Name: SuperB Computing R&D Workshop
Start: 2010-03-09T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-03-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

SuperB Computing R&D Workshop

from Tuesday, March 9, 2010 (2:00 PM) to Friday, March 12, 2010 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 8, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Goals of the workshop - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

2:50 PM The BaBar computing model and what we are likely to preserve in SuperB - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

3:20 PM SuperB and its computing requirements - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

3:50 PM Discussion
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Introduction and goals - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

5:15 PM Modern CPU architectures: Challenges and opportunities for HEP - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

6:15 PM Experience and perspective in parallelization of data analysis (including experience from BaBar and future plan) - Alfio Lazzaro (MI)

6:45 PM Discussion
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Coding for the GPU: highlights and application examples - Leone Battista Bosi (PG)

9:00 AM Exploiting concurrency to speed-up ROOT data analysis: caching, PROOF and multi-threading - Gerry Ganis

9:30 AM Multi-level Parallel fit algorithms using MPI and CUDA - Karen Tomko

9:50 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Introduction and goals - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

11:15 AM Framework evolution: status and outlook - Pere Mato (CERN)

11:45 AM Discussion
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Introduction and goals - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

2:45 PM Persistency in HEP applications: current models and future outlook - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

3:15 PM The SciDB approach and its applicability to HEP computing - K.-T. Lim

3:55 PM Discussion
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Introduction and goals - Andrea Di Simone (RM2) Roberto Stroili (Universita' di Padova and INFN) Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

5:20 PM Release building and validation at LHC - Emil Obreshkov (CERN)

5:50 PM BaBar Online-Offline - Some Thoughts - Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

6:05 PM CMS Online Software, Infrastructure Overview - Luciano Orsini (CERN)

6:35 PM Discussion
8:30 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday, March 11, 2010
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Introduction, goals and an initial question - I Gaponenko (SLAC)

8:45 AM Databases in BABAR - I. Gaponenko

9:15 AM Databases in LHC experiments: usage and lessons learned - A Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:00 AM Discussion
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Introduction and goals - Armando Fella (CNAF) Eleonora Luppi (Ferrara University & INFN)

2:40 PM Distributed Computing for HEP - present and future - Claudio Grandi (INFN-Bologna)

3:10 PM Middleware development in the EGI era - F. Giacomini (INFN - CNAF)

3:30 PM Multithread and MPI usage in GRID - R. Alfieri (Parma University & INFN)

3:50 PM Grid/Cloud computing evolution - Salomoni, Davide (INFN - CNAF)

4:10 PM Discussion
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Introduction and goals - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

5:40 PM Critical aspects of user interaction with the analysis environment - Ulrik Egede (Imperial College (London))

6:10 PM Visualizations and interfaces for end users - Mat Bellis

6:40 PM Discussion
Friday, March 12, 2010
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Introduction and Goals - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

8:40 AM Overview and outlook of existing data access solutions - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

9:10 AM Research, Development and Scientific Application of Gfarm File System - Masahiro Tanaka

9:35 AM Overview of the new technologies and evolution of storage systems for handling large volume of data - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

10:05 AM Simulating storage system performance: a useful approach for SuperB ? - Moreno Marzolla (Bologna University)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Discussion
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM R&D proposal from the sessions "Impact of new CPU architectures, software architectures and frameworks" - Peter Elmer (Princeton Univ.) Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

2:30 PM R&D proposal from the session "Code development: languages, tools, standards and QA" - Andrea Di Simone (RM2) Roberto Stroili (Universita' di Padova and INFN) Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

2:45 PM R&D proposal from the session "Persistence, data handling models and databases" - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Sasha Vanyashin (CERN)

3:05 PM R&D proposal from the session "Distributed Computing" - Armando Fella (CNAF) Eleonora Luppi (Ferrara University & INFN)

3:25 PM R&D proposal from the session "User tools and interfaces" - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

3:45 PM R&D proposal from the session "Performance and efficiency of large data storage" - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

4:05 PM Discussion