OSG All Hands Consortium Meeting

3 Mar 2008, 08:00 → 6 Mar 2008, 18:00 US/Central

RENCI

Use of the Open Science Grid for Production

2007 has been an exciting time for the Open Science Grid! We have seen a consolidation and increased use of the Open Science Grid distributed infrastructure and software for production computation by existing and new users. We have seen the OSG activity teams form deep collaborations. The 2008 All Hands Meeting, March 3rd-6th, will once again provide a forum for current and prospective OSG members, users, and partners to communicate, discuss and plan the work of the Consortium, the Project and the Facility. The meeting is hosted by the Renaissance Computing Institute at the Friday Center (directions available here) on the Campus of the University of North Carolina (a warm pleasant locale in springtime).

The meeting will focus on workshops and discussions for and among existing and new contributors to the Consortium - scientists, researchers, developers, administrators, partners and institutions. The current list of workshops includes site administration, biology applications, and the needs and status of campus and regional infrastructures.

US ATLAS and US CMS are once again having co-located workshops for their tiered distributed computing facilities. The registration will be common with the OSG All Hands but the agendas will be planned and posted separately.

The workshops are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday March 3 and 4.

Wednesday 5th March will see plenary sessions with a set of panel presentations and discussions covering OSG status and plans, science prospects, local and global cyberinfrastructures, training and communication, and other activities of which we are a part.

In addition, a training session for new users will be held on Thursday March 6, 2008, in parallel with the OSG Council meeting. Also, if you are interested in taking advantage of the presence of many of our participants to have short, more focused meetings co-located with the "all hands" please do let us know.

We look forward to seeing and talking to you!

John McGee, Conference Chair and OSG Engagement Coordinator,
Ruth Pordes, OSG Executive Director

Monday, 3 March

08:30 → 09:00 breakfast

09:00 → 18:25 Site Administrators Workshop

09:00 Welcome from the Executive Director

Speaker: Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

Introduction.pdf SiteAdminsIntro.pdf

09:10 The OSG Facility

Speaker: Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:25 The OSG Site Coordination Activity

Speaker: Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

Slides rwg-sites-v2.ppt.pdf

09:40 Expectations of the Sites

Includes: RSV, problem report response times, security drills.

Speaker: Rob Quick (Indiana University)

Slides Ops-All-Hands.ppt

10:20 break

10:40 Logging and Troubleshooting

Speaker: Brian Tierney (LBNL)

11:10 Site Administrators Security Training and Auditing

Includes Service AUP, policies, responding to incidents and security patches, tools to help keep a secure site.

Speaker: Dr Mine Altunay (Fermilab)

Slides OSG_Consortium_2008.ppt

11:55 Feedback on OSG 0.8.0 and the Facility Rountable

Speaker: Terrence Martin (UCSD)

12:30 Panel Discussion from the Users Perspective

Panel of Users to whom Site Administrators can ask questions and comments

Speaker: Abhishek Rana (UCSD)

13:05 lunch

13:20 BOF

agenda http://indico.fnal.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=1037

14:05 OSG Storage Services

Administering VDT supported Storage Elements
- Opportunistic storage
- dCache 1.8 installs and functional tests
- Bestman xrootd

Speaker: Dr Ted Hesselroth (Fermilab)

14:45 Configuring OSG - an update

What has changed with the CE and SE configuration scripts? How to update to new OSG minor version releases

Speaker: Suchandra Thapa (University of Chicago)

Slides new_configuration.pdf new_configuration.ppt

15:05 Discussion: Site Administrators Tools

What do we have that could be shared (Lightning Talk 1)?
What needs to be added to the toolkit (Lightning Talks 2,3)?

Speaker: Charles Bacon (University of Chicago)

Slides porter-site-admin-tools.ppt

15:50 break

16:10 Towards the Release of OSG 1.0

Speaker: Mr Alain Roy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides 2008-all-hands-osg-release-roy.pdf 2008-all-hands-osg-release-roy.ppt

16:40 Current measurements of Facility performance and capabilities

What measurements do we have?
What do we need?

Speaker: Mr Brian Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Slides OSG_Measurements.pdf

Tuesday, 4 March

08:30 → 09:00 breakfast

09:00 → 12:30 Biology Applications workshop

This workshop will have presentations on current biology efforts that use the Open Science Grid, discussions on what has worked well, obstacles, and ideas future improvements and better support for large scale computational efforts in the biosciences.

09:00 Biology Applications Workshop Introductions

Slides BioWorkshop.pdf

09:15 CompBioGrid

Slides CompBioGrid_AllHands.pdf.pdf

09:45 SBGrid: Ian Stokes-Rees

Slides SBGrid-OSG-AHM08.pdf

10:15 CHARMM

Slides tim-osg-08-6-windows.pdf

10:45 GLOW

Slides 2008-bio-on-glow.ppt

11:00 Biology Applications Workshop Discussion

09:00 → 17:00 US ATLAS Transparent Distributed Facility workshop

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=27430

09:00 → 17:00 US CMS Tier-3 workshop

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=28609

12:30 → 13:30 BOF

agenda http://indico.fnal.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=1037

12:30 → 13:30 group picture in atrium followed by lunch

13:30 → 17:00 Campus & Regional Infrastructures

A workshop to discuss OSG related Campus and Regional Infrastructures.

The use of high performance and high throughput computing (HT/HPC) to support scientific research has become a permanent feature of the research landscape. Many groups operate laboratory level HT/HPC systems that utilize open source software and commodity hardware to create a cyberinfrastructure to aid in simulation, data collection, and analysis. The proliferation of HPC systems within many institutions has created an opportunity to create co-operative campus level grids to leverage and harness the tremendous collective power of these systems. Moreover, opportunities to exploit underutilized resources for high throughput computing is fostering the creation of a culture of resource sharing through opportunisitic usage on many campuses.

This workshop will be a forum in which groups operating (or considering building) campus grids can come together to share best-practices, challenges, and opportunities in building a co-operative campus level cyberinfrastructure. The objectives of this workshop are to: i) discuss the current state-of-the-art and issues in running a production campus grid; ii) the role of the Open Science Grid as an enabler of campus and national-level research computing; iii) provide an opportunity for those considering adopting campus-level grids to learn about the technologies; and iv) identify future activities, issues, and action items to improve the effectiveness and adoption of campus grids.

The workshop will be a half-day event, with attendance limited to approximately 20 to encourage discussions among participants. An outcome of the workshop will be a report to the Open Science Grid community identifying future opportunities, challenges, and specific recommendations.

13:30 Introduction

Slides Introduction.pdf

13:40 Existing Campus Grid panels

Purdue/Preston Smith, GLOW/Miron Livny, Clemson/Sebastien Goasguen, Fermilab/Keith Chadwick

Speakers: Keith Chadwick (FNAL), Prof. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Preston Smith (Purdue University), Dr Sebastien Goasguen (Clemson University)

FermiGrid Slides OSG-TG_Gateway.ppt

Slides BoilerGrid_-_OSG.pdf Miron.ppt

14:45 Existing Regional grids

NWICG/Tom Hacker and In Seng Suh, NYSGrid/Steve Gallo

Speakers: Dr In-Saeng Suh (Notre Dame), Mr Steve Gallo (SUNY-Buffalo), Dr Thomas Hacker (Purdue University)

Slides

• Gallo.pdf
• Gallo.ppt
• NWICG.pdf
• OSG_TIGRE_Summary.pdf

15:30 Break and Networking

16:00 Engaging Users

Speaker: Mats Rynge (Renaissance Computing Institute)

Slides OSG-Engagement-OSGAHM-08-r1.pdf

16:15 Sharing Local Resouces

Speaker: Mr Alain Roy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides 2008-campus-grids_joining-osg-roy.pdf 2008-campus-grids_joining-osg-roy.ppt

16:30 Open Case Study with Texas A&M University

Speaker: Dr Guy Almes (Director, Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies, Texas A&M University)

18:00 → 19:00 BOF

agenda http://indico.fnal.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=1037

Wednesday, 5 March

08:00 → 08:30 breakfast

08:30 → 10:00 The Open Science Grid

08:30 (no title)

This panel will give an opportunity to discuss the problems/issues we are all are facing now and moving forward, both in the vision and "big picture challenges" and the medium/long term practical aspects of the consortium, project and facility.

Alina Bejan, Education and Outreach Coordinator,
Rob Gardner, Integration and Sites Coordinator,
Bill Kramer, Chair of the Consortium Council,
Miron Livny, Project PI and Facility Coordinator,
John McGee, Engagement Coordinator,
Ruth Pordes, Executive Director,
Rob Quick, Operations Coordinator,
Alain Roy, Software Coordinator,

OSGO OSGPlenary2.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:00 Prospects for Science on OSG

10:30 (no title)

The panelists on this session will talk about their use of the OSG for science and research and future prospects and needs. There will be 10 minute introductions from each of the members of the panel:

Structural Biology Grid Portal and Applications: Ian Stokes-Rees, Harvard University
Text Mining Biomedical Literature: Catherine Blake, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Prospects for science at the LHC/CMS: Chris Tully, Princeton University
Nuclear Physics and the OSG: Tim Hallman, BNL
LIGO: Warren Anderson, U Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Heisenberg Spin Chains - Simulations and Experiments: Bruno Goncalvez, Emory College

Blake BlakeOSG.ppt

LIGO LIGOScience.pdf.pdf

SBGrid SBGrid-ScienceProspects-OSG-AHM08.pdf

STAR Hallman_OSG_05_March_08.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 lunch

12:15 → 13:30 BOF

agenda http://indico.fnal.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=1037

13:30 → 15:00 Status of and prospects for Worldwide Cyberinfrasructure

13:30 (no title)

This panelists on this session will talk about the issues and activities related to world-wide cyber infrastructure.

There will be 10 minute introductions from each of the members of the panel, followed by a period of discussion:

EGEE-III and EGI, Robert Jones (CERN),
CyberInfrastructure for Communities, Alan Blatecky (RENCI),
Exploiting Emerging Features in Networks: Don Petravick (Fermilab),
Security and Cyberinfrastructure: John Hover (BNL),

DonNetworking network-all-hands.pdf

EGEE - EGI EGEE_EGI_BobJones_March2008.ppt

JohnHover jhover-osg-2008-worldwide-security.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 break

15:30 → 17:00 Communication, outreach and training

15:30 (no title)

This panelists on this session will talk about the opportunities and experiences with Communication, Education and Outreach. There will be 10 minute introductions from each of the members of the panel, followed by a period of discussion:

International Science Grid This Week, Cristy Burne (iSGTW),
After Grid School 1, Andrew Jamieson (University of Chicago),
After Grid School 2, John Sanabria (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)
After Grid School 3, Robert Martin (University of Texas at Brownsville)
Internet2 and the CI Days activity, Russ Hobby (internet2)
SURAgrid Education and Outreach: Linda Akli (SURA)

AndrewJamieson AndrewJamieson.pdf.pdf

Paper JohnSanabria.pdf

Russ OSG-All-Hands-CIDays-Hobby.ppt

Slides Cristy_Burne_iSGTW.ppt Sanabria.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 BOF

agenda http://indico.fnal.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=1037

Thursday, 6 March

08:45 → 09:15 breakfast

09:15 → 17:15 Hands on Training for New Users

agenda https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Education/AHM

09:15 → 17:15 OSG Council Meeting

Any slides or documents uploaded for the Council meeting