HEPiX Workshop

from Monday, 26 October 2009 (09:00) to Friday, 30 October 2009 (12:20)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Oct 2009
27 Oct 2009
28 Oct 2009
29 Oct 2009
30 Oct 2009
AM
09:00
Opening Remarks and Conference Introduction (until 09:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:15
Keynote Speech (until 10:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:15 Keynote Speech by Kathy Yelick   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:00
Morning Break (until 10:30) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:30
Site Reports I (until 12:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:30 CERN site report - Dr Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:50 JLab Site Report - Sandy Philpott (JLAB)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:10 Site Report GSI - Dr Walter Schoen (GSI)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:30 CC-IN2P3 Site Report - Mr philippe olivero (CC-IN2P3)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:00
Site Reports II (until 10:30) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:00 IRFU Site report - Pierrick Micout (CEA IRFU)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:15 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:30 Site report from PDSF - Mr Jay Srinivasan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown-Unknown)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:45 ScotGrid, A UK ATLAS Tier 2 Approaching Readiness for Data Taking - Dr Douglas McNab (University of Glasgow)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:00 NIKHEF site report - Paul Kuipers (NIKHEF)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:30 --- Morning Break ---
10:45
Benchmarking I (until 12:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:45 HEP-SPEC06 Measurement on Nehalem and Instanbul - Michele Michelotto (Univ. + INFN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:15 Benchmarking of CPU servers - Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:00
Site Reports III (until 10:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:00 LIP Site Report - Dr Miguel Oliveira (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:20 INFN-T1 status report - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:40 TRIUMF site report - Kelvin Raywood (TRIUMF)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30
Monitoring Infrastructure and Tools I (until 12:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:30 Open Source Solution for Monitoring of Grid Services in WLCG - Mr Wojciech Lapka (Unknown)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:00 Unified Performance and Environment Monitoring using Nagios,Ganglia and Cacti - Mr Thomas Davis (NERSC/LBNL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
11:30 Monitoring tape drives and medias at CC-IN2P3 - Frédéric AZEVEDO (CC-IN2P3)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:00
Network, Security II (until 10:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:00 Web application security - Mr Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:30 Security aspects of the WLCG infrastructure - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:15
Monitoring Infrastructure and Tools II (until 11:45) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:15 Adopting Quattor for managing the UK Tier 1 fabric at RAL   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:45 Monitoring CC-IN2P3 services with Nagios - marc hausard (CC-IN2P3)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:15 Deploying and Using the Lustre Monitoring Tool - Mr Andrew Uselton (NERSC/LBNL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
11:45
Other (O/S, Applns., Data centers/Facilities) II (until 12:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
11:45 Scientific Linux Status Report and Plenary Discussion - Connie Sieh (FERMILAB)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
Paper
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09:00
Network, Security III (until 10:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
09:00 ESnet: Networking for Science - Joe Burrescia (ESnet)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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09:30 Network Performance Tuning - Mr Brian Tierney (NERSC/LBNL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:00
Site Reports IV (until 11:40) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
10:00 INFN Site Report - Roberto Gomezel (INFN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:20 SLAC Site Report - John Bartelt (SLAC)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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10:40 Prague Tier2 site report - Jiri Chudoba (Institute of Physics, Prague)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:00 NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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11:40
Conference Wrap-Up (until 12:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:15
Storage I (until 15:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
13:15 U.S. Government Supports OpenAFS - Jeffrey Altman (Your File System Inc.)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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13:45 Experiences with StoRM and Lustre at an Atlas Tier-2 site - Christopher J Walker (Queen Mary, University of London)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:15 lustre@gsi: A Petabyte file system for the analysis farm - status and outlook - Walter Schoen (GSI)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:45 Performance of Hadoop file system on a HEPiX storage workgroup testbed - Artem Trunov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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15:15
Afternoon Break (until 15:30) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
15:30
Virtualization I (until 17:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
15:30 Batch virtualization project at CERN - Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:00 Virtualization within FermiGrid - Dr Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:30 The Magellan Cloud Computing Project at NERSC - Mr Brent Draney (NERSC/LBNL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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12:00
Lunch (until 13:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
13:15
Storage II (until 15:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
13:15 Storage R&D at CERN - Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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13:40 IN2P3 HPSS Migration (v5.1 to 6.2) report - Pierre Emmanuel Brinette (CNRS-CCIN2P3)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:05 HPSS in the Extreme Scale Era - Jason Hick (LBNL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:30 Optimizing tape data access - Jonathan Schaeffer (CCIN2P3)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
Handout
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14:55 First exercises with PROOF on NFS v4.1/pNFS - Peter van der Reest (DESY)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
ALICE Offline Documentation
Animation
PROOF Tutorial - Demo on pp 49,50
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15:15 --- Afternoon Break ---
15:30
Virtualization II (until 17:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
15:30 Evolution of virtual infrastructure with Hyper-V - Mr Juraj Sucik (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:00 On-demand Virtualization and Grid/Cloud Integration - Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:30 A Vision for Virtualisation in WLCG - Dr Tony Cass (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:15
Network, Security I (until 14:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
13:15 Cyber security update - Mr Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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13:45 Grid Security Update - Dr David Kelsey (RAL)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:15
Benchmarking II (until 15:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
14:15 AMD Roadmap - Mr Jeff Underhill (AMD)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
14:45 Benchmarking at LIP - Miguel Oliveira (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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15:15 --- Afternoon Break ---
15:30
Other (O/S, Applns., Data centers/Facilities) I (until 17:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
15:30 The CDCE Project @ BNL - Dr Tony Chan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:00 Options for expanding CERN’s computing capacity without a new Building - Mr Alan Silverman (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:30 Intel HPC environment for Silicon Design and Key Learnings - Mr Shesha Krishnapura (Intel)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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17:00
HEPiX Board Meeting (Board Only) (until 18:00) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
18:00
Travel to Dinner (until 18:30) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
18:30
Dinner at Cafe Venezia (until 21:30) (Main Room)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:15
Other (O/S, Applns., Data centers/Facilities) II (contd.) (until 14:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
13:15 The WLCG Technical Forum and HEPiX - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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13:45 Update on Version Control Services at CERN - Giacomo Tenaglia (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:15
ITIL (until 15:45) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
14:15 ITIL’s roles and tools from a perspective of a Scientific Computing Centre - Mr Tobias Koenig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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14:45 The FermiGrid Software Acceptance Process - Dr Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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15:15 ITIL at CERN - Dr Tony Cass (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:00
Desktop Management I (until 17:15) (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
16:00 Windows 7 horizons - Juraj Sucik (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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16:30 Linux Desktop Management with old school NFS-root boot - Christopher Huhn (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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17:00 Review of Desktop Computing Support - Mr Alan Silverman (CERN)   (Bldg. 66 Auditorium)
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