Name: HEPiX Workshop
Start: 2009-10-26T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2009-10-30T12:20:00-07:00
Location: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Monday 26 October 2009

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
09:15
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

09:15 Keynote Speech by Kathy Yelick
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 CERN site report - Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)

10:50 JLab Site Report - Sandy Philpott (JLAB)

11:10 Site Report GSI - Walter Schoen (GSI)

11:30 CC-IN2P3 Site Report - philippe olivero (CC-IN2P3)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
13:15
13:15 - 15:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

13:15 U.S. Government Supports OpenAFS - Jeffrey Altman (Your File System Inc.)

13:45 Experiences with StoRM and Lustre at an Atlas Tier-2 site - Christopher J Walker (Queen Mary, University of London)

14:15 lustre@gsi: A Petabyte file system for the analysis farm - status and outlook - Walter Schoen (GSI)

14:45 Performance of Hadoop file system on a HEPiX storage workgroup testbed - Artem Trunov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
15:15

15:15 - 15:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 Batch virtualization project at CERN - Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)

16:00 Virtualization within FermiGrid - Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)

16:30 The Magellan Cloud Computing Project at NERSC - Brent Draney (NERSC/LBNL)
Tuesday 27 October 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 IRFU Site report - Pierrick Micout (CEA IRFU)

09:15 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

09:30 Site report from PDSF - Jay Srinivasan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

09:45 ScotGrid, A UK ATLAS Tier 2 Approaching Readiness for Data Taking - Douglas McNab (University of Glasgow)

10:00 NIKHEF site report - Paul Kuipers (NIKHEF)
10:30 Morning Break
Morning Break
10:30 - 10:45
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
10:45
10:45 - 12:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 HEP-SPEC06 Measurement on Nehalem and Instanbul - Michele Michelotto (Univ. + INFN)

11:15 Benchmarking of CPU servers - Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)
12:00

12:00 - 13:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
13:15
13:15 - 15:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

13:15 Storage R&D at CERN - Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)

13:40 IN2P3 HPSS Migration (v5.1 to 6.2) report - Pierre Emmanuel Brinette (CNRS-CCIN2P3)

14:05 HPSS in the Extreme Scale Era - Jason Hick (LBNL)

14:30 Optimizing tape data access - Jonathan Schaeffer (CCIN2P3)

14:55 First exercises with PROOF on NFS v4.1/pNFS - Peter van der Reest (DESY)
15:15 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:15 - 15:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 Evolution of virtual infrastructure with Hyper-V - Juraj Sucik (CERN)

16:00 On-demand Virtualization and Grid/Cloud Integration - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

16:30 A Vision for Virtualisation in WLCG - Tony Cass (CERN)
Wednesday 28 October 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 LIP Site Report - Miguel Oliveira (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)

09:20 INFN-T1 status report - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

09:40 TRIUMF site report - Kelvin Raywood (TRIUMF)
10:00 Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Open Source Solution for Monitoring of Grid Services in WLCG - Wojciech Lapka (Unknown)

11:00 Unified Performance and Environment Monitoring using Nagios,Ganglia and Cacti - Thomas Davis (NERSC/LBNL)

11:30 Monitoring tape drives and medias at CC-IN2P3 - Frédéric AZEVEDO (CC-IN2P3)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
13:15
13:15 - 14:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

13:15 Cyber security update - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

13:45 Grid Security Update - David Kelsey (RAL)
14:15
14:15 - 15:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 AMD Roadmap - Jeff Underhill (AMD)

14:45 Benchmarking at LIP - Miguel Oliveira (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)
15:15 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:15 - 15:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 The CDCE Project @ BNL - Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:00 Options for expanding CERN’s computing capacity without a new Building - Alan Silverman (CERN)

16:30 Intel HPC environment for Silicon Design and Key Learnings - Shesha Krishnapura (Intel)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium

18:00

18:00 - 18:30
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium

18:30

18:30 - 21:30
Room: Main Room
Thursday 29 October 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Web application security - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

09:30 Security aspects of the WLCG infrastructure - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)
10:00 Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
10:15
10:15 - 11:45
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

10:15 Adopting Quattor for managing the UK Tier 1 fabric at RAL

10:45 Monitoring CC-IN2P3 services with Nagios - marc hausard (CC-IN2P3)

11:15 Deploying and Using the Lustre Monitoring Tool - Andrew Uselton (NERSC/LBNL)
11:45
11:45 - 12:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

11:45 Scientific Linux Status Report and Plenary Discussion - Connie Sieh (FERMILAB)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
13:15
13:15 - 14:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

13:15 The WLCG Technical Forum and HEPiX - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

13:45 Update on Version Control Services at CERN - Giacomo Tenaglia (CERN)
14:15
14:15 - 15:45
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 ITIL’s roles and tools from a perspective of a Scientific Computing Centre - Tobias Koenig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

14:45 The FermiGrid Software Acceptance Process - Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)

15:15 ITIL at CERN - Tony Cass (CERN)
15:45 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:45 - 16:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Windows 7 horizons - Juraj Sucik (CERN)

16:30 Linux Desktop Management with old school NFS-root boot - Christopher Huhn (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

17:00 Review of Desktop Computing Support - Alan Silverman (CERN)
Friday 30 October 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 ESnet: Networking for Science - Joe Burrescia (ESnet)

09:30 Network Performance Tuning - Brian Tierney (NERSC/LBNL)
10:00
10:00 - 11:40
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium
Contributions

10:00 INFN Site Report - Roberto Gomezel (INFN)

10:20 SLAC Site Report - John Bartelt (SLAC)

10:40 Prague Tier2 site report - Jiri Chudoba (Institute of Physics, Prague)

11:00 NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)
11:40

11:40 - 12:00
Room: Bldg. 66 Auditorium