US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at UChicago

America/Chicago
Chicago

Chicago

Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Description
The latest in a series of US ATLAS workshops focusing on Tier2/Tier3 facility related issues. The emphasis will be on facility readiness for end-user analysis for the first run of the LHC, discussion on technical options and planning for future storage systems in US ATLAS, and Tier3 issues including configuration and deployment options supporting institution-level analysis. The meeting will be carried on EVO. Title: US ATLAS Tier 2/Tier 3 Workshop Description: Workshop at U Chicago Community: ATLAS Meeting Access Information: - Meeting URL http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eseieIv8v2aBa9aaIs - Phone Bridge ID: 37633 EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers: --------------- - USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA) +1 626 395 2112 - Switzerland (CERN, Geneva) +41 22 76 71400 - USA (BNL, Upton, NY) +1 631 344 6100
Participants
  • Aaron Brown
  • Alden Stradling
  • Alex Sim
  • Andrew Hanushevsky
  • Barrett Ross
  • Brian Paul Bockelman
  • Charles George Waldman
  • David Lesny
  • David Strom
  • Dick Greenwood
  • Doug Benjamin
  • Fred Luehring
  • Harris Kagan
  • Hironori Ito
  • Hong Ma
  • Horst Severini
  • James Herbert Cochran Jr
  • John Brunelle
  • John DeStefano
  • Kaushik De
  • Marco Mambelli
  • Mark Neubauer
  • Mark Sosebee
  • Mary Heintz
  • Michael Ernst
  • Nils Krumnack
  • Ofer Rind
  • Paul Keener
  • Raymond Brock
  • Richard Mount
  • Rik Yoshida
  • Rob Gardner
  • Robert Ball
  • Sarah Williams
  • Saul Youssef
  • Sergei Chekanov
  • Sergey Panitkin
  • Sergey Uzunyan
  • Suchandra Thapa
  • Tom Rockwell
  • Wei Yang
  • Wednesday, 19 August
    • 09:00 10:30
      Facilities Overview
      • 09:00
        US ATLAS Facility Overview & Roadmap 45m
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        US ATLAS Facility Integration Program 20m
        Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
        Slides
    • 10:30 10:45
      Coffee 15m
    • 10:45 12:30
      End User Analysis
      • 10:45
        Profiling analysis at startup 45m
        Speaker: Jim Cochran (Iowa State Univ.)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Supporting analysis users in U.S. ATLAS 45m
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlington)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:30
      Storage Issues & Roadmap
      • 14:00
        Xrootd: deployment & operations experiences at the Tier 2 30m
        Speaker: Wei Yang (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Wide area Xrootd testing at MWT2 15m
        Speaker: Sarah Williams (Indiana University)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        Hadoop filesystem for US LHC facilities 30m
        Speaker: Brian Bockelman (Nebraska)
        Slides
    • 15:30 15:45
      Coffee break 15m
    • 15:45 17:30
      Storage R&D Planning
      • 15:45
        Analysis Performance Studies 30m
        Speaker: Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
        Slides
      • 16:15
        Investigating BitTorrent for multi-Tier2 to Tier3 transfers 20m
        Speaker: Charles George Waldman (University of Chicago)
        Slides
      • 16:35
        Xrootd Developments 20m
        Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
        Slides
    • 19:30 21:30
      Workshop Dinner (self-pay) 2h
  • Thursday, 20 August
    • 09:00 10:45
      Tier 3 Issues I
      • 09:00
        Current Status of Tier 3 15m
        Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University)
        Slides
      • 09:15
        Direction for T3 15m
        Speaker: Rikutaro Yoshida (Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Discussion Tier 3 status and Tier 3 direction 20m
      • 09:50
        T3g general architecture: Discussion of distributed disk 20m
        Speaker: Sergei Chekanov (HEP division (ANL))
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Data copying for T3g: T3 copying speed testing and tuning 15m
        Speaker: Sergei Chekanov (HEP division (ANL))
        Slides
      • 10:25
        Data handling for T3 20m
        Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlington)
        Slides
    • 10:45 11:00
      Coffee break 15m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Tier 3 Issues II
      • 11:00
        Tier 3 Support and the OSG 20m
        Speakers: Dan Fraser, Marco Mambelli (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
      • 11:20
        Networking: Internet 2 tools & the Tier 3 20m
        Speaker: Aaron Brown (Internet2)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        ATLAS Conditions Databases for T3: Frontier and Squid:Experience installing and working at T3 20m
        Speaker: Fred Luehring (Indiana University)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Virtual Machines for T3 20m
        Speaker: Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      Analysis Facilities and Discussion
      • 14:00
        Plans for Analysis Facility at BNL 20m
        Speaker: Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Plans for Analysis Facility at SLAC 20m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)
        Slides
    • 16:15 16:15
      Adjourn