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9th LHCb Computing Workshop
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222/R-001 (CERN)
Concezio Bozzi
(CERN and INFN Ferrara),
Stefan Roiser
(CERN)
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-: Infrastructure and operationsConveners: Ben Couturier (CERN), Joel Closier (CERN)
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Introduction and Core Software newsSpeakers: Ben Couturier (CERN), Joel Closier (CERN), Marco Clemencic (CERN)
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Status of AFS phase-outSpeakers: Ben Couturier (CERN), Joel Closier (CERN), Marco Clemencic (CERN)
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Compiler and platforms evolution
Discussion on the move to gcc 7 and other compilers
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lbinstall: the new LHCb installerSpeakers: Ben Couturier (CERN), Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)
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Investigations on the migration to python3Speaker: Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)
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10:20
Break
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A new dashbord for the nightly builds and testsSpeaker: Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)
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Evolution of deployment system to CVMFS prod and devSpeakers: Ben Couturier (CERN), Stefan-Gabriel Chitic (CERN)
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Improvements to LHCbPR2 and new integration testsSpeaker: Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
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-: HEP Community InitiativesConvener: Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))
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Overview of the CWP Project and Summaray of the Kick-Off Workshop
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.
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Simulation Issues for the CWPSpeaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)
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1st Breakout Session
We will break into small groups to review and edit CWP Google docs.
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Coffee Break
You're on your own
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Discussions of Breakout Session Conclusions
Each breakout session group will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation of what they did, and then we will discuss these commonly.
Speaker: Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))
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-: Data Processing & SimulationConvener: Marco Cattaneo (CERN)
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Deployment and validation of Git conditions databaseSpeaker: Marco Clemencic (CERN)
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10:10
Coffee
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Stripping status
Status of S24r0p1 (2015 incremental)
Readiness of S29 (2017 prompt)
How can commissioning of a stripping campaign be improved?Speaker: Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow (GB)) -
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Status of Yandex streaming optimisationSpeaker: Radoslav Neychev (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))
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Discussion on streaming
How can we improve our streaming strategy to optimise usage of disk, turnaround for analysts, restripping, operations
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a) Streams from the HLTSpeaker: Sascha Stahl (CERN)
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c) Streams from the StrippingSpeaker: Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow (GB))
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e) Discussion
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-: Distributed computingConvener: Federico Stagni (CERN)
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Working Group productions: what's done so farSpeaker: Vladimir Romanovskiy (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))
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Working Group productions: mini tutorialSpeaker: Antonio Falabella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
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Working group productions: discussion + Q&A
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Recent and upcoming developments in LHCbDIRACSpeaker: Federico Stagni (CERN)
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15:40
Coffee break
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Recent and upcoming developments for Ganga and LHCbSpeaker: Mark Smith (Imperial College (GB))
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Distributed computing team: activities, and prospectsSpeaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
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-: Analysis preservation IConvener: Sebastian Neubert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
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Status of CERN analysis preservation projectSpeaker: Tibor Simko (CERN)
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The RECAST projectSpeaker: Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))
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CERN cloud infrastructure
Openstack, VMs, docker on a VM,
Kubernetes etcSpeakers: Jan van Eldik (CERN), Ricardo Brito Da Rocha (CERN) -
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Coffee break
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LHCb analysis preservation roadmapSpeaker: Sebastian Neubert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
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Discussion session
- Feedback on roadmap document
- How to maintain an AP software stack?
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Community WhitepaperSpeaker: Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))
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-: Analysis preservation IIConvener: Sebastian Neubert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
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Analysis pipeline toolkits
General concepts, use cases in LHCb, evaluation procedure
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Data storage and access
EOS and all that
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15:20
Coffee break
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Everware
Interactive documentation in jupyter notebooks
Speaker: Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU)) -
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Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment: Measuring Matter Antimatter Asymmetries at the Large Hadron Collider
Example showcasing analysis preservation and open data
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Open space: Challenges in AP
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.
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POPPER a protocol for reproducible science (remote)Speakers: Ivo Jimenez (UC Santa Cruz), Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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-: Run 3 Upgrade: core software frameworkConvener: Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)
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Status of new framework and performance measurementsSpeaker: Sebastien Ponce (CERN)
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Performance metrics in PR2Speakers: Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)), Maciej Pawel Szymanski (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)), Stefan Roiser (CERN)
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11:00
Coffee Break
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Discussion with Candidates for Next Physics Coordinator
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-: Run 3 upgrade and developments for 2017 data taking: Status of sub-systemsConvener: Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)
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TrackingSpeakers: Agnieszka Dziurda (CERN), Christoph Hasse (CERN / Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
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CALO -- canceled
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-: Run 3 Upgrade: core software: The way ahead
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Merging master and future, defining a common sequenceSpeaker: Sebastien Ponce (CERN)
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15:50
Coffee Break
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-: Reserved for tutorials
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Measuring code performance with valgrind, perf and vtuneSpeaker: Monir Hadji (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
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-: Run 3 upgrade: distributed computingConvener: Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)
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HYDRA: a C++ framework for highly efficient computing on massively parallel architecturesSpeaker: Dr Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (University of Cincinnati (US))
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Migrating analysis software to the new frameworkSpeaker: Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US))
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Computing Resources in Run 3Speaker: Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)
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Distributed computing in Run 3 (following earlier discussion)Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
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10:30
Coffee Break
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Preparing the TDR
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-: Container & VM technologiesConvener: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)
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Experience with containers in LHCb servicesSpeaker: Christophe Haen (CERN)
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SkyGrid at YandexSpeaker: Alexander Baranov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))
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