GridPP34 - 'LHC Run 2'

Europe/London
David Sizer Lecture Theatre (Queen Mary University of London)

David Sizer Lecture Theatre

Queen Mary University of London

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  • Wednesday 29 April
    • 10:00
      Coffee Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

      Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

    • Opening Session David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Chair - Steve Lloyd

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      • 1
        Welcome
        Speaker: Steve Lloyd (University of London (GB))
      • 2
        GridPP5
        Speaker: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))
      • 3
        Discussion
      • 4
        Atlas experimental evolution in GridPP5
        Speaker: Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))
        Slides
      • 5
        CMS Experimental evolution in GridPP5
        Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
        Slides
      • 6
        LHCb experimental evolution in GridPP5
        Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch Queen MAry University of London, Physics Museum

      Queen MAry University of London, Physics Museum

    • Tier-2 Evolution in GridPP5: technologies David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Chair - David Colling
      How can we make things simpler and easier to manage?

      • 7
        European Update
        Speaker: Dr Claire Devereux (STFC)
      • 8
        Simplifying storage
        How can we use new technologies to make it simpler to run Tier-2 storage? How does automated failover and remote access to data change the landscape? Can we negotiate changes with WLCG and the experiments to accommodate "best effort" storage provision?
        Speaker: Dr Samuel Cadellin Skipsey (University of Glasgow / GridPP)
        Slides
      • 9
        Discussion on storage
        Speakers: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester), Dr David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Dr Samuel Cadellin Skipsey (University of Glasgow / GridPP)
      • 10
        Simplifying job execution
        Recommendations for simplifying the operation of Tier-2 sites using virtualization. Can we leverage experiments' support for VMs to shift some sysadmin burden to them? Can we leverage cloud infrastructures provided by university IT services?
        Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)
        Slides
      • 11
        Discussion on job execution
        Speakers: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester), Dr David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
    • 15:10
      Coffee Quuen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

      Quuen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

    • Tier-2 Evolution in GridPP5: themes and plans David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      • 12
        Structured discussion
        How do we go forward? Topics drawn from the Tier-2: technologies session and elsewhere. Site views and experiences.
        Speakers: Dr David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        • a) Tier-2 on resources shared with IT services
          Speaker: Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh (GB))
          Slides
        • b) Running Vac overnight on spare capacity
          Speaker: Matt Williams
          Slides
        • c) Running services in containers managed by Mesos and Marathon
          Speaker: Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        • d) Questions for discussion (from the technical meeting):
          - Clouds, where next? Are they awesome or evil or do we simply need to keep a prototyping testbed? - Cloud Technologies (OpenSTack, OpenNebula, Containers, VAC/Vcycle ...). What should our workplan be? - (From Raul after the meeting) How do we achieve: Resource Pooling, Rapid Elasticity, Broad Access, Monitoring without reverting to people like AWS - Security and Clouds: o How do different technologies resolve traceability? o Security training and policy (similar to how security exercises for Grids) o Interactions with site security - how on earth can they trust us? o ARGUS/glexec - centralised banning - (From Raul after the meeting) Our present storage solutions o Our storage systems (DPM/dCache/no-matter-the-flavor) are cluttered/bloated with layers of unused software. o Our storage architecture (DPM/dCache/Lustre/etc) is vulnerable by design.
          Slides
    • 13
      Sponsor talk David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Slides
    • 19:30
      Dinner SCR, 1st Floor, Queens Building (Queen Mary University London)

      SCR, 1st Floor, Queens Building

      Queen Mary University London

  • Thursday 30 April
    • Tier-1 Evolution in GridPP5 David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Chair - Pete Gronbech

      • 14
        T1 Overview
        Speaker: Andrew Sansum (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        Slides
      • 15
        CEPH
        Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)
        Slides
      • 16
        Cloud
        Speaker: George Ryall (STFC)
        Slides
      • 17
        Experience working with LOFAR to exploit the Tier-1 cloud
        Speaker: George Ryall (STFC)
      • 18
        Experience working with Ligo to exploit the Tier-1 Grid infrastructure
        Speaker: Catalin Condurache (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        Slides
    • 10:00
      Coffee Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

      Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

    • Users ,Support Networking and Future Directions David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Chair - Jeremy Coles

      • 19
        Ganga
        Speaker: Mark William Slater (University of Birmingham (GB))
        Slides
      • 20
        GridUser toolkits
        Speaker: Tom Whyntie (University of London (GB))
        DIRAC-timeline
        Slides
      • 21
        IPv6 HEPiX Group Update
        Speaker: Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        Slides
      • 22
        IPv6 in GridPP
        Speaker: Duncan Rand (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
        Slides
      • 23
        Named Data Networks
        Speaker: Duncan Rand (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
      • 24
        WLCG workshop 2015: run2 and beyond
        Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

      Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

    • Monitoring & Misc David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      David Sizer Lecture Theatre

      Queen Mary University of London

      Chair - Roger Jones

      • 25
        ATLAS ADC monitoring evolution for run2
        Speaker: Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
        Slides
      • 26
        Graphite Monitoring
        Speaker: David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))
        Slides
      • 27
        Subtlenoise: sonification of distributed computing activity
        Speaker: Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))
        Slides
      • 28
        HNSci Cloud
        Speaker: Andrew Sansum (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
        Slides
      • 29
        Security Overview
        Speaker: Ian Neilson (STFC RAL (GB))
        Slides
      • 30
        The Science of CERN@School
        Speaker: Tom Whyntie (University of London (GB))
        Slides
    • 16:05
      Coffee Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum

      Queen Mary University of London, Physics Museum