US-ALICE Grid operations review

Mar 14, 2016, 1:30 AM → Mar 16, 2016, 6:00 PM US/Pacific

Building 2-100B-CR(45-50) (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Yearly review of the Grid operations in the ALICE US sites

Mon, March 14

1:30 PM → 5:15 PM ALICE Grid & US Status Reports

Convener: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

1:45 PM Welcome, Logistics, Goals & Introductions

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Intro_Map.pdf

Intro_Map.pptx

2:00 PM ALICE-USA Computing Project Status

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

ProjectStatus.pdf

ProjectStatus.pptx

2:30 PM ALICE Grid Operations & Plans for 2016

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

US_ALICE_Grid_LB.pdf

US_ALICE_Grid_LB.pptx

3:00 PM Coffee break

3:15 PM PDSF operations overview

Speaker: Dr James Botts (LBNL)

pdsfOperationalStatus.pptx

3:45 PM CADES operations overview

Speaker: Pete Eby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

4:15 PM Overview of Computing Project 2016 Plans

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

4:30 PM Open Discussion on operations and update deployment plan

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Tue, March 15

9:30 AM → 12:30 PM Site Service Status

9:30 AM Overview of Goals & Overflow from Monday

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

9:45 AM Site Monitoring

Speaker: Costin Grigoras (CERN)

monitoring_with_monalisa.pdf

monitoring_with_monalisa.pptx

10:15 AM Open Science Grid

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

OSG_notes.pdf

OSG_notes.pptx

10:30 AM EOS experience

Speaker: Pete Eby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

10:45 AM coffee

11:00 AM Hands-On Resource Configuration

Walk through EOS and VO Box configurations with experts

Speakers: James Botts (LBNL), Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Pete Eby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

1:30 PM → 6:00 PM Migration to NERSC HPC, Cori

2:00 PM Tour of new Data Center (TBD)

2:30 PM Cori Overview: Phase I and Phase II

Speakers: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Wahid Bhimji (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

WB-ALICE-Cori-Mar15.pdf

WB-ALICE-Cori-Mar15.pptx

2:50 PM Initial payload tests & CVMFS workplan

Speaker: Markus Fasel (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

alicecori_mfasel.pdf

3:10 PM Coffee Break

3:20 PM ALICE Grid Requirements for HPC

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

3:40 PM Cori, Shifter & CVMFS

General discussion on how Cori can meet ALICE Grid requirements. Shifter & with CVMFS access model are provided at possible tools.

Speakers: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Lisa Gerhardt (LBNL), Shane Canon (NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING CENTER)

4:20 PM Game Plan for Cori R&D Effort, use of other US resources

Wed, March 16

9:00 AM → 12:50 PM Site Service Operations

9:00 AM Hands On overflow from Tuesday

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

10:45 AM Coffee

11:00 AM Project Task Discussion

Discuss upcoming tasks and timeline for effort

Speaker: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:00 PM Longer term R&D for Analysis Facility

Speakers: Jeff Porter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Latchezar Betev (CERN)

LDRD_v3.pdf

LDRD_v3.pptx