Name: HEPiX Spring 2009
Start: 2009-05-25T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-05-29T11:30:00+02:00
Location: Umeå University

Monday, 25 May 2009
09:30
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

09:30 Opening remarks
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

10:30 Fermi Linux STS - SL 6 - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)

11:00 Playing with Puppets instead of managing your systems - Thomas Bellman (National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden)

11:30 First experiences with dovecot at DESY - Wolfgang Friebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Corona
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

13:00 Operation of the Portuguese Tier2 (Storage Element component) - Mario David (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)

13:20 CERN site report - Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)

13:40 Site Report PSI (CH) - Marc Gasser (PSI)

14:00 NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)

14:20 LAL and GRIF Site Report - Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)

14:40 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

15:30 GridKa Site Report - Manfred Alef (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

15:50 TRIUMF Site Report - Steven McDonald (TRIUMF)

16:10 SLAC Site Report - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)

16:30 INFN T1 (NAF)
18:00 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Origo
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

08:30 SouthGrid and Oxford Site Report - Peter Gronbech (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)

08:50 DESY site report - Christoph Beyer (DESY HH)

09:10 NERSC

09:30 ASGC (Taipe)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

10:30 A security survey of the e-mail services at INFN - Ombretta Pinazza (INFN)

11:00 WiFi security appliance for authentication solution during conferences and seminars - Riccardo Veraldi (INFN)

11:30 Cybersecurity Update - Jan Iven (CERN)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Corona
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

13:00 State of Nordic R&E Networking

13:30 CINBAD - CERN Investigation of Network Behaviour Anomaly Detection - Ryszard Erazm Jurga (CERN)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

14:00 LCLS Online and Offline Computing - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)

14:30 Benchmarking up-to-date x86 processors - Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

16:00 HPC2N Data Center tour groups A + B

16:30 Benchmarking current PC server hardware - Götz Waschk (DESY)

17:00 SMS based OTP system for SSH logins - Jonas Lindemann (Lund University)
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
08:00
08:00 - 10:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

08:00 News from the Storage Working Group - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)

08:30 AFS/OSD: massive production experience and work in progress - Hartmut Reuter (Rechenzentrum Garching)

09:00 Lustre over WAN - Pierre-Francois Honore (CEA)

09:20 Performance of 10G network cards in file servers for LHC computing use cases - Artem Trunov (FZK)

09:40 iSCSI at CERN - Andras Horvath (CERN)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

10:30 Some SSD facts - Tim Polland (Texas Memory Systems / Takan)

11:00 CERN Lustre Evaluation - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

11:30 New HPSS architecture at SLAC - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Corona
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

13:00 Virtualization on the Track I - Thomas Finnern (DESY)

13:15 A Highly Versatile Virtual Data Center Ressource Pool - Stefan Bujack (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

13:40 Virtualization for high availability - Federico Calzolari (Scuola Normale Superiore - INFN Pisa)

14:05 XEN and KVM in INFN production systems and a comparison between them - Riccardo Veraldi (INFN)

14:30 Tools and techniques for managing virtual machine images - Andreas Unterkircher (CERN)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

15:30 Next generation of virtual infrastructure with Hyper-V - Michal Kwiatek (CERN)

16:00 The CernVM Project - Carlos Aguado Sanchez (CERN)

16:30 Integrating Quattor and virtualisation technologies - Ewan Roche (CERN)

17:00 Virtualization and/vs security - Jan Iven (CERN)
19:00 Gala dinner
Gala dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Sävargården
Thursday, 28 May 2009
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

08:30 Virtual Machine CPU Benchmarking the HEPiX way - Ian Gable (University of Victoria)

09:00 The Academic Cloud - Virtualized Worker Nodes in The Grid - Owen Synge (DESY)

09:30 Cloud Security - David Kelsey (RAL)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

10:30 StratusLab: Running a Grid Site in the Cloud - Michel Jouvin (CNRS/LAL)

11:00 The OpenNebula Engine for on-Demand Resource Provisioning - Javier Fontan

11:45 Virtualization on the Track II - Thomas Finnern (DESY)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Corona
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

13:00 Virtualisation discussion (continued)

13:30 An Update on the new Computer Building at RAL - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

14:00 A new Data Centre for CC-IN2P3

14:30 HPC2N Data Center tour groups C & D
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

15:30 Scientific Linux Status Report and Plenary Discussion - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)

16:00 HA Cluster using Open Sharedroot - Klaus Steinberger (LMU München)

16:30 Packaging Grid software for Linux distributions - Mattias Ellert (Uppsala Universitet & NDGF)

17:00 Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management - Pär Andersson (NSC, Linköpings universitet)
17:30

17:30 - 18:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Friday, 29 May 2009
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

08:30 HPC2N Data Center tour groups E + F

09:00 Impact of Filesystems on Application Performance in an HNEP Environment. - Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)

09:30 Network Information and Monitoring Infrastructure (NIMI) - Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building
Contributions

10:00 Wrap-up & Conclusions
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building