Jamboree on Evolution of WLCG Data & Storage Management

16 Jun 2010, 08:00 → 18 Jun 2010, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Teekenzaal (Amsterdam)

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"

Mail attendees

Contributed Docs https://espace.cern.ch/event-DAaM-docs

Photo Group photo DSC_7933f.jpg

Strawman StrawMan_v2.pdf

Summary Of Dm Evolution Discussion DM-DiscussionSummary.pdf

Wednesday 16 June

10:00 → 18:00 Evolution of the computing models - focus on data access for analysis

10:00 Welcome and introduction to the Jamboree - goals

Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides Jamboree-Intro.pdf Jamboree-Intro.pptx

10:15 Presentation of a strawman for a new model of data access and management

Speaker: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides StrawMan_LHCJamboree.pdf

11:00 Status of networking (cf expectation in 2001), outlook including intercontinental connectivity

Speaker: David Foster (CERN)

Slides David_DAMV3_170610.pdf David_DAMV3_170610.pptx

11:45 Back-end storage - use as a true archive

Speaker: Dirk Duellmann (CERN)

Slides dirkd-DM-Jamboree-2010.pdf

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Needs from a data access layer - how analysis use needs to access data etc.

Speaker: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)

14:45 Data transfer use cases: peer-peer (or many-many) or point-point. On demand vs scheduled

Speaker: Dr Richard Mount (SLAC)

Slides Mount.pdf Mount.ppt

15:30 Coffee

15:45 Namespaces, authorization needs, quotas, catalogues - what is needed?

Speaker: Philippe Charpentier (CERN)

Slides 100616-DMWorkshop.pdf

16:30 Multi-core plans and impact data access and management.

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

Slides elmer_multicore.pdf

16:40 The need for global home directory service - what are the use cases?

Speaker: Various

17:00 Conclusions - summary of discussion points, points arising.

Speakers: Maria Girone (CERN), Note takers from IT-ES

Slides wlcg-jam-day1.pdf wlcg-jam-day1.ppt

Thursday 17 June

09:00 → 18:00 Existing and potential technologies

09:00 File systems. Summary of work on Hadoop, Lustre, GPFS etc.

Speaker: Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR)

Slides Maslennikov.StorageWG.progress.rep.pdf

09:30 Summary of IEEE MSST symposium

Speakers: Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN), Jean-Philippe Baud (CERN)

Slides ieee-jam.pdf ieee-jam.ppt

10:00 NFS 4.1 experiences

Speaker: Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)

Slides 20100617-nfs2.pdf

10:20 Coffee

10:35 Xroot(d) - outlook

Speakers: Andrew Hanushevsky (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER), Fabrizio Furano (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides XrootdWhy.pdf XrootdWhy.pptx

11:05 FTS, LFC - what is OK, what is not? What is still useful? (Panel)

Speakers: Gavin McCance (CERN), Dr Roberto Santinelli (CERN/IT/ES), Simone Campana (CERN/IT/GS)

Slides FTS-LFC-mccance.pdf Transfer and Cataloguing Discussion

11:35 Alien FC - why is it interesting?

Speaker: Pablo Saiz (CERN)

Slides AliEn_FC_for_Jamboree.pdf AliEn_FC_for_Jamboree.ppt

12:05 P2P technologies - are they relevant? Can we simply adapt (adopt?) them?

Speaker: Jeff Templon (NIKHEF)

Paper http://www.coralcdn.org/docs/coral-nsdi10.pdf

Slides DMv4.pdf

12:35 SRM - lessons learned

Speaker: Dr Markus Schulz (CERN)

Slides srm-lessons3.pdf srm-lessons3.pptx

13:00 Lunch

14:00 ROOT - outlook and developments

Speaker: Dr Rene Brun (CERN)

Slides Amsterdam.pdf Amsterdam.pptx

14:45 Site experiences - NDGF/ARC

Speaker: Dr Josva Kleist (Nordic Data Grid Facility)

Slides 100617-WLCG-DAAM-NDGF_site_report.pdf

15:15 Site experiences - GridKA - xrootd with a tape backend

Speaker: Mr Artem Trunov (SLAC)

Slides gridka_xrootd.ppt

15:45 Coffee

16:00 CNAF - GPFS/TSM/StoRM

Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Vagnoni (INFN Bologna)

Slides DMJ_CNAF.pdf DMJ_CNAF.ppt

16:30 Hadoop at a Tier2

Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)

Slides HadoopAmdamjam.pdf

17:00 Summary and conclusions - are there areas for potential early demonstrators?

Speaker: PANEL - experiment representatives; note-takers;

Slides wlcg-jam-day2.pdf wlcg-jam-day2.ppt

Friday 18 June

09:00 → 13:00 Conclusions and next steps

09:00 Problem statement recap

• Reliable data access with focus on analysis

Speaker: Kors Bos (NIKHEF)

09:15 Technology Ruminations

Speaker: Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)

09:30 Networking statement

Speaker: David Foster (CERN)

09:45 Preparations for WLCG Collaboration Workshop & Beyond - What is Expected

Slides wlcg-jam-day3.pdf wlcg-jam-day3.ppt

10:00 Demonstrators - "Heads-ups"

Impromptu short (10' max) statements from those who submitted papers plus others

Slides

• atlas-demonstrator.pdf
• demo.pdf
• panda-dynamic.pdf

11:30 (Remaining) DIscussion Points

• The WLCG Common Data Access Protocol(s)

Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)

Slides Final_summary.pdf Final_summary.pptx

11:45 Close