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 9 March 2010 (14:00) to Friday 12 March 2010 (18:00)

Monday 8 March 2010
Tuesday 9 March 2010
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Goals of the workshop - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

14:50 The BaBar computing model and what we are likely to preserve in SuperB - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

15:20 SuperB and its computing requirements - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

15:50 Discussion
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Introduction and goals - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

17:15 Modern CPU architectures: Challenges and opportunities for HEP - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

18:15 Experience and perspective in parallelization of data analysis (including experience from BaBar and future plan) - Alfio Lazzaro (MI)

18:45 Discussion
Wednesday 10 March 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Coding for the GPU: highlights and application examples - Leone Battista Bosi (PG)

09:00 Exploiting concurrency to speed-up ROOT data analysis: caching, PROOF and multi-threading - Gerry Ganis

09:30 Multi-level Parallel fit algorithms using MPI and CUDA - Karen Tomko

09:50 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

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

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

11:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Introduction and goals - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

14:45 Persistency in HEP applications: current models and future outlook - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

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

15:55 Discussion
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:15
Contributions

17:00 Introduction and goals - Andrea Di Simone (RM2) Roberto Stroili (Universita' di Padova and INFN) Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

17:20 Release building and validation at LHC - Emil Obreshkov (CERN)

17:50 BaBar Online-Offline - Some Thoughts - Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

18:05 CMS Online Software, Infrastructure Overview - Luciano Orsini (CERN)

18:35 Discussion
20:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Thursday 11 March 2010
08:30
08:30 - 11:00
Contributions

08:30 Introduction, goals and an initial question - I Gaponenko (SLAC)

08:45 Databases in BABAR - I. Gaponenko

09:15 Databases in LHC experiments: usage and lessons learned - A Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory)

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

11:30

11:30 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 Introduction and goals - Armando Fella (CNAF) Eleonora Luppi (Ferrara University & INFN)

14:40 Distributed Computing for HEP - present and future - Claudio Grandi (INFN-Bologna)

15:10 Middleware development in the EGI era - F. Giacomini (INFN - CNAF)

15:30 Multithread and MPI usage in GRID - R. Alfieri (Parma University & INFN)

15:50 Grid/Cloud computing evolution - Salomoni, Davide (INFN - CNAF)

16:10 Discussion
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Introduction and goals - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

17:40 Critical aspects of user interaction with the analysis environment - Ulrik Egede (Imperial College (London))

18:10 Visualizations and interfaces for end users - Mat Bellis

18:40 Discussion
Friday 12 March 2010
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Introduction and Goals - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

08:40 Overview and outlook of existing data access solutions - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

09:10 Research, Development and Scientific Application of Gfarm File System - Masahiro Tanaka

09:35 Overview of the new technologies and evolution of storage systems for handling large volume of data - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

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

11:00 Discussion
12:00

12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Contributions

14:00 R&D proposal from the sessions "Impact of new CPU architectures, software architectures and frameworks" - Peter Elmer (Princeton Univ.) Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

14:30 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)

14:45 R&D proposal from the session "Persistence, data handling models and databases" - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Sasha Vanyashin (CERN)

15:05 R&D proposal from the session "Distributed Computing" - Armando Fella (CNAF) Eleonora Luppi (Ferrara University & INFN)

15:25 R&D proposal from the session "User tools and interfaces" - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

15:45 R&D proposal from the session "Performance and efficiency of large data storage" - Fabrizio Furano (CERN) Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

16:05 Discussion

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