HEPiX Spring 2009

from Monday, 25 May 2009 (08:00) to Friday, 29 May 2009 (11:30)
Umeå University (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 May 2009
26 May 2009
27 May 2009
28 May 2009
29 May 2009
AM
09:30
Opening remarks (until 10:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
09:30 Opening remarks   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Operating Systems & Applications (until 12:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:30 Fermi Linux STS - SL 6 - Mr Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:00 Playing with Puppets instead of managing your systems - Mr Thomas Bellman (National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:30 First experiences with dovecot at DESY - Wolfgang Friebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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08:30
Site reports III (until 10:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
08:30 SouthGrid and Oxford Site Report - Mr Peter Gronbech (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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08:50 DESY site report - Christoph Beyer (DESY HH)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:10 NERSC   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
09:30 ASGC (Taipe)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Security and Networking I (until 12:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:30 A security survey of the e-mail services at INFN - Ombretta Pinazza (INFN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:00 WiFi security appliance for authentication solution during conferences and seminars - Dr Riccardo Veraldi (INFN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:30 Cybersecurity Update - Jan Iven (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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08:00
Storage and Filesystems I (until 10:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
08:00 News from the Storage Working Group - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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08:30 AFS/OSD: massive production experience and work in progress - Hartmut Reuter (Rechenzentrum Garching)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:00 Lustre over WAN - Pierre-Francois Honore (CEA)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:20 Performance of 10G network cards in file servers for LHC computing use cases - Artem Trunov (FZK)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:40 iSCSI at CERN - Andras Horvath (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Storage and Filesystems II (until 12:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:30 Some SSD facts - Tim Polland (Texas Memory Systems / Takan)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:00 CERN Lustre Evaluation - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:30 New HPSS architecture at SLAC - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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08:30
Virtualisation III (until 10:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
08:30 Virtual Machine CPU Benchmarking the HEPiX way - Ian Gable (University of Victoria)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:00 The Academic Cloud - Virtualized Worker Nodes in The Grid - Owen Synge (DESY)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:30 Cloud Security - Dr David Kelsey (RAL)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Virtualisation IV (until 12:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:30 StratusLab: Running a Grid Site in the Cloud - Michel Jouvin (CNRS/LAL)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:00 The OpenNebula Engine for on-Demand Resource Provisioning - Javier Fontan   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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11:45 Virtualization on the Track II - Thomas Finnern (DESY)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
Minutes
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08:30
Miscellaneous Talks II (until 10:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
08:30 HPC2N Data Center tour groups E + F   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
09:00 Impact of Filesystems on Application Performance in an HNEP Environment. - Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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09:30 Network Information and Monitoring Infrastructure (NIMI) - Mr Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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10:00
Wrap-Up & Conclusions (until 10:30) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
10:00 Wrap-up & Conclusions   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Site reports I (until 15:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:00 Operation of the Portuguese Tier2 (Storage Element component) - Mario David (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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13:20 CERN site report - Dr Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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13:40 Site Report PSI (CH) - Marc Gasser (PSI)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:00 NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
14:20 LAL and GRIF Site Report - Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:40 RAL Site Report - Mr Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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15:00 --- Coffee ---
15:30
Site reports II (until 17:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
15:30 GridKa Site Report - Mr Manfred Alef (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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15:50 TRIUMF Site Report - Dr Steven McDonald (TRIUMF)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:10 SLAC Site Report - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:30 INFN T1 (NAF)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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18:00 --- Welcome reception ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Security and Networking II (until 14:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:00 State of Nordic R&E Networking   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:30 CINBAD - CERN Investigation of Network Behaviour Anomaly Detection - Mr Ryszard Erazm Jurga (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:00
Miscellaneous Talks 0 (until 15:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
14:00 LCLS Online and Offline Computing - Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:30 Benchmarking up-to-date x86 processors - Dr Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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15:00 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Miscellaneous Talks I (until 17:30) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
16:00 HPC2N Data Center tour groups A + B   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
16:30 Benchmarking current PC server hardware - Mr Götz Waschk (DESY)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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17:00 SMS based OTP system for SSH logins - Dr Jonas Lindemann (Lund University)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Virtualisation I (until 15:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:00 Virtualization on the Track I - Thomas Finnern (DESY)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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13:15 A Highly Versatile Virtual Data Center Ressource Pool - Stefan Bujack (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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13:40 Virtualization for high availability - Dr Federico Calzolari (Scuola Normale Superiore - INFN Pisa)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:05 XEN and KVM in INFN production systems and a comparison between them - Dr Riccardo Veraldi (INFN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:30 Tools and techniques for managing virtual machine images - Mr Andreas Unterkircher (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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15:00 --- Coffee ---
15:30
Virtualisation II (until 17:30) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
15:30 Next generation of virtual infrastructure with Hyper-V - Michal Kwiatek (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:00 The CernVM Project - Mr Carlos Aguado Sanchez (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:30 Integrating Quattor and virtualisation technologies - Ewan Roche (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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17:00 Virtualization and/vs security - Jan Iven (CERN)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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19:00 --- Gala dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Data centres (until 15:00) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:00 Virtualisation discussion (continued)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
13:30 An Update on the new Computer Building at RAL - Mr Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:00 A new Data Centre for CC-IN2P3   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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14:30 HPC2N Data Center tour groups C & D   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
15:00 --- Coffee ---
15:30
Operating Systems & Applications II (until 17:30) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
15:30 Scientific Linux Status Report and Plenary Discussion - Mr Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:00 HA Cluster using Open Sharedroot - Klaus Steinberger (LMU München)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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16:30 Packaging Grid software for Linux distributions - Mattias Ellert (Uppsala Universitet & NDGF)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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17:00 Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management - Pär Andersson (NSC, Linköpings universitet)   (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)
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17:30
HEPiX Board meeting (until 18:30) (Big Auditorium (kb3b1), KBC building)