Joint US ATLAS Software and Computing / Physics Support Meeting

from Wednesday, 20 August 2014 (08:00) to Friday, 22 August 2014 (21:30)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Aug 2014
21 Aug 2014
22 Aug 2014
AM
08:50
Welcome -Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 09:00) ()
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09:00
xAOD and ROOT analysis ecosystem - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Dr David Malon (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) (until 21:00) (2-100B-CR)
09:00 Session Introduction - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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09:10 What is pROOT? - Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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09:30 pROOT use cases for Run II (Discussion) - Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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09:50 xAOD persistence considerations: size, versioning, schema evolution - Peter Van Gemmeren   (2-100B-CR)
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10:10 metadata and metadata tools for analysis - Dr Jack Cranshaw (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Design issues arising from CP tools migration - Steven Andrew Farrell (University of California-Unknown-Unknown) Steven Andrew Farrell (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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11:10 Supertools for systematics and analysis steering (Discussion) - Nils Erik Krumnack (Iowa State University (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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11:40 Data Access and Dual-use Tools (Discussion) - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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12:00 Wrap-up discussion: US priorities in analysis support, discussion subjects for afternoon splinter session - Dr David Malon (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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08:59
Event Service - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 12:30) (70A-3377)
09:00 PART 1: Status survey with emphasis on outstanding issues and near/midterm plans (presentation/discussion ~50/50)   (70A-3377)
09:01 Intro, plans, issues and objectives for today - Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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09:15 PanDA/JEDI’s support for fine grained dynamic job definition, event-level bookkeeping, and the event service - Tadashi Maeno (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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09:30 Event service in the pilot: refactoring, payload integration & interaction, input/output management, object store usage - Wen Guan (University of Wisconsin (US)) Paul Nilsson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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09:55 athenaMP payload, event I/O, event index integration - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Dr Peter Van Gemmeren (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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10:20 --- Break ---
10:35 PART 2: Next steps for integrating, operating and scaling the ES in the early deployment targets (mainly discussion, guided by a few slides)   (70A-3377)
10:36 ES issues, plan and timeline: pre-production on the grid - Wen Guan (University of Wisconsin (US)) Paul Nilsson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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10:50 ES issues, plan and timeline: operating and scaling up on the Amazon spot market - Michael Ernst Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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11:20 ES issues, plan and timeline: event service on HPCs - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (70A-3377)
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12:20 SC14 demo objectives and plans, in light of today’s discussion - Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
09:00
US ATLAS Facilities readiness for Run 2 - Michael Ernst (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) (until 12:30) ()
09:00 Introduction, goals for the meeting - Michael Ernst Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))   ()
09:10 Priorities, adjustments for the new analysis model, derivation framework, analysis support requirements: discussion based on Wednesday & Thursday meetings   ()
09:50 Tier3 Implementation Committee recommendations: recap and summary, and facility impacts - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))   ()
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10:10 Flocking from Tier3 for analysis batch, ATLAS Connect to campus clusters, etc. - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))   ()
10:30 --- Break ---
10:50 WAN access via FAX by Panda - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))   ()
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11:05 Autopyfactory performance and configuration - Dr Jose Caballero Bejar (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:20 HTCondor-CE production readiness - Mr Xin Zhao (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:35 Dynamic multicore provisioning issues - William Strecker-Kellogg (BNL)   ()
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11:50 Managing data in the facility (Group, User, LocalGroup, etc); deletions, subscriptions, etc., with focus on user capabilities   ()
12:10 Prioritizing access to CPU and storage resources for US physicists   ()
PM
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30) (54 (Cafeteria))
13:30
Splinter (until 17:30) (6-1105)
13:30
Supporting US analysis - Erich Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US)) Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) (until 17:30) (2-100B-CR)
ATLAS Connect doc
13:30 Storage of output from jobs that run remotely - Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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14:00 ATLAS Connect from Tier3 - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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14:30 FAX tests - Fred Luehring (Indiana University (US)) Erich Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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14:50 Remote analysis test package - Erich Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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15:10 --- Break ---
15:40 ATLAS Infrastructure: LS1 Upgrade Challenges - Dr Alexander Undrus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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16:10 PROOF/PROOF-on-demand within new Tier3 model - Shuwei Ye (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (2-100B-CR)
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16:30 Discussion   (2-100B-CR)
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00) ()
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30) (54 (Cafeteria))
13:25
High Performance Computing (HPC) - Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US)) Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) (until 17:10) (70A-3377)
13:30 Introduction - Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US)) Dr Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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13:35 An overview and HPC strategy - Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (70A-3377)
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14:05 Activities Highlights   (70A-3377)
15:05 --- Tea break ---
15:20 Technical Discussion   (70A-3377)
16:35 wrap up and next steps   (70A-3377)
13:30
Splinter (until 17:30) (6-2202)
17:30
Splinter - ES/HPC Yoda technical discussion - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 19:30) ()
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30) (54 (Cafeteria))
13:30
Splinter (until 17:30) (50B-4205)
13:30
US ATLAS S&C/PS Management Scrubbing - Srini Rajagopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.) (until 17:30) (50A-5132 Sessler)