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HEPiX Spring 2010 Workshop

19–23 Apr 2010
LNEC
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  1. 63. Introduction
    Mario David (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas), Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3), Sandy Philpott (JLAB)
    19/04/2010, 13:00
  2. 64. LIP and Grid in Portugal
    19/04/2010, 13:30
  3. 20. RAL Site Report
    Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)
    19/04/2010, 14:00
    Site Reports
    Site Reports
    Developments at RAL
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  4. 15. BNL RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility Site Report
    Mr Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    19/04/2010, 14:15
    Site Reports
    Site Reports
    New developments at the RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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  5. 7. CERN site report
    Dr Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)
    19/04/2010, 14:30
    Site Reports
    Site Reports
    Report on news at CERN-IT since the Fall meeting in Berkeley
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  6. 2. Progress Report 2010 for HEPiX Storage Working Group
    Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)
    19/04/2010, 15:15
  7. 3. Evaluation of NFS v4.1 (pNFS) with dCache
    Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)
    19/04/2010, 15:45
    The talk will be covering experience accumulated with NFS4.1/dCache at DESY.
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  8. 22. Building up a high performance data centre with commodity hardware
    Mr Andreas Haupt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
    19/04/2010, 16:15
    Storage & Filesystems
    Storage and Filesystems
    High data throughput is a key feature in today's LHC analysis centres. This talk will present the approach of the DESY site Zeuthen to build up a high performance dCache out of commodity hardware. Additional optimisations to achieve further throughput enhancements will be mentioned, as well. By presenting current benchmarks we show competitive results compared to more expensive installations.
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  9. 27. DESY site report
    Wolfgang Friebel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
    19/04/2010, 16:45
    DESY site report
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  10. 0. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) status report
    Andrey Shevel (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI))
    19/04/2010, 17:00
    Site Reports
    Site Reports
    In this short presentation I plan to describe the responsibility for Computing Systems Department (CSD): LAN (400 hosts), mail service for the Institute, other centralized servers, computing cluster. The computing needs for small physics laboratory, experience with the cluster at PNPI HEPD and plan for cluster future in connection to LHC data analysis are discussed in more details.
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  11. 51. The new Generations of CPU-GPU Clusters for e-Science
    Alberto Proença (Dep. Informática, Universidade do Minho)
    20/04/2010, 09:00
    The third paradigm of research known today as e-Science requires that the computational sciences community rely heavily on HPC clusters to run their simulations. At the core of each cluster lie commodity devices with increasingly parallel capabilities. The two most successful processing devices today complement each other: the multicore CPUs and the manycore GPUs as accelerator vector devices....
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  12. 54. SLAC Site Report
    Randy Melen (SLAC)
    20/04/2010, 09:45
    SLAC site update since the Fall 2009 HEPiX meeting.
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  13. 10. Fermilab Site Report
    Dr Chadwick Keith (Fermilab)
    20/04/2010, 10:00
    Site Reports
    Site Reports
    Site Report from Fermilab
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  14. 32. Lessons Learned from a Site-Wide Power Outage
    John Bartelt (SLAC)
    20/04/2010, 10:30
    On January 19th, 2010, a series of powerful thunderstorms knocked out all power to the SLAC site (and surrounding areas). While the SLAC Facilities personnel worked to restore power to the computer center and the rest of the site, Computing Division planned for restoring services. This included setting priorities for such things as business systems needed to prepare the payroll and servers...
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  15. 16. CERN Lustre evaluation and storage outlook
    Tim Bell (CERN)
    20/04/2010, 11:00
    The CERN evaluation of Lustre as a potential solution for home directories, project space and physics storage has now completed. This experience will be presented along with outlook for bulk data storage and life cycle management in a capacity hungry and performance sensitive environment.
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  16. 18. LCLS Data Analysis Facility
    Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
    20/04/2010, 11:30
    I will present the experience and lessons learned from the first few month of real users taking real data at LCLS. From those lessons, a new offline data analysis facility was designed and will be installed before the next set of users arrive on May 6.
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  17. 5. GEMSS: Grid Enabled Mass Storage System for LHC experiments
    Vladimir Sapunenko (CNAF)
    20/04/2010, 13:30
    New Grid Enabled MSS solution based on IBM's products (GPFS and TSM) has been developed and commissioned into production for LHC experiments in Tier1 at CNAF. Architectural view as well as installation and configuration details will be presented. We will also present technical details of data migration from CASTOR to GEMSS for CMS, LHCb and ATLAS experiments.
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  18. 29. OpenAFS Performance Improvements: Linux Cache Manager and Rx RPC Library
    Jeffrey Altman (Your File System Inc.), Simon Wilkinson (Your File System Inc.)
    20/04/2010, 14:00
    Storage & Filesystems
    Storage and Filesystems
    This talk will focus on two areas of performance improvement that will be shipping with the OpenAFS 1.6 series this coming Summer. Significant work on improving performance has been completed on the OpenAFS 1.5 branch. Linux memory management has been heavily overhauled, removing a number of deadlock conditions, and significantly speeding access to data which is already held in the local...
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  19. 6. Lavoisier : a way to integrate heteregeneous monitoring systems.
    Cyril L'Orphelin (CNRS/CCIN2P3)
    20/04/2010, 14:45
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Lavoisier is an Open Source Tool developed at CC-IN2P3 used in the project EGEE/ LCG by the Operations Portal. Lavoisier is an extensible service designed to provide an unified view of data collected from multiple heterogeneous data sources (e.g. database, Web Service,LDAP, text files, XML files...). This unified view is represented as XML documents, which can be queried using standard...
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  20. 23. Scientific Computing: first quantitative methodologies for a production environment
    Mr Alberto Ciampa (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)
    20/04/2010, 15:15
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    In Data Center the necessity for the accounting of resources used by different groups is growing. In this talk (and the correspondent note) the context and the scientific computing activity will be defined. Taking as an example a medium size Data Center (Pisa INFN) an industrial production approach will be followed. A first methodology for the quantitative evaluation of the following data...
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  21. 43. INFN Tier1 site report
    Vladimir Sapunenko (INFN-CNAF)
    21/04/2010, 09:00
    News from INFN-T1
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  22. 34. Site report from PDSF
    Jay Srinivasan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
    21/04/2010, 09:15
    We will present a report on the current status of the PDSF cluster at NERSC/LBNL.
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  23. 21. CESGA Experience with the Grid Engine batch system
    Mr Esteban Freire Garcia (CESGA)
    21/04/2010, 09:30
    Grid and WLCG
    Grid and WLCG
    Grid Engine (GE) is an open source batch system with a complete documentation and support for advanced features like the possibility to configure a shadow master host for failover purposes, support for up to 10.000 nodes per master server, application level checkpointing, array jobs, DRMAA, fully integrated MPI support, a complete administration GUI, a web-based accounting tool (ARCo), etc....
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  24. 53. CERN Grid Data Management Middleware plan for 2010
    Oliver Keeble (CERN)
    21/04/2010, 10:00
    The 2010 program of work for the CERN Grid Data Management team is presented, describing the planned development activity for 2010. The plan for FTS, DPM/LFC and gfal/lcg_util is described along with longer term perspectives.
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  25. 67. EGEE Site Deployment: The UMinho-CP case study
    Mr Tiago Sá (Uminho)
    21/04/2010, 11:00
    EGEE is a dynamic organism with requirements that constantly evolve over time. The deployment of UMinho-CP - an EGEE site supporting Civil Protection related activities -, revealed new challenges, some of which were overcome till now, while others are planned for future work. A great effort has been made to automate the distribution, installation and configuration of an EGEE site, for...
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  26. 59. Update on HEPiX Working Group on Virtualisation
    Tony Cass (CERN)
    21/04/2010, 11:30
    Virtualization
    Virtualization
    The HEPiX working group on Virtualisation started it activities since the last HEPiX meeting. This talk will present the current status and future plans.
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  27. 8. Virtualization at CERN: a status report
    Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)
    21/04/2010, 13:30
    During the HEPiX meeting 2009 in Berkeley several reports related to virtualization efforts at CERN were given. This presentation will be a status report of these projects, with the focus on service consolidation and batch virtualization. Recent developments like the evaluation of the Infrastructure Sharing Facility (ISF) from Platform computing, issues seen with the tools we use and the...
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  28. 12. virtual machines over PBS
    Marc Rodriguez Espadamala (Marc Rodriguez)
    21/04/2010, 14:00
    Since PIC is supporting the data management of several scientific projects it is faced to requirements that might not be possible to enable in a homogeneous infrastructure. When looking for an alternative approach we have chosen to export the specific requirements into a virtualized environment. In order to minimize the impact to our physical computing infrastructure it was necessary to...
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  29. 42. An Adaptive Batch Environment for Clouds
    Ian Gable (University of Victoria)
    21/04/2010, 14:30
    We have developed a method using Condor and a simple software component we call Cloud Scheduler to run High Throughput Computing workloads on multiple clouds situated at different sites. Cloud Scheduler is able to instantiate user-customized VMs to meet the requirements of jobs in Condor queues. Users supply Condor job attributes to indicate the type of VM required to complete their job....
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  30. 25. Jefferson Lab Site Report
    Sandy Philpott (JLAB)
    22/04/2010, 09:00
    An update on JLab's Scientific Computing facilities, including the new ARRA cpu and gpu clusters for USQCD, Lustre, experimental physics' data analysis farm, data storage, and networking.
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  31. 61. Virtualization in the gLite Grid Middleware software process. Use-cases, technologies and future plans.
    Lorenzo Dini (CERN)
    22/04/2010, 09:15
    During the past years, the Grid Deployment and Grid Technology groups at CERN have gained experience in using virtualization to support the gLite Grid Middleware software-engineering process. Some technologies such as VNode and VMLoader have been developed to leverage virtualization in supporting activities such as development, build, test, integration and certification of software. This...
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  32. 56. Management Information Systems and Information Systems Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin
    Prof. Miguel Mira da Silva (IST)
    22/04/2010, 09:45
    The relationship between information systems and management outside large organizations has traditionally been one way only, with information systems supporting management but management not supporting information systems. However, with information systems becoming ever more critical and complex, the need to manage information systems is becoming pervasive in most, if not all,...
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  33. 37. Virtual Network and Web Services (An Update)
    Thomas Finnern (DESY)
    22/04/2010, 11:00
    This talk describes techniques for providing highly available network services with help of a hardware based load balancing cluster handled by a sophisticated control software. An abstract representation of web, mail and other services is implemented on base of application specific routing on network layers 3 to 7. Combining application, network and security issues in one point you may...
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  34. 4. Virtualisation for Oracle databases and application servers
    Carlos Garcia Fernandez (CERN)
    22/04/2010, 11:30
    With the growing number of Oracle database instances and Oracle application servers, and the need to control the necessary resources in terms of manpower, electricity and cooling, virtualisation is a strategic direction that is being seriously considered at CERN for databases and application servers. Oracle VM is the Oracle certified and supported server virtualisation solution for...
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  35. 13. Lustre-HSM binding
    Mr Thomas LEIBOVICI (CEA)
    22/04/2010, 13:30
    Storage & Filesystems
    Storage and Filesystems
    Lustre-HSM binding is a collaborative effort between Sun and CEA. This presentation will introduce the first version of Lustre-HSM: HSM support model, its features, components, development status, and roadmap. It will also give examples of importing files from an existing HPSS namespace, archiving and restoring data, releasing disk space...
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  36. 31. RAL Tier1 Quattor experience and Quattor outlook
    Mr Ian Peter Collier (STFC/RAL)
    22/04/2010, 14:00
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    The RAL Tier1 is continuing to benefit from bringing more of the Tier1 systems under Quattor control. That experience will be presented along with a report on recent and planned developments with Quattor across the wider grid and non-grid environments.
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  37. 35. Spacewalk and Koji at Fermilab
    Mr Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)
    22/04/2010, 14:30
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Monitoring & Infrastructure tools
    Spacewalk is an open source Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived. Koji is Fedora's build platform. Fermilab is currently testing Spacewalk for various roles. We are testing it for desktop and server monitoring, system configuration, and errata information. Although we currently are still in...
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  38. 65. WG meeting (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=92038)
    22/04/2010, 15:00
  39. 48. Preliminary Measurements of Hep-Spec06 on the new multicore processor
    Mr Michele Michelotto (Univ. + INFN)
    23/04/2010, 09:00
    Benchmarking
    Benchmarking
    We had access to a remote server with 2 x 6174 amd processor. Preliminary measurements will be show Some early measurements on an Intel 5600 worker node will be exposed.
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  40. 40. Hyperthreading influence on CPU performance
    Joao Marttins (LIP)
    23/04/2010, 09:30
    Benchmarking
    Benchmarking
    In this report we present the hyperthreading influence on CPU performance when running the HEP-SPEC2006 benchmark suite in a 2 quadcore CPU shared memory system (HP BL460c G6). This study was performed as a function of the number of running instances (from eight to sixteen), and with and without SPEC RATE. We concluded that the elapsed application run time can be clearly reduced if...
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  41. 9. Scientific Linux Status Report and Plenary Discussion
    Mr Troy Dawson (FERMILAB)
    23/04/2010, 10:00
    Operating Systems & Applications
    Operating Systems and Applications
    Progress of Scientific Linux over the past 6 months. What we are currently working on. What we see in the future for Scientific Linux. Also we will have a Plenary discussion to get feedback to and input for the Scientific Linux developers from the HEPiX community. This may influence upcoming decisions e.g. on distribution lifecycles, and packages added to the distribution.
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  42. 24. Windows 7 Deployment at Cern
    Michal Budzowski (Cern)
    23/04/2010, 11:00
    Operating Systems & Applications
    Operating Systems and Applications
    Windows 7 is officially supported at CERN since the end of March. The official Windows 7 service was preceded by pilot project that was started in December 2009. We will present our experience gathered during pilot phase as well as trends and deployment plans for Windows 7 at CERN.
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  43. 30. TWiki at CERN: Past Present and Future
    Mr Pete Jones (CERN)
    23/04/2010, 11:30
    Storage and Filesystems III
    Operating Systems and Applications
    TWiki was introduced at CERN in 2003 following a request from a small group of software developers. The service soon grew in popularity and today there are over 7000 registered editors of 60000 topics. This presentation takes a look at the current service ,the problems experienced and a look at future developments for TWiki at CERN.
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  44. 60. Closing Remarks
    Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3), Sandy Philpott (JLAB)
    23/04/2010, 12:00
  45. 66. WG meeting (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=92038)
    23/04/2010, 15:00
  46. 11. LCLS Data Analysis Facility
    Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)
    Miscellaneous
    I will present the experience and lessons learned from the first few month of real users taking real data at LCLS. From those lessons, a new offline data analysis facility was designed and will be installed before the next set of users arrive on May 6.
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  47. 26. NDGF Site Report
    Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)
    Overview and recent news in NDGF and the associated sub-sites.
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  48. 38. Optimizing analysis dataflow for the ARC case
    Mattias Wadenstein (NDGF)
    The huge amount of data needed for analysis jobs made the naive data caching approach used by the ARC grid manager fall over. This talk gives details on the solutions implemented and under implementation to make an efficient distributed analysis facility in the ATLAS NDGF cloud.
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  49. 44. PIC Site Report
    Francisco Martinez Ramirez (PIC)
    Recent development and news from the PIC site, as well as an overview of the status of our installations, deployed software and current topics we are working on.
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  50. 47. T2/T3 discussion
  51. 50. The Portuguese WLCG Tier2: status and issues
    Mario David (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)
    Grid and WLCG
    The Portuguese WLCG Tier 2 for Atlas and CMS will be presented. The status, performance and issues will be discussed
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  52. 39. update on computer security
    Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)
    Security & Networking
    In the recent years, High Energy Physics sites have significantly improved their collaboration and are providing services to users from a growing number of locations. The resulting attack surface, along with the increased sophistication of the attacks, has been a decisive change to encourage all the involved security teams to cooperate very closely together. News challenges in the security...
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