Name: Joint WLCG & HSF Workshop 2018
Start: 2018-03-26T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2018-03-29T13:15:00+02:00
Location: Napoli, Italy

Joint WLCG & HSF Workshop 2018

from Monday, March 26, 2018 (8:30 AM) to Thursday, March 29, 2018 (1:15 PM)

Monday, March 26, 2018

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

9:00 AM Welcome Coffee (courtesy of DELL/EMC)
Welcome Coffee (courtesy of DELL/EMC)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Alessandra Doria (INFN, Napoli (IT)) Gaetano Manfredi (Federico II University)

10:20 AM HEP science goals for the next decade - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:40 AM IHEP Experiments and Software Development - Xiaomei Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

10:55 AM CWP Roadmap - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US))

11:35 AM US NSF and DOE current activities and plans - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)) Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

11:55 AM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 3rd Floor
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

1:30 PM Evolution of technology and markets - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)

2:10 PM GÉANT Data Transfer Node service - Vincenzo Capone (GÉANT)

2:20 PM Topics for R&D on technology watch - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)

2:50 PM Proposal for technology watch WG - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

3:10 PM Sponsor presentation: DELL - Martin Hilgeman (Dell)

3:25 PM Sponsor presentation: RITTAL - Jason Rylands (Rittal)
3:40 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Hotel Vesuvio; Ground Floor
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

4:10 PM Introduction

4:25 PM Challenges for LHCb trigger - Concezio Bozzi (CERN and INFN Ferrara)

4:50 PM Simulation and event reconstruction challenges for DUNE - Erica Snider (Fermilab)

5:15 PM Reconstruction challenges for HL-LHC - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

5:40 PM Challenges and evolution in event generators - Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Maria Girone (CERN) Simone Campana (CERN)

9:05 AM Highlights of the Rucio workshop - Mario Lassnig (CERN) Martin Barisits (CERN)

9:25 AM Dynamo - Intelligent Data Management - Benedikt Maier (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Benedikt Maier (K) Benedikt Maier (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Christoph Paus (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

9:40 AM Data Lakes R&D: high level goals - Xavier Espinal Curull (CERN)

9:55 AM A Transfer Ecosystem for the WLCG - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

10:10 AM Performance metrics and measurements in the Data Lake model - Jaroslava Schovancova (CERN) Gavin McCance (CERN)

10:25 AM wrap up
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

11:00 AM Threads to grids: distributed concurrency in athena/Gaudi - Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))

11:30 AM CLARA: Clas12 Reconstruction and Analysis Framework - Vardan Gyurjyan (Jefferson Lab)

12:00 PM ALFA: Alice-Fair message queue based reconstruction and analysis framework - Thorsten Kollegger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 3rd Floor
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

1:30 PM Certification: Motivation, Benefits and Status - Jamie Shiers (CERN) Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US)) Mike Hildreth (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da)

1:50 PM CERN Analysis Preservation Portal - Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen (CERN)

2:10 PM Achilles’ heels in LTDP or how do we address risks - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)

2:30 PM Collaboration Across HEP and with Other Disciplines: An EIROForum Sub-Group - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

2:50 PM Archiving and Preservation "in the Cloud" - Outlook - João Fernandes (CERN)

3:10 PM CWP Roadmap, Preparing Input to update of European Strategy for Particle Physics (and others elsewhere in the world) - Mike Hildreth (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da) Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

1:30 PM Lightning Talk 1 (CMS/ATLAS) - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (PR))

1:40 PM Lightning Talk 2 (Belle II) - Martin Ritter (LMU / Cluster Universe) Martin Ritter (LMU Munich) TBD

1:50 PM Lightning Talk 3 (The CERN School of Computing) - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

2:00 PM Lightning Talk 4 (Starterkit - LHCb) - Violaine Bellee (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

2:10 PM Lightning Talk 5 (ALICE) - Dario Berzano (CERN)

2:20 PM Lightning Talk 6 (Data Science @Università di Padova and INFN) - Marco Zanetti (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

2:30 PM Lightning Talk 7 (Bertinoro School of Computing) - Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)

2:40 PM Lightning Talk 8 (Neutrino experiments @ FNAL) - Robert Kutschke (Femilab)

2:50 PM Lightning Talk 9 (VIRGO+LIGO) - Pia Astone (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

3:00 PM Lightning Talk 10 (Vision for Future Integrated Software Training) - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

3:10 PM Round Table - Discussion
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

1:30 PM How HL-LHC challenges inform WM R&D: ATLAS view - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield (GB)) Johannes Elmsheuser (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

1:50 PM How HL-LHC challenges inform WM R&D: CMS view - Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD)

2:10 PM Roadmap towards WM standardization for HL-LHC: ARC perspective - Andrej Filipcic (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

2:30 PM Roadmap towards WM standardization for HL-LHC: PanDA perspective - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

2:50 PM Roadmap towards WM standardization for HL-LHC: Dirac perspective - Federico Stagni (CERN)

3:10 PM Roadmap towards WM standardization for HL-LHC: OSG perspective - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

4:00 PM Overview of CWP paper from WG Data Analysis and Interpretation - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

4:20 PM Spark-like and query-like analysis systems and tools - Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

4:40 PM HPC analyses - Viktor Khristenko (CERN)

5:00 PM Real-time analyses - the LHCb case - Rosen Matev (CERN)

5:20 PM Analyses with SWAN and docker - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

5:40 PM Open discussion on future avenues and collaboration - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US)) Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

9:00 AM FPGAs as co-processors for reconstruction - Christian Faerber (CERN)

9:20 AM VecCore: Expressing HEP algorithms in terms of explicit SIMD types and operations - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

9:40 AM Dask: distributed computing for scientific Python - Martin Durant (Anaconda, Inc.)

10:00 AM Parallelized tracking algorithms - Matti Kortelainen (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:20 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Overview of the Working Group, Mandate, Activities and Status - Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

11:30 AM Most important workloads and how to run them - Johannes Elmsheuser (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:45 AM Metrics and Measurements - Gareth Douglas Roy (University of Glasgow (GB))

12:05 PM Cost evaluation process - Catherine Biscarat (LPSC Grenoble, IN2P3/CNRS)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

11:00 AM Project Discussions: Packaging - Graeme Stewart (CERN)

11:30 AM Project Discussions: Profilers - Ben Couturier (CERN)

11:45 AM Project Discussions: Static Analyzers - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

12:00 PM Project Incubation - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

12:15 PM Becoming "Mainstream" - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US))
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 AM Visualization CWP paper status - Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US)) Thomas Mc Cauley (University of Notre Dame (US))

11:05 AM Prject Discussion: Intro. - Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US)) Thomas Mc Cauley (University of Notre Dame (US))

11:15 AM Hybrid Rendering System for Particle Collision Experimental Data Visualization - Ciril Bohak (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science)

11:30 AM New development in ROOT concerning web-based graphics, GUI and geometry display - Sergey Linev

11:45 AM ATLAS Open Data apps: bringing the interactivity of the website to the desktop - Arturo Sanchez Pineda (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))

12:00 PM VR-based event visualization in Belle II - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

12:15 PM Open discussion: "Can we build common Viz Tools?" - Next steps - Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US)) Thomas Mc Cauley (University of Notre Dame (US))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 3rd Floor
1:30 PM Technical Session
Technical Session
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

1:30 PM Tools and Techniques for Performance/Cost Measurements - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

2:00 PM Evolution of the critical workloads in Run3 and HL-LHC - David Lange (Princeton University (US))

2:30 PM Cost evaluation process, example calculation - Renaud Vernet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:50 PM Common resource calculation model: Brainstorming/Hackathon - Andrea Sartirana (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

3:20 PM Summary, Follow up - Markus Schulz (CERN)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

1:30 PM Trust & Policies - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

1:55 PM Authentication and Authorisation - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

2:20 PM Operational Security - David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB)) Vincent Brillault (CERN)

3:00 PM Discussion
Improving and Extending Physics Modeling
Improving and Extending Physics Modeling
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

1:30 PM LHCb - Preparation for Run3 - Gloria Corti (CERN)

1:50 PM ALICE - Preparation for Run3 - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

2:10 PM Reducing CPU Consumption of Geant4 Simulation in ATLAS - John Derek Chapman (University of Cambridge (GB))

2:30 PM Geant4 R&D programme - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:50 PM Electromagnetic and Hadronic Physics requirements for detector simulation in 2020s - Farah Hariri (CERN)

3:10 PM Towards modularization and vectorization of Geant4 physics: a pilot study - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Technical Session
Technical Session
4:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

4:00 PM Distributed Storage and Data Lakes: ideas from EOS experts - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

4:20 PM Distributed Storage and Data Lakes: ideas from dCache experts - Patrick Fuhrmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

4:40 PM Distributed Storage and Data Lakes: The XDC Project - Oliver Keeble (CERN)

4:45 PM The ESCAPE project - Ian Bird (CERN)

4:50 PM Using Capability-based authorization for HTTP-based Third Party Copies - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

5:10 PM XRoot and HTTP Third Party Copy - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

5:30 PM caching technologies: Xcache - Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

5:50 PM caching technologies: HTTP caches - Silvio Pardi (INFN)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM Overview of Serialization Technologies - Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

4:30 PM Programming languages for frameworks: is C++ still the best choice? - Radu Popescu (CERN)

5:00 PM Discussion on Frameworks Section of CWP - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:30 PM Open Discussion
Faster Simulation
Faster Simulation
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:00 PM Status and plans for the vectorised particle transport “demonstrator" - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

4:20 PM CmsToyGV: Integration tests of GeantV in CMS software framework - Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

4:40 PM VecGeom in CMS, Muon g-2, Mu2e - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

4:50 PM Variance reduction techniques in HEP for Geant4 - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

5:10 PM CaloGAN: a novel physics simulation with Neural Networks trained from Geant4 full-sims - Ben Nachman (University of California Berkeley (US)) Luke De Oliveira Michela Paganini (Yale University (US))

5:30 PM Use of HPC resources with Geant4 simulations - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

5:50 PM First steps on simulation readout vectorization: LArSoft - Erica Snider (Fermilab)
Thursday, March 29, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

9:00 AM SKA contribution - Anna Scaife (Manchester University)

9:30 AM Summary of Common Data Management and Data Lakes - Simone Campana (CERN)

9:40 AM Summary of Frameworks and Infrastructure - Marco Clemencic (CERN)

9:50 AM Summary of Programming for Concurrency and Co-Processors - Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

10:00 AM Summary of Simulation - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:10 AM Summary of Analysis Facilities and Use Cases - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati (US))

10:20 AM Summary of Software Development - Martin Ritter (LMU / Cluster Universe)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Scarlatti
Contributions

11:00 AM Summary of Visualization - Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))

11:10 AM Summary of Workload Management - Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:20 AM Summary of Security - David Crooks (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:30 AM Summary of Performance and Cost Modeling - Markus Schulz (CERN)

11:40 AM Summary of Data Preservation for HEP - Bruce Becker (EGI Foundation) Bruce Becker (DAPNIA)

11:50 AM Summary of Training and Careers - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (PR))

12:00 PM Conclusions and way forward - Graeme Stewart (CERN) Ian Bird (CERN)
1:00 PM Buses for Napoli Capodichino Airport and Rome Fiumicino Airport
Buses for Napoli Capodichino Airport and Rome Fiumicino Airport
1:00 PM - 1:05 PM

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