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

9th LHCb Computing Workshop

from Monday, 15 May 2017 (08:30) to Friday, 19 May 2017 (17:00)

Monday, 15 May 2017
09:00 -: Infrastructure and operations
Infrastructure and operations
09:00 - 12:10
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Introduction and Core Software news - Ben Couturier (CERN) Joel Closier (CERN) Marco Clemencic (CERN)

09:10 Status of AFS phase-out - Ben Couturier (CERN) Joel Closier (CERN) Marco Clemencic (CERN)

09:30 Compiler and platforms evolution - Ben Couturier (CERN) Marco Clemencic (CERN)

09:50 lbinstall: the new LHCb installer - Ben Couturier (CERN) Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

10:00 Investigations on the migration to python3 - Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

10:50 A new dashbord for the nightly builds and tests - Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

11:05 Evolution of deployment system to CVMFS prod and dev - Ben Couturier (CERN) Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)

11:20 MIgration of the LHCb documentation to EOS web - Marco Clemencic (CERN)

11:40 Improvements to LHCbPR2 and new integration tests - Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
14:00 -: HEP Community Initiatives
HEP Community Initiatives
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Overview of the CWP Project and Summaray of the Kick-Off Workshop - Vladimir Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:30 Simulation Issues for the CWP - Gloria Corti (CERN)

14:45 Machine Learning issues for the CWP - Paul Seyfert (CERN)

15:00 1st Breakout Session - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

15:50 Coffee Break

16:10 Discussions of Breakout Session Conclusions - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
09:00 -: Data Processing & Simulation
Data Processing & Simulation
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Roadmap for Sim10 - Gloria Corti (CERN)

09:30 Fast simulation - Riccardo Cenci (SNS and INFN-Pisa, Italy)

09:50 Deployment and validation of Git conditions database - Marco Clemencic (CERN)

10:30 Status of PersistReco - Rosen Matev (CERN)

10:50 Stripping status - Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:20 Status of Yandex streaming optimisation - Radoslav Neychev (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

11:40 Discussion on streaming
14:00 -: Distributed computing
Distributed computing
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Intro - Federico Stagni (CERN)

14:10 Working Group productions: what's done so far - Vladimir Romanovskiy (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))

14:30 Working Group productions: mini tutorial - Antonio Falabella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:00 Working group productions: discussion + Q&A

15:20 Recent and upcoming developments in LHCbDIRAC - Federico Stagni (CERN)

16:00 Recent and upcoming developments for Ganga and LHCb - Mark Smith (Imperial College (GB))

16:20 Distributed computing team: activities, and prospects - Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
09:00 -: Analysis preservation I
Analysis preservation I
09:00 - 12:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Status of CERN analysis preservation project - Tibor Simko (CERN)

09:30 The RECAST project - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))

09:55 CERN cloud infrastructure - Jan van Eldik (CERN) Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN)

10:50 LHCb analysis preservation roadmap - Sebastian Neubert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

11:20 Discussion session

11:50 Community Whitepaper - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))
14:00 -: Analysis preservation II
Analysis preservation II
14:00 - 18:15
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Analysis pipeline toolkits - Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))

14:30 Data storage and access - Jakub Moscicki (CERN) Luca Mascetti (CERN) Massimo Lamanna (CERN)

15:00 Swan - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

15:40 Everware - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

16:00 Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment: Measuring Matter Antimatter Asymmetries at the Large Hadron Collider - Chris Parkes (University of Manchester (GB))

16:20 Open space: Challenges in AP

17:30 POPPER a protocol for reproducible science (remote) - Ivo Jimenez (UC Santa Cruz) Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Thursday, 18 May 2017
09:00 -: Run 3 Upgrade: core software framework
Run 3 Upgrade: core software framework
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Status of new framework and performance measurements - Sebastien Ponce (CERN)

09:40 Outcome of Intel workshop - Paul Seyfert (CERN)

10:00 Performance metrics in PR2 - Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)) Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Stefan Roiser (CERN)

10:20 Status of conditions database - Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

10:40 Detector description - Ben Couturier (CERN)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 222/R-001

11:30 Discussion with Candidates for Next Physics Coordinator

11:30 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 -: Run 3 upgrade and developments for 2017 data taking: Status of sub-systems
Run 3 upgrade and developments for 2017 data taking: Status of sub-systems
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Tracking - Agnieszka Dziurda (CERN) Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

14:15 RICH - Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:30 CALO -- canceled

14:45 MUON - Marco Santimaria (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
15:00 -: Run 3 Upgrade: core software: The way ahead
Run 3 Upgrade: core software: The way ahead
15:00 - 16:15
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

15:00 Upgrade HLT - Olli Lupton (CERN)

15:25 Merging master and future, defining a common sequence - Sebastien Ponce (CERN)
16:15 -: Reserved for tutorials
Reserved for tutorials
16:15 - 17:45
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:15 Measuring code performance with valgrind, perf and vtune - Monir Hadji (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
Friday, 19 May 2017
09:00 -: Run 3 upgrade: distributed computing
Run 3 upgrade: distributed computing
09:00 - 12:15
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 HYDRA: a C++ framework for highly efficient computing on massively parallel architectures - Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (University of Cincinnati (US))

09:20 Migrating analysis software to the new framework - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US))

09:40 Computing Resources in Run 3 - Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)

10:00 Distributed computing in Run 3 (following earlier discussion) - Philippe Charpentier (CERN)

11:00 Preparing the TDR
14:00 -: Container & VM technologies
Container & VM technologies
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

14:05 Experience with containers in LHCb services - Christophe Haen (CERN)

14:35 Singularity - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:05 SkyGrid at Yandex - Alexander Baranov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

15:35 Vac and Vcycle news - Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)