HEPiX Fall 2014 Workshop

from Monday, 13 October 2014 (01:30) to Friday, 17 October 2014 (13:00)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Oct 2014
14 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014
16 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014
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08:30 --- Registration and Coffee ---
09:00
HEPiX Business (until 09:15) (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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09:00 Local Organizer Info - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska (US))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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09:15
Site Reports (until 10:30) (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
09:15 Australia Site Report - Sean Crosby (University of Melbourne (AU))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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09:30 Oxford Particle Physics Computing update - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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09:45 Site report: NDGF-T1 - Ulf Tigerstedt (CSC Oy) Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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10:00 Updates from Jefferson Lab HPC and Scientific Computing - Sandy Philpott (JLAB)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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10:15 KIT Site Report - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Site Reports (until 12:00) (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
11:00 Fermilab Site Report - Fall 2014 HEPiX - Dr Keith Chadwick (Fermilab)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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11:15 University of Wisconsin Madison CMS T2 site report - Ajit mohapatra (University of Wisconsin (US)) Tapas Sarangi (University of Wisconsin (US))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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11:30 INFN-T1 site report - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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08:30 --- Registration and Coffee ---
09:00
IT End User and Operating Systems (until 09:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
09:00 Monviso: a portal for metering and reporting CNAF resources usage - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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09:30
Site Reports (until 10:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
09:30 CERN Site Report - Dr Arne Wiebalck (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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09:45 IRFU site report - Mr Frederic Schaer (CEA)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:00 DESY Site Report - Andreas Haupt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:15 BNL RACF Site Report - James Pryor (B)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Site Reports (until 11:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
11:00 AGLT2 Site Report Fall 2014 - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:15 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:30
Grids, Clouds, Virtualisation (until 12:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
11:30 LHC@home status - Outlook for wider use of volunteer computing at CERN - Dr Helge Meinhard (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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08:30 --- Morning Coffee ---
09:00
Networking and Security (until 10:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
09:00 Plans for Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 services on WLCG - an update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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09:30 EEX: ESnet Extension to Europe and ESnet support for the LHC Community - Joe Metzger (LBL)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:00 Do You Need to Know Your Users? - Bob Cowles (BrightLite Information Security)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Networking and Security (until 12:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
11:00 OSG IPv6 Software and Operations Preparations - Robert Quick (Indiana University)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:30 Situational Awareness: Computer Security - Dr Stefan Lueders (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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08:30 --- Morning Coffee ---
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Storage and Filesystems (until 10:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
09:00 OpenZFS on Linux - Brian Behlendorf (LLNL)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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09:30 SSD benchmarking at CERN - Liviu Valsan (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:00 Ceph Based Storage Systems for RACF - Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:30 --- Group Photo (and Coffee Break) ---
11:00
Storage and Filesystems (until 12:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
11:00 DPM performance tuning hints for HTTP/WebDAV and Xrootd - Andrea Manzi (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:20 Experience in running relational databases on clustered storage - Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:40 New High Availability Storage at PDSF - Tony Quan (LBL)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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08:30 --- Morning Coffee ---
09:00
Grids, Clouds, Virtualisation (until 11:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
09:00 RAL Tier 1 Cloud Computing Developments - Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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09:30 The Adoption of Cloud Technologies within the LHC Experiments - Laurence Field (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:00 Evolution of WLCG monitoring - Dr Edward Karavakis (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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10:30 CERN Cloud Report - Dr Arne Wiebalck (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
HEPiX Business (until 12:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
IT End User and Operating Systems (until 15:30) (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
13:30 Scientific Linux current status update - Pat Riehecky (Fermilab)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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14:00 Next Linux Version at CERN. - Thomas Oulevey (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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14:30 Experiences with EL 7 at T2_US_Nebraska - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska (US))   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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15:00 FTS3, large scale file transfer service with simplicity and performance at its best - Michail Salichos (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
IT End User and Operating Systems (until 17:00) (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
16:00 Issue Tracking and Version Control Services status update - Borja Aparicio Cotarelo (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Georgian Suite)
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18:00
Opening Reception (until 20:00) (Schorr Center, 2nd Floor)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Computing and Batch Systems (until 15:40) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
13:30 Benchmarking on System on Chip Archtecture and fast benchmarking - Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:00 Future of Batch Processing at CERN: a Condor Pilot Service - Jerome Belleman (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:30 Compute node benchmarks for Compact Muon Solenoid workflows - Samir Cury Siqueira (California Institute of Technology (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:00 HTCondor and HEP Partnership and Activities - Todd Tannenbaum (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:20 Releasing the HTCondor-CE into the Wild - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10
Computing and Batch Systems (until 16:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
16:10 HTCondor on the Grid and in the Cloud - James Frey   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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16:30
Networking and Security (until 17:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
16:30 Evaluating Infiniband Based Networking Solutions for HEP/NP Data Processing Applications - Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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17:15
HEPiX Business (until 18:45) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
IT Facilities and Business Continuity (until 14:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
13:30 UPS Monitoring with Sensaphone-A cost-effective solution - Dr Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:00 First Experience with the Wigner Data Centre - Wayne Salter (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:30
Storage and Filesystems (until 15:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
14:30 The Lustre Filesystem for Petabyte Storage at the Florida HPC Center - Dr Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:00 EOS across 1000 km - Luca Mascetti (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Storage and Filesystems (until 17:00) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
16:00 Using XRootD to Minimize Hadoop Replication - Jeffrey Dost (UCSD)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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16:30 Cernbox + EOS: Cloud Storage for Science - Luca Mascetti (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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17:00
Grids, Clouds, Virtualisation (until 17:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
17:00 Addressing the VM IO bottleneck - Dr Arne Wiebalck (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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18:00
Conference Dinner (until 21:00) ()
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Basic IT Services (until 15:30) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
13:30 Developing Nagios code to suspend checks during planned outages - Ray Spence (u)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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13:50 Configuration Services at CERN: update - Ben Jones (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:15 CFEngine Application at AGLT2 - Mr Ben Meekhof (University of Michigan)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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14:40 Puppet at USCMS-T1 and FermiLab - Year 2 - Timothy Michael Skirvin (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:05 DataBase on Demand : insight how to build your on DBaaS - Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
IT Facilities and Business Continuity (until 16:20) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
16:00 Joint procurement of IT equipment and services - Wayne Salter (CERN)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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16:20
Basic IT Services (until 17:10) (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
16:20 Configuration Management, Change Management, and Culture Management - James Pryor (B)   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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16:45 Ermis service for DNS Load Balancer configuration - Aris Angelogiannopoulos (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))   (Nebraska Union - Regency Suite)
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