ATLAS - CSCS Technical discussion

Wednesday 10 Jan 2018, 10:30 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

Other Institutes

Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shulters Thomas (CSCS)

venue :

 

CSCS address: Via Trevano 131

6900 Lugano

 

Additional information is available at: https://www.cscs.ch/about/visitor-information/

 

Taxi is the best option from Lugano airport. Unfortunately, the airport isn’t well connected via public transport.

 

point of contact Dr. Sadaf Alam of CSCS

 

A preliminary list of topics :

 

Presentations from ATLAS :
*  Computing model and its evolution (including HPC
   integration, federated storage and "data lake/ocean")
*  Workflow and Data Management in ATLAS
*  SW releases and release building

 

Presentations from CSCS :
*    CSCS and its role in the LHC context
*    Distributed HPC initiative in EU

 

 

round table and discussion about possible common projects
:
*  containers
*  code optimisation
*  MPI
*  CSCS in ATLAS Distributed Computing environment

 

10:30 → 10:40 Introduction and meeting's goals

Speakers: Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Prof. Shulters Thomas (CSCS)

10:40 → 12:10 ATLAS Technicalities

10:40 ATLAS Computing Model and CM evolution

Speaker: Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

11:05 Workflow and Data Management in ATLAS

11:45 Distributed Data Management System (Rucio)

Speaker: Martin Barisits (CERN)

Rucio.pdf

12:00 SW releases and release building

Speaker: Emil Obreshkov (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

SWR-100118.pdf

12:10 → 13:00 lunch break

13:00 → 14:00 CSCS Technicalities

14:00 → 15:00 round table

15:00 → 16:00 wrap-up, summary, next steps