERN)
LCG Update (LHC and Data Readiness)
- Ian Bird (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:30 AM Site reports
9:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:30 AM GSI Site Report - Walter Schön (GSI)

9:50 AM NIKHEF site report - Paul Kuipers (NIKHEF)

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

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

11:20 AM SLAC site report - Chuck Boeheim (SLAC)
11:40 AM HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank"
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:40 AM Inspire - Tibor Simko (CERN)

12:10 PM Data management and offline computing for LCLS - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CERN restaurants
2:00 PM Data centre management, availability and reliability
2:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Updates and Experiences from the Genome Center's Data Center Construction Project - Gary Stiehr (The Genome Center at Washington University)

2:30 PM Remote Administration via Service Modules - Stefan Haller (GSI)

3:00 PM Amsterdam Tier1 Data Centre Infrastructure - Wim Heubers (NIKHEF)

4:00 PM AFS Monitoring: The CERN AFS Console - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

4:30 PM New Data Center at BNL -- Status Update - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:50 PM A Service-Based SLA Model - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:10 PM CluMan - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

5:40 PM Problem tracking at CERN - Eric Grancher (CERN)
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
9:00 AM 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)
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:45 AM Storage technology
9:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:45 AM Final Report from File Systems Working Group - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)

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

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

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

12:15 PM Towards the new data management solution at CNAF - Vladimir Sapunenko (CNAF)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CERN restaurants
2:00 PM Storage technology
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Handling large datasets at Google: Current systems and future directions - Sascha Brawer (Google)

2:30 PM FZK storage news - Silke Halstenberg (FZK)

3:00 PM The unbearable slowness of tapes - Charles Curran (CERN)

4:00 PM Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem - Stephan Wiesand (DESY)

4:30 PM Experience and Lessons learnt from running high availability databases on Network Attached Storage - Nilo Segura Chinchilla (CERN)

5:00 PM Lustre cluster in production at GSI - Walter Schön (GSI)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
9:00 AM 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)
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:45 AM HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank"
9:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:45 AM EGEE status and plans - Bob Jones (CERN)

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

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

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

12:15 PM Indico at DESY - Alexander Krieg (DESY)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: CERN restaurants
2:00 PM HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank"
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM The problem of managing 236 million user accounts - Emmanuel Ormancey (CERN) Geerd Dietger hoffmann (CERN)
2:30 PM CPU technology
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:30 PM Status report from the Benchmarking working group - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

3:00 PM The CERN benchmarking cluster - Alex Iribarren (CERN)

4:00 PM Benchmarking ATLAS applications - Franco Brasolin (INFN)

4:15 PM Benchmarking CMS applications - Gabriele Benelli (CERN)

4:30 PM Benchmarking ALICE applications - Peter Hristov (CERN)

4:45 PM Benchmarking LHCb applications - Hubert Degaudenzi (CERN)

5:00 PM Benchmarking Multi-core Processors in the NERSC Production Environment. - Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)
Friday, May 9, 2008
9:00 AM 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)
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:45 AM Networking infrastructure and computer security
9:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:45 AM IPv6 experience in a mixed unix environment - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF / HPC2N / ACC)

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

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

11:45 AM Cybersecurity Update - Lionel Cons (CERN)

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