Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Tier-2 Workshop in Asia and EU-IndiaGrid Workshop on High Energy Physics Applications

1 Dec 2006, 08:00 → 4 Dec 2006, 21:00 Europe/Zurich

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

This workshop will try to set up a good and effective communication between Tier 1 and Tier 2 centres for the LHC experiments. It will also provide experiment specific training sessions for Tier 2 centres. This workshop will start on December 1, 2006 and end on December 3, 2006.
Concurrently there will be the first workshop on EU-IndiaGrid project starting on December 1, 2006. This will go on till December 4, 2006.
(Common) Registration to the workshops is open. Please register before October 31, 2006.

Slides AliTutorial.pdf AliTutorial.ppt

Friday 1 December

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction

Workshop goals and summary of experiment computing
models

Convener: Leslie Robertson (CERN)

09:00 Welcome and workshop goals

Welcome by Dr S. Banerjee, Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, followed by a brief introduction to the workshop by Sunanda Banerjee (TIFR) and Les Robertson (CERN - LCG Project Leader)

Speakers: Les Robertson (CERN), Sunanda Banerjee (TIFR)

Slides Tier-2_Asia_Workshop_01dec06.pdf Tier-2_Asia_Workshop_01dec06.ppt

09:15 EU-India Grid Project

Summary of the goals and status of the EU-India Grid Project

Speaker: Alberto Masoni (Univ. + INFN)

Slides EU-IndiaGrid_Project_Presentation_Mumbai_Workshop.pdf EU-IndiaGrid_Project_Presentation_Mumbai_Workshop.ppt

09:30 Summary of the Experiment Computing Models

Brief overview by each experiment of their computing model with an emphasis on how this maps on to their Asian sites

Speakers: Dr Dario Barberis (CERN/Genoa), Mr Federico Carminati (CERN), Dr Lothar Bauerdick (FERMILAB)

Slides

• ALICE-intro.pdf
• ALICE-intro.ppt
• ATLAS_ComputingModel_LCGMumbai06.pdf
• ATLAS_ComputingModel_LCGMumbai06.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee/Tea

11:00 → 12:00 ASGC Regional Operations Centre

Support model for the ASGC Regional Operations
Centre - what are the support services provided by the
ROC, operations monitoring, problem reporting, problem
management, differentiate ROC and experiment
support structures, educational role....

11:00 Overview of the ASGC Tier-1 Centre and its Grid Services

Speaker: Min-Hong Tsai

Slides ASGC_T1_Nov_2006_v5.pdf ASGC_T1_Nov_2006_v5.ppt

12:00 → 13:00 ALICE Computing Model and Operation

Specific details of how a Tier-2 gets involved, how the
experiments expect their Tier-2s to operate and
interact with the Tier-1, MC data collection, access to
ESD/AOD data, catalogs, need for VO boxes, schedule
of the ramp-up of the different roles and functions, the
experiment support model and communications
channels, site requirements and recommendations
(expected data rates, storage requirements, etc.).

Convener: Dr Federico Carminati (CERN)

12:00 → 13:00 ATLAS Computing Model and Operation

Specific details of how a Tier-2 gets involved, how the
experiments expect their Tier-2s to operate and
interact with the Tier-1, MC data collection, access to
ESD/AOD data, catalogs, need for VO boxes, schedule
of the ramp-up of the different roles and functions, the
experiment support model and communications
channels, site requirements and recommendations
(expected data rates, storage requirements, etc.).

12:00 ATLAS Computing Model and Worldwide Operations

Slides ATLAS_InstantiatingTheComputingModel_LCGMumbai06.pdf ATLAS_InstantiatingTheComputingModel_LCGMumbai06.ppt

12:30 Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 CMS Computing Model and Operation

Specific details of how a Tier-2 gets involved, how the
experiments expect their Tier-2s to operate and
interact with the Tier-1, MC data collection, access to
ESD/AOD data, catalogs, need for VO boxes, schedule
of the ramp-up of the different roles and functions, the
experiment support model and communications
channels, site requirements and recommendations
(expected data rates, storage requirements, etc.).

12:00 Introduction to the CMS Computing Model

CMS Computing model with a concentration on the role of the Tier-2

Slides 2006-12-Mumbai_T2_ws.pdf

12:30 Introduction to CMS Data Management and Monitoring

Intro to data management concepts

Speaker: Stefano Belforte (Univ. + INFN)

Slides

• 20061201-CMS-Data-Management.pdf
• 20061201-CMS-Data-Management.pdf
• 20061201-CMS-Data-Management.pdf
• 20061201-CMS-Data-Management.ppt

12:00 → 13:00 EU-IndiaGrid non HEP

Short self-introduction by participants and a brief
introduction to the Saturday tutorial: a gLite overview.

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:05 Site Status Reports

Short status report from each Asian Tier-2.

• - Role forseen within the experiment
• - Grid services offered by the site:
• – BDII, CE, SRM-enabled SE, …
• – LFC, VO-boxes (both local (e.g. ALICE) and remote (e.g. ATLAS)
• – 3D services (SQUID, local MySQL or other DB services)
• – O/S; middleware; hardware (CPU, disk, tape) status and outlook
• – Support and operations staff + expertise and outlook
• – Issues & Concerns
• - Network situation
• - Participation in SC4 - Activities; results; issues
• - Planning for ramping up during 2007

Site list --

Australia - Melbourne (ATLAS)

China - IHEP Beijing (ATLAS, CMS); Wuhan (ALICE)

India - TIFR (CMS); VECC (ALICE)

Japan - Univ.Tokyo (ATLAS) ; Univ. Hiroshima (ALICE)


New Zealand (CMS group)

Pakistan - CMS Federation

Taiwan - ATLAS Federation; CMS Federation

Korea - Sejong (ALICE) ; Kyungpook (CMS)

slides T2-template.pdf T2-template.ppt

14:00 IHEP Beijing, China (ATLAS, CMS)

Speaker: Yaodong CHENG (IHEP, Beijing)

Slides

• T2-IHEP_beijing.pdf
• T2-IHEP_beijing.pdf
• T2-IHEP_beijing.ppt

14:15 Wuhan, China (ALICE)

Speaker: Xu Chuncheng (Wuhan)

Slides 10_gridindia.pdf 10_gridindia.ppt

14:30 TIFR, Mumbai, India (CMS)

Speaker: P. V. Deshpande (TIFR)

Slides 11_wlcg-01Dec06_PVD.pdf 11_wlcg-01Dec06_PVD.ppt

14:45 VECC, Kolkata, India (ALICE)

Speaker: Tapas Samanta (VECC, Kolkata)

Slides 12_WLCG-Tier2-India-template-tapas.pdf 12_WLCG-Tier2-India-template-tapas.ppt

15:00 Pakistan - CMS Federation

Speaker: Adeel ur Rehman (NCP-LCG2)

15:15 Taiwan - ATLAS & CMS Federations

Speakers: Eric YEN (ASGC), Ping YEH (ASGC)

Slides

• TAF-T2Workshop-Dec06.pdf
• TAF-T2Workshop-Dec06.ppt
• yeh_tw_cms_tier2.pdf

15:35 Coffee/Tea

16:05 ICEPP, the University of Tokyo, Japan (ATLAS)

Speaker: Hiroyuki Matsunaga (ICEPP)

Slides ICEPP-T2.pdf ICEPP-T2.ppt

16:20 Univ. Hiroshima, Japan (ALICE)

Speaker: Toru Sugitate (Hiroshima)

Slides 15_alice016_sugitate.pdf 15_alice016_sugitate.ppt

16:35 KEK, Japan

Speaker: Go Iwai (KEK)

Slides kek_site_status_report_20061201.pdf kek_site_status_report_20061201.ppt

16:50 New Zealand (CMS)

Speaker: David Krofcheck (University of Auckland)

Slides 13_NZCMS.pdf 13_NZCMS.ppt

17:05 KISTI, Korea (ALICE)

Speaker: Soonwook Hwang (KISTI)

Slides 36_WLCG_Tier2_Workshop-_KISTI.pdf 36_WLCG_Tier2_Workshop-_KISTI.ppt

17:20 Sejong, Korea (ALICE)

Speaker: Chang Yeong Choi (Sejong)

Slides 19_SejongReport_mumbai.pdf 19_SejongReport_mumbai.ppt

17:35 Melbourne, Australia (ATLAS)

Speaker: Marco La Rosa (University of Melbourne)

Slides 8_Aus-SiteStatusReport-LaRosa.pdf 8_Aus-SiteStatusReport-LaRosa.ppt

17:50 Status of the Indian Certificate Authority

Speaker: Murthy Chandragiri (BARC)

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Saturday 2 December

09:00 → 11:30 Networking

09:00 Overview of networking for LCG sites in Asia

Overview of the current and planned research networking infrastructure in Asia with reference to the LCG sites. Measurements of performance between Asian Tier-2 sites and ASGC

Speaker: Min-Hong Tsai (Unknown)

Slides asgc_network_report_v2.pdf asgc_network_report_v2.ppt

10:00 Tunning Systems for TCP/IP Performance on High Latency Networks

Speaker: Mark Bowden (FNAL)

Slides

• tifr_bowden.pdf
• tifr_bowden.pdf
• tifr_bowden.pdf
• tifr_bowden.ppt

11:00 EU - India Networking

Status and plans for EU - Inida networking

Speaker: Prabhakar Dhekne (Unknown)

Slides Gridstatus-EU-IndiaGrid.pdf Gridstatus-EU-IndiaGrid.ppt

11:15 Coffee/Tea

11:30 → 13:00 Tutorials on installing, configuring and tuning services - Part 1

WLM and IS starting from the basics to troubleshooting and
administration.

11:30 Workload Management System (WMS)

Speaker: Mr Jason Shih (ASGC)

Slides WMS_v1.pdf WMS_v1.ppt

12:30 Information System (IS)

Speaker: Mr Jason Shih (ASGC)

Slides information_system_v1.pdf information_system_v1.ppt

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 19:00 Tutorials on installing, configuring and tuning services - Part 2

14:00 The WLCG Light-weight Disk Pool Manager (DPM)

This tutorial will explain how to install, configure, tune and run an SRM-enabled storage element suitable for WLCG Tier2 sites.

Speaker: Sophie Lemaitre (CERN)

Slides DPM-Tier2-Asia-tutorial-12_2006.pdf DPM-Tier2-Asia-tutorial-12_2006.ppt

14:45 The WLCG reliable File Transfer Service (FTS)

This tutorial will present the File Transfer Service with an emphasis on the Tier2 point of view, e.g. information on how to define and control the various channels of interest to a given Tier2 site.

It will present a summary of the FTS admin workshop (October 18 at SARA) in terms of best practices

Speaker: Paolo Badino (CERN)

Slides FTS_Tutorial_for_T2s.pdf FTS_Tutorial_for_T2s.ppt

15:30 Coffee/Tea

15:45 Site Level Monitoring

Tools and techniques for site-level monitoring of the core services

Speaker: Min Tsai (ASGC)

Slides Grid_Monitoring_with_Nagios.pdf Grid_Monitoring_with_Nagios.ppt

16:30 Grid Level Monitoring

Grid Level Monitoring through the Site Availability Monitoring (SAM) framework

Speaker: Judit Novak (CERN)

Slides Monitoring-T2-Mumbai.pdf Monitoring-T2-Mumbai.ppt

17:30 Debugging of FTS transfer problems

Tools, tips and techniques for debugging FTS transfer and configuration problems

Speaker: Paolo Badino (CERN)

Slides Debug_FTS_problems.pdf Debug_FTS_problems.ppt

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Sunday 3 December

08:30 → 09:00 Wrap-up Plenary

Conclusions and follow-up

09:00 → 17:30 ALICE Tutorials

09:00 AliRoot tutorial

14:00 ALICE Grid Tutorial

document Mumbai-Tutorial-Exercises.pdf Mumbai-Tutorial-Exercises-Solutions.pdf

Slides Mumbai-Tutorial-Talk.pdf

09:00 → 17:00 ATLAS Tutorials

The tutorials will cover:



- ATLAS setup at Tier-2s

- Distributed Data Management: principles, development status and
operations

- Distributed Production System: principles and operations

- Distributed Analysis: principles and operations



The actual contents of the tutorials will be tuned according to the needs of the
attendees. The tutorials will be given by experts in the above topics.



Please send particular requests for tutorial topics to Dario.Barberis@cern.ch by
mid-October.

09:00 ATLAS Operations at Tier-2s

Discussion session on general operations issues.

Slides ATLAS_ComputingModel_ATLASTutorialMumbai06.pdf ATLAS_ComputingModel_ATLASTutorialMumbai06.ppt

10:30 Coffee/Tea

11:00 Distributed Data Management Operations

Tutorial on the ATLAS DDM system and how to operate it. Current status and foreseen evolution.

Slides GUI_Step-by-Step_Tutorial_Ganga-4.2.4.pdf GUI_Step-by-Step_Tutorial_Ganga-4.2.4.ppt

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Distributed Analysis Tutorial

Slides DistributedAnalysisTutorial_Mumbai_Dec06.pdf DistributedAnalysisTutorial_Mumbai_Dec06.ppt

09:00 → 17:00 CMS Tutorials

The tutorials will cover:


-- CMS data management and MC production tools and services

-- CMS analysis use cases: skimming and analyzing data

-- site configuration and services for CMS: PhEDEx, CRAB,
ProdAgent, Frontier, ...

-- running CMS services

-- some lessons-learned from the CMS Data Challenge CSA06

See also
June
2006 tutorials

09:00 Intro to CMS

09:30 Plans and Activities in the final year of preparation

Slides CMS_Plans_Dec_06.pdf

10:30 DBS/DLS

Speaker: Dr Lee Lueking (FERMILAB)

Slides DBS-DLS-MumbaiWS-Lueking-20061203.pdf DBS-DLS-MumbaiWS-Lueking-20061203.ppt

11:00 Coffee/Tea

11:30 Prod_Agent

Slides elmer_cms_prodagent.pdf

12:00 CRAB

12:30 Lunch

14:00 PhEDEx

Slides PhEDEx_tuto.pdf

14:40 Trivial File Catalog

Slides elmer_cms_trivial_file_catalog.pdf

15:10 Coffee/Tea

15:40 Frontier

16:10 Software Setup

Slides elmer_cms_sw_installation.pdf

09:00 → 14:30 EU-IndiaGrid non HEP Applications

Review of the Saturday tutorial and open discussion about
EGEE/gLite services with respect to non HEP applications.

09:00 Review part I

Review of the gLite middleware; Review of the Workload management system ; Review of Basic Data Management Operations: Discussion

10:30 Coffee / Tea

11:00 Review part II

Review of EGEE/gLite information services; Review of Monitoring services; Discussion.

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Open discussion on application requirements and needs

14:30 → 15:30 EU-IndiaGrid Technical Board

15:30 → 17:00 EU-IndiaGrid Project Management Board

Monday 4 December

09:00 → 17:00 EU-IndiaGrid grid infrastructure

09:00 Issues on Indian Certification Authority

10:00 Tutorial on Garuda

Slides

• GARUDA_-_overview_-_V2.pdf
• GARUDA_-_overview_-_V2.ppt
• grid.pps

12:00 Issues on interoperability

13:00 Workshop Conclusions