GridPP37 - (R)evolution

30 Aug 2016, 13:00 → 2 Sept 2016, 14:00 Europe/London

Percival Lecture Theatre

The Collaboration Meeting Starts on Wednesday 31st August at 14:00 till Friday 2nd September at 14:00 at the University of Cumbria's Ambleside campus in the Percival Lecture Theatre (Langdale Building). Please advise the reception at check-in if you have reserved a parking space and you will be provided with a permit.  Bed & Breakfast is included in the reservation - breakfast is served in The Barn cafe area (7.45-9.00am). Lunches are also served in The Barn cafe.  

Please contact the Group Administrator if you require assistance or information: Louisa.Campbell@glasgow.ac.uk 

Sponsored by: 

                       

COLLABORATION DINNER: BIOS IT have generously agreed to sponsor our collaboration dinner and ONE welcome drink on arrival at the Best Western Ambleside Salutation Hotel (Lake Road, LA22 9BX) - please arrive promptly to be seated by 8pm.

 

Photo with thanks to Sam Skipsey

Tuesday, 30 August

14:00 → 17:30 PMB Face to Face Meeting: PMB Meeting

https://indico.cern.ch/event/557621/

Wednesday, 31 August

14:30 → 16:15 Session 1: GridPP5 and the WLCG

Chair: Roger Jones

14:30 Intro

Speaker: David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

160831_GridP37-b.pptx

15:00 Overview of WLCG Task Forces & Working Groups

Speaker: Ian Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

WLCG-WGs-IPC-20160831.pdf

WLCG-WGs-IPC-20160831.pptx

15:30 Information System evolution & MJF

Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

20160831-mcnab-info-mjf.pdf

15:55 Discussion

16:15 → 16:40 Coffee

16:40 → 18:20 Session 2: Information publishing, Accounting and Benchmarking

Chair: Pete Gronbech

16:40 GOCDB Talk

Speaker: George Douglas Ryall

2016-08-31-GRIDPP37-GOCDBStatusUpdate.pdf

2016-08-31-GRIDPP37-GOCDBStatusUpdate.ppt

17:00 APEL Talk

Speaker: Adrian Coveney (STFC)

APEL GridPP37 talk.pdf

APEL GridPP37 talk.pptx

17:20 Benchmarking and Publishing at a Diverse Grid Site

Speaker: Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

benchAndPub.odp

benchAndPub.pdf

17:40 Discussion

Thursday, 1 September

09:00 → 11:05 Session 3: Site (r)evolution

Chair: Jeremy Coles

Lightweight sites - notes.pdf

See attachment.

09:00 Lightweight sites

A brief overview of the topics and their fit with WLCG working groups.

Speaker: Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))

Jeremy-Coles-GridPP37-1.0.pdf

09:10 Storage Evolution

Covering such topics as challenges as SRM disappears, caching models being discussed etc.

Speaker: Samuel Cadellin Skipsey

GridPP37Talk.pdf

09:40 Discussion

Open discussion on the challenges the developments in the storage area are going to present GridPP and in particular small sites.

09:55 Compute approaches

• Vac updates (Andrew McNab, 5mins)
• GridPP cloud/evolution work (David Colling, 10 mins)

20160901-mcnab-vac.pdf

10:10 Service evolution

Exploring the idea of whether some larger sites can run some services for smaller sites (e.g. ARGUS, CE, BDII, ELK).

Speakers: Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)), Ian Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

ServiceEvolution-ADL-IPC-20160901.pdf

ServiceEvolution-ADL-IPC-20160901.ppt

10:25 Discussion

Where should GridPP focus be in the coming 6 months in light of these evolutionary changes?

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 13:00 Session 4: Tier-1

Chair: David Colling

11:30 Tier-1 Status and plans

Speakers: Andrew Sansum, Gareth Smith (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

GridPP37 Aug-Sep 2016 - RAL Tier1 Status-Operations.pdf

GridPP37 Aug-Sep 2016 - RAL Tier1 Status-Operations.pptx

GRIDPP37_Tier1_Strategy_Final.pdf

GRIDPP37_Tier1_Strategy_Final.pptx

12:10 CEPH Status and Plans

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Ceph20160901.pdf

12:40 An update from our sponsor BIOS IT

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:10 → 18:10 Afternoon activities

the afternoon activities

20:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Best Western Salutation Hotel & Spa (www.hotelslakedistrict.com)

Friday, 2 September

09:00 → 11:00 Session 5: External Focus

Chair: Peter Clarke

09:00 External Focus

Speaker: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh (GB))

160901-GridPP37-Intro.pptx.pdf

09:20 LSST

Speaker: Dr George Beckett (University Edinburgh/EPCC)

gridpp37_lsst_beckett.pdf

09:40 SKA

Speaker: Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))

SKA-SDP-GridPP37-v1.0.pdf

10:00 DiRAC file transfers...

Speaker: Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB))

vo.dirac talk ableside gridpp37.pdf

10:20 Ganga

Speaker: Dr Robert Andrew Currie (Imperial College (GB))

GangaTalk.pdf

10:40 CMS at Home

Speaker: Dr Ivan Reid (Brunel University London (GB))

CMS_at_Home_GRIDPP.pdf

CMS_at_Home_GRIDPP.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 13:00 Session 6: IPv6 & Security

Chair: Dave Kelsey

11:30 Security Update

Speaker: David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))

GridPP37_Security_Update.pdf

11:50 Security in the wider world

WLCG, EU H2020, WISE, IGTF, AARC etc

Speaker: Dave Kelsey (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Kelsey2sep16.pdf

Kelsey2sep16.pptx

12:10 WLCG and support for IPv6-only CPU

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

IPv620160902.pdf

12:30 IPv6 testing at QMUL

Speakers: Daniel Peter Traynor (University of London (GB)), Terry Froy (QMUL)

20160902-gridpp37-ipv6testingatqmul.odp

20160902-gridpp37-ipv6testingatqmul.pdf

12:50 Discussion

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch