Jamboree on Evolution of WLCG Data & Storage Management

from Wednesday, June 16, 2010 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 18, 2010 (6:00 PM)
Amsterdam (Teekenzaal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 16, 2010
Jun 17, 2010
Jun 18, 2010
AM
10:00 AM
Evolution of the computing models - focus on data access for analysis (until 6:00 PM)
10:00 AM Welcome and introduction to the Jamboree - goals - Dr Ian Bird (CERN)  
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10:15 AM Presentation of a strawman for a new model of data access and management - Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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11:00 AM Status of networking (cf expectation in 2001), outlook including intercontinental connectivity - David Foster (CERN)  
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11:45 AM Back-end storage - use as a true archive - Dirk Duellmann (CERN)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Needs from a data access layer - how analysis use needs to access data etc. - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)  
2:45 PM Data transfer use cases: peer-peer (or many-many) or point-point. On demand vs scheduled - Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)  
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3:30 PM --- Coffee ---
3:45 PM Namespaces, authorization needs, quotas, catalogues - what is needed? - Philippe Charpentier (CERN)  
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4:30 PM Multi-core plans and impact data access and management. - Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)  
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4:40 PM The need for global home directory service - what are the use cases? - Various  
5:00 PM Conclusions - summary of discussion points, points arising. - Maria Girone (CERN) Note takers from IT-ES  
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9:00 AM
Existing and potential technologies (until 6:00 PM)
9:00 AM File systems. Summary of work on Hadoop, Lustre, GPFS etc. - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)  
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9:30 AM Summary of IEEE MSST symposium - Jean-Philippe Baud (CERN) Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN)  
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10:00 AM NFS 4.1 experiences - Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee ---
10:35 AM Xroot(d) - outlook - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)) Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)  
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11:05 AM FTS, LFC - what is OK, what is not? What is still useful? (Panel) - Gavin McCance (CERN) Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS) Dr Roberto Santinelli (CERN/IT/ES)  
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11:35 AM Alien FC - why is it interesting? - Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
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12:05 PM P2P technologies - are they relevant? Can we simply adapt (adopt?) them? - Jeff Templon (NIKHEF)  
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12:35 PM SRM - lessons learned - Dr Markus Schulz (CERN)  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM ROOT - outlook and developments - Dr Rene Brun (CERN)  
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2:45 PM Site experiences - NDGF/ARC - Dr Josva Kleist (Nordic Data Grid Facility)  
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3:15 PM Site experiences - GridKA - xrootd with a tape backend - Mr Artem Trunov (SLAC)  
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3:45 PM --- Coffee ---
4:00 PM CNAF - GPFS/TSM/StoRM - Dr Vincenzo Vagnoni (INFN Bologna)  
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4:30 PM Hadoop at a Tier2 - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)  
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5:00 PM Summary and conclusions - are there areas for potential early demonstrators? - PANEL - experiment representatives; note-takers;  
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9:00 AM
Conclusions and next steps (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM Problem statement recap - Kors Bos (NIKHEF)  
9:15 AM Technology Ruminations - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)  
9:30 AM Networking statement - David Foster (CERN)  
9:45 AM Preparations for WLCG Collaboration Workshop & Beyond - What is Expected  
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10:00 AM Demonstrators - "Heads-ups"  
11:30 AM (Remaining) DIscussion Points - Dr Ian Bird (CERN)  
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11:45 AM Close  
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