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, April 21, 2008 (9:00 AM) to Friday, April 25, 2008 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 21, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM The Goals - WLCG MoU Targets & Experiment Critical Services Lists - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

9:20 AM The Techniques: middleware developers' golden rules - Gavin McCance (CERN)

9:40 AM The Techniques: deployment strategies (application DNS load balancing, Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture) - Jacek Wojcieszuk (CERN)

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

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

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

12:00 PM Atlas Central Services Operations - Birger Koblitz (CERN)
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Main auditorium
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Storage Performance Issues, Monitoring etc.

2:30 PM SRM v1.1 de-commissioning plan and timetable - Flavia Donno (Flavia.Donno@cern.ch)

4:00 PM Summary of recommendations / proposals regarding SRM v2.2 (for May and perhaps beyond...) - Flavia Donno (CERN)

4:45 PM Data (access) security issues - The WLCG Storage Solution Working Group
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40-S2-D01
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM CCRC08 - View from WLCG Service - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

9:45 AM CCRC08 - View from Sites - Derek Ross (RAL) Harry Renshall (CERN) Ian FISK (US-CMS)

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

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

1:30 PM ALICE summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

2:15 PM LHCb summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved - Roberto Santinelli (CERN)

3:00 PM Panel on Support Issues - Supporters, Experiments, Sites, ...

4:00 PM The Metric - as a Common Challenge, involving all experiments and sites, how did we do overall? - Previous speakers, site representatives, ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM The LHC Status and Schedule - Jos Engelen (CERN)

9:20 AM Resource / Service Review - What can we count on for 2008 production? - Harry Renshall (CERN)

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

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

1:05 PM CMS Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN & CMS)

1:50 PM ALICE Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond - Latchezar Betev (CERN)

2:35 PM Baseline Middleware Versions - what is in production - Markus Schulz (CERN) Oliver Keeble (CERN)

2:45 PM Baseline storage-ware versions - what is in production - Flavia Donno (CERN)

3:25 PM Follow-up on Action Items from April CCRC'08 F2F

4:25 PM Running, monitoring and measuring the challenge

5:10 PM CCRC'08 Post-mortem workshop in June (12-13)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Restaurant number 1, main building
Thursday, April 24, 2008

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: IT amphitheatre
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM The European Grid Initiative Design Study - EGI_DS - Dieter Kranzlmueller (GUP)

9:45 AM On the Transition to EGI - Requirements from WLCG and Related Projects - Ian Bird (CERN)

11:15 AM Overview of EGEE III operations - Maite Barroso Lopez (CERN)
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 513-1-24
Contributions

1:00 PM Overview and Welcome - James Casey (CERN)

1:15 PM Introduction to Nagios - Chris Brew (CCLRC - RAL)

1:45 PM Nagios for grid services - Emir Imamagic (Unknown)

2:45 PM Questions + Feedback from sites

3:20 PM Monitoring a Region using Nagios - Steve Traylen (CERN)

3:40 PM Site experience in installing NCG - Pierre Emmanuel Brinette (IN2P3-CC, Lyon)

4:00 PM NagiosGrapher - viewing the history of metrics - Felix Nikolaus Ehm (Unknown)

4:20 PM An interoperation example - the OSG approach - Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

2:00 PM Up-coming Challenges and Opportunities for DB Services in WLCG - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

2:05 PM DBA Q & A Session - Carlos Gamboa (Brookhaven National Lab)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 160 1-009

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 40-S2-B01
Friday, April 25, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: Main auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Future WLCG Operations Scenarios - Introduction to Panel Discussion - Jamie Shiers (CERN, WLCG & EGI_DS)

9:30 AM Scenarios for implementing Operations Tasks in EGI - Introduction to Panel Discussion - Laura Perini (INFN, EGI_DS, ATLAS)

9:45 AM Future WLCG Operations / VO Support - Panel Discussion

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

1:30 PM Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - John Shade (CERN)

2:00 PM WLCG Operations sessions

4:00 PM Workshop Close-out - Jamie Shiers (CERN) Milos LOKAJICEK (Prague)
9:25 AM
9:25 AM - 5:55 PM
Room: 160 1-009
Contributions

9:30 AM DB service upgrade and streams intervention responsibilities - Eva Dafonte Perez (CERN) Maria Girone (CERN)

10:00 AM DB availability and performance page

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

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

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

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

2:00 PM DB server limits (processes/sessions), session sniping - Carlos Gamboa (BNL)

2:30 PM New storage back-ends, storage performance - Luca Canali (CERN)

3:20 PM Experience with 32 to 64 bit migrations - Carlos Gamboa (Unknown)

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