Name: ALICE Offline week
Start: 2016-03-29T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-04-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

ALICE Offline week

from Tuesday, 29 March 2016 (09:00) to Friday, 1 April 2016 (18:00)

Monday, 28 March 2016
Tuesday, 29 March 2016

09:00 DDS Workshop

09:00 - 17:00
Room: 53/R-044
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
09:00 Offline Forum
09:00 - 12:40
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 DPG introduction - Predrag Buncic (CERN)

09:20 Data Preparation Group - organisation and plan of work - Chiara Zampolli (CERN)

10:40 Monte Carlo Processing - Roberto Preghenella (CERN)

11:10 Processing execution - Catalin-Lucian Ristea (ISS - Institute of Space Science (RO))

11:40 QA status and plans - Marie Germain (Subatech, IN2P3-CNRS (FR))

12:10 QA Tools - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 13/2-005
14:00 Calibration
14:00 - 15:05
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

14:00 TPC dEdx calibration - Status and Prospect - Jens Wiechula (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

14:25 Online Calibration in the HLT - first experience - David Rohr (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

14:45 Online QA status - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))
15:05 Coffee
Coffee
15:05 - 15:30
Room: 13/2-005
15:30 Reconstruction
15:30 - 18:00
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

15:30 TPC SP Distortion Calibration - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

16:15 The Barrel Tracking Group - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)
Thursday, 31 March 2016
09:00 Distributed Computing
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 LEGO train - lmits and discussion - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

09:20 Grid status - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

09:40 The AliEn file catalogue alternatives - Miguel Martinez Pedreira (CERN)

10:10 Update on CORI supercomputer integration - Markus Fasel (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:10 An Elastic OpenStack Grid - Niklas Trippler (Bergen University College (NO))

11:30 Containers Created At Runtime For Batch Jobs - Didrik Rognstad (Bergen University College (NO))

11:50 AliEn Jobs in EC2 Computing Cloud - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Bergen University College (NO))

12:10 Status of VmBatch – A virtualization tool for grid jobs - Bjarte Kileng (Bergen University College (NO))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 13/2-005
14:00 Simulation and feedback from analysis
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

14:00 Status of G4 validation - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

14:30 Feedback from analysis groups - Jochen Klein (CERN)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 13/2-005
15:30 Software framework and tools
15:30 - 17:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

15:30 New build procedure for the ALICE software - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

15:50 Transition from git.cern.ch - Peter Hristov (CERN)

16:20 Status of ALICE validation - Dario Berzano (CERN)

16:50 Discussion
Friday, 1 April 2016
09:00 Software framework for Run 3
09:00 - 12:00
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 Development of parameter management in ALFA - Charalampos Kouzinopoulos (CERN)

09:30 New Libfabric based transport for nanomsg - Ioannis Charalampidis (CERN)

10:00 New API for serialisation in ALFA - Nicolas Winckler (GSI)

11:00 Update on data format - Mikolaj Krzewicki (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

11:30 Report from DDS workshop - Anar Manafov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
12:00 Data management in Run 3
12:00 - 12:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

12:00 Data management in Run 3 - Predrag Buncic (CERN)