2015 WLCG Collaboration Workshop

Asia/Tokyo
Auditorium (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

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))
Description

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 20m
        Speaker: Tomoaki Nakamura (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
        Slides
      • 09:20
        WLCG Status and Readiness for Run2 30m
        Speaker: Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        WLCG security 40m
        Status and future of authentication, authorisation, identity federations and privacy issues
        Speaker: Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00
        Database services during Run2 30m
        Role of relational and non-relational databases, DBoD, ...
        Speaker: Luca Canali (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Networking in WLCG 40m
        CERN+Wigner network, LHCOPN, LHCONE, IPv6, SDN, ...
        Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        WLCG monitoring 35m
        Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:45
        Lunch break 1h 15m
      • 14:00
        Batch systems 40m
        Recent site migrations to HTCondor
        Speaker: Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Volunteer computing 40m
        Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Optimisation of operational costs 40m
        Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
        Slides
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 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 30m
        Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        ATLAS 30m
        Speaker: Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
        Slides
      • 17:30
        CMS 30m
        Speaker: Christoph Wissing (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
        Slides
    • 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 20m
        Speaker: Stefan Roiser (CERN)
        Slides
    • 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 15m
        Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Experiment computing models at HL-LHC (1/2) 50m
        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.
        • ALICE 25m
          Speaker: Tatsuya Chujo (University of Tsukuba (JP))
          Slides
        • ATLAS 25m
          Speaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))
          Slides
      • 10:35
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:05
        Experiment computing models at HL-LHC (2/2) 1h 10m
        • CMS 25m
          Speakers: David Lange (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US)), Dr Maria Girone (CERN)
          Slides
        • LHCb 25m
          Speaker: Dr Marco Cattaneo (CERN)
          Slides
        • Discussion 20m
    • 12:15 12:45
      WLCG Partners
      Conveners: Dr Andrea Sciaba (CERN), Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
      • 12:15
        OSG Plans 30m
        Speakers: Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University), Robert Quick (Indiana University)
        Slides
    • 12:45 14:15
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 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)
      • 15:00
        New Storage Technologies 40m
        Potential of cloud storage and object storage
        Speaker: Luca Mascetti (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:40
        Resource provisioning 40m
        Moving from grid CE to cloud: promise and issues HPC potential in WLCG
        • Resource Provisioning: Overview 20m
          Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)
          Slides
        • Resource Provisioning: Implementations 20m
          Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester (GB))
          Slides
    • 16:20 16:50
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 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 40m
        HEP software foundation, etc.
        Speaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
    • 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 20m
        Speaker: Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
        Slides
      • 17:50
        Belle II 40m
        Speaker: Takanori HARA (KEK)
        Slides