Jamboree on Evolution of WLCG Data & Storage Management

Europe/Zurich
Teekenzaal (Amsterdam)

Teekenzaal

Amsterdam

Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324 1016 EZ Amsterdam, Netherlands 020 6262321 <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Felix+Meritis&num=1&sll=52.370209,4.8843">Google maps location</a>
Description

Hotels

NIKHEF has special arrangements with the following hotels:
  • NH Tropen Hotel : single room costs 105 euros per night
  • Eden Lancaster Hotel : single room costs 99 euros per night
  • Eden Amsterdam Centre Hotel : single room costs 130 euros per night.

One other hotel over which we've heard good things: The Bridge Hotel. Mention the special Nikhef rate when booking. If you have any questions, please contact Eveline Schram-Post at [p39@nikhef.nl].

Registration

N.B. there is a registration fee of EUR120!

Details:

  • IBAN: NL72FTSB0642383596
  • BIC: FTSBNL2R
  • account number: 642383596
  • Bank: Fortis Bank, Rotterdam
  • Beneficiary: Stichting FOM

In the transaction reference, mention "Nikhef / WLCG DM Workshop", so that FOM will know to route your payment to Nikhef.

General Information

The meeting will be held in the Teekenzaal - old Dutch for the "Drawing Room"

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Contributed Docs
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Strawman
Summary Of Dm Evolution Discussion
Participants
    • 10:00 18:00
      Evolution of the computing models - focus on data access for analysis
      • 10:00
        Welcome and introduction to the Jamboree - goals 15m
        Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Presentation of a strawman for a new model of data access and management 45m
        Speaker: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Status of networking (cf expectation in 2001), outlook including intercontinental connectivity 45m
        Speaker: David Foster (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        Back-end storage - use as a true archive 45m
        Speaker: Dirk Duellmann (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h 30m
      • 14:00
        Needs from a data access layer - how analysis use needs to access data etc. 45m
        Speaker: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)
      • 14:45
        Data transfer use cases: peer-peer (or many-many) or point-point. On demand vs scheduled 45m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Coffee 15m
      • 15:45
        Namespaces, authorization needs, quotas, catalogues - what is needed? 45m
        Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Multi-core plans and impact data access and management. 10m
        Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        The need for global home directory service - what are the use cases? 20m
        Speaker: Various
      • 17:00
        Conclusions - summary of discussion points, points arising. 30m
        Speakers: Maria Girone (CERN), Note takers from IT-ES
        Slides
    • 09:00 18:00
      Existing and potential technologies
      • 09:00
        File systems. Summary of work on Hadoop, Lustre, GPFS etc. 30m
        Speaker: Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Summary of IEEE MSST symposium 30m
        Speakers: Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN), Jean-Philippe Baud (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        NFS 4.1 experiences 20m
        Speaker: Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Coffee 15m
      • 10:35
        Xroot(d) - outlook 30m
        Speakers: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER), Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
        Slides
      • 11:05
        FTS, LFC - what is OK, what is not? What is still useful? (Panel) 30m
        Speakers: Gavin McCance (CERN), Dr Roberto Santinelli (CERN/IT/ES), Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS)
        Slides
      • 11:35
        Alien FC - why is it interesting? 30m
        Speaker: Pablo Saiz (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        P2P technologies - are they relevant? Can we simply adapt (adopt?) them? 30m
        Speaker: Jeff Templon (NIKHEF)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 12:35
        SRM - lessons learned 25m
        Speaker: Dr Markus Schulz (CERN)
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        ROOT - outlook and developments 45m
        Speaker: Dr Rene Brun (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        Site experiences - NDGF/ARC 30m
        Speaker: Dr Josva Kleist (Nordic Data Grid Facility)
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Site experiences - GridKA - xrootd with a tape backend 30m
        Speaker: Mr Artem Trunov (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 15:45
        Coffee 15m
      • 16:00
        CNAF - GPFS/TSM/StoRM 30m
        Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Vagnoni (INFN Bologna)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Hadoop at a Tier2 30m
        Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Summary and conclusions - are there areas for potential early demonstrators? 30m
        Speaker: PANEL - experiment representatives; note-takers;
        Slides
    • 09:00 13:00
      Conclusions and next steps
      • 09:00
        Problem statement recap 15m
        • Reliable data access with focus on analysis
        Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF)
      • 09:15
        Technology Ruminations 15m
        Speaker: Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)
      • 09:30
        Networking statement 15m
        Speaker: David Foster (CERN)
      • 09:45
        Preparations for WLCG Collaboration Workshop & Beyond - What is Expected 15m
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Demonstrators - "Heads-ups" 1h 30m
        Impromptu short (10' max) statements from those who submitted papers plus others
        • Draft an outline plan with timelines
        • Create working groups - agree mandates and convenor
        • Set expectations for July workshop
      • 11:30
        (Remaining) DIscussion Points 15m
        • The WLCG Common Data Access Protocol(s)
        Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        Close 15m