Jamboree on Evolution of WLCG Data & Storage Management

from Wednesday 16 June 2010 (08:00) to Friday 18 June 2010 (18:00)
Amsterdam (Teekenzaal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Jun 2010
17 Jun 2010
18 Jun 2010
AM
10:00
Evolution of the computing models - focus on data access for analysis (until 18:00)
10:00 Welcome and introduction to the Jamboree - goals - Dr Ian Bird (CERN)  
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10:15 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 Status of networking (cf expectation in 2001), outlook including intercontinental connectivity - David Foster (CERN)  
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11:45 Back-end storage - use as a true archive - Dirk Duellmann (CERN)  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Needs from a data access layer - how analysis use needs to access data etc. - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)  
14:45 Data transfer use cases: peer-peer (or many-many) or point-point. On demand vs scheduled - Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)  
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15:30 --- Coffee ---
15:45 Namespaces, authorization needs, quotas, catalogues - what is needed? - Philippe Charpentier (CERN)  
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16:30 Multi-core plans and impact data access and management. - Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)  
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16:40 The need for global home directory service - what are the use cases? - Various  
17:00 Conclusions - summary of discussion points, points arising. - Maria Girone (CERN) Note takers from IT-ES  
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09:00
Existing and potential technologies (until 18:00)
09:00 File systems. Summary of work on Hadoop, Lustre, GPFS etc. - Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)  
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09:30 Summary of IEEE MSST symposium - Jean-Philippe Baud (CERN) Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN)  
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10:00 NFS 4.1 experiences - Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)  
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10:20 --- Coffee ---
10:35 Xroot(d) - outlook - Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)) Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)  
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11:05 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 Alien FC - why is it interesting? - Pablo Saiz (CERN)  
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12:05 P2P technologies - are they relevant? Can we simply adapt (adopt?) them? - Jeff Templon (NIKHEF)  
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12:35 SRM - lessons learned - Dr Markus Schulz (CERN)  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 ROOT - outlook and developments - Dr Rene Brun (CERN)  
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14:45 Site experiences - NDGF/ARC - Dr Josva Kleist (Nordic Data Grid Facility)  
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15:15 Site experiences - GridKA - xrootd with a tape backend - Mr Artem Trunov (SLAC)  
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15:45 --- Coffee ---
16:00 CNAF - GPFS/TSM/StoRM - Dr Vincenzo Vagnoni (INFN Bologna)  
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16:30 Hadoop at a Tier2 - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)  
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17:00 Summary and conclusions - are there areas for potential early demonstrators? - PANEL - experiment representatives; note-takers;  
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09:00
Conclusions and next steps (until 13:00)
09:00 Problem statement recap - Kors Bos (NIKHEF)  
09:15 Technology Ruminations - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)  
09:30 Networking statement - David Foster (CERN)  
09:45 Preparations for WLCG Collaboration Workshop & Beyond - What is Expected  
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10:00 Demonstrators - "Heads-ups"  
11:30 (Remaining) DIscussion Points - Dr Ian Bird (CERN)  
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11:45 Close  
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