ALICE Offline week

from Tuesday, 29 March 2016 (09:00) to Friday, 1 April 2016 (18:00)
CERN (13/2-005)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016
31 Mar 2016
1 Apr 2016
AM
09:00
DDS Workshop - Anar Manafov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Andrey Lebedev (IKF Frankfurt University / LIT JINR) (until 17:00) (53/R-044)
09:00
Offline Forum - Predrag Buncic (CERN) (until 12:40)
09:00 DPG introduction - Predrag Buncic (CERN)  
09:20 Data Preparation Group - organisation and plan of work - Chiara Zampolli (CERN)  
10:20 --- Coffee ---
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))  
09:00
Distributed Computing - Latchezar Betev (CERN) (until 12:30)
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))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 An Elastic OpenStack Grid - Mr 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))  
09:00
Software framework for Run 3 - Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN) Peter Hristov (CERN) (until 12:00)
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)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
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))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Calibration - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) (until 15:05)
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 ---
15:30
Reconstruction - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN) (until 18:00)
15:30 TPC SP Distortion Calibration - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)  
16:15 The Barrel Tracking Group - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Simulation and feedback from analysis - Andreas Morsch (CERN) (until 15:00)
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 ---
15:30
Software framework and tools - Peter Hristov (CERN) (until 17:30)
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  
12:00
Data management in Run 3 - Predrag Buncic (CERN) (until 12:30)
12:00 Data management in Run 3 - Predrag Buncic (CERN)