Name: CHEP 06
Start: 2006-02-13T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2006-02-17T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

CHEP 06

from Monday 13 February 2006 (08:00) to Friday 17 February 2006 (19:30)

Monday 13 February 2006

08:00

08:00 - 09:30
09:30 Plenary 1
Plenary 1
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Opening of The Coference

10:00 Status of the LHC Machine - Jos Engelen (CERN)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary 2
Plenary 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 State of Readiness of LHC Computing Infrastructure - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

11:30 State of readiness of LHC Experiment Software - Paris Sphicas (CERN)

12:00 Low Cost Connecivity Initiative in India - Ashok Jhunjhunwala (IIT, Chennai)
Poster 1
Poster 1
11:00 - 18:10
Contributions

11:00 ScotGrid and the LCG. - Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)

11:00 LHCb Data Replication during SC3 - Andrew Cameron Smith (CERN, University of Edinburgh)

11:00 LcgCAF - The CDF portal to the gLite Middleware - Armando Fella (INFN, Pisa)

11:00 The Calorimeter Event Data Model for the ATLAS Experiment at LHC - Walter Lampl (Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

11:00 A General Jet Tagging Environment for the ATLAS Detector Reconstruction Software - Andreas Wildauer (UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK)

11:00 Integration of graphviz within OnX - Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

11:00 ROOT/CINT/Reflex integration - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

11:00 ROOT 3D graphics overview and examples - Rene Brun (CERN)

11:00 Lattice QCD Clusters at Fermilab - Donald Holmgren (FERMILAB)

11:00 Large scale data movement on the GRID - Pavel Nevski (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

11:00 Monitoring and Accounting within the ATLAS Production System - john kennedy (ATLAS)

11:00 VLSI Implementation of Greedy based Distributed Routing Schemes for Ad Hoc NetWorks - paolo branchini (INFN)

11:00 An Identity Server Portal for Global Accelerator and Detector Networks - Sven Karstensen (DESY Hamburg)

11:00 A Computational and Data Scheduling Architecture for HEP Applications - Lars Schley (University Dortmund, IRF-IT, Germany)

11:00 ROOT 2D graphics visualisation techniques - Rene Brun (CERN)

11:00 Connecting WLCG Tier-2 centers to GridKa - Andreas Heiss (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE)

11:00 First step in C# and mono - Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

11:00 Interface between data handling system (SAM) and CDF experiment software - Valeria Bartsch (FERMILAB / University College London)

11:00 cMsg - A General Framework for Deploying Publish/Subscribe Interprocess Communication Systems - Elliott Wolin (Jefferson Lab)

11:00 Feasibility of Data Acquisition Middleware based on Robot technology - Yoshiji Yasu (KEK)

11:00 Distributed Analysis Experiences within D-GRID - Johannes Elmsheuser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München)

11:00 VGM visualization within OnX - Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

11:00 BaBar SPGrid - Putting BaBar's Simulation Production on The Grid - Alessandra Forti (Univ.of Milano Faculty of Art) Chris Brew (CCLRC - RAL)

11:00 Integration of an AFS-based Sun Grid Engine site in a LCG grid - Ariel Garcia (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)

11:00 Application of Maximum Likelihood Method for the computation of Spin Density Matrix Elements of Vector Meson Production at HERMES. - Alexander Borissov (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)

11:00 CREAM: A simple, Grid-accessible, Job Management System for local Computational Resources - Moreno Marzolla (INFN Padova)

11:00 Resilient dCache: Replicating Files for Integrity and Availability. - Timur Perelmutov (FNAL)

11:00 Operating a Tier1 centre as part of a grid environment - Sven Hermann (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

11:00 Large scale, grid-enabled, distributed disk storage systems at the Brookhaven National Lab RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Zhenping Liu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:00 L-STORE: A FLEXIBLE LOGISTICAL STORAGE FRAMEOWRK FOR DISTRIBUTED, SCALABLE AND SECURE ACCESS TO LARGE-SCALE DATA - Surya Pathak (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 Transparently Distributing CDF Software with Parrot - Igor Sfiligoi (INFN Frascati)

11:00 Numerical simulation of the beam dynamics in storage rings with electron cooling - Grigory Trubnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)

11:00 Schema Evolution and the ATLAS Event Store - Marcin Nowak (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

11:00 Prototype of the Swiss ATLAS Computing Infrastructure - Szymon Gadomski (UNIVERSITY OF BERN, LABORATORY FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS)

11:00 Geant4 Muon Digitization in the ATHENA Framework - Daniela Rebuzzi (Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

11:00 L-TEST: A FRAMEWORK FOR SIMPLIFIED TESTING OF DISTRIBUTED HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER SUB-SYSTEMS - Laurence Dawson (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 Grid Deployment Experiences: The Evolution of the LCG information system. - Laurence Field (CERN)

11:00 Grid Deployment Experiences: The evaluation and initial deployment of R-GMA for production quality monitoring. - Laurence Field (CERN)

11:00 Building a Federated Tier2 Center to support Physics Analysis and MC Production for multiple LHC Experiments - Michael Ernst (DESY)

11:00 A Gauge Model of Data Acquisition - Mieczyslaw Krasny (LPNHE, Uviversity Paris)

11:00 A Diskless Solution for LCG Middleware - Silvio Pardi (DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA ED APPLICAZIONI "R.CACCIOPPOLI")

11:00 Recent User Interface Developments in ROOT - Fons Rademakers (CERN)

11:00 The SAM-Grid / LCG interoperability system: a bridge between two Grids - Garzoglio Gabriele (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)

11:00 A case for application-aware grid services. - Garzoglio Gabriele (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)

11:00 Software management for the alignment system of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Valerie GAUTARD (CEA-SACLAY)

11:00 Computation of Nearly Exact 3D Electrostatic Field in Multiwire Chambers - Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

11:00 A Monitoring Subscription Language in the Framework of Distributed System - Rosa palmiero (INFN and University of Naples)

11:00 CMD-3 Detector Offline Software Development - Alexander Zaytsev (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))

11:00 Sailing the petabyte sea: navigational infrastructure in the ATLAS event store - David Malon (ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY)

11:00 CMD-3 Detector Computing Environment Overview - Alexei Sibidanov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

11:00 Evaluation of Virtual Machines for HEP Grids - Ashok Agarwal (Univeristy of Victoria)

11:00 SAMGrid Web Services - Sinisa Veseli (Fermilab)

11:00 SAMGrid Peer-to-Peer Information Service - Sinisa Veseli (Fermilab)

11:00 Reconstruction and calibration strategies for the LHCb RICH detector - Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Cambridge) Raluca-Anca Muresan (Oxford University)

11:00 Managing gLite with Quattor: Implementation and Deployment Experience - Marian ZUREK (CERN, ETICS)

11:00 An XML-based configuration and management system for the gLite middleware - Joachim Flammer (CERN)

11:00 ARGO-YBJ experimental data transfer and processing : experience with the Computer Farm and evolution of the computing model to a GRID approach. - Cristian Stanescu (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - Sezione Roma III)

11:00 Cmd3Fwk Software Development Framework - Sergey Pirogov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

11:00 The Readout Crate in BESIII DAQ framework - GUANGKUN LEI (IHEP)

11:00 Operation and Management of a Heterogeneous Large-Scale, Multi-Purpose Computer Cluster at Brookhaven National Lab - Tony Chan (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB)

11:00 Advances in Fabric Management by the CERN-BARC collaboration - William Tomlin (CERN)

11:00 Multiple Virtual Databases to support multiple VOs in R-GMA - A.J. Wilson (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:00 CLAS Experimental Control System - Vardan Gyurjyan (JEFFERSON LAB)

11:00 Conditions database and calibration software framework for ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube chambers - Monica Verducci (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

11:00 The Evolving Role of Monitoring in a Large-Scale Computing Facility - Tony Chan (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB)

11:00 STAR Vertex reconstruction algorithms in the presence of abundant pileup. - Jan BALEWSKI (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)

11:00 Lightweight deployment of the SAM grid data handling system to new experiments. - Arthur Kreymer (FERMILAB)

11:00 DOSAR: A Distributed Organization for Scientific and Academic Research - Patrick Skubic (University of Oklahoma)

11:00 Experiences with operating SamGrid at the GermanGrid centre "GridKa" for CDF - Thomas Kuhr (UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE, GERMANY) Ulrich Kerzel (UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE, GERMANY)

11:00 Overview of STAR Online Control Systems and Experiment Status Information - Wayne BETTS (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

11:00 Lavoisier: A Data Aggregation and Unification Service - Sylvain Reynaud (IN2P3/CNRS)

11:00 Public Resource Computing and Geant4 - Jukka Klem (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

11:00 Non-Java Web Service hosting for Grids - Andrew McNab (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 CFN-1
CFN-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D405
Contributions

14:00 DNS load balancing and failover mechanism at CERN - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN IT-FIO)

14:20 Using TSM to create a high-performance tape connection - Doris Ressmann (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

14:40 Cluster architecture for java web hosting at CERN - Michal Kwiatek (CERN)

15:00 dCache, the Upgrade - Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)
DDA-1
DDA-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D406
Contributions

14:00 DIAL: Distributed Interactive Analysis of Large Datasets - David Adams (BNL)

14:20 Distributed object monitoring for ROOT analyses with GO4 v3 - Jörn Adamczewski (GSI)

14:40 DIRAC Production Manager Tools - Gennady KUZNETSOV (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot)

15:00 PROOF - The Parallel ROOT Facility - Gerardo GANIS (CERN)
DEPP-1
DEPP-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 80
Contributions

14:00 The LCG Service Challenges - Results from the Throughput Tests and Service Deployment - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

14:20 Public Resource Computing at CERN - LHC@home - Jukka Klem (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

14:40 Massive data processing for the ATLAS Combined Test Beam - Frederik Orellana (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Université de Genève)

15:00 Database Access Patterns in ATLAS Computing Model - A. Vaniachine (ANL)
EPA-1
EPA-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 76
Contributions

14:00 Geant4 in production: status and developments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:18 Update On the Status of the FLUKA Monte Carlo Transport Code - Lawrence S. Pinsky (University of Houston)

14:36 GEANT4E: Error propagation for track reconstruction inside the GEANT4 framework - Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

14:54 Recent developments and upgrades to the Geant4 geometry modeler - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

15:12 Recent upgrates of the standard electromagnetic physics package in Geant4 - Michel Maire (LAPP)
GMEO-1
GMEO-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 The Open Science Grid - Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD for the OSG consortium) Ruth Pordes (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) Ruth Pordes (FERMILAB)

14:20 The Integration Testbed of the Open Science Grid - Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

14:40 The German HEP-Grid initiative - Peter Malzacher (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))

15:00 FermiGrid - Status and Plans - Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)
OC-1
OC-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B333
Contributions

14:00 The ALICE Data-Acquisition Software Framework DATE V5 - Klaus SCHOSSMAIER (CERN)

14:20 CMS DAQ Event Builder based on Gigabit Ethernet - Marco Pieri (University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA)

14:45 The architecture and administration of the ATLAS online computing system - marc dobson (CERN)

15:05 The LHCb Online System - Beat Jost (CERN)
SCL-1
SCL-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 69
Contributions

14:00 Common Application Software for the LHC Experiments - Pere Mato (CERN)

14:20 ATLAS Distributed Database Services Client Library - Alexandre Vaniachine (ANL)

14:40 A Flexible, Distributed Event Level Metadata System for ATLAS - Caitriana Nicholson (University of Glasgow) Caitriana Nicholson (Unknown) David Malon (ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY)

15:00 The Evolution of Databases in HEP - A Time-Traveler's Tale - Jamie Shiers (CERN)
STIS-1
STIS-1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 77
Contributions

14:00 Prototyping an HEP Ontology Using Protégé - Bebo White (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER (SLAC))

14:20 Extending FOAF with HEPNames Information for Use in HEP Semantic Web Applications - Bebo White (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER (SLAC))

14:40 Towards an Intelligent Agent Model Component agent Model - Deepak Narasimha (VMRF Deemed University)

15:00 "Software kernels" - Can we gauge total application performance by inspecting the efficiency of compiled small (but important) software kernels? - Sverre Jarp (CERN)
15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 CFN-2
CFN-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D405
Contributions

16:00 Chimera - a new, fast, extensible and Grid enabled namespace service - Tigran Mkrtchyan Mkrtchyan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

16:20 Quantifying the Digital Divide: A scientific overview of the connectivity of South Asian and African Countries - Roger Cottrell (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

16:40 UltraLight: An Ultrascale Information System for Data Intensive Research - Richard Cavanaugh (University of Florida)

17:00 Storage for the LHC Experiments - Roger JONES (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY)

17:20 openlab-II: where are we, where are we going? - Francois Fluckiger (CERN)
DDA-2
DDA-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D406
Contributions

16:00 Grid Data Management: Simulations of LCG 2008 - Caitriana Nicholson (University of Glasgow)

16:20 A skimming procedure to handle large datasets at CDF - Donatella Lucchesi (INFN Padova) Francesco Delli Paoli (INFN Padova)

16:40 Automated recovery of data-intensive jobs in D0 and CDF using SAM - Valeria Bartsch (FERMILAB / University College London)

17:00 Resource Predictors in HEP Applications - John Huth (Harvard University)

17:20 CMS/ARDA activity within the CMS distributed computing system - Julia Andreeva (CERN)
DEPP-2
DEPP-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 80
Contributions

16:00 The ATLAS Computing Model - Roger JONES (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY)

16:20 ATLAS Experience on Large Scale Productions on the Grid - Gilbert Poulard Poulard (CERN)

16:40 Studies with the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition "pre-series" setup - gokhan unel (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE AND CERN)

17:00 The Use and Integration of Distributed and Object-Based File-Systems at Brookhaven National Laboratory - Robert Petkus (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:20 OSG-CAF - A single point of submission for CDF to the Open Science Grid - Matthew Norman (University of California at San Diego)

17:40 GridX1: A Canadian Particle Physics Grid - Ashok Agarwal (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada)
EPA-2
EPA-2
16:00 - 18:10
Room: AG 76
Contributions

16:00 HepData and JetWeb: HEP Data Archiving and Model Validation - Andy Buckley (Durham University) Andy Buckley (University of Cambridge)

16:18 Geant4 Acceptance Suite for Key Observables - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

16:36 Systematic validation of Geant4 electromagnetic and hadronic models against proton data - Aatos Heikkinen (HIP) Barbara Mascialino (INFN Genova) Francesco Di Rosa (INFN LNS) Giacomo Cuttone (INFN LNS) Giorgio Russo (INFN LNS) Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone (INFN LNS) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Susanna Guatelli (INFN Genova)

16:54 Simulation for LHC radiation background: optimisation of monitoring detectors and experimental validation - Barbara Mascialino (INFN Genova) Federico Ravotti (CERN) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Maurice Glaser (CERN) Michael Moll (CERN) Riccardo Capra (INFN Genova)

17:12 Simulation of heavy ion therapy system using Geant4 - Satoru Kameoka (High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation)

17:30 The ATLAS Detector Simulation -an LHC challenge - Adele Rimoldi (University of Pavia)

17:48 EvtGen project in ATLAS - Roger Jones (Lancaster University)
GMEO-2
GMEO-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 GRIF, a Tier2 center for Paris region - Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)

16:20 Grid Computing Research---Its influence on economic and scientific progress for Pakistan - Arshad Ali (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) Pakistan)

16:40 Grid Operations: the evolution of operational model over the first year - Gilles Mathieu (IN2P3, Lyon) Helene Cordier (IN2P3, Lyon) Piotr Nyczyk (CERN)

17:00 Global Grid User Support: the model and experience in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - Flavia Donno (CERN) Marco Verlato (INFN Padova)

17:20 Gridview : A Grid Monitoring and Visualization Tool - Rajesh Kalmady (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

17:40 GridICE: Requirements, Architecture and Experience of a Monitoring Tool for Grid Systems - Sergio Andreozzi (INFN-CNAF)
OC-2
OC-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: B333
Contributions

16:00 Unified Software Framework for Upgraded Belle DAQ System - Ryosuke ITOH (KEK)

16:20 FutureDAQ for CBM: Online Event Selection - Hans G. Essel (GSI)

16:40 Design and Performance of the CDF Experiment Online Control and Configuration Systems - William Badgett (Fermilab)

17:00 Architecture and implementation of the ALICE Data-Acquisition System - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)
SCL-2
SCL-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 69
Contributions

16:00 Recent Developments in the ROOT I/O and TTrees - Philippe Canal (FERMILAB)

16:20 CORAL, a software system for vendor-neutral access to relational databases - Ioannis Papadopoulos (CERN, IT Department, Geneva 23, CH-1211, Switzerland)

16:40 COOL Development and Deployment - Status and Plans - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

17:00 Using multiple persistent technologies in the Condition/DB of BaBar - Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

17:20 The LHCb Conditions Database Framework - Marco Clemencic (CERN)

17:40 ROOT I/O for SQL databases - Sergey Linev (GSI DARMSTADT)
STIS-2
STIS-2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 77
Contributions

16:00 Web Access to Cms Tracker Monitoring Data with an AJAX Interface - Giulio Eulisse (Northeastern University, Boston)

16:20 ROOT GUI, General Status - Fons Rademakers (CERN) Fons Rademakers (CERN)

16:40 From Task Analysis to the Application Design - Fons Rademakers (CERN)

17:00 ROME - a universally applicable analysis framework generator - Matthias Schneebeli (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

17:20 The LCG SPI project in LCG Phase II - Andreas Pfeiffer (CERN, PH/SFT)
Tuesday 14 February 2006
09:00 Plenary 3
Plenary 3
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Next Generation DAQ Systems - Beat Jost (CERN)

09:30 Event Processing Frameworks; a Social and Technical Challenge - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (FNAL)

10:00 LHC-Era data rates in 2004 and 2005 - Experiences of the PHENIX Experiment with a PetaByte of Data - Martin Purschke (BNL)
Poster 1
Poster 1
09:00 - 18:10

10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary 4
Plenary 4
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure - Tony Hey (Microsoft, UK)

11:30 MySQL and Scalable Databases - David Axmark (MySQL)

12:00 High Performance Computing - Accelerating Discovery - Alan Gara (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 CFN-3
CFN-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D405
Contributions

14:00 High End Visualization with Scalable Display System - Dinesh Sarode (Computer Division, BARC, Mumbai-85, India)

14:20 Performance Analysis of Linux Networking – Packet Receiving - Wenji Wu (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:40 Network Information and Monitoring Infrastructure (NIMI) - Igor Mandrichenko (FNAL)

15:00 TeraPaths: A QoS Enabled Collaborative Data Sharing Infrastructure for Peta-scale Computing Research - Dantong Yu (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY) Dimitrios Katramatos (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
DDA-3
DDA-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D406
Contributions

14:00 ARDA experience in collaborating with the LHC experiments - Massimo Lamanna (CERN)

14:20 Evolution of BOSS, a tool for job submission and tracking - stuart WAKEFIELD (Imperial College, University of London, London, UNITED KINGDOM)

14:40 Interactive Web-based Analysis Clients using AJAX: with examples for CMS, ROOT and GEANT4 - Giulio Eulisse (Northeastern University, Boston)

15:00 DIRAC Infrastructure for Distributed Analysis - Stuart Paterson (University of Glasgow / CPPM, Marseille)
DEPP-3
DEPP-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 80
Contributions

14:00 GlideCAF - A Late-binding Approach to the Grid - Subir Sarkar (INFN-CNAF)

14:20 A generic approach to job tracking for distributed computing: the STAR approach - Valeri FINE (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

14:40 Grid Deployment Experiences: The current state of grid monitoring and information systems. - Laurence Field (CERN)
EPA-3
EPA-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 76
Contributions

14:00 CMS Detector and Physics Simulation - Maya Stavrianakou (FNAL)

14:18 The new ATLAS Fast Track Simulation engine (FATRAS) - Andreas Salzburger (UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK)

14:36 GFLASH - parameterized electromagnetic shower in CMS - Joanna Weng (Karlsruhe/CERN)

14:54 The ATLAS Event Data Model - Edward Moyse (University of Massachusetts)

15:12 The New CMS Event Data Model and Framework - Christopher Jones (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
GMEO-3
GMEO-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Operations structure for the management, control and support of the INFN-GRID/Grid.It production infrastructure - Maria Cristina Vistoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

14:20 Integrating a heterogeneous and shared computer cluster into grids - Anja Vest (University of Karlsruhe)

14:40 Grid Deployment Experiences: The interoperations activity between OSG and LCG. - Laurence Field (CERN)

15:00 Grid Data Management: Reliable File Transfer Services' Performace - Graeme A Stewart (University of Glasgow)
OC-3
OC-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B333
Contributions

14:00 The ATLAS Data acquisition and High-Level Trigger: concept, design and status. - Benedetto Gorini (CERN)

14:25 Online reconstruction of a TPC as part of the continuous sampling DAQ of the PANDA experiment. - Sebastian Neubert (Technical University Munich)

14:45 ALICE High Level Trigger interfaces and data organisation - Sebastian Robert Bablok (Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway)

15:05 Status and Performance of the DØ Level 3 Trigger/DAQ System - Gordon Watts (University of Washington)
SCL-3
SCL-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 69
Contributions

14:00 Reflex, reflection for C++ - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

14:20 C++ introspection with JIL - David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab)

14:40 Concepts, Developments and Advanced Applications of the PAX Toolkit - Steffen G. Kappler (III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen university (Germany))

15:00 ATLAS Physics Analysis Tools - Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory) PAT ATLAS (ATLAS)
STIS-3
STIS-3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 77
Contributions

14:00 Worm and Peer To Peer Distribution of ATLAS Trigger & DAQ Software to Computer Clusters - Hegoi Garitaonandia Elejabarrieta (Instituto de Fisica de Altas Energias (IFAE))

14:20 The Capone Workflow Manager - Marco Mambelli (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

14:40 Testing Grid Software: The development of a distributed screen recorder to enable front end and usability testing - Florian Urmetzer (Research Assistant in the ACET centre, The University of Reading, UK)

15:00 The CMS Simulation Validation Suite - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 CFN-4
CFN-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D405
Contributions

16:00 apeNEXT: Experiences from Initial Operation - Dirk Pleiter (DESY)

16:20 Migration: Surfing on the Wave of Technological Evolution - An ENSTORE Story - Chih-Hao Huang (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:40 T2K LCG Portal - Gidon Moont (GridPP/Imperial)

17:00 UltraLight: A Managed Network Infrastructure for HEP - Shawn Mc Kee (High Energy Physics)

17:20 Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance of Bulk Data Transfer Applications using Passive Network Measurements - Les Cottrell (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC))
DDA-4
DDA-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D406
Contributions

16:00 The ATLAS Strategy for Distributed Analysis on several Grid Infrastructures - Dietrich Liko (CERN)

16:20 Prototype of a Parallel Analysis System for CMS using PROOF - Isidro Gonzalez Caballero (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

16:40 JobMon: A Secure, Scalable, Interactive Grid Job Monitor - Conrad Steenberg (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

17:00 CRAB: a tool to enable CMS Distributed Analysis - Marco Corvo (Cnaf and Cern)
DEPP-4
DEPP-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 80
Contributions

16:00 Data and Computational Grid decoupling in STAR – An Analysis Scenario using SRM Technology - Eric HJORT (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:20 The LCG based mass production framework of the H1 Experiment - Christoph Wissing (University of Dortmund)

16:40 Experience Supporting the Integration of LHC Experiments Computing Systems with the LCG Middleware - Simone Campana (CERN)

17:00 CMS Monte Carlo Production in the Open Science and LHC Computing Grids - Pablo Garcia-Abia (CIEMAT)

17:20 Development of the Monte Carlo Production Service for CMS - Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

17:40 Italian Tiers hybrid infrastructure for large scale CMS data handling and challenge operations - Daniele - on behalf of CMS Italy Tier-1 and Tier-2's Bonacorsi (INFN-CNAF Bologna, Italy)
EPA-4
EPA-4
16:00 - 18:10
Room: AG 76
Contributions

16:00 The ALICE Offline framework - Federico Carminati (CERN)

16:18 The BESIII Offline Software - Weidong Li (IHEP, Beijing)

16:36 A modular Reconstruction Software Framework for the ILC - Frank Gaede (DESY)

16:54 CBM Simulation and Analysis Framework - Denis Bertini (GSI Darmstadt)

17:12 FLUKA and the Virtual Monte Carlo - Andreas.Morsch@cern.ch Morsch (CERN)

17:30 CMS Reconstruction Software - Tommaso Boccali (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa)

17:48 Track reconstruction algorithms for the ALICE High-Level Trigger - Marian Ivanov (CERN)
GMEO-4
GMEO-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 The gLite File Transfer Service: Middleware Lessons Learned from the Service Challenges - Paolo Badino (CERN)

16:20 A Scalable Distributed Data Management System for ATLAS - David Cameron (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

16:40 Enabling Grid features in dCache - Timur Perelmutov (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)

17:00 BNL Wide Area Data Transfer for RHIC and ATLAS: Experience and Plan - Dantong Yu (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY) Xin Zhao (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

17:20 Project DASH: Securing Direct MySQL Database Access for the Grid - Alexandre Vaniachine (ANL)

17:40 The AMGA Metadata Service in gLite - Birger Koblitz (CERN)
OC-4
OC-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: B333
Contributions

16:00 Physical Study of the BES3 Trigger System - Da-Peng JIN (IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China))

16:20 A configuration system for the ATLAS trigger - Hans von der Schmitt (MPI for Physics, Munich) Hans von der Schmitt (ATLAS)

16:40 Steering the ATLAS High Level Trigger - Gianluca Comune (Michigan State University)

17:00 ATLAS High Level Trigger Infrastructure, RoI Collection and EventBuilding - Kostas Kordas (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))
SCL-4
SCL-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 69
Contributions

16:00 New Developments of ROOT Mathematical Software Libraries - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

16:20 The Phystat Repository For Physics Statistics Code - Philippe Canal (FNAL)

16:40 Evaluation of the power of Goodness-of-Fit tests for the comparison of data distributions - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Andreas Pfeiffer (CERN) Barbara Mascialino (INFN Genova) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Paolo Viarengo (IST Genova)

17:00 StatPatternRecognition: A C++ Package for Multivariate Classification of High Energy Physics Data - Ilya Narsky (California Institute of Technology) Julian Bunn (CALTECH) Julian Bunn (CALTECH) Julian Bunn (California Institute of Technology (CALTECH))

17:20 Operations research and high energy physics - Alberto De Min (Politecnico di Milano)

17:40 A Kalman Filter for Track-based Alignment - Edmund Erich Widl (Institute for High Energy Physics, Vienna)
STIS-4
STIS-4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 77
Contributions

16:00 Organization and Management of ATLAS Software Releases - Frederick Luehring (Indiana University)

16:20 Physics-level Job Configuration - Wim Lavrijsen (LBNL)

16:40 The Development and Release Process for the CMS Software Project - Stefano Argiro (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

17:00 CMS Software Distribution on the LCG and OSG Grids - klaus rabbertz (Karlsruhe University)

17:20 CMS Software Packaging and Distribution Tools - Andreas Nowack (Aaachen University) Klaus Rabbertz (Karlsruhe University)
Wednesday 15 February 2006
09:00 Plenary 5
Plenary 5
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Advanced networking technologies and HEP in future - Harvey Newman (CalTech)

09:30 The LHC Computing Grid Service - Les Robertson (CERN)

10:00 Grids - Collaborations and Gateways - Ruth Pordes (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
Poster 2
Poster 2
09:00 - 18:10
Contributions

09:00 The Simulation of Polarized Baryons in the LHC ATLAS using EvtGen. - Homer Alfred Neal (University of Michigan)

09:00 PLAT – PBS Log Analysis Tools - Jiri Chudoba (Institute of Physics, Prague)

09:00 The ALICE distributed computing framework - Predrag Buncic (CERN)

09:00 IGUANA Graphical User Analysis Project: New Developments - Lucas Taylor (Northeastern University, Boston)

09:00 LCG and ARC middleware interoperability - Michael Gronager (Copenhagen University)

09:00 SPHINX: Experimental Evaluation on Open Science Grid - Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida)

09:00 POOL Developments for Object Persistency into Relational Databases - Giacomo Govi (CERN)

09:00 CRAB Usage and jobs-flow Monitoring - Daniele Spiga (INFN & Università degli Studi di Perugia)

09:00 Using ROOT, Windows, Linux at DØ. To do physics - Gordon Watts (University of Washington)

09:00 Muon detector calibration in the ATLAS experiment: online data extraction and data distribution - Enrico Pasqualucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma)

09:00 COOL Performance and Distribution Tests - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

09:00 Distributed Analysis Jobs with the ATLAS Production System - Santiago Gonzalez De La Hoz (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

09:00 Large cluster management at a Tier2. - Colin Morey (University of Manchester)

09:00 CMS Grid Computing in the Spanish Tier-1 and Tier-2 Sites - Jose Hernandez (CIEMAT)

09:00 The Midwest U.S. ATLAS Tier2 Facility - Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

09:00 High Level Trigger tracking at CMS - b and tau identification - Livio Fano' (INFN - Universita' degli Studi di Perugia)

09:00 Cluster distributed dynamic storage - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester)

09:00 b-quark identification at DØ - Gordon Watts (DZERO Collaboration)

09:00 The structure of the new ROOT Mathematical Software Libraries - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

09:00 Moving applications in a multi-language environment to 64-bit architectures - Harald Vogt (DESY Zeuthen)

09:00 MonALISA : A Distributed Service for Monitoring, Control and Global Optimization - Iosif Legrand (CALTECH)

09:00 Distributing software applications based on runtime environment - Natalia Ratnikova (FERMILAB)

09:00 xrootd Server Clustering - Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

09:00 The STAR Trigger Data Pusher - Chris Perkins (STAR)

09:00 Effect of dynamic ACL (access control list) loading on performance of Cisco routers. - Andrey Bobyshev (FERMILAB)

09:00 Schema Independent Application Server Development Paradigm - Anzar Afaq (FERMILAB)

09:00 Managing Workflows with ShReek - David Evans (FERMILAB)

09:00 Testing against DAG RB - Elena Slabospitskaya (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

09:00 Exploiting Switched Optical Lightpaths for the ATLAS Experiment - Brian Davies (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY) Roger JONES (LANCAS)

09:00 Prototyping production and analysis frameworks for LHC experiments based on LCG/EGEE/INFN-Grid middleware - Maria Cristina Vistoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

09:00 Optimized access to distributed relational database system - Julius Hrivnac (LAL)

09:00 The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter reconstruction software: requirements from physics and design aspects - Paolo Meridiani (INFN Sezione di Roma 1)

09:00 Behind the Scenes Look at Integrity in a Permanent Storage System - Gene Oleynik (Fermilab)

09:00 Investigating the behavior of network aware applications with flow- based path selection. - Andrey Bobyshev (FERMILAB)

09:00 SQLBuilder, a metadata language to SQL translator, an overview of its input language and internal structure - Randolph J. Herber (FNAL)

09:00 Enhancing SSL Performance - Jens Jensen (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

09:00 Application of the ATLAS DAQ and monitoring system for MDT and RPC commissioning - Enrico Pasqualucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma)

09:00 Title: An Inter-Regional Grid Enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach (CHEPREO) at Florida International University in collaboration with California Institute of Technology, Florida State University and the University of Florida - Heidi Alvarez (Florida International University) Paul Avery (University of Florida)

09:00 VOMS deployment for small national VOs and local groups. - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester)

09:00 ScratchFS: A File System To Manage Scratch Disk Space For Grid Jobs. - Leandro Franco (IN2P3/CNRS Computing Centre)

09:00 A Distributed File Catalog based on Database Replication - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

09:00 Self-organized maps for tagging b jets associated with heavy neutral MSSM Higgs bosons - Aatos Heikkinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

09:00 StoRM, an SRM implementation for LHC analysis farms - Luca Magnoni (INFN - CNAF) Riccardo Zappi (INFN - CNAF)

09:00 Deploying an LCG-2 Grid Infrastructure at DESY - Andreas Gellrich (for the Grid team at DESY)

09:00 Contribution of Condor and GLOW to LHC Computing - Sridhara Dasu (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)

09:00 Midrange computing cluster architectures for data analysis in High Energy Physics - Andrey Shevel (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (Russia))

09:00 Job Efficiencies on the RAL Tier-1 Batch Farm - Matthew Hodges (RAL - CCLRC)

09:00 A local batch system abstraction layer for global use - Davide Rebatto (INFN - MILANO)

09:00 XrdSec - A high-level C++ interface for security services in client-server applications - Gerardo GANIS (CERN)

09:00 VALIDATION OF GEANT4 BERTINI CASCADE NUCLIDE PRODUCTION USING PARALLEL ROOT FACILITY - Aatos Heikkinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

09:00 The ZEUS Grid-Toolkit - an experiment independent layer to access Grid services - Krzysztof Wrona (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY),Germany)

09:00 Xen and OpenVirtuozzo: two different approaches to server and services virtualization - Francesco Maria Taurino (CNR/INFM - INFN - Dip. di Fisica Univ. di Napoli "Federico II")

09:00 LCG-RUS: An Implementation of GGF RUS Enabling Aggregative Accounting for LCG - Akram Khan (Brunel University)

09:00 Teraport: A Grid Enabled Platform with Optical Connectivity - Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

09:00 Managing in a Grid Environment – A GridPP perspective - Jeremy Coles (GridPP)

09:00 LHC-OPN Network at GridKa -- incl. 10Gbit LAN/WAN evaluations - Bruno Hoeft (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

09:00 GRIDCC-Bringing instrumentation (back) onto the Grid - David Colling (Imperial College London)

09:00 Developing a ROOT interface for gLite - Kilian Schwarz (GSI)

09:00 The ATLAS Trigger Muon "Vertical Slice" - Antonio Sidoti (INFN Roma1 and University "La Sapienza")

09:00 Flexible notification service for Grid monitoring events. - Natascia De Bortoli (INFN - Naples)

09:00 Role of Offline Software in ATLAS Detector Commissioning - Hans von der Schmitt (MPI for Physics, Munich) Rob McPherson (University of Victoria, TRIUMF)

09:00 On Demand, Policy Based Monte Carlo Production and Tracking, Leveraging Clarens, MonALISA and RunJob - Frank van Lingen (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

09:00 The initialization and control system of the ATLAS Level-1 Muon Barrel Trigger System - Stefano Veneziano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma 1)

09:00 The GridPP metadata group: metadata in a Grid era. - Paul Millar (GridPP)

09:00 An integrated framework for VO-oriented authorization, policy-based management and accounting. - Gian Luca Rubini (INFN-CNAF)

09:00 Failure Management in the London Distributed Tier 2 - David Colling (Imperial College London) Olivier van der Aa (Imperial College London)

09:00 A Parallel Computing Framework and a Modular Collaborative CFD Workbench in JAVA - Sankhadip Sengupta (Undergraduate student,Aerospace Engineering,IIT Kharagpur,Kharagpur,India)

09:00 New Geant4 physics processes for simulation at the electronvolt scale - Barbara Mascialino (INFN Genova) Gerard Montarou (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Petteri Nieminen (ESA) Philippe Moretto (CENBG) Riccardo Capra (INFN Genova) Sebastien Incerti (CENBG) Ziad Francis (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand)

09:00 Application of the Classification Tree technology to automatic pattern recognition in DZero and GLAST - Toby Burnett (University of Washington)

09:00 The Goodness-of-Fit Statistical Toolkit - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Andreas Pfeiffer (CERN) Barbara Mascialino (INFN Genova) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Paolo Viarengo (IST Genova)

09:00 Techniques for high-throughput, reliable transfer systems: break-down of PhEDEx design - Timothy Adam Barrass (University of Bristol)
10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:15
11:15 Plenary 6
Plenary 6
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Distributed Data Management - Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

11:45 ROOT in the era of multi-core CPUs - Rene Brun (CERN)
12:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 CFN-5
CFN-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D405
Contributions

14:00 Measuring Quality of Service on Nodes in a Cluster - Rohitashva Sharma (BARC)

14:20 Lambda Station: Production Applications Exploiting Advanced Networks in Data Intensive High Energy Physics. - Andrey Bobyshev (FERMILAB)

14:40 Managing small files in Mass Storage systems using Virtual Volumes - Manuel Delfino Reznicek (Port d'Informació Científica)

15:00 Development of the Tier-1 Facility at Fermilab - Ian Fisk (FERMILAB)
DDA-5
DDA-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D406
Contributions

14:00 Distributed CMS Analysis on the Open Science Grid - Oliver Gutsche (FERMILAB)

14:20 DIANA Scheduler - Ashiq Anjum (University of the West of England)

14:40 Experience with distributed analysis in LHCb - Ulrik Egede (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON)

15:00 Panda: Production and Distributed Analysis System for ATLAS - Kaushik De (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON)
DEPP-5
DEPP-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 80
Contributions

14:00 DIRAC, the LHCb Data Production and Distributed Analysis system - Andrei TSAREGORODTSEV (CNRS-IN2P3-CPPM, MARSEILLE)

14:20 Geant4 simulation in a distributed computing environment - Jakub Moscicki (CERN) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA) Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN) Susanna Guatelli (INFN Genova)

14:40 GANGA - A GRID User Interface - Karl Harrison (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

15:00 BaBar simulation production - changes in CM2 - Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
EPA-5
EPA-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 76
Contributions

14:00 Track reconstruction with the ATLAS Detector - David Primor (Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL (CERN))

14:18 Adaptive on-the-fly calibration of TPC distortions - GENE VAN BUREN (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

14:36 RecPack, a general reconstruction toolkit - Anselmo Cervera Villanueva (University of Geneva)

14:54 Track based alignment of composite detector structures - Tapio Lampen (HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS)

15:12 Software Solutions for a Variable ATLAS Detector Description - Vakhtang Tsulaia (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
GMEO-5
GMEO-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 A Grid of Grids using Condor-G - Rodney Walker (SFU)

14:20 Flexible job submission using Web Services: the gLite WMProxy experience - Giuseppe AVELLINO (Datamat S.p.A.)

14:40 An Edge Services Framework (ESF) for EGEE, LCG, and OSG - Abhishek Singh RANA (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)

15:00 Virtualisation: Performance and Use Cases - Marcus Hardt (Unknown)
OC-5
OC-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B333
Contributions

14:00 Control and monitoring of on-line trigger algorithms using a SCADA system - Eric van Herwijnen (CERN)

14:20 Strategies and Tools for ATLAS Online Monitoring - Wainer Vandelli (Università and INFN Pavia)

14:40 Testing on a large scale: Running the Atlas Data Acquisition and High Level Trigger software on 700 pc nodes - Doris Burckhart (CERN)

15:00 Physics and Data Quality Monitoring at CMS - Christos Leonidopoulos (CERN)
SCL-5
SCL-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 69
Contributions

14:00 New features in ROOT geometry modeller for representing non-ideal geometries - Rene Brun (CERN)

14:20 Geometry Description Markup Language and its application-specific bindings - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:40 Using XML for Detector Geometry Description in the Virtual Monte Carlo Framework - Maxim POTEKHIN (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

15:00 Surface contours and shapes of Super Heavy Elements (SHE) - Niranjani S (Department of Information Technology, Mohamed Sathak A.J. College of Engineering, 43, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Sipcot IT Park, Egatur, Chennai - 603 103, India.)
STIS-5
STIS-5
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 77
Contributions

14:00 HyperNews - managing discussions in HEP - Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

14:20 Parallel computing studies for the alignment of the ATLAS Silicon tracker - Muge Karagoz Unel (University of Oxford)

14:40 Tools for the Study and Performance Optimization of the ATLAS High Level Trigger. - Cibran Santamarina Rios (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

15:00 The Web Lecture Archive Project - Jeremy Herr (University of Michigan) Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan)
15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 CFN-6
CFN-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D405
Contributions

16:00 Benchmarking AMD64 and EMT64 - Hans Wenzel (FERMILAB)

16:20 Introduction of a Content Management System in a HEP environment - Carsten Germer (DESY IT)

16:40 Networks for ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition - Stefan Stancu (University of California, Irvine)

17:00 gPLAZMA (grid-aware PLuggable AuthoriZation MAnagement): Introducing RBAC (Role Based Access Control) Security in dCache - Abhishek Singh RANA (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
DDA-6
DDA-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D406
Contributions

16:00 From rootd to Xrootd, from physical to logical files: experience on accessing and managing distributed data. - Pavel JAKL (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences - Czech Republic)

16:20 Latencies and data access. Boosting the performance of distributed applications. - Fabrizio Furano (INFN sez. di Padova)

16:40 BaBar Bookkeeping - experience and use. - Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

17:00 Performance and Scalbility of xrootd - Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
DEPP-6
DEPP-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 80
Contributions

16:00 Long-term Experience with Grid-based Monte Carlo Mass Production for the ZEUS Experiment - Hartmut Stadie (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany)

16:20 LCG 3D project status and production plans - Dirk Duellmann Duellmann (CERN IT/LCG 3D project)

16:40 ATLAS Tier-0 Scaling Test - Miguel Branco (CERN)

17:00 Lessons from ATLAS DC2 and Rome Production on Grid3 - James Shank (Boston University)

17:20 Distributed Data Management in CMS

17:40 The CMS Computing Model - Jose Hernandez (CIEMAT)
EPA-6
EPA-6
16:00 - 17:50
Room: AG 76
Contributions

16:00 Track reconstruction in high density environment - Marian Ivanov (CERN)

16:18 High Energy Physics Event Selection with Gene Expression Programming - Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel University)

16:36 Access to Non-Event Data for CMS - Christopher Jones (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)

16:54 The LHCb Alignment framework - JUAN PALACIOS (CERN)

17:12 Implementation of a global fit method for the alignment of the Silicon Tracker in ATLAS Athena framework - Adlene Hicheur (Particle Physics)

17:30 COCOA: General purpose software for simulation and reconstruction of optical alignment systems - Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))
GMEO-6
GMEO-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Implementing Finer Grained Authorization on the Open Science Grid - Abhishek Singh Rana (UCSD)

16:20 GRATIA, a resource accounting system for OSG - Philippe Canal (FERMILAB)

16:40 DIRAC Security Infrastructure - Adrian Casajus Ramo (Departamento d' Estructura i Constituents de la Materia)

17:00 The Virtual Organization Management Registration Service - Tanya Levshina (FERMILAB)

17:20 Web servers for bulk file transfer and storage - Andrew McNab (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)

17:40 Meta-configuration for dynamic resource brokering: the SUMS approach - Levente HAJDU (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
OC-6
OC-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: B333
Contributions

16:00 A rule-based control and verification framework for ATLAS Trigger-DAQ - Andrei Kazarov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI))

16:20 The Log Service for the ATLAS Experiment - Benedetto Gorini (CERN)

16:40 Online monitoring, calibration and reconstruction in the PHENIX experiment - Christopher Pinkenburg (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

17:00 Commissioning Procedures and Software for the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker - Robert Bainbridge (Imperial College London)
SCL-6
SCL-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 69
Contributions

16:00 ROOT 3D graphics - Rene Brun (CERN)

16:20 Using the Qt to create the complex interactive HENP applications at STAR - Valeri FINE (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

16:40 The V-Atlas Event Visualization Program - Vakhtang Tsulaia (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)

17:00 Using Java Analysis Studio as an interface to the Atlas Offline Framework - Julius Hrivnac (LAL)

17:20 ALICE Event Visualization Environment - Matevz Tadel (CERN)

17:40 Gled -- a ROOT based framework for distributed computing and dynamic visualization - Matevz Tadel (CERN)
STIS-6
STIS-6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: AG 77
Contributions

16:00 A Web Lecture Capture System with Robotic Speaker Tracking - Jeremy Herr (University of Michigan) Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan)

16:20 A COMPUTING RESOURCES ADMINISTARTION SYSTEM FOR CERN (CRA) - Bartlomiej Pawlowski (CERN) Nick Ziogas (CERN) Wim Van Leersum (Cern)

16:40 CERN Equipment management integrates Safety aspects - Stephan Petit (CERN)

17:00 Dissemination of scientific results in High Energy Physics: the CERN Document Server vision. - Alberto Pepe (CERN)
Thursday 16 February 2006
09:00 Plenary 7
Plenary 7
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Grid Activities in Japan - Ken Miura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

09:30 Grid Activities in China - Gang Chen (IHEP, Beijing)

10:00 Grid Activities in Taiwan - Simon Lin
Poster 2
Poster 2
09:00 - 16:00

10:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary 8
Plenary 8
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Grid computing in Medical applications - Piergiorgio Cerello (INFN - TORINO)

11:30 Computing challenges for the Square Kilometer Array - Mathai Joseph (Tata Research Development and Design Centre)

12:00 Computing challenges in Lattice gauge QCD - Rajiv Gavai (TIFR)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 CFN-7
CFN-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: D405
Contributions

14:00 VINCI : Virtual Intelligent Networks for Computing Infrastructures - Iosif Legrand (CALTECH)

14:20 Embedding Quattor into the Fabric Management Infrastructure at DESY - Mathias de Riese (DESY)

14:40 The DESY-Registry – account management for many backend systems - Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch (DESY)
DEPP-7
DEPP-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 80
Contributions

14:00 PhEDEx high-throughput data transfer management system - Jens Rehn (CERN)

14:20 Belle Monte Carlo Production on the Australian National Grid - Marco La Rosa (University of Melbourne)

14:40 CMS experience in LCG SC3 - Lassi Tuura (NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, BOSTON, MA, USA)
EPA-7
EPA-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 76
Contributions

14:00 OHP: An Online Histogram Presenter for the ATLAS experiment - Andrea Dotti (Università and INFN Pisa)

14:18 Software for the CMS Cosmic Challenge - Giacomo Bruno (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

14:36 Event visualisation for the ATLAS experiment - the technologies involved - Zdenek Maxa (University College London)

14:54 Application of data visualisation techniques in particle physics - Stephen Watts (Brunel University)

15:12 Data Quality Monitoring for the CMS Silicon Tracker - Suchandra Dutta (Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN, Pisa) Vincenzo Chiochia (University of Zurich)
GMEO-7
GMEO-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 DØ Data Reprocessing with SAM-Grid - Joel Snow (Langston University)

14:20 A Statistical Analysis of Job Performance within LCG Grid. - Mona Aggarwal (Imperial College London)

14:40 Using Grid Technologies for Lattice QCD - Dirk Pleiter (DESY)

15:00 The Medical Physics Simulation with Grid - Go Iwai (JST)
OC-7
OC-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B333
Contributions

14:00 Planning for predictable network performance in the ATLAS TDAQ - Catalin Meirosu (CERN and "Politehnica" Bucharest)

14:20 Relational Database Implementation and usage in STAR - Michael DePhillips (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)

14:40 JCOP Framework Configuration Database Tool - Piotr Golonka (CERN, IT/CO-BE)
SCL-7
SCL-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 69
Contributions

14:00 Development, validation and maintenance of Monte Carlo generators & generator services in the LHC era - Mikhail Kirsanov (CERN)

14:20 HZTool and Rivet: Toolkit and Framework for the Comparison of Simulated Final States and Data at Colliders - Ben Waugh (University College London)

14:40 Component approach to HEP Monte Carlo simulations: example of PHOTOS. - Piotr Golonka (INP Cracow, CERN)

15:00 Eclipse-based Physicist Work Environment - Wim Lavrijsen (LBNL)
STIS-7
STIS-7
14:00 - 15:30
Room: AG 77
Contributions

14:00 LCG RTAG 12: Collaborative Tools for the LHC - Steven Goldfarb (High Energy Physics)

14:20 HepForge: A lightweight open source development environment for HEP software A lightweight open source development environment for HEP software - Andy Buckley (Durham University) Andy Buckley (University of Cambridge)

14:40 From VRVS to EVO, the Next Generation Grid-enable Collaborative System - Philippe Galvez (California Institute of Technology (CALTECH))

15:00 Avoiding the tower of Babel syndrom: An integrated issue-based quality assurance system - Gene VAN BUREN (BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
15:30 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 From the World Wide Web to the Grid - Wolfgang Von Rueden (CERN)
Friday 17 February 2006
10:00 Plenary 9
Plenary 9
10:00 - 12:15
Contributions

10:00 Present Work and Future Directions of IHEPCCC - Randall Sobie (Univeristy of Victoria)

10:15 New Frontiers in Data Mining - Lalitesh Kathragadda (Google India)

10:45 Managing Enterprise Applications in Grid - Anirban Chakrabarti (Infosys)

11:15 Summary of the Track on Online Computing - Beat Jost (CERN)

11:35 Summary of the track on Event Processing Applications - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:55 Summary of the Track on Software Components and Libraries - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
12:20 Plenary 10
Plenary 10
12:20 - 13:30
Contributions

12:40 Welcome etc

12:55 Address by the President of India
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 Plenary 11
Plenary 11
14:30 - 16:15
Contributions

14:30 Summary of the Track on Software Tools and Information Systems - Andreas Pfeiffer (CERN)

14:50 Summary of the Track On Computing Facilities and Networking - Simon Lin Simon Lin (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre)

15:10 Summary of the Track on Grid Middleware and e-Infrastructure Operation - Markus Schulz (CERN)

15:30 Summary of the Track on Distributed Event Production and Processing - Gavin McCance (CERN)

15:50 Summary of the Track on Distributed Data Analysis - Fons Rademakers (CERN)
16:15 Tea Break
Tea Break
16:15 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:00 Panel Discussion on Digital Divide - A. S. Kolaskar (Pune University) Alberto Santoro (Instituto de Fisica) D. P. S. Seth (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Harvey B Newman (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) S. Ramakrishnan (CDAC, Pune) Viatcheslav Ilin (Moscow State University)