HEPiX Fall 2015 Workshop

from Monday, October 12, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 16, 2015 (1:10 PM)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Bldg. 510 - Physics Department Large Seminar Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 12, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 14, 2015
Oct 15, 2015
Oct 16, 2015
AM
8:00 AM
Registration (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Welcome to BNL (until 9:15 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome to BNL - Michael Ernst (Unknown)  
9:15 AM
Site Reports (until 10:35 AM)
9:15 AM CERN Site Report - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)  
9:35 AM ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2 (AGLT2) Update - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
9:55 AM INFN-T1 Site report - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)  
10:15 AM Fermilab Site Report - Rennie Scott (Fermilab)  
10:35 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Site Reports (until 12:40 PM)
11:00 AM Oxford and SouthGrid Site Status Report - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:20 AM PIC Site Report - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)  
11:40 AM PDSF Site Report and Relocation - Tony Quan (LBL)  
12:00 PM RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)  
12:20 PM BEIJING Site Report - Dr Qiulan Huang (Institute of High Energy of Physics Chinese Academy of Science)  
8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Site Reports (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Jefferson Lab Scientific and High Performance Computing - Sandy Philpott  
9:20 AM University of Wisconsin Madison CMS T2 site report - Ajit Kumar Mohapatra (University of Wisconsin (US))  
9:40 AM Australia-ATLAS site report - Lucien Philip Boland (University of Melbourne (AU))  
10:00 AM NDGF Site Report - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 AM
Site Reports (until 12:30 PM)
10:50 AM Wigner Datacenter - Site report - Szabolcs Hernath (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
11:10 AM Site report from KEK - Tomoaki Nakamura (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))  
11:30 AM KIT Site Report - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
11:50 AM CSC.fi - Site Report - Johan Henrik Guldmyr (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
12:10 PM SLAC Scientific Computing Services - Yemi Adesanya  
8:30 AM
Registration (until 8:50 AM)
8:50 AM
Grid, Cloud and Virtualization (until 10:20 AM)
8:50 AM Introduction to GDB - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
9:00 AM CERN Cloud Status - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)  
9:20 AM Optimisations of the Compute Resources in the CERN Cloud Service - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)  
9:40 AM Automated performance testing framework - Sean Crosby (University of Melbourne (AU))  
10:00 AM An initial evaluation of Docker at the RACF - Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 AM
Grid, Cloud and Virtualization (until 12:30 PM)
10:50 AM Benchmarking commercial cloud resources - Domenico Giordano (CERN)  
11:10 AM A comparison of performance between KVM and Docker instances in OpenStack - Wataru Takase (KEK)  
11:30 AM The Open Science Grid: Physics Experiments to Campus Researchers - Chander Sehgal (Fermilab)  
11:50 AM Improving IaaS resources to accommodate scientific applications - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)  
12:10 PM First experiences with Mesos at RAL - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
9:00 AM
Storage and Filesystems (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Supervised Machine Learning - Mr Amit Chattopadhyay (WD)  
Slides
9:20 AM Quality of Service in storage and the INDIGO-DataCloud project. - Patrick Fuhrmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))  
9:40 AM USATLAS dCache storage system at BNL - Zhenping Liu (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:00 AM Space usage monitoring for distributed heterogeneous data storage systems. - Natalia Ratnikova (Fermilab)  
10:20 AM
IT Facilities and Business Continuity (until 10:40 AM)
10:20 AM The HP IT Data Center Transformation Journey - Dave Rotheroe (HP)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 AM
IT Facilities and Business Continuity (until 12:30 PM)
11:10 AM Proposal for a new Data Center at BNL - Mr Imran Latif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:30 AM Asset management in CERN data centres - Eric Bonfillou (CERN)  
11:50 AM Energy efficiency upgrades at PIC - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)  
12:10 PM Energy Services Performance Contracting Abstract - HEPIX Fall 2015 - Mr Michael Ross (HP)  
9:00 AM
Computing and Batch Services (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM An Easy HTCondor Configuration to Support all Workloads (for some definition of all) - William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab) William Edward Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
9:20 AM Upgrade to UGE 8.2 : Positives effects at IN2P3-CC - Vanessa HAMAR (CC-IN2P3)  
Slides
9:40 AM HTCondor Recent Enhancement and Future Directions - Todd Tannenbaum (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA)  
10:00 AM Non-traditional workloads at the RACF - William Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Lab) William Edward Strecker-Kellogg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 AM
Computing and Batch Services (until 11:10 AM)
10:50 AM Future of Batch Processing at CERN - Jerome Belleman (CERN)  
11:10 AM
Basic IT Services (until 12:30 PM)
11:10 AM Foreman - A full automation solution for a growing facility - Mizuki Karasawa (BNL)  
11:30 AM Gitlab and its CI - an intelligent solution for hosting Git repos - Mizuki Karasawa (BNL)  
11:50 AM Host deployment and configuration technologies at SCC. - Dmitry Nilsen  
12:10 PM Monitoring with InfluxDB and Grafana - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
PM
12:40 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Grid, Cloud and Virtualization (until 2:20 PM)
2:00 PM Simulating 5 Trillion Events on the Open Science Grid - Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
2:20 PM
End-user Services and Operating Systems (until 3:20 PM)
2:20 PM Scientific Linux Status Update - Bonnie King (Fermilab)  
2:40 PM CERN CentOS 7 and community update - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)  
3:00 PM Software collaboration tools as a stack of services - Borja Aparicio Cotarelo (CERN)  
3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:50 PM
End-user Services and Operating Systems (until 4:30 PM)
3:50 PM Using ownCloud to provide mobile access to existing storage - Chris Brew (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
4:10 PM Self service kiosk for Mac and mobiles - Tim Bell (CERN)  
4:30 PM
IT Facilities and Business Continuity (until 4:50 PM)
4:30 PM NERSC Plans for the Computational Research and Theory Building - Elizabeth Bautista (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)  
4:50 PM
Miscellaneous (until 5:10 PM)
4:50 PM Growing our own systems administrators - Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
5:10 PM
Site Reports (until 5:25 PM)
5:10 PM LAL Site Report - Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
6:00 PM
Welcome Reception (until 8:00 PM) (EastWind Long Island)
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Site Reports (until 2:40 PM) (Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar room)
2:00 PM DESY Site Report - Wolfgang Friebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))  
2:20 PM BNL Site Report - Dr Shigeki Misawa (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
2:40 PM
Security and Networking (until 3:20 PM) (Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar Room)
2:40 PM News from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))  
3:00 PM Status on the IPv6 OSG Software stack tests - Edgar Fajardo Hernandez (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:50 PM
Security and Networking (until 5:50 PM) (Bldg. 555 - Chemistry Department Hamilton Seminar Room)
3:50 PM Network infrastructure for the CERN Datacentre - Eric Sallaz (CERN)  
4:10 PM WLCG Network and Transfer Metrics WG After One Year - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
4:30 PM Update on WLCG/OSG perfSONAR Infrastructure - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
4:50 PM Using VPLS for VM mobility - Carles Kishimoto Bisbe (CERN)  
5:10 PM Computer Security update - Liviu Valsan (CERN)  
5:30 PM Building a large scale Security Operations Centre - Liviu Valsan (CERN)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Grid, Cloud and Virtualization (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM HTCondor-CE: Managing the Grid with HTCondor - Brian Lin (University of Wisconsin - Madison)  
2:20 PM Running ATLAS, CMS, ALICE Workloads on the NERSC Cray XC30 - James Botts (LBNL)  
2:40 PM computing resources virtualization in IHEP - Dr Qiulan Huang (Institute of High Energy of Physics Chinese Academy of Science)  
3:00 PM
Storage and Filesystems (until 3:20 PM)
3:00 PM CvmFS deployment status and trends - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:50 PM
Storage and Filesystems (until 5:30 PM)
3:50 PM Future home directory at CERN - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
4:10 PM Ceph Based Storage Systems at the RACF - Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
4:30 PM Ceph object storage at RAL - George Vasilakakos (STFC)  
4:50 PM Scientific Data Storage at FNAL - Gerard Bernabeu Altayo (Fermilab)  
5:10 PM Accelerating High Performance Cluster Computing Through the Reduction of File System Latency - Mr David Fellinger (DataDirect Networks, Inc)  
6:30 PM
Conference Dinner (until 9:30 PM) (Lombardi's on the Bay)
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Basic IT Services (until 3:20 PM)
2:00 PM Document oriented database infrastructure for monitoring HEP data systems applications - Carlos Fernando Gamboa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
2:20 PM ELK at NERSC - Cary Whitney (LBNL)  
2:40 PM CERN Monitoring Status Update - Miguel Coelho dos Santos (CERN)  
3:00 PM Update on Configuration Management at CERN - Alberto Rodriguez Peon (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:50 PM
Basic IT Services (until 4:30 PM)
3:50 PM ITIL Service models in Detector DAQ Computing - Bonnie King (Fermilab)  
4:10 PM Quattor Update - James Adams (STFC RAL)  
4:30 PM
Computing and Batch Services (until 5:30 PM)
4:30 PM NVM Express (NVMe): An Overview and Performance Study - Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
4:50 PM Status of DESY Batch Infrastructures - Thomas Finnern (DESY)  
5:10 PM Update on benchmarking - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
Slides
5:40 PM
HEPIX Board Meeting (until 7:10 PM) (Bldg. 510 - Physics Department room 3-192)
12:30 PM
Closing and HEPIX Business (until 1:00 PM)
12:30 PM HEPIX Wrap-up - Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Helge Meinhard (CERN)