9th LHCb Computing Workshop

Name: 9th LHCb Computing Workshop
Start: 2017-05-15T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2017-05-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

15–19 May 2017

CERN

Europe/Zurich timezone

Contribution List

45. Introduction and Core Software news

Ben Couturier (CERN), Joel Closier (CERN), Marco Clemencic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 09:00

50. Status of AFS phase-out

Ben Couturier (CERN), Joel Closier (CERN), Marco Clemencic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 09:10

51. Compiler and platforms evolution

Ben Couturier (CERN), Marco Clemencic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 09:30

Discussion on the move to gcc 7 and other compilers

52. lbinstall: the new LHCb installer

Ben Couturier (CERN), Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 09:50

53. Investigations on the migration to python3

Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 10:00

57. A new dashbord for the nightly builds and tests

Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 10:50

54. Evolution of deployment system to CVMFS prod and dev

Ben Couturier (CERN), Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 11:05

55. MIgration of the LHCb documentation to EOS web

Marco Clemencic (CERN)

15/05/2017, 11:20

56. Improvements to LHCbPR2 and new integration tests

Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

15/05/2017, 11:40

60. Overview of the CWP Project and Summaray of the Kick-Off Workshop

Vladimir Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15/05/2017, 14:00

Discussion of the Community White Paper project, organized by the HEP Software Foundation, and a summary of the first CP workshop, held in San Diego in January.

61. Simulation Issues for the CWP

Gloria Corti (CERN)

15/05/2017, 14:30

62. Machine Learning issues for the CWP

Paul Seyfert (CERN)

15/05/2017, 14:45

63. 1st Breakout Session

Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

15/05/2017, 15:00

We will break into small groups to review and edit CWP Google docs.

64. Coffee Break

15/05/2017, 15:50

You're on your own

65. Discussions of Breakout Session Conclusions

Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

15/05/2017, 16:10

Each breakout session group will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation of what they did, and then we will discuss these commonly.

28. Roadmap for Sim10

Gloria Corti (CERN)

16/05/2017, 09:00

29. Fast simulation

Riccardo Cenci (SNS and INFN-Pisa, Italy)

16/05/2017, 09:30

30. Deployment and validation of Git conditions database

Marco Clemencic (CERN)

16/05/2017, 09:50

32. Status of PersistReco

Rosen Matev (CERN)

16/05/2017, 10:30

33. Stripping status

Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow (GB))

16/05/2017, 10:50

Status of S24r0p1 (2015 incremental)
Readiness of S29 (2017 prompt)
How can commissioning of a stripping campaign be improved?

34. Status of Yandex streaming optimisation

Radoslav Neychev (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

16/05/2017, 11:20

35. Discussion on streaming

16/05/2017, 11:40

How can we improve our streaming strategy to optimise usage of disk, turnaround for analysts, restripping, operations

39. Intro

Federico Stagni (CERN)

16/05/2017, 14:00

40. Working Group productions: what's done so far

Vladimir Romanovskiy (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))

16/05/2017, 14:10

41. Working Group productions: mini tutorial

Antonio Falabella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

16/05/2017, 14:30

42. Working group productions: discussion + Q&A

16/05/2017, 15:00

44. Recent and upcoming developments in LHCbDIRAC

Federico Stagni (CERN)

16/05/2017, 15:20

58. Recent and upcoming developments for Ganga and LHCb

Mark Smith (Imperial College (GB))

16/05/2017, 16:00

43. Distributed computing team: activities, and prospects

Philippe Charpentier (CERN)

16/05/2017, 16:20

1. Status of CERN analysis preservation project

Tibor Simko (CERN)

17/05/2017, 09:00

2. The RECAST project

Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))

17/05/2017, 09:30

4. CERN cloud infrastructure

Jan van Eldik (CERN), Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN)

17/05/2017, 09:55

Openstack, VMs, docker on a VM,
Kubernetes etc

5. LHCb analysis preservation roadmap

Sebastian Neubert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

17/05/2017, 10:50

6. Discussion session

17/05/2017, 11:20

Feedback on roadmap document
How to maintain an AP software stack?

71. Community Whitepaper

Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

17/05/2017, 11:50

9. Analysis pipeline toolkits

Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))

17/05/2017, 14:00

General concepts, use cases in LHCb, evaluation procedure

25. Data storage and access

Jakub Moscicki (CERN), Luca Mascetti (CERN), Massimo Lamanna (CERN)

17/05/2017, 14:30

EOS and all that

37. Swan

Danilo Piparo (CERN)

17/05/2017, 15:00

38. Everware

Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

17/05/2017, 15:40

Interactive documentation in jupyter notebooks

13. Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment: Measuring Matter Antimatter Asymmetries at the Large Hadron Collider

Chris Parkes (University of Manchester (GB))

17/05/2017, 16:00

Example showcasing analysis preservation and open data

49. Open space: Challenges in AP

17/05/2017, 16:20

We will split into discussion groups:

Data storage and access
Containerization and cloud resources
Reuse of analysis code
Analysis narrative
Treasure hunt: forgotten issues

The goal is to define the major unsovled problems where more work is needed.

47. POPPER a protocol for reproducible science (remote)

Ivo Jimenez (UC Santa Cruz), Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz)

17/05/2017, 17:30

7. Status of new framework and performance measurements

Sebastien Ponce (CERN)

18/05/2017, 09:00

10. Outcome of Intel workshop

Paul Seyfert (CERN)

18/05/2017, 09:40

11. Performance metrics in PR2

Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)), Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)), Stefan Roiser (CERN)

18/05/2017, 10:00

12. Status of conditions database

Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

18/05/2017, 10:20

14. Detector description

Ben Couturier (CERN)

18/05/2017, 10:40

15. Tracking

Agnieszka Dziurda (CERN), Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

18/05/2017, 14:00

16. RICH

Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))