WP2 Workshop

12 Feb 2003, 09:00 → 14 Feb 2003, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

Peter Kunszt (CERN)

The WP2 workshop takes place immediately after the EU review of EDG. We discuss the current state of our middleware, educate each other about our respective components (from developer to developer) and decide on the actions to be taken for the immediate future and until the end of the project.

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Wednesday 12 February

09:00 → 19:15 Day 1: Lectures

All day lectures about WP2 middleware.

09:00 Welcome

Welcome note and overview of the workshop.

Speaker: Peter Kunszt (CERN)

09:10 WP2 : Current Status

Overview of the current status of things in the project, with relation to WP2. News from the review, and outlook to the last year.

Speaker: Dr Peter Kunszt (CERN)

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09:40 EDG Architecture Group

Report from the Architecture Group from our representative.

Speaker: Leanne Guy (CERN)

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10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Project Quality Plan

Report of our representative in the EDG Quality Group.

Speaker: Diana Bosio (CERN)

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11:30 WP2 Build System

Overview of the current build system, choices of targets, the nightly build system and outstanding problems. Discussion of how the system is to be improved in the near future.

Speaker: James Casey / Levi Lucio (CERN)

12:00 What is Your Development Environment?

Open discussion about people's current practices in developing WP2 components. We might learn good practices from each other, give each others pointers to useful technology, tricks and tips. And we might agree on some common things to be used by everyone.

Speaker: Discussion - led by Peter

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Replica Location Service - WP2 statement

Orientation on WP2's statement on RLS and plans for the last year.

Speaker: Peter Kunszt (CERN)

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14:20 Replica Location Service - Globus

The usage, installation and our testing of the Globus RLS.

Speaker: Leanne Guy / Diana Bosio (CERN)

14:50 RLS & RMC - Current Status

Overview of the current implementation status of the RLS and the RMC and their semantics. Technological details, testing, and benchmarking of this service.

Speaker: James Casey (CERN)

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15:20 EU Demo

We will show the demo that we did at the EU review.

Speaker: Kurt Stockinger, Peter Kunszt (CERN)

15:50 Coffee Break

16:20 Replica Optimization Service

The current implementation of the ROS. Discussion of the dependencies and overview of network cost functions and how they are obtained.

Speaker: Kurt Stockinger (CERN)

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16:50 Simulating Grid Optimization

Optorsim has been used by the WP2 optimization task to simulate a grid optimizer in a grid environment and to test several algorithms. The problem is presented with a discussion of lessons learned from the simulator.

Speaker: Floriano Zini (?) (IRST)

17:35 Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Interactions

Possible Reptor - SRM Interaction

Speaker: Heinz Stockinger (CERN)

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18:00 Free Time

The rest of the day may be used as you see fit - read email, talk, whatever.

19:00 WP2 Dinner

Thursday 13 February

09:00 → 14:00 Day 2: Lectures

Continuation of lectures. Note the different room.

09:00 Replica Manager Reptor

The current Reptor architecture and implementation.

Speaker: Peter Kunszt (CERN)

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09:45 Spitfire Status

Current status of the Spitfire modules (Server, Client, Browser). What is new in 2.1 how is it integrated with other components.

Speaker: Gavin McCance (PPARC)

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10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Information Services for Replica Management

What does the WP2 Replica Management System (Reptor) require to be available / to be stored in the information services and how is this achieved today?

Speaker: Heinz Stockinger (CERN)

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11:45 GLUE Schema

Introduction and insights into the GLUE Schema. Conceptual model and implementation details explained

Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (INFN)

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12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 → 18:00 Day 2: Lectures2

Continuation of lectures.

14:00 Security Design

Overall Security Design of EDG

Speaker: Akos Frohner (CERN)

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14:30 Security for Web Services by Example : edg-java-soap-example

What is _really_ necessary to secure a WP2 web service?

Speaker: Olle Mulmo/Akos Frohner (HIP)

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15:00 Administration GUI for the Authorization Manager

Live demo of the web interface for administrators of the Authorization Manager. Current status and future development.

Speaker: Heinz Stockinger

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15:20 Status of the secure C++ client

Speaker: Joni Hahkala (HIP)

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15:40 Authentication

Speaker: Joni Hahkala

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16:00 Break

16:20 VOMS

Current status. Admin interface, what it takes to integrate it with a service.

Speaker: Akos Frohner

16:40 WP2 mini-testbed

Setup and configuration of the WP2 mini-testbed.

Speaker: Diana Bosio

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16:55 Mobile Analyzer

Overview and results of the Mobile Analyzer project and how it would fit into the WP2 framework.

Speaker: Marko Niinimaki

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Friday 14 February

09:00 → 17:00 Day 3: Planning

Planning of 3rd year work.

09:00 Collecting outstanding issues

Breakout session for each activity to collect all outstanding issues based on their understanding of the overall WP2 activities as presented in the previous 2 days. The 4 activities are: - Replica Management - Optimization - Spitfire - Security

Speaker: none

10:30 Break

11:00 Presentation and discussion of outstanding issues

Each activity presents their outstanding issues and their priority. Discussion with the rest of WP2.

Speaker: One nominee for each activity

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 3rd year planning

In this final session we collect and weigh all information received and plan our activities for the rest of the project, as best as we can with the proper manpower put down to each task.

Speaker: Discussion led by Peter