Western Tier 2 Users Forum - Program Outline

Apr 6, 2009, 9:00 AM → Apr 7, 2009, 5:15 PM America/Los_Angeles

Kavli 3rd Floor Conference Room (SLAC)

Andrew Haas (SLAC), Charlie Young (SLAC), Richard Mount (SLAC)

SLAC will host a two-day meeting which brings together users and potential future users of the WT2 analysis resources. We aim to help new users get up to speed by learning from more experienced users and SLAC computing staff, And at the same time we hope to learn what is needed to make the Tier 2 easier to use. We will also begin a Western Community process aimed at determining what types of computing are going to be needed for competitive physics analysis and detector studies, and how well these map on to the Tier 2 and Tier 3 resources currently planned.

EVO-Details EVO-Details2.pdf

Users Forum Home Page http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/wt2-uf-1/

Monday, April 6

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Talks and Tutorials about Computing at the WT2

9:00 AM Welcome

9:10 AM The ATLAS Computing Model / ATLAS Tier 3 Report

Speaker: Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.)

Slides wt2_apr09_jc.pdf wt2_apr09_jc.ppt

9:50 AM What's Available at the SLAC WT2

Speaker: Wei Yang

Slides

• WT2-UF0904-Wei1.pdf
• WT2-UF0904-Wei1.pptx
• xrootd-exercises.pdf
• xrootd-exercises.pptx

10:20 AM break

10:50 AM Xrootd - what users need to know

Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

Slides AtlasUF.ppt

11:10 AM The SLAC Batch System - what it can do for you and what you can do to it

Speaker: Neal Adams (SLAC)

Slides LSF_at_SLAC_ATLAS.pdf LSF_at_SLAC_ATLAS.pptx

11:30 AM Viewpoint of a University Group

Speakers: Bill Lockman (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)), Jason Nielsen (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)

Slides lockman_wt2_2009Apr06.pdf lockman_wt2_2009Apr06.ppt

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 5:00 PM Working Session: Practice using the WT2 resources

Getting the environment and CVS working;
Batch system usage; making MC;
Checking documentation / working through examples:
Transferring data using GRID,
XROOTD access,
etc.

6:30 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner

more information http://www.slac.stanford.edu/exp/atlas/events/wt2uf-apr2009/dinner.html

Tuesday, April 7

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM User Experience

9:00 AM User Experiences

Speaker: David W. Miller (SLAC)

Slides Miller_UsersWT2_07Apr2009.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Near-term and Medium Term Outlook

9:30 AM ATLAS Computing at SLAC - Future Possibilites

Speaker: Richard Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Mount-wt2-uf-1.pdf Mount-wt2-uf-1.ppt

10:00 AM Discussion - Western T2/T3 Analysis Facilities

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM User's Experience - Post Mortem on Monday Afternoon Session

11:00 AM Andy's experience

Speaker: Andrew Haas (SLAC)

Slides WT2UF_SLAC_tuesday.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 4:00 PM Working Session / Challenging Use Cases

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Wrap Up