US ATLAS Distributed Facility Workshop at SLAC

Monday 7 Apr 2014, 09:00 → 18:50 America/Los_Angeles

3rd floor Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Michael Ernst (Unknown), Robert W. Gardner (University of Chicago)

The next US ATLAS Computing Facilities face-to-face meeting to discuss a number of topics pertaining to evolving the distributed facility with new capabilities and services while maintaining on-going operations for ATLAS production and analysis. Topics will include:  

• Facility readiness for DC14: data reduction and analysis
• Technical options from the Tier 3 implementation committee

Hosted by SLAC, the one day meeting will be co-located with the OSG All Hands Meeting (April 8-10) and the workshop on Federated Data Stores (April 10,11).  

1 ADC Perspectives for Run 2

Speaker: Dr Simone Campana (CERN)

Slides OSGAllHands2014.pdf OSGAllHands2014.pptx

2 ADC Development: New Capabilities, Workflows & Facility Impacts

Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

3 DC14 Discussion: new processing model, event format, performance, exercises

Slides DC14.pdf

10:45 Coffee

Analysis and Tier 3 Technical Options

Conveners: Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

4 Summary of current thinking

Speaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

Slides T3IC_SLAC.pdf T3IC_SLAC.pptx

5 Data handling from user perspective

Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))

Slides Storagequestions.pdf Storagequestions.pptx

6 Agile infrastructure

7 Tier 3 elasticity and resource provisioning

Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

Slides connect-slides.pdf connect-slides.pptx

8 Panda on Tier 3

Speaker: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

Slides panda-t3-apr14.pdf panda-t3-apr14.ppt

9 Discussion

10 User cloud storage based on dcache with https/xrootd/nfs/webdav APIs

Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Slides BNL_webdav_and_dCache.pdf

12:35 Lunch

11 ATLAS CONNECT status

Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

Slides

• connect-status.pdf
• connect-status.pptx
• connect-status.pptx.pdf

12 Data Management: US Focus

Speaker: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

Slides us-ddm-apr14.pdf us-ddm-apr14.pptx

13 Towards XaaS and Facility-wide Flexible IT

Speaker: John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides usatlas-ahm-openstack-apr-2014.pdf usatlas-ahm-openstack-apr-2014.ppt

15:55 Break

Joint Session with US CMS

See OSG All Hands meeting page for agenda.