GridPP32 - 'Mini Review: A look at where we are and where we're heading'

Mar 25, 2014, 8:00 AM → Mar 26, 2014, 1:30 PM Europe/London

Atholl Suite (Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry)

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Tue, March 25

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1 - Project Status and Future directions

Chaired by Pete Gronbech

9:00 AM Welcome

9:05 AM GridPP Status

Speaker: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

9:30 AM Computing Challenges from Run 2 to HL-LHC

Speaker: Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides GridPP32-ComputingChallenges.pdf

10:05 AM Atlas Computing model Review and Plans

Speaker: Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))

Slides OfflineConstraints.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2 - Experiments

Chaired by Claire Devereux

11:00 AM CMS Computing Review and Plans

Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides UK_CMS_2014_resources.pdf UK_CMS_2014_resources.pptx

11:20 AM LHCb Computing Review and Plans

Speaker: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides LHCb-Talk.pdf

11:35 AM t2k Computing Review and Plans

Speaker: Jonathan Perkin (University of Sheffield)

Slides GRIDPP32Perkin.pdf

11:55 AM NA62

Speaker: Dan Protopopescu (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides NA62-Mar-2014.pdf

12:05 PM Other VOs Review and Plans

Speaker: Tom Whyntie (University of London (GB))

Slides twhyntie_gridpp32_otherVOs_v1-0.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:10 PM Session 3 - Jobs, Disk and Batch Systems

Chaired by Roger Jones

1:30 PM The Trend Towards Multi Core Jobs

Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides 20140325_multicore_gridpp32.pdf

1:50 PM Strategies To Handle Multi Core Jobs - Discussion

2:10 PM Tier-1 disk system developments - Ceph

Speaker: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB))

Slides CEPH_at_the_Tier_1_-_GRIDPP.pdf CEPH_at_the_Tier_1_-_GRIDPP.pptx

2:30 PM Batch Systems - Future Choices

Moving from torque / maui to ... slurm/Condor/ ?? Talk and discussion?

Speaker: Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Slides GridPP32_BatchSystems_v1.pdf GridPP32_BatchSystems_v1.pptx

3:10 PM → 3:40 PM Coffee

3:40 PM → 10:30 PM Session 4 - Clouds, VM's and Storage

Chaired by Tony Cass

3:40 PM A Review of the Cloud / Openstack Testing in GridPP and Discussion

Speaker: Michael Adam James Huffman (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides gridpp32-cloud-overview-huffman-final.pdf

4:15 PM Virtual Machines

Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides mcnab-virtualmachines-25mar14e.pdf

4:45 PM Containerisation

Speaker: Gareth Roy (University of Glasgow)

Slides G.Roy-Containers.pdf

5:05 PM Storage Topics

Speaker: Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides GridPP-Mar14-FedWAN.pdf

5:35 PM DDN -

5:55 PM Logistics

7:30 PM Collaboration Dinner

Wed, March 26

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Session 5 - Networking

Chaired by Andrew Sansum

9:00 AM Current IPv6 Testing and Directions

Speaker: Duncan Rand (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides GridPP32-IPv6-v3.pdf

9:20 AM Current Perfsonar Status and Directions

Speaker: Duncan Rand (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides GridPP32-perfSONAR-v1.pdf

9:40 AM Flash Talks

Any very quick talks??? Recent Network Traffic at Oxford - Pete Gronbech Recent Benchmarking results - Pete Gronbech More network bandwidth plots - Duncan Rand

Speakers: Duncan Rand (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides

• Benchmarking-_March_2014.pdf
• Benchmarking-_March_2014.ppt
• GridPP32-WAN.pdf
• Networking-_March_2014.pdf
• Networking-_March_2014.ppt

10:00 AM Network Forward Look

Speaker: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides NetworkTalk.pdf

10:20 AM Network Discussion

10:30 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee

10:55 AM → 12:30 PM Session 6 - New Customers, configuration and monitoring

Chaired by Steve Lloyd

10:55 AM Engaging with smaller VOs and SMEs

Talk and discussion

Speaker: Tom Whyntie (University of London (GB))

Slides twhyntie_GridPP32_engaging_FOR-WEB_v1-0.pdf

11:25 AM Instant UI

Making life easier for smaller VOs

Speaker: Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

Slides instantUI.pdf instantUI.ppt

11:45 AM Configuration Management with Cobbler and Puppet

Speaker: Kashif Mohammad (University of Oxford)

Slides gridpp_puppet_1.pdf gridpp_puppet_1.pptx

12:05 PM Graphite Monitoring

Speaker: David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides GridPP32MonitoringMarch2013.pdf

12:25 PM Closing remarks

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch