GridPP 26th Collaboration Meeting
and GridPP Storage Meeting
University of Sussex 29 - 31 March 2011
Map and TravelSponsored by: Dell
Location: FULTON BUILDING Lecture Theatre A .
Monday 28th March
PMB F2F Meeting (PMB members only) - **Langfords Hotel**
| 13:30-15:00 | GridPP Project Management Board Face-to-Face Meeting |
| 15:00-15:15 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 15:15-17:00 | PMB F2F Meeting Continued... |
Tuesday 29th March
| 08:30 | Coach leaves Langfords Hotel |
| 09:15-10:45 | PMB/Ops Team Joint Meeting (PMB, Tier-2 Managers and Ops-team members) Fulton 104 Seminar Room - Chair: Steve Lloyd |
| 10:30-11:00 | Arrive - Coffee and Registration in the Fulton Building Foyer |
| Session-1: Opening Session - (Chair: Antonella De Santo) | |
| 11:00-11:05 | Welcome - Professor Marlin (PVC International, University of Sussex) |
| 11:05-11:40 | Efficient and/or Effective? - Dave Britton |
| 11:40-12:55 | 'ATLAS: No byte left unturned...' - Graeme Stewart |
| 12:55-14:00 | Lunch in BRAMBER HOUSE, Conference Centre 2nd Floor, (No 13 on Campus Map) |
| Session-2: The Experiments' View - (Chair: Roger Jones) | |
| 14:00-14:20 | LHCb - Raja Nandakumar |
| 14:20-14:40 | CMS status and 2011 plans - Simon Metson |
| 14:40-15:00 | ALICE and the Grid: an efficient looking glass? - Lee Barnby |
| 15:00-15:15 | Landslide modeling with LCG tools - Mike Wallace |
| 15:15-15:30 | Other Experiments – Healthy and Efficient? - Glenn Patrick |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| Session-3: Site Performance - Discussion Session - (Chair: Tony Doyle) | |
| 16:00-16:25 | GridPP4 - Pete Gronbech |
| 16:25-17:00 | Tier-2 Algorithm Discussion - Led by Steve Lloyd |
| 17:00-17:40 | Tweaking Site Storage - Led by Wahid Bhimji |
| 17:40-17:55 | Dell - George Jones and Roger Goff |
| 17:55-18:00 | Logistics |
| 18:00 | Coach leaves for the Langfords Hotel |
| 19:00- | Collaboration Dinner at Alfresco. Sponsored by Dell |
Wednesday 30th March
Fulton Lecture Theatre A
| 08:30 | Coach leaves Langfords Hotel |
| Session-4: Tier-2 Reports (Chair: Pete Gronbech) | |
| 09:15-09:35 | London - Duncan Rand |
| 09:35-09:55 | SouthGrid - Ewan MacMahon |
| 09:55-10:15 | ScotGrid - Mark Mitchell (Keynote Presentation) |
| 10:15-10:35 | NorthGrid - Alessanda Forti |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee |
| Session-5: Deployment, Support and Operational Efficiency - Discussion Session | |
| 11:00-11:40 | Deployment Efficiency Issues - Led by Jeremy Coles |
| 11:40-12:15 | Efficient Support - Led by John Kewley |
| 12:15-13:00 | Data Transfer Efficiency - Led by Jens Jensen |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch in BRAMBER HOUSE, Conference Centre 2nd Floor, (No 13 on Campus Map) |
| Session-6: Chasing Efficiency: Vision and Reality - (Chair - Steve Lloyd) | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Visions and realities of the Tier-1 - Andrew Sansum |
| 14:45-15:30 | Discussion: Visions and realities for GridPP - Graeme Stewart (ATLAS), Simon Metson (CMS), Stuart Purdie, Jens Jensen | 15:30-15:45 | Network Vision - Robin Tasker |
| 15:45 | END OF MAIN MEETING |
| Storage Meeting Hardware/Technology Session (Part 1) | |
| Hardware optimisation: servers, worker nodes and networks | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Storage Technology Update - Roger Goff |
| 16:30-16:45 | Plans for Disk Server tests at Lancaster - Matt Doidge | 16:45-17:15 | Discussion |
Thursday 31st March
GridPP Storage Meeting - **Langfords Hotel** (Cedar Room)
| Storage Monitoring - What do we have and what would we like | |
| 9:00-9:15 | New DPM Availability and Performance Monitoring - Wahid Bhimji |
| 9:15-9:30 | Performance Monitoring - Alessandra Forti |
| 9:30-9:45 | Discussion |
| Middleware status and optimisation and future | |
| 9:45-10:00 | DPM Tuning Sam Skipsey |
| 10:00-10:15 | DPM Stressing Wahid Bhimji |
| 10:15-10:45 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| Middleware status and optimisation and future | |
| 10:45-11:00 | DPM RoadMap - Wahid Bhimji |
| 11:00-11:15 | Lustre/Storm - Chris Walker |
| 11:15-11:30 | dCache - Brian Davies |
| 11:30-11:45 | Xrootd (+DPM redux)(+ EOS)> - Wahid Bhimji |
| 11:45-12:00 | Exotics: ceph, Hadoop, NFS4.1 Sam Skipsey |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| Hardware Session Part 2: Procurements and performance | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Recent Purchases Chair: Brian Davies |
| 14:00-14:30 | Hardware PerformanceChair: Brian Davies |
| 14:30-15:00 | Network Performance/ Tests - Sam Skipsey |
| The future | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Deliverables Jens |
| 15:45 - Depart |
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