Name: WLCG Workshop 2017
Start: 2017-06-19T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-06-22T17:30:00+01:00
Location: University of Manchester

Monday 19 June 2017

12:30

12:30 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 13:30
Contributions

13:00 Welcome - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester)

13:05 Logistic - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))

13:06 Introduction - Ian Bird (CERN) Ian Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 European SKA Regional Centre Compute Model - Anna Scaife

13:50 Discussion

14:00 Review of WLCG experiment compute plans - Simone Campana (CERN)

14:25 Discussion

14:35 Lightweight sites compute - possible models - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

14:50 Discussion
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Medium term evolution - Compute (continuation)
Medium term evolution - Compute (continuation)
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 Singularity introduction and use in OSG - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))

15:50 Use of containers at RAL Tier-1 - Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

16:10 Discussion
16:30
16:30 - 17:35
Contributions

16:30 Security update [slides for all talks] - Liviu Valsan (CERN) Romain Wartel (CERN) Vincent Brillault (CERN)

16:35 Singularity - Liviu Valsan (CERN) Vincent Brillault (CERN)

16:50 Collaboration between security teams - Romain Wartel (CERN)

17:10 Ongoing work - Liviu Valsan (CERN)
19:30 Reception
Reception
19:30 - 21:30
Tuesday 20 June 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Overview & report from Data Steering Group - Oliver Keeble (CERN)

09:15 Discussion

09:30 Storage resource reporting - Oliver Keeble (CERN)

09:40 Discussion

10:00 Object stores - Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

10:10 Discussion
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Medium term evolution - Data (continuation)
Medium term evolution - Data (continuation)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 SKA data management - Rosie Bolton

11:10 Site and storage architecture - multi-site storage - Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

11:20 Site and storage architecture - caches - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))

11:30 Site and storage architecture - regional federations - Randy Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))

11:40 Site and storage architecture - diskless sites - Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))

11:50 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 WLCG Network Requirements
WLCG Network Requirements
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 SKA Networking Requirements - Richard Hughes-Jones (GEANT)

13:50 ATLAS Networking Requirements - Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

14:05 ALICE Network Requirements - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

14:20 CMS Networking Requirements - Christoph Wissing (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

14:35 LHCb Networking Requirements - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

14:50 WLCG Network Monitoring and Analytics - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

15:05 Network Monitoring and Debugging Discussion
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Cost Models - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

16:30 Bringing improvements into production - Johannes Elmsheuser (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:00 Exchanging and disseminating knowledge - Markus Schulz (CERN)
19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 22:30
Wednesday 21 June 2017
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Project Leader's report - Ian Bird (CERN)

09:50 Update on HNSciCloud

10:00 The Scientific Computing Forum

10:10 Relationship with other proejcts, including SKA
09:30 - 11:00
11:00 Benchmarking discussion
Benchmarking discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Status report from Benchmarking Working Group - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

11:40 Benchmarking discussion (with panellists) - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)) Andrew McNab (University of Manchester) Betev Latchezar (CERN) Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno) Manfred Alef (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Monitoring
Monitoring
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Status, plans of WLCG Unified Monitoring - Alberto Aimar (CERN)

13:55 ElasticSearch Service at CERN - Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)

14:05 Monitoring in Experiments (Summary) - Alberto Aimar (CERN)

14:25 Q&A
14:30 IS evolution and storage space accounting
IS evolution and storage space accounting
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 Information System Evolution - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

14:45 CRIC - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)

15:10 Storage Space Accounting - Introduction - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

15:15 Storage Space Accounting - Prototype - Dimitrios Christidis (University of Patras (GR))
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 IPv6 Introduction
IPv6 Introduction
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 WLCG and IPv6 - Alastair Dewhurst (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Andrea Sciaba (CERN)

16:20 An introduction to IPv6 - Terry Froy (Queen Mary University of London)

16:50 Deploying IPv6 - Francesco Prelz (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

17:10 DHCPv6 at CERN - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)

17:30 Hands-on preparation
Thursday 22 June 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Preliminary steps - Terry Froy (Queen Mary University of London)

09:15 Data transfer exercise - Ulf Bobson Severin Tigerstedt (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

10:15 perfSonar exercise (installation) - Duncan Rand (Imperial College (GB))
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 perfSonar exercise (configuration) - Duncan Rand (Imperial College (GB))

11:45 squid for Frontier and CVMFS - Andrea Sciaba (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30

13:30 - 17:30