Name: HEPiX Spring 2015 Workshop
Start: 2015-03-23T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2015-03-27T13:20:00+00:00
Location: Physics Department, Oxford University

HEPiX Spring 2015 Workshop

from Monday, 23 March 2015 (08:00) to Friday, 27 March 2015 (13:20)

Monday, 23 March 2015

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
09:00
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:00 Welcome Address - John Wheater (Oxford University)

09:10 Workshop Logistics - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))
09:15
09:15 - 10:30
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:15 CSC - It Center for Science - Johan Henrik Guldmyr (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

09:30 Nikhef site-report - Paul Kuipers (Nikhef)

09:45 IHEP Site Report - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)

10:00 Site Report - Prague - Martin Adam (UJF Rez) Václav Říkal

10:15 INFN-T1 Site report - Giuseppe Misurelli (Unknown)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
10:55 Site Reports
Site Reports
10:55 - 12:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

10:55 Site Report GSI - Walter Schon

11:10 BNL RACF Site Report - William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)

11:25 PDSF Site Report and Relocation - James Botts (LBNL)

11:40 T2_US_Nebraska Site Report - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska (US))

11:55 Jefferson Lab Scientific and High Performance Computing - Sandy Philpott (JLAB)

12:10 DESY site report - Peter van der Reest (DESY)

12:25 CCIN2P3 Site Report - Julien Carpentier (CCIN2P3)
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

14:00 Accelerating Scientific Analysis with SciDB - Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL) Yushu Yao (LBNL)

14:25 HEP Software Foundation - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

14:50 CERN Search and Social for the Enterprise Web experience - Andreas Wagner (CERN)

15:15 Evolutions in the CERN Conferencing Services Landscape - Thomas Baron (CERN)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
16:05 End-user Services and Operating Systems
End-user Services and Operating Systems
16:05 - 17:20
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

16:05 Scientific Linux Current Status - Connie Sieh (FNAL)

16:30 CERN CentOS 7 Update - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

16:55 Getting the most from the farm at the Sanger Institute - Emyr James (Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute)
17:20
17:20 - 17:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

17:20 Overview of operational issues at CERN in the recent past - Wayne Salter (CERN)
18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Tuesday, 24 March 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
09:00 Site Reports
Site Reports
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:00 PIC Tier-1 Spring 2015 report - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

09:15 Oxford University Site Report - Sean Brisbane (University of Oxford)

09:30 CERN Site Report - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

09:45 DLS site report - Tina Friedrich (Diamond Light Source Ltd)

10:00 KISTI-GSDC Site Report - Sang Un Ahn (KiSTi Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))

10:15 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
10:55 End-user Services and Operating Systems
End-user Services and Operating Systems
10:55 - 12:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

10:55 Update on software collaboration services at CERN - Nils Hoimyr (CERN)

11:15 E-Mail-Migration: transition from Exchange and UNIX mail to Zimbra - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch (DESY)

11:40 Status of volunteer computing at CERN - Nils Hoimyr (CERN)
12:05 Site Reports
Site Reports
12:05 - 12:20
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

12:05 FNAL site report - Rennie S. Scott (FNAL) connie sieh (Fermilab)
12:20 Security and Networking
Security and Networking
12:20 - 12:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

12:20 Effects of packet loss and delay on TCP performance - Adam Lukasz Krajewski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

14:00 Computer Security update - Romain Wartel (CERN)

14:25 WLCG Cloud Traceability Working Group - Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

14:50 Recent experiences in operational security: incident prevention and incident handling in the EGI and WLCG infrastructure - Linda Ann Cornwall (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

15:15 A recent view of OSSEC and Elasticsearch at Scotgrid Glasgow - David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 15:50
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
15:50 Security and Networking
Security and Networking
15:50 - 17:20
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

15:50 Update on WLCG/OSG perfSONAR Infrastructure - Marian Babik (CERN)

16:15 News from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

16:40 Testing dCache and IPv6 - Ulf Bobson Severin Tigerstedt (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

16:55 The IPV6 post office: labeling and sorting everywhere. - Francesco Prelz (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
17:20 Storage and File Systems
Storage and File Systems
17:20 - 17:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

17:20 Evaluation of distributed open source solutions in CERN database use cases - Kacper Surdy (CERN)
17:45 Break
Break
17:45 - 18:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
18:00 IPv6 tutorial for administrators
IPv6 tutorial for administrators
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

18:00 IPv6 tutorial for administrators - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
09:00 IT Facilities and Business Continuity
IT Facilities and Business Continuity
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:00 Dust sensors for long term data preservation - Julien Leduc (CERN)
09:25
09:25 - 10:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:25 Building large storage systems with small units: How to make use of disks with integrated network and CPU - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:50 ASAP3: New data taking and analysis infrastructure for PETRA III - Stefan Dietrich (DESY)

10:15 BeeGFS at DESY - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
11:05 Storage and File Systems
Storage and File Systems
11:05 - 12:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

11:05 Ceph storage at RAL - Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

11:30 Ceph operations at CERN - Herve Rousseau (CERN)

11:55 Status Report on Ceph Based Storage Systems at the RACF - Ofer Rind (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

12:20 Ceph development update - Spray John (Red Hat, Inc.)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
13:00 BoF session/panel: Ask the CEPH experts
BoF session/panel: Ask the CEPH experts
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

13:00 Panel and BoF session: Ask the CEPH experts - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

14:00 Operation and benchmarking of a commercial datacentre - Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))

14:25 Remote evaluation of hardware - Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:50 Evaluation of Memory and CPU usage via Cgroups of ATLAS workloads running at a Tier-2 - Gang Qin (University of Glasgow (GB))

15:15 Beyond HS06: Toward a New HEP CPU Benchmark - Update March 2015 - Manfred Alef (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
16:05 Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
16:05 - 17:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

16:05 Looking for a fast benchmark - Michele Michelotto (INFN Padua & CMS)

16:30 Evaluation of low power Systems on Chip for scientific computing - Lucia Morganti (INFN)

16:55 A look beyond x86: OpenPOWER8 & AArch64 - Liviu Valsan (CERN)

17:20 HEPSPEC analysis across modern architectures - David Power (Boston Ltd.)
19:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 26 March 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:00 Status of Centralized Config Management at the RACF - William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:25 Configuration management at CERN: Status and directions - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

09:50 Deployment and usage of MCollective in production - Stefan Dietrich (DESY)

10:15 Quattor in 2015 - James Adams (STFC RAL)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
11:05 Basic IT Services
Basic IT Services
11:05 - 12:20
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

11:05 Subtlenoise: sonification of distributed computing activity - Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))

11:30 Towards a modernisation of CERN’s telephony infrastructure - Francisco Valentin Vinagrero (CERN)

11:55 Updates from Database Services at CERN - Andrei Dumitru (CERN)
12:20 Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
12:20 - 12:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

12:20 DRMAA2 - An Open Standard for Job Submission and Cluster Monitoring - Daniel Gruber (U)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

14:00 Cloud @ RAL, an update - George Ryall (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab.)

14:25 CERN Cloud Report - Bruno Bompastor (CERN)

14:50 Ceph vs Local Disk For Virtual Machines - Alexander Dibbo (urn:Google)

15:15 The Vacuum model for running jobs in VMs - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester (GB))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
16:05 Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
16:05 - 17:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

16:05 Running ATLAS at scale on Amazon EC2 - John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

16:30 Best Practices for Big Science in the Cloud - Dario Rivera (Amazon Web Services)

16:55 OpenStack Heat @ CERN - Bruno Bompastor (CERN)

17:20 STAR Experience with Automated High Efficiency Grid Based Data Production Framework at KISTI/Korea - Levente Hajdu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
17:45

17:45 - 19:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Friday, 27 March 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
09:00 Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

09:00 Batch Processing at CERN - Jerome Belleman (CERN)

09:25 Grid Engine at GridKa - Manfred Alef (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

09:50 SLURM update from the Nordics - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

10:15 Condor Workshop Summary - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
11:05 Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
11:05 - 12:45
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

11:05 Two years of HTCondor at the RAL Tier-1 - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

11:30 Future of Batch Processing at CERN - Jerome Belleman (CERN)

11:55 HTCondor within the European Grid and in the Cloud - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

12:20 DrainBoss: A Drain Rate Controller for ARC/HTCondor - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)
12:45 Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
12:45 - 13:05
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

12:45 A word on phishing - Romain Wartel (CERN)

12:50 Workshop Wrap-Up - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

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