WLCG Collaboration Workshop (in conjunction with GridPP)

Name: WLCG Collaboration Workshop (in conjunction with GridPP)
Start: 2010-07-07T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-07-09T18:00:00+01:00
Location: London, UK

Jul 7, 2010, 8:00 AM → Jul 9, 2010, 6:00 PM Europe/London

Lecture Theatre 1 (London, UK)

Lecture Theatre 1

London, UK

Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London

Description

GridTalk will be blogging from the WLCG event on the GridCast blog from 7-9 July 2010. You can follow the latest posts throughout the event at gridtalk-project.blogspot.com. If you're attending the WLCG event and would like to join our blogging team please contact us. All you need is an e-mail address and an interesting point of view.

Local organisers

wlcg@imperial.ac.uk

Wed, July 7
- WLCG Service Issues Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  - 1
    
    The WLCG Service from a Tier2 Viewpoint
    
    Speaker: Duncan Rand (Imperial College)
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    The WLCG Service from a Tier1 Viewpoint
    
    Speakers: Andrew Sansum (Particle Physics), Gareth Smith (STFC (RAL))
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    The WLCG Service from the Experiments' Viewpoint
    
    Speaker: Graeme Andrew Stewart (University of Glasgow)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30 AM
    
    coffee break
  - 4
    Service Incident Reports - Analysis of Key Issues over last 1-2 Quarters
    
    Adopt a common format (template will be linked from WLCG ops page)
    Adopt standard and clear terminology: MoU service degradation (20%, 50%, interruption) and site(s) / services affected
    More work required: on multi-site / multi-party problems.
    
    Speakers: Edoardo Martelli (CERN), WLCG Service Coordination team
    
    Paper
    
    Sir On Cern-Asgc Link Problems
    
    Slides
    
    20100707-ASGC-incident.pdf
    
    wlcg-SIRs-CW.pdf
    
    wlcg-SIRs-CW.ppt
    
    Wlcg Sirs
  - 5
    Dealing with prolonged site downtimes
    
    Agree on common strategy and scenarios as far as possible (some experiment-specific decision points and timelines but outline should be clear and agreed)
    Follow at WLCG T1SCM
    
    Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (INFN)
    
    1
    
    2
    
    3
    
    4
    
    Slides
    
    Twiki
  - 6
    
    Resource Utilisation (network, I/O, CPU,..)
    
    Speaker: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
    
    Slides
- 12:30 PM
  
  lunch break Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
- WLCG Storage Session Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  - 7
    
    End User Analysis Support: Status & Issues
    
    Speakers: Michael John Kenyon (University of Glasgow), Rob Quick (OSG - Indiana University)
    
    Kenyon
    
    Slides
  - 8
    Summary of Data Management Jamboree
    
    Speakers: Dr Ian Bird (CERN), Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Kors Bos (NIKHEF)
    
    Jamboree Agenda
    
    Slides
    
    ICWorkshop-DAaM-summary.pdf
    
    ICWorkshop-DAaM-summary.pptx
    
    requirements-wg.pdf
    
    requirements-wg.pptx
  - 9
    
    Tier1/2 Storage Options - Panel Discussion
    
    Speakers: Andrew Sansum (STFC), Gonzalo Merino (PIC), Luca dell'Agnello (CNAF)
- 3:30 PM
  
  coffee break Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
- Data Management Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  - 10
    Short Progress Reports from "early demonstrators" established at Amsterdam Jamboree: milestones, metrics and resource plans
    
    Potential Demonstrators
    
    a) ATLAS dynamic data placement work.
    
    Slides
    
    b) LHCb dynamic data placement
    
    Slides
    
    c) ARC caching
    
    Slides
    
    d) Proxy caches
    
    Slides
    
    e) CoralCDN
    
    Slides
    
    f) messaging service for catalog consistency
    
    Slides
    
    g) NFS 4.1 demonstrator(s)
    
    Slides
    
    h) xrootd demonstrator(s)
    
    Paper
    
    Slides
    
    i) File access
    
    Slides
    
    j) CHIRP
    
    Slides
- WLCG Social Session Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
Thu, July 8
- Experiment Jamborees Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  - 11
    LHCb session
    
    a) LHCb and LHC conditions
    
    Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    b) CPU normalisation
    
    Speaker: Ricardo Graciani Diaz (Facultad de Fisica)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Storage issues
    
    on behalf of A.C.Smith
    
    Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    CMS session
    
    a) Resource Utilization at Tier-1s
    
    Speaker: Dr Jose Hernandez (CIEMAT)
    
    Slides
    
    b) Workflow Efficiency and IO
    
    Speaker: Oliver Gutsche (FERMILAB)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Wide Area Transfers and Networking
    
    Speakers: Dr Marie-Christine Sawley (ETHZ), Marie-Christine Sawley (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zue)
    
    Slides
    
    d) Custodial Data Storage
    
    Speaker: Oliver Gutsche (FERMILAB)
    
    Slides
    
    e) Tier-2 Utilization
    
    Slides
    
    f) Communications with CMS and Discussion
    
    Speaker: Dr Josep Flix (CIEMAT)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30 PM
    
    Lunch break
  - 13
    ATLAS session
    
    a) Introduction
    
    Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF)
    
    b) DDM
    
    Speaker: Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Status and Storage Resources for 2010-2011
    
    Speaker: Dr Stephane Jezequel (LAPP)
    
    Slides
    
    d) Site Setup
    
    Software area, conditions data access, CREAM CEs
    
    Speaker: Dr Rodney Walker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
    
    Slides
    
    e) Ganga Robot and Hammercloud
    
    Speaker: Dan van der Ster (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    ALICE session
    
    a) 2010: Data Taking: ALICE Report and introduction to the ALICE session
    
    Speakers: Mrs Galina Shabratova (JIONT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH), Dr Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN IT/GD)
    
    Slides
    
    b) T2 feedback on setting-up and operating storage for the ALICE VO
    
    Speaker: Mr Jean-Michel BARBET (Laboratoire SUBATECH IN2P3)
    
    Slides
    
    c) The WLCG services required by ALICE at the T2 sites: evolution of the CREAM-system, VOBOXES and monitoring
    
    Speaker: Dagmar Adamova (Nuclear Physics Institute)
    
    Slides
    
    d) ALICE Tier1 testbed at KISTI-NSDC
    
    Speaker: Mr Christophe Bonnaud (KISTI-NSDC)
    
    Slides
- Experiment Social Sessions
  
  ATLAS in Angelsey Arms, CMS at Zaika, LHCb+ALICE at Med Kitchen
Fri, July 9
- WLCG Outlook Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  - 15
    
    Common Key Issues from Experiment Jamborees
    
    Speaker: Brian Davies (STFC RALLCG2 Tier1)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    Clouds, Virtualisation, Multi-core: presentations on on-going / planned activities
    
    Agenda Of 2nd Multi-Core Workshop
    
    Workshop Summary
    
    a) Experiment Requirements / Plans
    
    Speaker: Roger Jones (Physics Department-Lancaster University-Unknown)
    
    Slides
    
    b) CERN/IT Plans
    
    Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)
    
    Slides
    
    c) WNoDeS (Worker Nodes on Demand Service), developed at INFN CNAF
    
    Speaker: Peter Solagna (INFN)
    
    Slides
    
    d) Site plans
    
    Speaker: Various
    
    e) HEPiX WG Update
    
    Speaker: Tony Cass (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Workshop wrap-up
    
    Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College London)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30 AM
    
    coffee break
- 12:30 PM
  
  break (lunch not provided) - end of general session Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
- WLCG Collaboration Board Meeting (closed) Lecture Theatre 1
  
  Lecture Theatre 1
  
  London, UK
  
  Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2AZ London
  
  Cb Agendas