Name: HEPiX Fall 2015 Workshop
Start: 2015-10-12T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-10-16T13:10:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Monday 12 October 2015

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
09:00
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to BNL - Michael Ernst (Unknown)
09:15
09:15 - 10:35
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:15 CERN Site Report - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

09:35 ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 (AGLT2) Update - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

09:55 INFN-T1 Site report - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

10:15 Fermilab Site Report - Rennie Scott (Fermilab)
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:00 Oxford and SouthGrid Site Status Report - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))

11:20 PIC Site Report - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

11:40 PDSF Site Report and Relocation - Tony Quan (LBL)

12:00 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

12:20 BEIJING Site Report - Qiulan Huang (Institute of High Energy of Physics Chinese Academy of Science)
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 14:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 Simulating 5 Trillion Events on the Open Science Grid - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
14:20
14:20 - 15:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:20 Scientific Linux Status Update - Bonnie King (Fermilab)

14:40 CERN CentOS 7 and community update - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

15:00 Software collaboration tools as a stack of services - Borja Aparicio Cotarelo (CERN)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
15:50
15:50 - 16:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

15:50 Using ownCloud to provide mobile access to existing storage - Chris Brew (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

16:10 Self service kiosk for Mac and mobiles - Tim Bell (CERN)
16:30
16:30 - 16:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 NERSC Plans for the Computational Research and Theory Building - Elizabeth Bautista (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
16:50
16:50 - 17:10
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:50 Growing our own systems administrators - Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
17:10
17:10 - 17:25
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

17:10 LAL Site Report - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Room: EastWind Long Island
Tuesday 13 October 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Jefferson Lab Scientific and High Performance Computing - Sandy Philpott

09:20 University of Wisconsin Madison CMS T2 site report - Ajit Kumar Mohapatra (University of Wisconsin (US))

09:40 Australia-ATLAS site report - Lucien Philip Boland (University of Melbourne (AU))

10:00 NDGF Site Report - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

10:50 Wigner Datacenter - Site report - Szabolcs Hernath (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))

11:10 Site report from KEK - Tomoaki Nakamura (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

11:30 KIT Site Report - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

11:50 CSC.fi - Site Report - Johan Henrik Guldmyr (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

12:10 SLAC Scientific Computing Services - Yemi Adesanya
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall Cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
Room: Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar room
Contributions

14:00 DESY Site Report - Wolfgang Friebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))

14:20 BNL Site Report - Shigeki Misawa (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
14:40
14:40 - 15:20
Room: Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar Room
Contributions

14:40 News from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

15:00 Status on the IPv6 OSG Software stack tests - Edgar Fajardo Hernandez (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar Lounge
15:50
15:50 - 17:50
Room: Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar Room
Contributions

15:50 Network infrastructure for the CERN Datacentre - Eric Sallaz (CERN)

16:10 WLCG Network and Transfer Metrics WG After One Year - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

16:30 Update on WLCG/OSG perfSONAR Infrastructure - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

16:50 Using VPLS for VM mobility - Carles Kishimoto Bisbe (CERN)

17:10 Computer Security update - Liviu Valsan (CERN)

17:30 Building a large scale Security Operations Centre - Liviu Valsan (CERN)
Wednesday 14 October 2015

08:30

08:30 - 08:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
08:50
08:50 - 10:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:50 Introduction to GDB - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

09:00 CERN Cloud Status - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

09:20 Optimisations of the Compute Resources in the CERN Cloud Service - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

09:40 Automated performance testing framework - Sean Crosby (University of Melbourne (AU))

10:00 An initial evaluation of Docker at the RACF - Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

10:50 Benchmarking commercial cloud resources - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

11:10 A comparison of performance between KVM and Docker instances in OpenStack - Wataru Takase (KEK)

11:30 The Open Science Grid: Physics Experiments to Campus Researchers - Chander Sehgal (Fermilab)

11:50 Improving IaaS resources to accommodate scientific applications - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

12:10 First experiences with Mesos at RAL - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 HTCondor-CE: Managing the Grid with HTCondor - Brian Lin (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

14:20 Running ATLAS, CMS, ALICE Workloads on the NERSC Cray XC30 - James Botts (LBNL)

14:40 computing resources virtualization in IHEP - Qiulan Huang (Institute of High Energy of Physics Chinese Academy of Science)
15:00
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

15:00 CvmFS deployment status and trends - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
15:50
15:50 - 17:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

15:50 Future home directory at CERN - Alberto Pace (CERN)

16:10 Ceph Based Storage Systems at the RACF - Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

16:30 Ceph object storage at RAL - George Vasilakakos (STFC)

16:50 Scientific Data Storage at FNAL - Gerard Bernabeu Altayo (Fermilab)

17:10 Accelerating High Performance Cluster Computing Through the Reduction of File System Latency - David Fellinger (DataDirect Networks, Inc)
18:30

18:30 - 21:30
Room: Lombardi's on the Bay
Thursday 15 October 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Supervised Machine Learning - Amit Chattopadhyay (WD)

09:20 Quality of Service in storage and the INDIGO-DataCloud project. - Patrick Fuhrmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))

09:40 USATLAS dCache storage system at BNL - Zhenping Liu (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

10:00 Space usage monitoring for distributed heterogeneous data storage systems. - Natalia Ratnikova (Fermilab)
10:20
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

10:20 The HP IT Data Center Transformation Journey - Dave Rotheroe (HP)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:10 Proposal for a new Data Center at BNL - Imran Latif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:30 Asset management in CERN data centres - Eric Bonfillou (CERN)

11:50 Energy efficiency upgrades at PIC - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

12:10 Energy Services Performance Contracting Abstract - HEPIX Fall 2015 - Michael Ross (HP)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 Document oriented database infrastructure for monitoring HEP data systems applications - Carlos Fernando Gamboa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:20 ELK at NERSC - Cary Whitney (LBNL)

14:40 CERN Monitoring Status Update - Miguel Coelho dos Santos (CERN)

15:00 Update on Configuration Management at CERN - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
15:50
15:50 - 16:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

15:50 ITIL Service models in Detector DAQ Computing - Bonnie King (Fermilab)

16:10 Quattor Update - James Adams (STFC RAL)
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 NVM Express (NVMe): An Overview and Performance Study - Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:50 Status of DESY Batch Infrastructures - Thomas Finnern (DESY)

17:10 Update on benchmarking - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
17:40 HEPIX Board Meeting
HEPIX Board Meeting
17:40 - 19:10
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department room 3-192
Friday 16 October 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 An Easy HTCondor Configuration to Support all Workloads (for some definition of all) - William Edward Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:20 Upgrade to UGE 8.2 : Positives effects at IN2P3-CC - Vanessa HAMAR (CC-IN2P3)

09:40 HTCondor Recent Enhancement and Future Directions - Todd Tannenbaum (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

10:00 Non-traditional workloads at the RACF - William Edward Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Seminar Lounge
10:50
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

10:50 Future of Batch Processing at CERN - Jerome Belleman (CERN)
11:10 Basic IT Services
Basic IT Services
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:10 Foreman - A full automation solution for a growing facility - Mizuki Karasawa (BNL)

11:30 Gitlab and its CI - an intelligent solution for hosting Git repos - Mizuki Karasawa (BNL)

11:50 Host deployment and configuration technologies at SCC. - Dmitry Nilsen

12:10 Monitoring with InfluxDB and Grafana - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room
Contributions

12:30 HEPIX Wrap-up - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory)