Name: US ATLAS Physics Support, Software and Computing Technical Planning Meeting 2016
Start: 2016-08-01T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-08-03T12:30:00-05:00
Location: University of Chicago

US ATLAS Physics Support, Software and Computing Technical Planning Meeting 2016

from Monday, 1 August 2016 (09:00) to Wednesday, 3 August 2016 (12:30)

Monday, 1 August 2016
09:00 Welcome - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Welcome
- Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
- Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
09:00 - 09:20
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
09:20 New ASCR Projects on opportunistic computing
New ASCR Projects on opportunistic computing
09:20 - 10:10
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

09:20 From "Next Generation Workload Management and Analysis System for Big Data" to "Big PanDA Workflow Management on Titan for High Energy and Nuclear Physics and for Future Extreme Scale Scientific Applications ". DOE ASCR Exascale Computing Project - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

09:35 VC3 - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))

09:45 HEP cloud - Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

09:55 Discussion
10:10 Pilot 2.0 and Harvester. Goals and Timeline
Pilot 2.0 and Harvester. Goals and Timeline
10:10 - 11:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

10:10 WFM SW projects highlights - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (University of Texas at Arlington)

10:25 Pilot 2.0 goal and timeline - Paul Nilsson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

10:40 Harvester. Goals, timeline - Tadashi Maeno (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
11:20 Relationship between APF, ARC, Harvester, and ASCR projects
Relationship between APF, ARC, Harvester, and ASCR projects
11:20 - 12:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

11:20 APF - John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

11:25 ARC slides as reference - Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:00 - 13:20
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
13:20 Evolution of the Tiered model
Evolution of the Tiered model
13:20 - 14:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

13:20 Network Analytics and the Cost Matrix - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

13:35 Role of CEPH in the Facility and Distributed Storage - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

13:50 Automating Deployment - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago (US))

14:05 Caching Network Status and Plans - Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
14:30 Opportunistic Resources
Opportunistic Resources
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

14:30 DOE HPC Integration Summary - Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

15:15 NSF Resources: XSEDE, Blue Waters, Campuses - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)) Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
16:00 Performance of Event Service Workflows
Performance of Event Service Workflows
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

16:00 Event Service today: progress, problems and challenges - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Wen Guan (University of Wisconsin (US))

16:20 Discussion

16:30 Event Service performance optimization on HPC - Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US)) Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

16:50 Discussion
17:00 Evolution of SIT (git, cmake, jenkins)
Evolution of SIT (git, cmake, jenkins)
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

17:00 Transition to Continuous Integration Practices in ATLAS Software Development - Alexander Undrus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
08:30 Metadata and event-level parallelism
Metadata and event-level parallelism
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

08:30 Introduction - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

08:50 Discussion

09:00 Metadata handling challenges for the future - Jack Cranshaw (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

09:20 Discussion
09:30 Analysis frameworks and analysis in athena
Analysis frameworks and analysis in athena
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

11:50 Tour of MWT2_UC
Tour of MWT2_UC
11:50 - 12:05
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

11:59 Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
11:59 - 13:09
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 15:50
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

16:30 Small group discussions with NSF S2I2 PIs about contributing to Community White Paper
Small group discussions with NSF S2I2 PIs about contributing to Community White Paper
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Wednesday, 3 August 2016

08:30 US ATLAS contribution to HSF whitepaper and NSF S2I2 conceptualization
US ATLAS contribution to HSF whitepaper and NSF S2I2 conceptualization
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161

10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
10:30 Fast Simulation, Geant 4 and Geant V in ATLAS
Fast Simulation, Geant 4 and Geant V in ATLAS
10:30 - 11:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

10:30 Short Introduction to GNNs - Gilles Louppe (New York University (US))

10:40 Thoughts on longer term strategy for G4 in ATLAS - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:00 ATLAS's ISF as a Global Project - Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:15 GeantV and Fast Simulation - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
11:30 Machine Learning in ATLAS Workflow and Data Management
Machine Learning in ATLAS Workflow and Data Management
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Eckhardt Research Center 161
Contributions

11:30 ML and Analytics in ATLAS - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))