ATLAS Distributed Computing Technical Interchange Meeting Chicago

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:

    • 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
    • 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))
      • 13
        A word from our sponsor
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • Data Managment

      Chairs: MErnst+AleDG
      Minutes: Rod

    • 17
      Dinner Event Info
      Slides
    • 19:00
      Dinner Event
    • 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