OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting

US/Central
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
Description
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!

Fermilab/Remote Operations Center
    • Security and Virtual Organization Workshop Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

      • 1
        Review Activities since November Workshop
        Speakers: Mike Helm, Dr Mine Altunay (FNAL)
      • 2
        Update on plans and status of LIGO and CILOGON work
        Speakers: Jim Basney, Scott Koranda
      • 3
        Discuss outcome of "VO 5 top Concerns"
    • US CMS Tier 2 Workshop Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      Please view the agenda at :US CMS Tier 2 Workshop

      agenda
      • 4
        US CMS Tier 2 Workshop Agenda
    • US ATLAS Tier 2 Tier 3 Workshop Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

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

    • 10:30
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • Security and Virtual Organization Workshop - Continued Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

      • 6
        To Follow
        Speaker: Anand Padmanabhan
      • 7
        More usable Desktop Certificate Management Tools
        Speaker: Gabriel Ghinta
      • 8
        Discuss outcome of "VO top 5 concens"
    • 12:00
      Lunch Break
    • Virtualization and Cloud Computing Workshop Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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).

      • 9
        Introduction and Open Nebula
        Speaker: Dr Sebastien Goasguen (Clemson University)
      • 10
        CERN VM
        Speaker: Predrag Buncic
      • 11
        Nimbus Status
        Speaker: Kate Keahey
      • 12
        Condor and VM's
        Speaker: Jamie Frey
      • 13
        STAR
        Speaker: James Lauret
      • 14
        US ATLAS Plans and Thinking
        Speaker: Yushu Yao
      • 15
        US CMS Plans and Thinking
        Speakers: Andrew Melo, Dave Evans
      • 16
        Discussion of VO Commonalities
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • Virtualization and Cloud Computing Workshop Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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).

      • 17
        Use of Future Grid
        Speaker: Gregor von Laszewski
      • 18
        Magellan Project
        Speaker: Susan Coghlan
      • 19
        VO's Working Together
        Open Dicussion.
    • BOF on Production Jobs Scheduling Mechanism Wilson Hall, West Wing, (10th Floor Northwest)

      Wilson Hall, West Wing, (10th Floor Northwest)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      Open Discussion.

    • 18:30
      Dinner at Chez Leon
    • Documentation Improvement Report Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Wilson Hall, Comitium, 2nd Floor - South East)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

    • Biology Applications Workshop Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

      • 20
        Welcome and Goals
        Speakers: John McGee, Piotr Sliz
      • 21
        A pratical approah to privacy, access, and processing for biological synchrotron experiments
        Speaker: Keith Brister
      • 22
        Shotgun Metagenomics - TBD
        Speaker: Folker Meyer
      • 23
        Production Computational Biology Workflow on OSG; Experience, Tools and Perspectives
        Speaker: Ian Stokes Rees
      • 24
        Genome Center at WUSTL
        Speaker: Gary Stiehr
    • US CMS Tier 3 Workshop Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      Please view the agenda

      • 25
        US CMS Tier 3 Workshop
        Please view the agenda
    • US ATLAS Tier 2 & Tier 3 Workshop Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

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

    • 10:00
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • Biology Applications Workshop - Continued Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

      • 27
        Discriminative Learning for Protein Conformation Sampling
        Speaker: Jinbo Xu
      • 28
        UMD - To Follow
      • 29
        MPI Cluster for MD Computations
      • 30
        Desmond: An Efficient, Scalable COde for Biomolecular Simulation
        Keynote (DE Shaw Research)
      • 31
        Open Discussion
        Discuss the value a collaboration with OSG has and/or can bring to these computing needs.
    • 12:00
      Group Photo Shoot, Wilson Hall, Atrium
    • 12:15
      Lunch Break
    • Industry Session and Electronic Poster Display Demonstration Wilson Hall, Atrium, 1st Floor

      Wilson Hall, Atrium, 1st Floor

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • Collective VO's Workshop Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Wilson Hall, Racetrack (7th Floor Crossover)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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

    • Joint US ATLAS Tier-3, US CMS Tier-3, OSG Tier-3 Support and Networking Session Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

      • 32
        ATLAS Tier 3 Organization and Plans
        Speaker: Rik Yoshida
      • 33
        CMS Tier 3 Organization and Plans
        Speaker: Rob Snihur
      • 34
        Open Discussion
        Compare and Contrast Efforts
      • 35
        ATLAS use of Virtualization for Tier 3's (ATLAS)
      • 36
        Open Discussion
      • 37
        CMS use of Hadoop
        Speaker: Mr Brian Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
      • 38
        Open Discussion
      • 39
        OSG On-going Support Plans for Tier 3's
        Speaker: Dan Fraser
      • 40
        Final Discussion
    • 17:00
      CDF and D0 Tours

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

    • 18:00
      Dell Sponsored Dinner, Rock Bottom Brewery
    • Welcome Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

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

    • Council Status Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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

    • Production and Support Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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.

    • Software and Security Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Wilson Hall, One West (1st Floor, West side)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      The OSG software and security.

      Covener: Alain Roy

      Panel Members:
      Mine Altunay
      Igor Sfiligoi
      Torre Wenaus

    • 10:30
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall, Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • New Research

      Talk titles to follow.

      • 41
        To Follow
        Talk title to follow.
        Speaker: John McGee
      • 42
        To Follow Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

        Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
        Speaker: Jones Richard
      • 43
        To Follow Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

        Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
        Speaker: Gaurang Mehta
      • 44
        To Follow
        Speaker: Steve Barnet
      • 45
        Open Discussion Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

        Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

        Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
    • Student Reports Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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
      Lunch Break
    • State of the OSG Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

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

    • OSG Technology Group Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      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
      Coffee Break, Wilson Hall Cafeteria, 1st Floor
    • Report from Europe and CERN Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
    • Aspects of the Future of the US National CI Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL
    • Closeout
    • OSG Council Face to Face Meeting Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Wilson Hall, One North (North West)

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

      Kirk and Pine Road Batavia, IL

      Please view the agenda