ALICE Offline week

18 Mar 2015, 09:00 → 20 Mar 2015, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Offline Week Summary

- 18 March : Kjell Johnsen Auditorium 30-7-018

- 19 March : room 13-2-005

- 20 March : Kjell Johnsen Auditorium 30-7-018

Wednesday 18 March

09:00 → 12:30 Offline Forum

Convener: Predrag Buncic (CERN)

09:00 MC naming conventions

Speaker: Igor Lakomov (CERN)

Slides 18_03_15_OfflineForum.pdf

09:40 Status report on Automatic QA

Speaker: Marie Germain (Subatech, IN2P3-CNRS (FR))

Slides PWGpp-QA-offlineweek18March.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Phyics QA

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Slides MCconventionAndQA_25022015.pdf PWGQA_18032015.pdf

10:50 Calibration over more than one run within an LHC fill

Speaker: Kai Schweda (Physikalisches Institut - Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg)

Slides offline-schweda-mar-18.pdf offline-schweda-mar-18.pptx

11:10 ALICE Event Display

Speaker: Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

Slides event_display_user_survey.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Run3 Preparations: Software Framework

Convener: Peter Hristov (CERN)

14:00 Planning of the Alice O2 activities

Speakers: Pierre Vande Vyvre (CERN), Predrag Buncic (CERN)

Slides O2_Roadmap_2015_03_13_V5.pdf O2_Roadmap_2015_03_13_V5.pptx

14:30 Discussion on the Alice O2 planning

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 TPC in Run 3

Speaker: Jens Wiechula (Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen (DE))

Slides 150318_offline_week-TPC_run3.pdf

16:15 Results from the DDS workshop

Speaker: Matthias Richter (University of Oslo (NO))

Slides 2015-03-18_mrichter_aliceo2-framework-prototype-dds.pdf

Thursday 19 March

09:00 → 10:30 Software Framework and Tools

Convener: Peter Hristov (CERN)

09:00 Documentation status, automatic build tests with CDash and daily tagging strategies

Speaker: Dario Berzano (CERN)

Slides 20150319-dberzano-aliceofflineweek-doxygen-cdash-autotag.pdf

09:20 Jenkins and the CMS build infrastructure

Speaker: Mr Giulio Eulisse (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides jenkins-and-cms-build-infrastructure.pdf

09:50 Possible evolution of the ALICE software packages

Speaker: Peter Hristov (CERN)

Slides alice_packages.pdf alice_packages.pptx

10:50 → 12:30 Simulation, Reconstruction, Calibration

Conveners: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN), Chiara Zampolli (Universita e INFN (IT)), Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

11:25 Simulation Status Report and Plans

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

Slides OfflineWeek-2015-03-19.pdf

11:55 Reconstruction Status Report and Plans

Speaker: Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

Slides OW_tracking_rs190315.pdf OW_tracking_rs190315.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:05 Analysis

15:00 LEGO train updates and current status

Speaker: Markus Bernhard Zimmermann (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))

Slides offlineWeek150319_corrected.pdf

16:05 → 19:35 Calibration

16:10 Run 2 calibration & alignment strategy: Discussion

Friday 20 March

09:00 → 12:30 Distributed Computing

Convener: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

09:00 Productions

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Slides offline_week_march_2015_lb.pdf offline_week_march_2015_lb.pptx

09:20 Operations

Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides ALICE-ops-150320.pdf ALICE-ops-150320.pptx

09:40 VmBatch, a dynamic virtualization tool for running grid jobs

Speaker: Bjarte Kileng (Bergen University College (NO))

Slides presentasjon.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 HLT Cloud: current status and timeline

Speaker: Dario Berzano (CERN)

Slides 20150225-dberzano-aliceofflineweek-hltcloud.pdf

10:50 Integration of XRootD into the cloud infrastructure for ALICE data analysis

Speaker: Volodymyr Yurchenko

Slides cloud_xrood_ceph.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch