Name: WLCG Collaboration Workshop (Tier0/Tier1/Tier2)
Start: 2008-04-21T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-04-25T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

WLCG Collaboration Workshop (Tier0/Tier1/Tier2)

from Monday 21 April 2008 (09:00) to Friday 25 April 2008 (18:00)

Monday 21 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 The Goals - WLCG MoU Targets & Experiment Critical Services Lists - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

09:20 The Techniques: middleware developers' golden rules - Gavin McCance (CERN)

09:40 The Techniques: deployment strategies (application DNS load balancing, Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture) - Jacek Wojcieszuk (CERN)

10:00 Measuring What We Deliver & Problem Resolution Targets - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

11:00 Middleware & experimentware surveys - how do we rack up? - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

11:30 Testing Experiment Services - SAM tests et al - Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)

12:00 Atlas Central Services Operations - Birger Koblitz (CERN)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Main auditorium
13:30
13:30 - 18:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Storage Performance Issues, Monitoring etc.

14:30 SRM v1.1 de-commissioning plan and timetable - Flavia Donno (Flavia.Donno@cern.ch)

16:00 Summary of recommendations / proposals regarding SRM v2.2 (for May and perhaps beyond...) - Flavia Donno (CERN)

16:45 Data (access) security issues - The WLCG Storage Solution Working Group
Tuesday 22 April 2008

09:00

09:00 - 18:00
Room: 40-S2-D01
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 CCRC08 - View from WLCG Service - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

09:45 CCRC08 - View from Sites - Derek Ross (RAL) Harry Renshall (CERN) Ian FISK (US-CMS)

11:00 ATLAS summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Kors Bos (NIKHEF, ATLAS, CERN)

11:45 CMS summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN, CMS)

13:30 ALICE summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

14:15 LHCb summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Roberto Santinelli (CERN)

15:00 Panel on Support Issues - Supporters, Experiments, Sites, ...

16:00 The Metric - as a Common Challenge, involving all experiments and sites, how did we do overall? - Previous speakers, site representatives, ...
Wednesday 23 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 The LHC Status and Schedule - Jos Engelen (CERN)

09:20 Resource / Service Review - What can we count on for 2008 production? - Harry Renshall (CERN)

10:35 ATLAS Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Kors Bos (NIKHEF, CERN, ATLAS)

11:20 LHCb Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Nick Brook (University of Bristol, LHCb)

13:05 CMS Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN & CMS)

13:50 ALICE Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

14:35 Baseline Middleware Versions - what is in production - Markus Schulz (CERN) Oliver Keeble (CERN)

14:45 Baseline storage-ware versions - what is in production - Flavia Donno (CERN)

15:25 Follow-up on Action Items from April CCRC'08 F2F

16:25 Running, monitoring and measuring the challenge

17:10 CCRC'08 Post-mortem workshop in June (12-13)
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Restaurant number 1, main building
Thursday 24 April 2008

09:00

09:00 - 18:00
Room: IT amphitheatre
09:00 - 13:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 The European Grid Initiative Design Study - EGI_DS - Dieter Kranzlmueller (GUP)

09:45 On the Transition to EGI - Requirements from WLCG and Related Projects - Ian Bird (CERN)

11:15 Overview of EGEE III operations - Maite Barroso Lopez (CERN)
13:00
13:00 - 18:00
Room: 513-1-24
Contributions

13:00 Overview and Welcome - James Casey (CERN)

13:15 Introduction to Nagios - Chris Brew (CCLRC - RAL)

13:45 Nagios for grid services - Emir Imamagic (Unknown)

14:45 Questions + Feedback from sites

15:20 Monitoring a Region using Nagios - Steve Traylen (CERN)

15:40 Site experience in installing NCG - Pierre Emmanuel Brinette (IN2P3-CC, Lyon)

16:00 NagiosGrapher - viewing the history of metrics - Felix Nikolaus Ehm (Unknown)

16:20 An interoperation example - the OSG approach - Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University)
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

14:00 Up-coming Challenges and Opportunities for DB Services in WLCG - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

14:05 DBA Q & A Session - Carlos Gamboa (Brookhaven National Lab)
15:00

15:00 - 19:00
Room: 160 1-009

16:00

16:00 - 18:30
Room: 40-S2-B01
Friday 25 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Future WLCG Operations Scenarios - Introduction to Panel Discussion - Jamie Shiers (CERN, WLCG & EGI_DS)

09:30 Scenarios for implementing Operations Tasks in EGI - Introduction to Panel Discussion - Laura Perini (INFN, EGI_DS, ATLAS)

09:45 Future WLCG Operations / VO Support - Panel Discussion

11:45 WLCG Monitoring Roadmap - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

13:30 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - John Shade (CERN)

14:00 WLCG Operations sessions

16:00 Workshop Close-out - Jamie Shiers (CERN) Milos LOKAJICEK (Prague)
09:25
09:25 - 17:55
Room: 160 1-009
Contributions

09:30 DB service upgrade and streams intervention responsibilities - Eva Dafonte Perez (CERN) Maria Girone (CERN)

10:00 DB availability and performance page

10:10 Experiments' updates: new DB applications and deployment plans - Florbela Viegas (CERN)

11:10 Transportable table spaces for scalable re-instantiation - Eva Dafonte Perez (CERN)

11:40 Summary of the status and plans of FTS and LFC back-end database installations at Tier-1 Sites - Gordon David Brown (Unknown)

12:20 Experiment connectivity requests and firewall update - Dirk Duellmann (CERN)

14:00 DB server limits (processes/sessions), session sniping - Carlos Gamboa (BNL)

14:30 New storage back-ends, storage performance - Luca Canali (CERN)

15:20 Experience with 32 to 64 bit migrations - Carlos Gamboa (Unknown)