WLCG Collaboration Workshop (Tier0/Tier1/Tier2)

Apr 21, 2008, 9:00 AM → Apr 25, 2008, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Main auditorium (CERN)

Possible themes:

• WLCG Service Reliability: focus on Tier2s and progress since November 2007 workshop (1 day?)
• CCRC'08 & Full Dress Rehearsals - status and plans (2 days?)
• Operations track (2 days, parallel)
• Analysis track (2 days, parallel)

Invited talks:

• LHC status
• Experiment commissioning and first papers...
• EGI_DS status
• ...

A WLCG Collaboration Board meeting has also been scheduled for this week - agenda.

ARRIVAL AT GENEVA COINTRIN AIRPORT

Free tickets - valid for 80 minutes - are available for passengers arriving at Geneva airport. More details

Tickets are also given at Geneva hotels & hostels for the duration of your stay! (Doubt that this is true for the CERN hostel!)

GETTING TO CERN AND ACCOMMODATION

Information on how to get to CERN can be found here.

The CERN hostels page can be found here, together with a list of nearby hotels. (No block bookings have been made at the CERN hostel!)

VISITORS' PORTABLES: NETWORK ACCESS

Registration of Computers is mandatory at CERN: register your portable computer.
You must register the MAC address of all network interfaces that you plan to use.

1. Visitors WITHOUT a CERN Computing Account:
   • Register here
2. Visitors or CERN users WITH a CERN NICE/mail account:
   • Register here (Attention: CERN Intranet page - register when at CERN)

MAILING LIST OF ATTENDEES

wlcg-workshop-apr08@cern.ch

Attendance Certificate certificate.pdf

Monday, April 21

9:00 AM → 1:15 PM WLCG Service Reliability Session

9:00 AM The Goals - WLCG MoU Targets & Experiment Critical Services Lists

Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN)

Slides wlcg-collaboration-workshop-intro.pdf wlcg-collaboration-workshop-intro.ppt

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9:20 AM The Techniques: middleware developers' golden rules

Speaker: Gavin McCance (CERN)

Slides Middleware.pdf Middleware.ppt

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

Speaker: Jacek Wojcieszuk (CERN)

Slides WLCG_collaboration_workshop.pps

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10:00 AM Measuring What We Deliver & Problem Resolution Targets

Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)

Slides WLCGws.pdf WLCGws.ppt

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10:30 AM coffee break

11:00 AM Middleware & experimentware surveys - how do we rack up?

Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides ML080421.pdf ML080421.ppt

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11:30 AM Testing Experiment Services - SAM tests et al

Speaker: Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)

Slides wlcg-april2008-sam.pdf wlcg-april2008-sam.ppt

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12:00 PM Atlas Central Services Operations

Speaker: Birger Koblitz (CERN)

Slides Atlas_CS_WLCG.pdf

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12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM → 6:00 PM WLCG Storage Issues

Note-takers:

• Dirk Duellmann
• Paul Millar

Notes Notes_from_Storage_Session.txt

1:30 PM Storage Performance Issues, Monitoring etc.

This session will discuss how to improve the performance of tape-backed MSS systems (or what the experiments could/should do to give hints to the system).

(experiences, suggestions for dCache and Castor, etc.).

See also: { One and the same monitoring tool is needed for tapes for all T1’s. Action on: Jamie Shiers } We have another use case, but this is primarily for CERN. We still have users reading from tape and we didn't know. Actually there are hundreds of tapemounts per day for reading by users and we didn't know. If we would have had any monitoring we would have been able to spot this much earlier. Now we learned for the first time in a presentation by Tim Bell.

Example of basic stats:
https://sls.cern.ch/sls/service.php?id=CASTORATLAS_T0ATLAS

Slides http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?sessionId=10&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=20228

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2:30 PM SRM v1.1 de-commissioning plan and timetable

We will discuss the concrete targets of:

• mid 2008 (i.e. end June)
• end 2008

Speaker: Dr Flavia Donno (Flavia.Donno@cern.ch)

Slides wlcg-april2008-SRMv1.pdf wlcg-april2008-SRMv1.ppt

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3:30 PM coffee break

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

Speaker: Flavia Donno (CERN)

DRAFT SRM v2.2 addendum http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=14&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=paper&confId=6552

Paper WLCG_SRMv22_Memo-05.pdf

Slides

• wlcg-april2008-storage-01.pdf
• wlcg-april2008-storage-01.ppt
• wlcg-april2008-storage.pdf

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4:45 PM Data (access) security issues

Speaker: The WLCG Storage Solution Working Group

Paper https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LCG/GSSD/VOMS-ACLs_Proposal.pdf WLCG_SRMv22_Memo-05.pdf

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Tuesday, April 22

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM ATLAS session

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=22138#2008-04-22

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Review of February (and March) runs of CCRC'08

Note-takers:

• Maarten Litmaath
• Patricia Mendez Lorenzo

More Notes February-notes.pdf

Notes CCRC08-1-review-notes.txt.txt

9:00 AM CCRC08 - View from WLCG Service

Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN)

Slides ccrc08-Apr22.pdf ccrc08-Apr22.ppt

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9:45 AM CCRC08 - View from Sites

Speakers: Derek Ross (RAL), Harry Renshall (CERN), Ian FISK (US-CMS)

Slides

• ccrc08-ral-pov.pdf
• WLCG_FNAL_Feb.pdf
• wshopapril2008sitereview.pdf
• wshopapril2008sitereview.ppt

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10:30 AM coffee break

11:00 AM ATLAS summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved

Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF, ATLAS, CERN)

Slides CCRC08-ATLAS-for-WLCGWorkshop.pdf CCRC08-ATLAS-for-WLCGWorkshop.pptx

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11:45 AM CMS summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved

Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN, CMS)

Slides 080422_CCRCphaseI-CMS-DBonacorsi.pdf

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12:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM ALICE summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Slides WLCG_ALICE_report.pdf WLCG_ALICE_report.ppt

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2:15 PM LHCb summary - lessons learnt and things to be improved

Speaker: Roberto Santinelli (CERN)

Slides wlcg-april2008-lhcb-postmortem.pdf wlcg-april2008-lhcb-postmortem.ppt

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3:00 PM Panel on Support Issues

Speaker: Supporters, Experiments, Sites, ...

list of actions http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/UserSupport/WLCG_panel_20080422

Slides

• atlas-ggus.pdf.pdf
• LHC_Requirements_to_GGUS.pdf
• LHC_Requirements_to_GGUS.ppt
• Nagios_-_GGUS.pdf
• Nagios_-_GGUS.ppt
• Support_Panel.pdf
• Support_Panel.ppt

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3:30 PM coffee break

4:00 PM The Metric - as a Common Challenge, involving all experiments and sites, how did we do overall?

Panel discussion + summary

Speaker: Previous speakers, site representatives, ...

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Wednesday, April 23

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Planning for May run of CCRC'08

Important to stress not only the 'Computing Model' styles of steady-state operation, but also the more chaotic data access patterns that are likely to typify early data taking (e.g. more requests from more sites to access to raw/ESD files - impact on resources...)

Note-takers:

• Simone Campana
• Pablo Saiz

Notes Notes_from_WLCG_wednesday.txt

9:00 AM The LHC Status and Schedule

Speaker: Jos Engelen (CERN)

Slides wlcg.pdf wlcg.pptx

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9:20 AM Resource / Service Review - What can we count on for 2008 production?

Speaker: Harry Renshall (CERN)

Slides wshopapril2008resources.ppt

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10:05 AM coffee break

10:35 AM ATLAS Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond

Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF, CERN, ATLAS)

Slides CCRC08-2-ATLAS.pdf CCRC08-2-ATLAS.pptx

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11:20 AM LHCb Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond

Speaker: Nick Brook (University of Bristol, LHCb)

Slides LHCb_CCRCApr08.pdf

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12:05 PM lunch break

1:05 PM CMS Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond

Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN & CMS)

Slides 080423_CCRCphaseII-CMSplans-DBonacorsi.pdf

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1:50 PM ALICE Status, Plans and Requirements for May run and beyond

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Slides WLCG_ALICE_plans_req.pdf WLCG_ALICE_plans_req.ppt

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2:35 PM Baseline Middleware Versions - what is in production

Speakers: Markus Schulz (CERN), Oliver Keeble (CERN)

Slides ccrc08-baseline-may-keeble.pdf ccrc08-baseline-may-keeble.ppt

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2:45 PM Baseline storage-ware versions - what is in production

Speaker: Flavia Donno (CERN)

Slides ccrc08-baseline-may-storage.pdf ccrc08-baseline-may-storage.ppt

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2:55 PM coffee break

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

Some of the topics:

• Common convention for operator alarm mailing lists
  • For CERN, -> vo-operator-alarm@cern.ch; co-owned by experiment and IT; only list-members may post
  • For external sites; implement NIKHEF's solution
• Dashboards: need clear agreement on what sites should look at (site view?)
• Intervention notifications - including also 'transparent' ones...
• Negotiation of site configuration for an experiment
  • Queue time limits
  • Shares
• How do sites figure out what is going on?
• (Support issues discussed earlier - conclusion(s)?)

Slides from April GDB http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?sessionId=7&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=20228

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WLCG Intervention Procedures wlcg-interventions.pdf

4:25 PM Running, monitoring and measuring the challenge

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

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=23563

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6:00 PM → 7:30 PM WLCG Collaboration drink

Thursday, April 24

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM ATLAS Tier1 Jamboree

ATLAS Jamboree agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=22138#2008-04-24

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Operations Session 1

Note-takers

• Juergen Knobloch
• Laura Perini

Session Notes EGI_session_LP_JK.pdf

9:00 AM The European Grid Initiative Design Study - EGI_DS

Speaker: Dieter Kranzlmueller (GUP)

Slides 20080424_Kranzlmueller_-_Geneva_-_WLCG_Collaboration_Workshop_-_The_European_Grid_Initiative_Design_Study_-_EGI_DS.pdf 20080424_Kranzlmueller_-_Geneva_-_WLCG_Collaboration_Workshop_-_The_European_Grid_Initiative_Design_Study_-_EGI_DS.ppt

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9:45 AM On the Transition to EGI - Requirements from WLCG and Related Projects

Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides IGB-EGI-LCGReqs-240408.pdf IGB-EGI-LCGReqs-240408.pptx

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10:45 AM coffee break

11:15 AM Overview of EGEE III operations

Speaker: Maite Barroso Lopez (CERN)

Slides wlcg-workshop-230408.pdf wlcg-workshop-230408.ppt

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12:00 PM lunch break

1:00 PM → 6:00 PM Monitoring Tutorial(s)

1:00 PM Overview and Welcome

Speaker: James Casey (CERN)

Slides 08004-WLCG-tutorial-intro.pdf 08004-WLCG-tutorial-intro.pptx

1:15 PM Introduction to Nagios

* Introduction to Nagios * Nagios Concepts * Active/Passive checks * The Nagios Web Interface * How to write Nagios Check scripts * Other Nagios tools * NRPE

Speaker: Dr Chris Brew (CCLRC - RAL)

Slides WLCG_nagios_0408.pdf WLCG_nagios_0408.ppt

1:45 PM Nagios for grid services

* Using Nagios for monitoring grid services * Security considerations * WLCG Monitoring WG Solution * Architecture and components * NCG details * Examples of deployment

Speaker: Emir Imamagic (Unknown)

Slides Nagios_for_Grid_Services.pdf Nagios_for_Grid_Services.ppt

2:45 PM Questions + Feedback from sites

- Is this useful ? - how would you use it - what would you like to see done differently?

3:00 PM break

3:20 PM Monitoring a Region using Nagios

* Current usage * Possible approaches * Integration with site monitoring * Integration with central reporting

Speaker: Steve Traylen (CERN)

Slides WLCG-Operations-Regiona-Monitoring-20080424.pdf

3:40 PM Site experience in installing NCG

Feedback of NCG deployment tests at IN2P3-CC. Explanation of the tests made en issues encountered.

Speaker: Pierre Emmanuel Brinette (IN2P3-CC, Lyon)

Slides 20080424_--_Site_experience_in_installing_NCG_1.pdf 20080424_--_Site_experience_in_installing_NCG_1.ppt

4:00 PM NagiosGrapher - viewing the history of metrics

Speaker: Felix Nikolaus Ehm (Unknown)

Slides WLCG-NagiosGrapher.pdf WLCG-NagiosGrapher.ppt

4:20 PM An interoperation example - the OSG approach

Speaker: Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University)

Slides RSV-Nagios.pdf RSV-Nagios.ppt

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Database Track

2:00 PM Up-coming Challenges and Opportunities for DB Services in WLCG

Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN)

Agenda of CCRC'08 Post-Mortem Workshop http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=23563

2:05 PM DBA Q & A Session

A collection of "hot" DBA topics from Alexander / Doris / John / Carlos

Speaker: Carlos Gamboa (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides

• comments_dba_questions_wlcg2008.pdf
• comments_dba_questions_wlcg2008.ppt
• db_questions_wlcg_2008-1.pdf
• db_questions_wlcg_2008-1.ppt

3:00 PM → 7:00 PM WLCG Collaboration Board (restricted)

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=28071

slides ccrc08-Apr24.pdf ccrc08-Apr24.ppt

4:00 PM → 6:30 PM CMS Tier1/Tier2 session: CSA/CCRC preparations

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=32361

Friday, April 25

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Operations Session 2

Note-takers:

• Tiziana Ferrari
• Laura Perini

Notes notes-operations-panel-discuss.txt

9:00 AM Future WLCG Operations Scenarios - Introduction to Panel Discussion

Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN, WLCG & EGI_DS)

Slides wlcg-collaboration-operations-futures.pdf wlcg-collaboration-operations-futures.ppt

9:30 AM Scenarios for implementing Operations Tasks in EGI - Introduction to Panel Discussion

Speaker: Laura Perini (INFN, EGI_DS, ATLAS)

Slides EGI-op.pdf EGI-op.ppt

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

Following on from yesterday's discussion on EGI and the EGEE III transition, how do we prepare for the smooth transition to operations and VO / Applications Support in the late 2009 - 2012 era?

N.B. as this is a WLCG Workshop, the intent here is to understand things in terms of WLCG requirements and priorities, although clearly a solution compatible with EGI/NGI directions and applicable to other applications would be of interest!

11:15 AM coffee break

11:45 AM WLCG Monitoring Roadmap

Speaker: Julia Andreeva (CERN)

Slides WLCGws25.pdf WLCGws25.ppt

12:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Speaker: John Shade (CERN)

Slides WLCG_ITIL_Overview.pdf WLCG_ITIL_Overview.ppt

2:00 PM WLCG Operations sessions

3:30 PM coffee break

4:00 PM Workshop Close-out

Speakers: Jamie Shiers (CERN), Milos LOKAJICEK (Prague)

Prague Workshop wlcg_prague.pdf wlcg_prague.pptx

(Revised) agenda of post-mortem workshop http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=23563

Slides wlcg-collaboration-workshop-closeout.pdf wlcg-collaboration-workshop-closeout.ppt

9:25 AM → 5:55 PM Database Track

9:30 AM DB service upgrade and streams intervention responsibilities

Speakers: Eva Dafonte Perez (CERN), Maria Girone (CERN)

Slides

• Streams_intervention_responsabilities.pdf
• Streams_intervention_responsabilities.ppt
• WLCG-Apr2008.pdf
• WLCG-Apr2008.ppt

10:00 AM DB availability and performance page

10:10 AM Experiments' updates: new DB applications and deployment plans

e.g. DQ2 / AMI replication (Contributions by ATLAS/CMS/LHCb)

Speaker: Florbela Viegas (CERN)

Slides

• AMI_Solveig.pdf
• AMI_Solveig.ppt
• Atlas_florbela_pdf.pdf
• CMS-Frontier-deployment-20080425.pdf
• CMS-Frontier-deployment-20080425.ppt
• DQ2_Pedro.pdf
• LHCb_Marco.pdf
• Main_fjv
• SashaforFlorbela_mod.pdf
• SashaforFlorbela_mod.ppt

10:55 AM coffee break

11:10 AM Transportable table spaces for scalable re-instantiation

(Contributions from Dirk/Eva)

Speaker: Eva Dafonte Perez (CERN)

Slides TransportableTablespacesResynchronization.pdf TransportableTablespacesResynchronization.ppt

11:40 AM Summary of the status and plans of FTS and LFC back-end database installations at Tier-1 Sites

Speaker: Gordon David Brown (Unknown)

Slides WLCG2008CERN.pdf WLCG2008CERN.ppt

12:20 PM Experiment connectivity requests and firewall update

Speaker: Dirk Duellmann (CERN)

12:30 PM lunch break

2:00 PM DB server limits (processes/sessions), session sniping

Contributions by Carlos/Andrew

Speaker: Carlos Gamboa (BNL)

Slides

• resources_profiles_sessions_wlcg2008-1.pdf
• resources_profiles_sessions_wlcg2008-1.ppt
• resources_profiles_sessions_wlcg2008_1.ppt
• resources_profiles_sessions_wlcg2008.pdf

2:30 PM New storage back-ends, storage performance

Contributions by Luca and Luis

Speaker: Luca Canali (CERN)

Slides Storage_Studies_WLCG_workshop_25-4_LC.pdf Storage_Studies_WLCG_workshop_25-4_LC.ppt

3:00 PM coffee break

3:20 PM Experience with 32 to 64 bit migrations

Speaker: Carlos Gamboa (Unknown)

Slides BNL_MIGRATION_EXPERIENCE_WLCG2008-1.pdf BNL_MIGRATION_EXPERIENCE_WLCG2008-1.ppt