2015 WLCG Collaboration Workshop

11 Apr 2015, 09:00 → 12 Apr 2015, 18:50 Asia/Tokyo

Auditorium (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Andrea Sciaba (CERN), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Maria Dimou (CERN), Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

The agenda for the WLCG Workshop covers recent operational experience and future plans, together with experiment-site sessions, as in previous such events.

The map of the venue is here.

Saturday 11 April

09:00 → 16:00 WLCG Status and Operations

Conveners: Dr Andrea Sciaba (CERN), Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

09:00 Report from the Tokyo Tier-2

Speaker: Tomoaki Nakamura (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

Slides 2015-04-11_TNakamura.pdf

09:20 WLCG Status and Readiness for Run2

Speaker: Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

Slides 20150411_WLCG_Status_and_Readiness_for_Run2.pdf

09:50 WLCG security

Status and future of authentication, authorisation, identity federations and privacy issues

Speaker: Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)

Slides 20150411_Wartel_WLCG_workshop.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Database services during Run2

Role of relational and non-relational databases, DBoD, ...

Speaker: Luca Canali (CERN)

Slides WLCG_Workshop_Okinawa_Databases_Apr2015_LC.pdf WLCG_Workshop_Okinawa_Databases_Apr2015_LC.pptx

11:30 Networking in WLCG

CERN+Wigner network, LHCOPN, LHCONE, IPv6, SDN, ...

Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)

Slides nw_okinawa.pdf nw_okinawa.pptx

12:10 WLCG monitoring

Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)

Slides WLCGWS_CHEP2015.pdf WLCGWS_CHEP2015.pptx

12:45 Lunch break

14:00 Batch systems

Recent site migrations to HTCondor

Speaker: Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Slides WLCGWorkshop_HTCondor_v2.pdf WLCGWorkshop_HTCondor_v2.pptx

14:40 Volunteer computing

Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)

Slides CHEP_VC_v2.pdf CHEP_VC_v2.ppt

15:20 Optimisation of operational costs

Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides 20150411_wlcg-ws_ops_cost.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Experiment Session

The goal of the session is to allow experiments to transmit information to sites and WLCG operations about the Run2 data taking. Examples of topics to cover are:
- Expected processing scales
- Recent and upcoming developments in the computing systems (within Run2)
- Operational procedures relevant to sites
- Other experiment requirements for sites and WLCG operations

Conveners: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

16:30 ALICE

Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides ALICE-Run2-Readiness.pdf ALICE-Run2-Readiness.pptx

17:00 ATLAS

Speaker: Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

Slides chep2015wlcg.pdf

17:30 CMS

Speaker: Christoph Wissing (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides WLCG_WS_042015_CMS.pdf

Sunday 12 April

09:00 → 09:30 Experiment Session

The goal of the session is to allow experiments to transmit information to sites and WLCG operations about the Run2 data taking. Examples of topics to cover are:
- Expected processing scales
- Recent and upcoming developments in the computing systems (within Run2)
- Operational procedures relevant to sites
- Other experiment requirements for sites and WLCG operations

Conveners: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

09:00 LHCb

Speaker: Stefan Roiser (CERN)

Slides 20150411-WLCGWorkshop-LHCbReadinessRun2.pdf 20150411-WLCGWorkshop-LHCbReadinessRun2.pptx

09:30 → 12:15 Computing at the HL-LHC timescale: Experiment views

Conveners: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

09:30 Planning for the future

Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides WorkshopIntro-CHEP-120415.pdf WorkshopIntro-CHEP-120415.pptx

09:45 Experiment computing models at HL-LHC (1/2)

The goal of this session is to understand what are the main challenges up to the Run3 and HL-LHC timescale, the projections on the resource requirements, the limitations to overcome in the current computing models and the expectations of the experiments on the role of WLCG.

10:35 Coffee break

11:05 Experiment computing models at HL-LHC (2/2)

12:15 → 12:45 WLCG Partners

Conveners: Dr Andrea Sciaba (CERN), Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

12:15 OSG Plans

Speakers: Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University), Robert Quick (Indiana University)

Slides WLCG-CHEP-OSG-2105.pdf WLCG-CHEP-OSG-2105.pptx

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 16:20 Computing at the HL-LHC timescale: Technology evolution

Conveners: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

14:15 Hardware technology trends

Speaker: Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)

Slides HW_trends_market_costs_BPS_Apr2015_v14.pdf HW_trends_market_costs_BPS_Apr2015_v14.pptx

15:00 New Storage Technologies

Potential of cloud storage and object storage

Speaker: Luca Mascetti (CERN)

Slides NewStorageTechnologies.pdf

15:40 Resource provisioning

Moving from grid CE to cloud: promise and issues HPC potential in WLCG

mcnab-vm2022-12apr15.pdf

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 17:30 Computing at the HL-LHC timescale: Software

Conveners: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

16:50 Software evolution

HEP software foundation, etc.

Speaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides WLCG_HSF.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 WLCG Partners

Conveners: Dr Andrea Sciaba (CERN), Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

17:30 Update on OSG/WLCG Network Services

Speaker: Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

Slides WLCG-OSG-NetworkServices.pdf WLCG-OSG-NetworkServices.pptx

17:50 Belle II

Speaker: Takanori HARA (KEK)

Slides BelleII4WLCGWS.pdf