ATLAS Distributed Computing Technical Interchange Meeting Chicago

Name: ATLAS Distributed Computing Technical Interchange Meeting Chicago
Start: 2014-10-27T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2014-10-29T21:30:00-05:00
Location: University of Chicago Gleacher Center

27 Oct 2014, 09:00 → 29 Oct 2014, 21:30 US/Central

408 (University of Chicago Gleacher Center)

408

University of Chicago Gleacher Center

450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr, Chicago, IL 60611

Description

Registration, travel and lodging information can be found at the TIM 2014 meeting website:

http://tim2014.mwt2.org/
Workshop documents: http://bit.ly/ZTCnNp

Monday 27 October
- Welcome
  - 1
    
    Welcome from ADC Coordination
    
    Speakers: Dr Simone Campana (CERN), Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    Welcome from local organizers
    
    Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
    
    Slides
- Experience from DC14
  
  Chairs: Simone and Eric
  Minutes: Torre
  - 3
    
    Experience from Data Processing (MC, reprocessing, trains)
    
    Speakers: Jose Enrique Garcia Navarro (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)), Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Paul James Laycock (University of Liverpool (GB))
    
    GroupProduction
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee
  - 4
    
    The ADC operations story
    
    Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
    
    Slides
  - 5
    Observations from Sites
    
    a) US sites
    
    Speaker: Hironori Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    Slides
    
    b) EU sites
    
    Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    Slides
    
    c) Discussion
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- Run-2 analysis model and End-User tools
  
  Chairs: Nurcan+Paul
  Minutes: PLove
  - 6
    
    Bulk Processing, Trains, End User analysis
    
    Speakers: Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington (US)), Paul James Laycock (University of Liverpool (GB))
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Impact on Resource Organization
    
    Speaker: Dr Richard Philip Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
  - 15:10
    
    Coffee
  - 8
    
    Juniper Networks: A Strategic Partner for Research and Education
    
    Slides
  - 9
    End User Tools for Run-2
    
    a) dq2-get/rucio-get/fax-get tools
    
    Speakers: Cedric Serfon (CERN), Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)), Martin Barisits (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    b) RucioWeb and DaTRI
    
    Speakers: Cedric Serfon (CERN), Martin Barisits (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Analysis tools: JEDI client and BigPandaMon
    
    Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    Slides
- 17:10
  
  Reception Event
Tuesday 28 October
- Workload Management
  
  Chairs: Rob+Rod
  Minutes: AleDG
  - 10
    
    Prodsys-2 status
    
    Speaker: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
    
    Slides
  - 11
    Discussion on Workload Management related points
    
    Slides
    
    a) Tuning Prodsys to Run-2
    
    Flexibility in MCORE vs SCORE and ANALYSIS vs PRODUCTION; Resource needs: memory; walltime/CPUtime; hospital queues Job Parameter tuning: job lengths, number of events, optimisation of runtime vs output size vs input size/nfiles
    
    Speakers: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)), Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee
  - 12
    Discussion on Workload Management related points
    
    a) Cloud Resources
    
    How can we flexibly utilise them for various use cases (MCORE vs SCORE, etc ..)
    
    Speakers: Frank Olaf Berghaus (University of Victoria (CA)), Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))
    
    Slides
    
    b) HPCs, experience and possible evolution
    
    How to extend HPCs utilisation to more workflows
    
    Speaker: Danila Oleynik (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
    
    Slides
    
    HPC_v2.pdf
    
    PanDA@LCF_TIM_v3.pdf
    
    PanDA@LCF_TIM_v3.pptx
  - 13
    
    A word from our sponsor
- 12:45
  
  Lunch
- Data Managment
  
  Chairs: MErnst+AleDG
  Minutes: Rod
  - 14
    
    Rucio commissioning status
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Rucio tools for facilities
    
    Speaker: Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee
  - 16
    Data Caching
    
    a) Rucio Cache
    
    Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US))
    
    Slides
    
    BeerBus-photos.pdf
    
    BeerBus-photos.pptx
    
    TIM-2014-RucioCache.pdf
    
    b) FAX and Xrootd Caching
    
    Speakers: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)), Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
    
    Slides
    
    Andy-Wei-TIM2014.pdf
    
    Andy-Wei-TIM2014.pptx
    
    TIM-IlijaVukotic.pdf
    
    TIM-IlijaVukotic.pptx
- 17
  
  Dinner Event Info
  
  Slides
- 19:00
  
  Dinner Event
Wednesday 29 October
- Prodsys/T0/Rucio integration
  
  Chair: Armin+PLove
  Minutes: Andrej
  - 18
    
    T0 in Run-2
    
    Integration with Rucio, cold vs hot storage, spillover to T1s, usage of AthenaMP
    
    Speaker: Armin Nairz (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    Prodsys-Rucio integration
    
    a) Rucio metadata for Prodsys-2
    
    Speaker: Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
    
    document
    
    Slides
  - 10:20
    
    Coffee
  - 20
    Prodsys-Rucio integration
    
    Speaker: Dr Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))
    
    Slides
    
    a) Placement and Replication: RPG
    
    b) Data Deletion and obsoletion
    
    c) Popularity zoo: Rucio, Panda, xrootd, local access. File vs dataset access
- Lunch - outside
  
  Various restaurants in the neighborhood. Billy Goat Tavern, Corner Bakery, Volare, Purple Pig (for adventurous foodies) nearby.
  
  slides
- Data Lifecycle Model
  
  Chair: Torre+Richard
  Minutes: Simone
  - 21
    
    Description of the Model
    
    Speaker: Dr Simone Campana (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Implementation in Rucio
    
    Speakers: Cedric Serfon (CERN), Martin Barisits (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    Coffee
- Wrap Up, Action List, Goodbye