Name: ALICE Offline week
Start: 2016-11-01T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-11-04T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

ALICE Offline week

from Tuesday, 1 November 2016 (09:00) to Friday, 4 November 2016 (18:00)

Monday, 31 October 2016
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

09:00 DDS Workshop

09:00 - 17:00
Room: 53/R-044
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
08:30 Offline Forum
08:30 - 12:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 Status and evolution of ROOT - Axel Naumann (CERN)

09:30 The New ROOT Interface: Jupyter Notebooks - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

10:00 RESTful API for CVMFS and other developments - Jakob Blomer (CERN)

10:50 AFS Replacement project and recent EOS developments - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)

11:20 Use of docker to setup enviroment for DA developments - Laurent Aphecetche (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:50 Detector requirements for QA tools - TPC case (17+3) - Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 13/2-005
14:00 Data Preparation
14:00 - 17:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

14:00 QA tools overview (17+3) - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

14:20 Demonstration of the TPC QA tools (17+3) - Hans Beck (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

14:40 Elasticsearch+Kibana/Kibi as QA tools (17+3) - Iwona Anna Sputowska (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

15:00 OVERWATCH (25+5) - Raymond Ehlers (Yale University (US))

15:30 Discussion on QA tools - All

16:00 Packages and Code development (20+10) - Roberto Preghenella (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

16:30 Miscellanea (20+10) - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Francesco Prino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

17:00 AOB: All you wanted to say, but there was no time until now - All
Thursday, 3 November 2016
09:00 Distributed Computing
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 Status of the Grid - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

09:30 Using the Titan supercomputer for ALICE MC - Pavlo Svirin (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA))

10:00 Scalable Global Grid Catalogue for Run3 and beyond - Miguel Martinez Pedreira (CERN)

11:00 Summary of distributed computing track from CHEP'2016 - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

11:30 Russian Federated Data Storage Prototype for ALICE - Andrey Zarochentsev (St Petersburg State University (RU))

12:00 An AliEn site with containers using Plancton - Matteo Concas (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: 13/2-005
14:30 Framework & Tools
14:30 - 16:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

14:30 Summary of Mesos investigations so far - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

14:45 AliBuild status - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

15:15 Transition of git repositories, introduction of new git workflows, and related subjects - Dario Berzano (CERN) Giulio Eulisse (CERN) Jochen Klein (CERN)
16:30 Reconstruction, simulation, feedback from analysis
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

16:30 Status of reconstruction - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

17:00 CPU Performance of ALICE Simulation: Current Activities and Look Into Future - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)
Friday, 4 November 2016
09:00 Software framework for Run 3
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 Status of ALFA - Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN)

09:30 Status of FairMQ - Alexey Rybalchenko (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:00 Report from the DDS workshop - Anar Manafov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Andrey Lebedev (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:50 O2 compression framework - Matthias Richter (University of Oslo (NO))