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

25 Mar 2014, 08:00 → 26 Mar 2014, 13:30 Europe/London

Atholl Suite (Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry)

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Tuesday, 25 March

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1 - Project Status and Future directions

Chaired by Pete Gronbech

09:00 Welcome

09:05 GridPP Status

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

09:30 Computing Challenges from Run 2 to HL-LHC

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

Slides GridPP32-ComputingChallenges.pdf

10:05 Atlas Computing model Review and Plans

Speaker: Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))

Slides OfflineConstraints.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2 - Experiments

Chaired by Claire Devereux

11:00 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 LHCb Computing Review and Plans

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

Slides LHCb-Talk.pdf

11:35 t2k Computing Review and Plans

Speaker: Jonathan Perkin (University of Sheffield)

Slides GRIDPP32Perkin.pdf

11:55 NA62

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

Slides NA62-Mar-2014.pdf

12:05 Other VOs Review and Plans

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

Slides twhyntie_gridpp32_otherVOs_v1-0.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:10 Session 3 - Jobs, Disk and Batch Systems

Chaired by Roger Jones

13:30 The Trend Towards Multi Core Jobs

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

Slides 20140325_multicore_gridpp32.pdf

13:50 Strategies To Handle Multi Core Jobs - Discussion

14:10 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

14:30 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

15:10 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 22:30 Session 4 - Clouds, VM's and Storage

Chaired by Tony Cass

15:40 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

16:15 Virtual Machines

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

Slides mcnab-virtualmachines-25mar14e.pdf

16:45 Containerisation

Speaker: Gareth Roy (University of Glasgow)

Slides G.Roy-Containers.pdf

17:05 Storage Topics

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

Slides GridPP-Mar14-FedWAN.pdf

17:35 DDN -

17:55 Logistics

19:30 Collaboration Dinner

Wednesday, 26 March

09:00 → 10:45 Session 5 - Networking

Chaired by Andrew Sansum

09:00 Current IPv6 Testing and Directions

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

Slides GridPP32-IPv6-v3.pdf

09:20 Current Perfsonar Status and Directions

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

Slides GridPP32-perfSONAR-v1.pdf

09:40 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 Network Forward Look

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

Slides NetworkTalk.pdf

10:20 Network Discussion

10:30 → 10:55 Coffee

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

Chaired by Steve Lloyd

10:55 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 Instant UI

Making life easier for smaller VOs

Speaker: Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

Slides instantUI.pdf instantUI.ppt

11:45 Configuration Management with Cobbler and Puppet

Speaker: Kashif Mohammad (University of Oxford)

Slides gridpp_puppet_1.pdf gridpp_puppet_1.pptx

12:05 Graphite Monitoring

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

Slides GridPP32MonitoringMarch2013.pdf

12:25 Closing remarks

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch