Welcome & Coffee Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Introductions

• Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

SKA background

• Rosie Bolton (University of Cambridge)
• Scaife Anna (University of Manchester)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building Overview of AENEAS and where this workshop aims to fit.

GridPP infrastructure & approaches

• Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))
• Tom Whyntie (QMUL)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building Examples of support approaches with other communities. Potential overlaps.

ASTERICS & typical analysis

• Paul Alexander

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Aims and status - Workflows (e.g. those which parallelise source extraction etc.) -- How are these being run; can they be run more widely?

Discussion Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

LUNCH Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

GridPP DIRAC, VMs, OpenStack, HTC, HPC - HEP

• Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - What is being done in the (UK) HEP community - HTC usage and pilot frameworks - Extending to VMs and Clouds - Bridging HTC and HPC - The need to remain adaptable and how we cope with this need.

Openstack - HPC - Astro

• Stig Telfer

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - The overhead of virtualisation and strategies for remediation - OpenStack’s emerging capabilities for HPC - What gaps remain and what can be done to address them

Discussion - useful collaborative work 1

• Ian Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

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COFFEE Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Data transfer approaches

• Brian Davies (Lancaster University (GB))
• Samuel Cadellin Skipsey

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Current HPC DIRAC investigations - GridPP transfers to RAL - HEP lessons learned - Data management considerations

Discussion - useful collaborative work 2

• Andrew Sansum

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Data analytics approaches - HEP

• Peter Love (Lancaster University (GB))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Note papers here https://indico.cern.ch/event/505613/abstract-book.pdf

Data analytics approaches - General/Astro

• Alex Gittens (Berkeley (remote talk))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Aspirations to use an analytics engine such as Spark

Discussion

• Paul Alexander (University of Cambridge)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Agenda for Thursday Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Items to return to: -- Common challenges -- Resource sharing -- Main questions to investigate

Review of Wednesday's highlights

• Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Main points - Questions to tackle

skatelescope.eu virtual organisation

• Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building Preparation done at Manchester for test cases

Manchester test case & experiences

• David Mulcahy

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Overview of what was attempted - Feedback from David Mulcahy and Alex Clark - Lessons learned

Discussion - AENEAS objectives and what is needed

• Anna Scaife
• Michael Wise
• Rosie Bolton

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Review of work package descriptions - Clarifications that will be needed - Pre-tests

COFFEE Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Network considerations

• David Salmon

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - A chance for JANET/JISC to highlight their roadmap - Concerns and opportunities

SRCCG

• Nick Rees (SKAO)

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Work planning

• David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Identified areas for co-working - Details of what is required - Next steps for each objective

LUNCH Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building

Work planning/discussions continued

• Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge (GB))

Room: G.205 - Alan Turing Building - Next steps - Further meetings....