CERN EUCLID Technical Meeting

12 Sept 2019, 13:00 → 13 Sept 2019, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

31-S-023, 32-1-A24 (CERN)

Technical meeting among the EUCLID Consortium software engineers and the CERN relevant people to discuss the status of the CernVM-FS integration and investigate the possibility to use additional tools developed at CERN.  

Minutes

Thursday 12 September

13:00 → 19:00 Day 1: Status of things

13:00 Introduction and goals

Speakers: Gerardo Ganis (CERN), Jakob Blomer (CERN)

GG-Welcome-CERN-EUCLID-2019.pdf

13:15 Distributed job and resource management with DIRAC

Particular focus on the pilot job concept and workflows

Speaker: Federico Stagni (CERN)

Slides

13:55 Discussion

14:10 HEP machine learning toolbox with ROOT & TMVA

Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

ROOT_TMVA_Euclid.pdf

14:40 Machine learning approach to QA in ALICE

Speaker: Piotr Wladyslaw Nowak (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

PNowak_EUCLID_ML.pdf

14:55 Discussion: Machine learning and realtime applications

15:20 Coffee Break

15:40 EUCLID computing - architecture and challenges

Euclid-Computing-Architecture.pdf

Euclid-Computing-Architecture.pptx

16:10 Euclid Pilots (Pipeline Runner).

IAL_cern.pdf

16:30 Discussion: task queue management and pilot jobs

Friday 13 September

09:00 → 13:00 Day 2: Next steps

09:00 CernVM-FS status and plans

Speaker: Jakob Blomer (CERN)

CHEP15_Talk_CVMFSAuxData.pdf

cvmfs-euclid19.pdf

Squid monitoring

09:45 Discussion: CVMFS beyond production software stacks (databases, auxiliary data, containers)

Particular topics of interest
- cvmfs for data,
- best architecture for roaming clients (stratums 1 direct access...),
- how to access to cvmfs through local Internet proxies (authenticated or not).

10:30 Distributed data management with Rucio

Speaker: Mario Lassnig (CERN)

Rucio.pdf

11:00 EOS Distributed Storage System

Speaker: Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

EOS Euclid.pdf

11:30 Discussion on data management