Program for the Second Large Scale
Cluster Computing Workshop

Monday 21st October

08:30-09:30   Registration - Wilson Hall Atrium South End

09:00  Opening Session - Chaired by Mark Kaletka (FNAL) 

 Opening - Goals of this Second Workshop
                  - Alan Silverman (CERN) and Mark Kaletka (FNAL)
                    (PPT) (PDF)
09:15  Fermi Welcome - Matthias Kasemann (FNAL)
           (PDF)

                                       Morning Session - Theme - Practical Experience

09:45  BaBar Computing - Stephen Gowdy (SLAC)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

10:15  Coffee Break

10:30  CDF for Run II - Frank Wuerthwein (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

11:00  D0 and SAM for Run II - Lee Lueking (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PDF)

11:30  Managing a mature white box cluster at CERN - Tim Smith (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

12:30  Lunch Break


                          Afternoon Session Part 1 - Theme - Component Technology

13:00  University Multidisciplinary Scientific Computing:  Experience and Plans
                       - Alan Tackett (Vanderbilt University)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

13:30  PASTA review (technology for the LHC era) - Michael Ernst, FNAL
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

14:30  Building a Computer Centre - Tony Cass (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

15:00  CPU Technology Overview - John Gordon (RAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

15:30  Tier 1A Storage Procurement - John Gordon (RAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

16:00  Coffee Break

                              Afternoon Session Part 2 - Theme - Grid Technology

16:30  A Pre-Production Update on the NSF TeraGrid - Remy Evard (ANL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

17:00  Grid/Fabric interaction discussion - led by Bernd Panzer Steindel (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

17:30  Close for the Day



Tuesday 22nd October


                              Morning Session Part 1 - Theme - Cluster Technology

09:00  European DataGrid Fabric Management - Olof Barring (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

10:00  Evaluation of a MOSIX cluster as a group analysis facility at CDF - Andreas Korn (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PDF)

10:30  Coffee Break

                               Morning Session Part 2 - Theme -  Practical Experience

11:00  The CMS Tier 1 computing center at Fermilab - Hans Wenzel (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

11:30   FBSNG and Disk Farm - parts of large cluster infrastructure - Igor Mandrichenko (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

12:00   Data Challenges and Fabric Architecture - Bernd Panzer Steindel (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)


12:30  Lunch Break


                                      Afternoon Session Theme - Practical Experience

13:30  FNAL Computer Centre - Don Petravick (FNAL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

14:00  European DataGrid Testbed Experience - Markus Schulz (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

14:30   RHIC Computing Facility - Shigeki Misawa (BNL)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

15:00  The GridKa Installation for HEP Computing - Dr. Holger Marten (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

15:30  Coffee Break
                                               Closing Session Theme - Summaries

16:00  Summary of Technology sessions - John Gordon (RAL)
           (PPT) (PDF)

16:30  Summary of Practical Experience sessions - Ruth Pordes (FNAL)
           (PPT) (PDF)

17:00  Official Closing of Workshop
           What have we achieved or discovered, if anything?
           Should we hold number 3 in the series, when, where, what theme?

17:30  Close of the Workshop


TBD    Using free desktop cycles - Frederic Hemmer (CERN)
           (Abstract) (PPT) (PDF)

 

Last Updated by MOK, 31 Oct 2002