Name: Workshop on virtualization and multi-core technologies for LHC
Start: 2008-04-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-04-16T18:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Workshop on virtualization and multi-core technologies for LHC

from Monday, April 14, 2008 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 16, 2008 (6:30 PM)

Monday, April 14, 2008
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and Introduction - Pere Mato (CERN)

2:30 PM Moving from Single-Core to Multi/Many-Core Computing: Opportunities and Challenges - H Cornelius (Intel)

3:00 PM The issues facing CERN and HEP in the many-core computing era - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

4:00 PM Virtualization using VMware technology - Richard Garsthagen (VMware)

4:45 PM From Application to Appliance - Building Software Appliances with rPath's rBuilder - Tim Gerla (rPath)

5:30 PM Peer-to-Peer Technology in Grid Computing - The Igor File System and Beyond - Thomas Fuhrmann (TU Munich)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to the R&D project - vincenzo innocente (CERN)

9:30 AM ATLAS experiences running athena and TDAQ software - Werner Wiedenmann (High Energy Physics)

10:00 AM Experience in parallel programming using Python in LHCb - Pere Mato (CERN)

11:00 AM CMS experience and plans - Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

11:30 AM First Results in a Thread-Parallel Geant4 - Gene Cooperman Xin Dong (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)

12:00 PM Proof: experience and plan - Fons Rademakers (CERN) Gerardo GANIS (CERN)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction to CernVM project - Predrag Buncic (CERN)

3:00 PM ALICE experience and plans - Stefan Boettger (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)

3:30 PM Comparison of Virtual Machine Performance running ATLAS software - Yushu Yao (LBL)

4:30 PM ATLAS experience and plans - Amir Farbin (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

5:00 PM HEP Applications in Virtual Machines - Jakob Blomer

5:30 PM Virtualisation in gLite certification - Andreas Unterkircher

6:00 PM CernVM Support Infrastructure - Carlos Aguado Sanchez (CERN)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

9:00 AM Performance measurements on multi-core - Katarzyna Maria Dziedziniewicz (Warsaw University of Technology) Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:00 AM rBuilder Demo - rPath
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
Contributions

2:00 PM Multi-core: summary and discussion - vincenzo innocente (CERN)

3:00 PM Virtualization: Summary and Discussion - Predrag Buncic (CERN)