Annual OSG Users Meeting'08

Jun 16, 2008, 8:30 AM → Jun 17, 2008, 8:00 PM US/Central

Large Seminar Room (Bldg.510) (Brookhaven National Lab)

Maxim Potekhin (BNL), Torre Wenaus (BNL)

Welcome! The Open Science Grid Users' Meeting was held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on June 16th and 17th 2008. Meetings/workshops in these series are aimed mainly at users of the OSG who meet any of the following criteria: - are responsible for development, maintenance or operation of applications that run on the OSG infrastructure - are involved in any aspect of VO-specific infrastructure for OSG use, for example: workflow, meta-scheduling or portal management - are users or prospective users of the OSG in any capacity and are interested in discussing issues and their solutions For an overview of the activities of the OSG User Group, which is a principal organizer of the Meeting, please follow the new, more convenient link: http://www.opensciencegrid.org/UG.

Monday, June 16

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Registration

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Keynote address

9:30 AM Keynote address

Speakers: Dr Miron Livny (Wisconsin), Dr Ruth Pordes (FNAL)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Workload Management on Open Science Grid

10:00 AM GlideinWMS explained

Speaker: Dr Igor Sfiligoi (FNAL)

Slides osg_glideins_rc1.pdf

10:30 AM Recent experience with Panda WMS

Speaker: Dr Torre Wenaus (BNL)

Slides 200806-OSG-BNL-PanDA.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM OSG Middleware

11:30 AM gLExec and MyProxy integration in Panda WMS

Speaker: Dr Jose Caballero (BNL)

Slides OSG_Meeting_Jun08_gLExec_MyProxy_in_PANDA.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Lightning Talks

1:30 PM The OSG Web Portal

Speaker: Marcia Teckenbrock (Fermilab)

1:40 PM Experience and problems using WS-GRAM on OSG sites

Speaker: Ms Britta Daudert (LIGO)

Slides USERS_F2F_WS_GRAM.ppt

1:50 PM Nanohub user experience with OSG

Speaker: Dr Steven Clark (PURDUE)

Slides nanohub.pdf

2:00 PM Status of GUMS (Grid User Management System)

Speaker: Dr John Hover (BNL)

Slides gums-osg-users-meeting-2008.pdf

2:10 PM Building a scalable and resilient Panda service for ATLAS and OSG

Speaker: Mr Dantong Yu (Brookhaven)

Slides LoadBalanceTestingofPanDA-edit.ppt

2:20 PM CDF experience with OSG

Speaker: Dr Rick Snider (FNAL)

CDF cdf-experience-osg-users-meeting-2008.06.16.present.pdf

2:30 PM SBGrid: a technical and procedural dialogue

Speaker: Mr Ian Stokes-Rees (Harvard Medical School, SBGrid)

2:50 PM OSG Storage

Speaker: Dr Tanya Levshina (FNAL)

Slides osg_storage_at_bnl.ppt

2:55 PM New Jersey State Grid

Speaker: Dr Gedaliah Wolosh (NJIT)

Slides gedaliah.pdf

3:00 PM GDB redux

Speaker: Dr Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides ML080616.ppt

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM OSG and VO Security Policies and Issues

This session is for VO Security Contacts, their alternates, and VO Operations Contacts attending the meeting. There will be about 15 VOs represented.

1:30 PM Overview of existing VO and OSG policies and goals

2:00 PM Training for the VO AUP and VO User Management Policies

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM OSG and VO Security Policies and Issues

This session is for VO Security Contacts, their alternates, and VO Operations Contacts attending the meeting. There will be about 15 VOs represented.

4:00 PM Discussion and feeding based on first pass writing

4:30 PM Introduction to JSPG Policies that affect VOs

5:00 PM Brainstorming about VOs & Security in OSG & future planning

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Troubleshooting

slides TroubleshootingAnnualUserMeeting.pdf

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Social Event (Dinner at Casa Piccolo)

See the link on the navigation bar to the left on the main page.

Tuesday, June 17

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM OSG Security Overview

9:00 AM Review of the OSG Security

Speaker: Dr Mine Altunay (FNAL)

9:30 AM → 9:40 AM OSG User Group

9:30 AM OSG User Group - Overview, Activities, Focus Areas

Speaker: ABHISHEK RANA (UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO)

9:40 AM → 10:30 AM OSG, Engagement and EDU VO

9:40 AM Interaction of the ENGAGE, EDU and OSG VOs

10:00 AM Users' transition from the ENGAGE VO to other VOs

Speaker: Dr Mats Rynge (RENCI)

Slides Engagement_OSG_Users_Meeting_08.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break and a Photo Op

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Continuation of Monday's talks

11:00 AM Managing data movement between OSG sites in Atlas experiment

Speaker: Dr Alexei Klimentov (CERN)

Slides OSG_Jun08.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM OSG, Engagement and EDU VO

11:30 AM The EDU VO and its interaction with OSG Users

Speaker: Dr Alina Bejan (UNiversity of Chicago)

12:00 PM The OSG VO - status, outlook and users' perspective

Speaker: Dr Ruth Pordes (FNAL)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Tour of the STAR Experiment

1:30 PM Tour of the STAR experiment

pictures GettingToSTAR.pdf