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, March 23, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Friday, March 27, 2015 (1:20 PM)

Monday, March 23, 2015

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome Address - John Wheater (Oxford University)

9:10 AM Workshop Logistics - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:15 AM CSC - It Center for Science - Johan Henrik Guldmyr (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

9:30 AM Nikhef site-report - Paul Kuipers (Nikhef)

9:45 AM IHEP Site Report - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)

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

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

10:55 AM Site Report GSI - Walter Schon

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

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

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

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

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

12:25 PM CCIN2P3 Site Report - Julien Carpentier (CCIN2P3)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

2:00 PM Accelerating Scientific Analysis with SciDB - Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL) Yushu Yao (LBNL)

2:25 PM HEP Software Foundation - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

2:50 PM CERN Search and Social for the Enterprise Web experience - Andreas Wagner (CERN)

3:15 PM Evolutions in the CERN Conferencing Services Landscape - Thomas Baron (CERN)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
4:05 PM End-user Services and Operating Systems
End-user Services and Operating Systems
4:05 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

4:05 PM Scientific Linux Current Status - Connie Sieh (FNAL)

4:30 PM CERN CentOS 7 Update - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

4:55 PM Getting the most from the farm at the Sanger Institute - Emyr James (Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute)
5:20 PM
5:20 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

5:20 PM Overview of operational issues at CERN in the recent past - Wayne Salter (CERN)
6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
9:00 AM Site Reports
Site Reports
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:00 AM PIC Tier-1 Spring 2015 report - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

9:15 AM Oxford University Site Report - Sean Brisbane (University of Oxford)

9:30 AM CERN Site Report - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

9:45 AM DLS site report - Tina Friedrich (Diamond Light Source Ltd)

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM Effects of packet loss and delay on TCP performance - Adam Lukasz Krajewski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

2:00 PM Computer Security update - Romain Wartel (CERN)

2:25 PM WLCG Cloud Traceability Working Group - Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

2:50 PM Recent experiences in operational security: incident prevention and incident handling in the EGI and WLCG infrastructure - Linda Ann Cornwall (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

3:15 PM A recent view of OSSEC and Elasticsearch at Scotgrid Glasgow - David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
3:50 PM Security and Networking
Security and Networking
3:50 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

3:50 PM Update on WLCG/OSG perfSONAR Infrastructure - Marian Babik (CERN)

4:15 PM News from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

4:40 PM Testing dCache and IPv6 - Ulf Bobson Severin Tigerstedt (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

4:55 PM The IPV6 post office: labeling and sorting everywhere. - Francesco Prelz (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
5:20 PM Storage and File Systems
Storage and File Systems
5:20 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

5:20 PM Evaluation of distributed open source solutions in CERN database use cases - Kacper Surdy (CERN)
5:45 PM Break
Break
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
6:00 PM IPv6 tutorial for administrators
IPv6 tutorial for administrators
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

6:00 PM IPv6 tutorial for administrators - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Shawn McKee (University of Michigan ATLAS Group)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
9:00 AM IT Facilities and Business Continuity
IT Facilities and Business Continuity
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:00 AM Dust sensors for long term data preservation - Julien Leduc (CERN)
9:25 AM
9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:25 AM Building large storage systems with small units: How to make use of disks with integrated network and CPU - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

9:50 AM ASAP3: New data taking and analysis infrastructure for PETRA III - Stefan Dietrich (DESY)

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM Ceph development update - Spray John (Red Hat, Inc.)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
1:00 PM BoF session/panel: Ask the CEPH experts
BoF session/panel: Ask the CEPH experts
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

1:00 PM Panel and BoF session: Ask the CEPH experts - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

2:00 PM Operation and benchmarking of a commercial datacentre - Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))

2:25 PM Remote evaluation of hardware - Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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

3:15 PM Beyond HS06: Toward a New HEP CPU Benchmark - Update March 2015 - Manfred Alef (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
4:05 PM Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
4:05 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

4:05 PM Looking for a fast benchmark - Michele Michelotto (INFN Padua & CMS)

4:30 PM Evaluation of low power Systems on Chip for scientific computing - Lucia Morganti (INFN)

4:55 PM A look beyond x86: OpenPOWER8 & AArch64 - Liviu Valsan (CERN)

5:20 PM HEPSPEC analysis across modern architectures - David Power (Boston Ltd.)
7:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, March 26, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of Centralized Config Management at the RACF - William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)

9:25 AM Configuration management at CERN: Status and directions - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

9:50 AM Deployment and usage of MCollective in production - Stefan Dietrich (DESY)

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM DRMAA2 - An Open Standard for Job Submission and Cluster Monitoring - Daniel Gruber (U)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

2:00 PM Cloud @ RAL, an update - George Ryall (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab.)

2:25 PM CERN Cloud Report - Bruno Bompastor (CERN)

2:50 PM Ceph vs Local Disk For Virtual Machines - Alexander Dibbo (urn:Google)

3:15 PM The Vacuum model for running jobs in VMs - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester (GB))
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
4:05 PM Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
4:05 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

4:05 PM Running ATLAS at scale on Amazon EC2 - John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

4:30 PM Best Practices for Big Science in the Cloud - Dario Rivera (Amazon Web Services)

4:55 PM OpenStack Heat @ CERN - Bruno Bompastor (CERN)

5:20 PM STAR Experience with Automated High Efficiency Grid Based Data Production Framework at KISTI/Korea - Levente Hajdu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Friday, March 27, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
9:00 AM Computing and Batch Systems
Computing and Batch Systems
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

9:00 AM Batch Processing at CERN - Jerome Belleman (CERN)

9:25 AM Grid Engine at GridKa - Manfred Alef (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

9:50 AM SLURM update from the Nordics - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM DrainBoss: A Drain Rate Controller for ARC/HTCondor - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)
12:45 PM Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road
Contributions

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

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

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