| Monday 24 May - HEPiX -
Day 1 |
| 08:30-09:30 |
Arrival and Registration |
Video |
| 09:30-09:40 |
David Kelsey (RAL) / Welcome and
Introduction |
No video |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Dave Berry (NeSC) / Introduction to NeSC |
No video |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Tony Chan / BNL
Site Report |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Juergen Baschnagel /
PSI Site Report |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00-11:15 |
Chuck Boeheim / SLAC Site Report |
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| 11:15-11:30 |
Stephan Wiesand / DESY Site Report |
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| 11:30-11:45 |
Michel Jouvin / LAL
Site Report |
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| 11:45-12:00 |
Mark Kaletka / FNAL Site Report |
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| 12:00-12:15 |
Kelvin Edwards / JLAB Site Report |
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| 12:15-12:30 |
Andrei Maslennikov /
CASPUR Site Report |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00-14:15 |
Cary Whitney / NERSC Site Report |
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| 14:15-14:30 |
Pierre-Francois Honore /
DAPNIA Site
Report |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Helge Meinhard / CERN Site Report | download
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| 15:00-15:15 |
Helmut Kreiser / GSI Site Report | download
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| 15:15-15:30 |
Corrie Kost / TRIUMF Site Report | download
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee |
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| 16:00-16:10 |
Sabah Salih / Manchester Site Report |
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| 16:10-16:20 |
Peter Gronbech / Oxford Site Report |
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| 16:20-16:35 |
Andrew Sansum / RAL Site Report |
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| 16:35-18:00 |
Nathan Jones (Red Hat) /
The Migration to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
Nathan Jones, one of the US Sales Directors, will discuss migrations from Red Hat Linux
in the HEP community and the current options for migrating to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Nathan will discuss some details on those Labs that he
knows are currently migrating. He will discuss all of the current solutions
available from Red Hat (including Fedora). He will discuss Red Hat's
commitment to the HPC and HEP communities; Red Hat's development of a
pricing structure that understands this market; future product strategies;
and company direction. He will also be willing to take comments and
suggestions back on what the HEP community needs from Red Hat (i.e. in terms
of new partnerships, functionality, or business terms) as it grows it's
compute requirements. |
No video |
| Tuesday 25 May - HEPiX -
Day 2 |
| 09:00-09:30 |
German Cancio (CERN) /
ELFms deployment
in- and outside CERN CC ELFms (http://cern.ch/elfms) stands for Extremely
Large Fabric management system, and comprises tools for fabric configuration
and installation (Quattor), monitoring (Lemon), and hardware/state
management (LEAF). In this talk, I will describe the ELFms modules and
overall architecture, as well as the integration/deployment status at
CERN-CC and other sites/projects. |
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| 09:30-09:50 |
Miroslav Siket (CERN) /
Web presentation
of Lemon monitoring information On top of the Lemon infrastructure to
gather status and performance information on the computers within a computer
center, we have implemented a framework to make those data easily accessible
to the users through the web based interface. The solution is based on the
RRD tools for storing and PHP/Apache for presentation purposes. Overview of
the current status and the undergoing activities will be given. |
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| 09:50-10:15 |
Paul Millar (Glasgow) /
Lessons Learnt in
the Management of CDF Hardware and Service Contract
(Authors: Morag Burgon-Lyon, A. Paul Millar, Richard St.Denis, A. Stan
Thompson)The CDF Experiment has
four identical clusters deployed at different UK institutions. A RAID
failure on the Glasgow University cluster led to over 2 months of downtime.
We discuss the problems encountered and actions taken by both ourselves and
the vendor. We present a improved procedure for tackling future hardware
problems. |
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| 10:15-10:40 |
Maria Dimou (CERN) / LCG User
Registration and VO management The talk will explain the status of the
requirements investigation for LCG User Registration and VO management as
mandated by the LCG Grid Deployment Board. The registration procedures used
at present will also be described. |
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| 10:40-11:10 |
Coffee |
|
| 11:10-11:30 |
Gilbert Grosdidier (LAL) /
LCG Testing
Suites (full talk)
presented by Michel Jouvin (LAL) - the
slides as presentedThe LCG/EDG Testing Suites will be described, together with their
framework. The aim will be to show how powerful they can be to spot failures
on a running testbed, and to to push sysadmins to use them on their own
site, to detect install oddities and possible misconfigurations. |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Oliver Keeble (CERN) /
LCG Update LCG-2 has been deployed successfully,
integrating over 50 sites and giving access to more than 3000 CPUs. The LHC
experiments' data challenges have put the production environment under heavy
load and revealed a number of operational issues requiring attention. This
talk reports on the modifications made or scheduled in response to the data
challenges, presents a summary of current LCG-2 status and describes future
developments. |
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Tony Doyle (Glasgow) /
GridPP Project
Status and Outlook GridPP is a collaboration of Particle Physicists and
Computing Scientists from the UK and CERN, who are building a Grid for
Particle Physics. GridPP involves 19 UK Universities plus CCLRC and CERN and
is embedded in a complex environment involving many other large
organisations such as the CERN LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Project, the
European DataGrid/EGEE, US Grid Projects and the large international
particle physics experiments. The talk will cover the current deployment
status, middleware developments in the UK, and the plans for GridPP phase 2. |
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| 12:30-13:45 |
Lunch |
|
| 13:45-14:10 |
Connie Sieh (FNAL) / SLiding into Free Enterprise Linux
There is a need for a common, freely available, enterprise quality Linux
distribution for use among the High Energy Physics community. The current
enterprise Linux distributions cost too much for many sites to afford. Linux
is not always compatible between different Linux distributions. This makes
it difficult for one scientist to share their code with another at a
different site. The system administration also becomes easier when a common
distribution is used.
We have created "Scientific Linux" (SL) to fulfill this need. It is a
community driven, freely available enterprise Linux. It is useful straight
out of the box, and it is also easily customizable for the various High
Energy Physics sites. Scientists are able to customize "Scientific Linux"
for their own site, while maintaining compatibility with other sites. This
will allow the various sites to easily share their software via a central
repository. "Scientific Linux" also includes enhancements that are of value
to the High Energy Physics community that are not available in commercial
enterprise Linux distributions. |
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| 14:10-14:30 |
Connie Sieh (FNAL) / Using
YUM to increase security of Linux |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Jaroslaw Polok (CERN) /
Next CERN Linux
distribution Overview and details of the next CERN Linux distribution. |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Steven Timm (FNAL) / Infrastructure and
provisioning at the Fermi High Density Computing Construction has begun to
prepare the Fermi High Density Computing Facility. This facility will
eventually host more than 3000 computers over the next five years. This
presentation will discuss the infrastructure plans for this facility, and
the plans Fermilab system administrators are making for provisioning and
managing the systems as they come in to this remote location. |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee |
|
| 16:00-16:20 |
Manuel Guijarro (CERN) /
Report on CVS services
In production since more than 2 years, IT/PS central CVS services host over
90 software projects of various sizes. This presentation presents the 2
architectural approaches used at CERN, as well as data about service status
and ongoing developments. |
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| 16:20-16:50 |
Stephan Wiesand (DESY) /
The new way of
handling Unix application software at DESY We started providing Software
for our strategic platforms Linux and Solaris in the form of RPM packages.
Packages are built according to a set of rules and a new filesystem layout
to allow installation handling by automated tools. Installation can be fully
local or on a central filesystem (AFS) or anything in between, configurable
per system, package and version. |
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| 16:50-17:20 |
Brian Scott (SLAC) / Citrix and remote
access at SLAC |
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| 17:20-18:00 |
Bob Cowles (SLAC) / Recent Security
Threats and Vulnerabilities |
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| Wednesday 26 May - HEPiX
- Day 3 |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Yves Fouilhé (CC-IN2P3) /
BQS Update BQS
is the batch system that we are using at the Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3. I
will present the most recent evolutions of BQS, eg. support for parallel and
arborescent jobs, and jobs submitted from grids, including LCG2. |
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| 09:20-10:05 |
Cary Whitney (NERSC) /
New Developments on PDSF I would like to talk
about the latest developments on PDSF and their effects on the users. This
ranges from reclaiming old hardware to security and software modifications
to allow a wider range of jobs and environments to function together. (CHOS,
ProcDN, St Michael/Patchfinder, Kernel hotfixes, One-wire, Capacitors, Event
monitoring, SGE/LSF, future projects.) |
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| 10:05-10:30 |
Ignacio Reguero (CERN), presented by
Manuel Guijarro (CERN) / Overview of Solaris Issues at CERN My
presentation will review the main questions around the Solaris platform at
CERN and the activities of the Solaris Support Service. The items that will
be considered are
- Solaris 9 Certification
- Compiler Status
- Quattor (EDG WP4) deployment
- Blade server tests and N1 Management
- EDG WP4 Monitoring on Solaris
- Long term plans for Solaris Support |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee |
|
| 11:00-12:30 |
Red Hat Linux Panel and Discussion
(convened by Alan Silverman) This session discusses how the major labs will support Redhat Linux in the future. There will be
short presentations from SLAC, Fermilab and CERN followed by an open
discussion.
Jan Iven (CERN)
Mark Kaletka (FNAL)
Chuck Boeheim (SLAC) |
No video |
| 12:30-13:45 |
Lunch |
|
| 13:45-14:00 |
Michel Jouvin (LAL) /
Anti-SPAM experience at LAL This talk will present
the integration of SpamAssasin and Sendmail at LAL and the tuning done to
achieve a high rate of SPAM detection without false positive. In particular,
the experience with bayesian analysis will be presented. |
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Wolfgang Friebel (DESY)/
AFS file space
administration with ARC version 2 A new version of "Authenticated remote
control" (originally by R. Toebbicke,CERN) has been developed. It uses SASL
for authentication and supports GSSAPI (Kerberos5, PKI), Kerberos4 and other
authentication mechanisms. The AFS file space administration program used at
CERN (afs_admin) was designed for the old arc and did support Kerberos 4
only. It has been partly rewritten to work now with ARC v2. Other arc
applications like batch token prolongation have been ported as well. |
No video |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Alf Wachsmann (SLAC) /
Report from the AFS Best Practices Workshop I will give a summarizing report from the
first AFS Best Practices Workshop held at SLAC. |
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| 15:00-15:15 |
Michael Draper (CERN) /
InDiCo - An
Integrated Conference Management Tool |
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| 15:15-15:30 |
Michel Jouvin (LAL) /
SUS
integration with SMS This talk will present our
experience with Update Feature Pack for SMS which provides SUS/WindowsUpdate
functionality through SMS. |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee |
|
| 16:00-16:30 |
Tim Smith (CERN) /
Developments in the CERN Disk and Tape Storage Services Early in 2004 the tools and techniques
used to manage disk, tape, and stage servers were refreshed in adopting the
QUATTOR tool set. The LEMON monitoring suite was deployed to raise alarms
and gather performance metrics. Monitoring has been extended from the OS and
application level down into the HW and environment. These developments will
be presented in addition to operational experiences such as the widespread
replacement of disks to regain managability of the disk servers and the
large scale tape media migration to permit old tape drive technologies to be
retired. | download
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| 16:30-17:10 |
Jan Iven (CERN) / Disk Storage
performance and high-speed interconnects Applied research in CERN-IT-ADC *
Diskserver perfomance evolution (on behalf of P.Kelemen) * Fast local
interconnects (on behalf of A.Horvath) * USB/Firewire-attached storage (on
behalf of A.Hirstius) | download
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| 17:10-17:30 |
Wojciech Wojcik (IN2P3) /
Conclusion of the HEPiX days and plans for
future meetings | download
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| 19:30 |
Conference Dinner -
Howies Waterloo Place,
29 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh |
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| Thursday 27 May - Mass
Storage Workshop - Day 1 |
| 08:58 |
David Kelsey (RAL) /
Welcome and Logistics |
No video |
| 09:00-09:50 |
Paul Bradshaw (IBM) /
IBM SAN File System
for GRID and HPC Environments This talk will provide an overview of the
recently announced IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (Storage Tank) and how
it is being used in the GRID and HPC environments to meet their needs.
Discussions on how the system is being used at CERN and other locations will
be highlighted, as well as some future directions. |
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| 09:50-10:40 |
Gordon Kennedy (STK) /
Information
Life-cycle Management The application of an information life-cycle
management strategy to large-scale storage requirements |
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| 10:40-11:10 |
Coffee |
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| 11:10-11:50 |
Andrei Maslennikov (CASPUR) /
New results
from CASPUR Storage Lab We will be reporting several results obtained in
the last 6 months. This time we have tried disk systems from Datadirect, IBM
and Infortrend and new fibre channel equipment from Qlogic, along with the
different file system solutions. The work was done in collaboration with
CERN and ENEA. |
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| 11:50-12:20 |
Wayne
Schroeder
(UCSD) / Overview of the SDSC Storage Resource Broker |
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| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:15 |
Jens Jensen (RAL)
/ Experience
of supporting multiple interfaces (SRM/SRB/SE) |
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| 14:15-15:00 |
Jean-Philippe Baud (CERN)
/ GFAL and LCG data management |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee |
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| 15:30-17:30 |
Mass Storage & WAN Data Movement Forum
discussion
“LHC (raw/ESD) data broadcasting CERN
à Tier-1”
LCG Service Challenges Slides from Ian Bird
(CERN)
WAN RAW/ESD Data Distribution for LHC Bernd
Panzer-Steindel (CERN)
- Requirements
- Tier-1 responsibilities
- Networking issues
- Architecture
- Timeline
(Link
to document re LCG MOU Task Force. Tier1 services and responsibilities)
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| Friday 28 May - Mass
Storage Workshop - Day 2 |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Mass Storage & WAN
Data Movement Forum discussion
“LHC (raw/ESD) data broadcasting CERN
à
Tier-1”
- Wrap-up from day 1
- Next steps towards a real test-setup
Les Robertson (CERN) /
Data Management Service Challenge
Olof Barring (CERN) / Exporting Raw/ESD data from
Tier-0 -> Tier-1s
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No video |
| 10:00-10:25 |
Jon Bakken
(FNAL) / Storage system integration with high performance networks |
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| 10:25-10:50 |
Doris Ressmann (FZK) /
Integrating dCache
into an existing tape storage environment at GridKA. The dCache system
developed at Desy and FNAL is recently introduced to LCG for the connection
of online to background storage. At GridKa dCache was installed to provide
an initial 2 PB tape storage in 2007, which will grow exponentially
afterwards. The existing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager environment and LTO
libraries are used through a dedicated dCache to tsm driver. Presented are
the initial results and limitations of the new dCache/TSM connection.
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| 10:50-11:15 |
Coffee |
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| 11:15-12:00 |
Olof Bärring (CERN) /
CASTOR
SRM v1.1 experience |
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Alan Silverman (CERN)
/ Mass Storage Workshop summary |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
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