OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting

8 Mar 2010, 08:00 → 11 Mar 2010, 18:00 US/Central

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

It is that time again! The OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting! This very "collaborative" venue provides current and prospective OSG members, users and partners with an opportunity to talk through the activities and problems, lessons learned and future plans for the Open Science Grid Consortium. The All Hands Meeting will be held March 8-10, 2010 at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. An OSG Council meeting will follow in the same location on March 11th. As usual additional related meetings will be co-scheduled with the All Hands Meeting. This should be an exciting time for the US LHC with the systems being used once again for real data processing: The US ATLAS Facility meeting and US CMS Tier-2 and Tier-3 meetings will both be held early in the week. On Monday we will continue the tradition to have 1/2 day workshops on specific topics - please contact any member of the Executive Board if you have requests for one of these. Any suggestions on speakers, discussion fora, BOFs etc are welcomed also. On Tuesday afternoon there will be a session where you can set up a demonstration of an application, technology or other activity that you would like to share with your colleagues (the "Electronic Demonstration Session"). You are invited to submit an abstract for this session. We will make available a table, chair, power strip, wireless network connection and a 17" screen. Slots for this session are limited to about 10. The program committee will make the selection of which demonstrations to include based on the abstracts, by March 1st. With your input and participation we look forward to another good meeting!

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• General_Info.htm
• GeneralInformation.htm
• program_committee.htm

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Monday, 8 March

08:30 → 10:30 Security and Virtual Organization Workshop

At this session we will follow up on issues identified at the ESNET-OSG Identity Management Workshop. We will discuss the "disaster scenarios" identified by the VO contacts. Also, the OSG Security Group will explain the status of action items and activities identified in the workshop report.

08:30 Review Activities since November Workshop

Speakers: Mike Helm, Dr Mine Altunay (FNAL)

09:00 Update on plans and status of LIGO and CILOGON work

Speakers: Jim Basney, Scott Koranda

09:30 Discuss outcome of "VO 5 top Concerns"

08:30 → 16:30 US CMS Tier 2 Workshop

Please view the agenda at :US CMS Tier 2 Workshop

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=82280

08:30 US CMS Tier 2 Workshop Agenda

09:00 → 15:05 US ATLAS Tier 2 Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda: US ATLAS Tier 2 / Tier 3 Workshop

09:00 US ATLAS Tier 2 & Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda: US ATLAS Tier 2 / Tier 3 Workshop

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor

11:00 → 12:00 Security and Virtual Organization Workshop - Continued

At this session we will follow up on issues identified at the ESNET-OSG Identity Management Workshop. We will discuss the "disaster scenarios" identified by the VO contacts. Also, the OSG Security Group will explain the status of action items and activities identified in the workshop report.

11:00 To Follow

Speaker: Anand Padmanabhan

11:15 More usable Desktop Certificate Management Tools

Speaker: Gabriel Ghinta

11:30 Discuss outcome of "VO top 5 concens"

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Workshop

The goals are to bring us up to date on the status of virtualization frameworks from CERN, Nimbus, and Condor, as well as to share experiences and plans related to the virtualization of science applications and exploration and use of Cloud computing (science and commercial).

13:30 Introduction and Open Nebula

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Goasguen (Clemson University)

13:50 CERN VM

Speaker: Predrag Buncic

14:20 Nimbus Status

Speaker: Kate Keahey

14:30 Condor and VM's

Speaker: Jamie Frey

14:40 STAR

Speaker: James Lauret

14:50 US ATLAS Plans and Thinking

Speaker: Yushu Yao

15:00 US CMS Plans and Thinking

Speakers: Andrew Melo, Dave Evans

15:10 Discussion of VO Commonalities

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor

16:00 → 18:00 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Workshop

The goals are to bring us up to date on the status of virtualization frameworks from CERN, Nimbus, and Condor, as well as to share experiences and plans related to the virtualization of science applications and exploration and use of Cloud computing (science and commercial).

16:00 Use of Future Grid

Speaker: Gregor von Laszewski

16:30 Magellan Project

Speaker: Susan Coghlan

17:00 VO's Working Together

Open Dicussion.

17:00 → 18:30 BOF on Production Jobs Scheduling Mechanism

Open Discussion.

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner at Chez Leon

Tuesday, 9 March

08:00 → 09:30 Documentation Improvement Report

There will be a presentation on the process, tools, and ownership plan for improving OSG documentation that resulted from the documentation alignment work that began last year. The recommendations from this project will be implemented over the next several months and the new process will provide an on-going mechanism to manage and improve our documentation.

This will be an open discussion.

08:30 → 10:00 Biology Applications Workshop

Researchers will present and exchange information about their biology applications that use distributed high throughput computing. We will discuss current and future collaborative activities between the research communities and the OSG.

08:30 Welcome and Goals

Speakers: John McGee, Piotr Sliz

08:40 A pratical approah to privacy, access, and processing for biological synchrotron experiments

Speaker: Keith Brister

09:00 Shotgun Metagenomics - TBD

Speaker: Folker Meyer

09:20 Production Computational Biology Workflow on OSG; Experience, Tools and Perspectives

Speaker: Ian Stokes Rees

09:40 Genome Center at WUSTL

Speaker: Gary Stiehr

08:30 → 12:00 US CMS Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda

08:30 US CMS Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda

09:00 → 12:00 US ATLAS Tier 2 & Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda: US ATLAS Tier 2 / Tier 3 Workshop

09:00 US ATLAS Tier 2 & Tier 3 Workshop

Please view the agenda: US ATLAS Tier 2 / Tier 3 Workshop

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor

10:15 → 12:00 Biology Applications Workshop - Continued

Researchers will present and exchange information about their biology applications that use distributed high throughput computing. We will discuss current and future collaborative activities between the research communities and the OSG.

10:15 Discriminative Learning for Protein Conformation Sampling

Speaker: Jinbo Xu

10:35 UMD - To Follow

10:55 MPI Cluster for MD Computations

11:05 Desmond: An Efficient, Scalable COde for Biomolecular Simulation

Keynote (DE Shaw Research)

11:50 Open Discussion

Discuss the value a collaboration with OSG has and/or can bring to these computing needs.

12:00 → 12:15 Group Photo Shoot, Wilson Hall, Atrium

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Industry Session and Electronic Poster Display Demonstration

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor

15:30 → 17:00 Collective VO's Workshop

An opportunity for the exchange of ideas as well as suggestions for future directions for OSG with respect to the collective VO's.

Please see below for the topics of discussion:
- How does your VO provide dynamic and ad hoc requirements to OSG, and is this process effective?
- How should OSG get engaged for sustaining your VO?
- Is your VO's interest well represented in OSG? If not, any suggestions for improvement?
- Best practices for attracting and retaining users. E.g., how to engage users of local HPC for using the grid.
- Resource discovery tools
- Tools/techniques to better allow troubleshooting and resolution of the many components of the OSG software stack
- How can we improve installation and end user documentation?
- Accounting tools
- What does "supporting a particular VO" mean for a site?
- How can a VO ensure that a particular site supports the needs of its users?
- What is the required list of software? (There are several "optional" components that are actually required to run, so
why are they optional)
- Potential funding opportunities

15:30 → 17:00 Joint US ATLAS Tier-3, US CMS Tier-3, OSG Tier-3 Support and Networking Session

This will be an opportunity to bring all groups up to date on the status and plans for collaborative and joint activities, community priorities, and needs for the near term future.

15:30 ATLAS Tier 3 Organization and Plans

Speaker: Rik Yoshida

15:40 CMS Tier 3 Organization and Plans

Speaker: Rob Snihur

15:50 Open Discussion

Compare and Contrast Efforts

16:00 ATLAS use of Virtualization for Tier 3's (ATLAS)

16:10 Open Discussion

16:20 CMS use of Hadoop

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

16:30 Open Discussion

16:40 OSG On-going Support Plans for Tier 3's

Speaker: Dan Fraser

16:50 Final Discussion

17:00 → 18:00 CDF and D0 Tours

We will be hosting a tour of CDF and D0 here at Fermilab.

18:00 → 20:00 Dell Sponsored Dinner, Rock Bottom Brewery

Wednesday, 10 March

08:30 → 08:40 Welcome

Victoria White - Acting Associate Lab Director for Computing / CIO will present the opening welcome talk.

08:40 → 09:10 Council Status

Discussion of the activies of the OSG Constortium Council.

Convener: Kent Blackburn

Panel Members:
Kent Blackburn
Lothar Bauerdick
Steve Gallo
Paul Avery
Patrick Brady
Michael Ernst

09:10 → 09:50 Production and Support

This session will cover the production and operation activities of the OSG.

Convener: Dan Fraser

Panel Members:
Rob Quick
Suchandra Thapa
Brian Bockelman

Followed by an open discussion.

09:50 → 10:30 Software and Security

The OSG software and security.

Covener: Alain Roy

Panel Members:
Mine Altunay
Igor Sfiligoi
Torre Wenaus

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall, Cafeteria, 1st Floor

11:00 → 12:15 New Research

Talk titles to follow.

11:00 To Follow

Talk title to follow.

Speaker: John McGee

11:10 To Follow

Speaker: Jones Richard

11:20 To Follow

Speaker: Gaurang Mehta

11:30 To Follow

Speaker: Steve Barnet

11:40 Open Discussion

12:15 → 12:45 Student Reports

Reports from several of the students who attended the International Summer School on Grid Computing and TeraGrid Student Programs in 2009.

Students names as follows:
Anwar Mamat
Andrew Young
Malina Kirn
Derek Weitzel
Cole Brand

Lightening Talk titles to follow.

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 → 14:15 State of the OSG

Report on current OSG organization, goals and thoughts for the future.

14:15 → 15:00 OSG Technology Group

The OSG technology group will document the current high-level and end-to-end design. Create a design road map and ongoing coordination and advice.

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor

15:30 → 16:00 Report from Europe and CERN

16:00 → 17:30 Aspects of the Future of the US National CI

17:30 → 17:35 Closeout

Thursday, 11 March

08:00 → 17:00 OSG Council Face to Face Meeting

Please view the agenda