Name: ALICE Offline week
Start: 2018-03-14T08:40:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-16T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

ALICE Offline week

from Wednesday, 14 March 2018 (08:40) to Friday, 16 March 2018 (18:00)

Monday, 12 March 2018
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
08:40 ALICE Offline Week: Offline Forum
Offline Forum
08:40 - 13:00
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

09:00 New developments in CernVM-FS: Repository Gateways and XCache/XRootD Caching - Radu Popescu (CERN)

09:20 Why moving to ROOT6? History, performance/functionality highlights and a look to the future - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

10:20 Thoughts on data processing and data analysis integration - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

11:00 SOAContainer - easy SOA for the masses - Manuel Tobias Schiller (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:20 ALICE & HSF - Dario Berzano (CERN)

11:40 EP R&D Programme - Jakob Blomer (CERN)

11:55 R&D Proposal: Rethinking Datacenter Computing - Giulio Eulisse (CERN)

12:05 R&D Proposal: Clustering and Tracking with GPUs and machine learning - David Rohr (CERN)

12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 ALICE Offline Week: DPG activities
DPG activities
14:00 - 16:50
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Francesco Prino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

14:10 Release Validation and AliDPG - Dario Berzano (CERN)

14:30 T0 agreement data/MC - new developments - Alla Maevskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

14:50 G3 vs G4 vs data - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Elena Botta (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)) Francesco Prino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)) Marie Germain (Subatech, IN2P3-CNRS (FR))

15:40 QA tools - status and plans - Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

16:10 N-Dimensional data analysis pipeline - Boris Rumyantsev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

16:30 CSS and visualization of n dimensional data - Boris Rumyantsev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
15:40 Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:00
Thursday, 15 March 2018
09:00 ALICE Offline Week: Distributed Computing
Distributed Computing
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

09:00 Current status of the GSI Analysis Faclity - Soeren Fleischer (GSI)

09:30 AliEn and jAliEn status - Miguel Martinez Pedreira (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

10:00 Split JAliEn JobAgent - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))

11:00 Contextual logging in jAliEn - Tim Hallyburton (Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (D)

11:30 Data transfer and data integrity tools - Volodymyr Yurchenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA))

12:00 Update on LEGO trains - Markus Bernhard Zimmermann (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 ALICE Offline Week: Simulation, Reconstruction, Calibration (for Run3)
Simulation, Reconstruction, Calibration (for Run3)
14:00 - 18:20
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

14:00 Overview of reconstruction activities (Run2/3) - Ruben Shahoyan (CERN)

14:20 TRD in Tracking in Run2 - Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

14:50 Status on TRD tracking in HLT - Marten Ole Schmidt (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

15:10 Status of reconstruction in TPC (HLT/Run3) - David Rohr (CERN)

15:45 FairRoot/AliceO2 migration to Geant4 multithreading - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

16:00 Ideas for FastSim (in VMC) - Andreas Morsch (CERN)

16:20 AliceO2 simulation developments - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

16:40 Proposal for new event and track selection for high IR data - Marian Ivanov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
Friday, 16 March 2018
09:00 ALICE Offline Week: Software Framework for Run 3
Software Framework for Run 3
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 160/1-009
Contributions

09:00 ALFA/FairMQ status: PART I - Alexey Rybalchenko (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

09:30 ALFA/FairMQ status: PART II - Dennis Klein (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

10:00 DDS 2.0 - Anar Manafov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))