Computing R&D Workshop 2011

4 Jul 2011, 14:00 → 7 Jul 2011, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Ferrara

Monday, 4 July

14:00 → 16:30 Introduction, SuperB Status and goals for the workshop

EVO meeting:
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MtM8Ma2i22D8De9u9sDs9t

14:00 Welcome

Speaker: Diego Bettoni (FE)

14:10 Status of SuperB

Speaker: Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)

Slides SuperB-Status-Ferrara2011.pdf

14:50 Goals of the Workshop

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:20 General Computing Requirements

17:00 Computing Resource Estimates for SuperB

Presentation of SuperB computing resource estimates based on an extrapolation from the BaBar computing model. Added 20.9.2011 (Steffen): Please note that cost numbers in the talk are incorrect (based on a typo in the spreadsheet). Please refer to the updated spreadsheet for the correct numbers.

Speaker: Dr Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

Slides Ferrara-2011-Comp-Estimates.pdf

Spreadsheet This spreadsheet has an incorrect cost estimate due to a bug that included the year in the cost. It has been superseded. SuperB_Computing_Projections

17:30 CMS Computing Resource Planning

The resource planning being done in CMS Computing is taken as an example. The experience in designing, building and running a monthly-granular computing resource spreadsheet is presented. Differences as well as common points with Super-B are highlighted and discussed.

Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (BO)

Slides 110704_SuperBComputingWs_CMSResourcePlanning_DBonacorsi.pdf

17:50 Computing Requirements and Crystal Balls

Wild guesses of what might happen in industry and SuperB computing over the next 5-10 years.

Speaker: Davide Salomoni (CNAF)

Slides ds_superb_computing.pdf

18:20 Discussion

Tuesday, 5 July

08:30 → 10:30 New CPU Architectures, GPU's and Framework (I)

EVO meeting:
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=eBele2vtv9anaeIeauIB

08:30 HEP software on Multicore: present experience and perspectives

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides VIatSuperB0711.pdf

09:30 A Parallelization Exercise

Speaker: Stefano Longo (PD)

Slides slides.pdf.pdf

09:50 Performances of some HEP applications

Speaker: Vincenzo Ciaschini (CNAF)

Slides SuperB_data.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 New CPU Architectures, GPU's and Framework (II)

11:00 Event Processing Frameworks

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides elmer_frameworks.pdf

11:20 Physics Simulations on multi- and many-core architectures

Speaker: Sebastiano Fabio Schifano (FE)

Slides schifano-SuperB.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 Machine Control System/ETD/Online

14:00 Accelerator Computing Infrastructure & Controls R&D Introduction

The SuperB Accelerator complex requires a large amount of computing tools mainly dedicated to three different purpose: implementation and maintenance of documentation and project management; beam simulation and controls; data monitors, presentation and correlation with the experiment. In the mean time those tools require identification, security, accessibility for large and international community. This is an opportunity to develop new concepts in accelerators controls and realize a new computing infrastructure. Requirements, preliminary ideas and structure design will be presented.

Speaker: Giovanni Mazzitelli (LNF)

Slides acceleratorCtrl_Ferrara_20110705.pdf

14:30 The SuperB Accelerator Control System - Plans and R&D Status

!CHAOS is a new project under development at INFN aimed at the design and validation of a new paradigm of control system for particle accelerators that goes beyond the so called standard model. The key points of the new development are the high level of abstraction of services and components, the implementation of high-performance software technologies for the continuous distribution and storage of data, a new topology allowing high scalability of services and performance, an intrinsic redundancy of components avoiding any point of failure. The talk will present the !CHAOS design concept, the preliminary results, the future research program and the plans in the perspective of SuperB project.

Speaker: Luciano Catani (ROMA2)

Slides LCatani_SupB_ControlsR&D.pdf

15:10 ETD/Online for the SuperB Detector - Plans and R&D Status

This talk will give an overview of the proposed Electronics, Trigger, Data Acquisition and Online (ETD/Online) system for the SuperB detector and the associated R&D activities. The current baseline design will allow up to 150 kTriggers/s and 75kByte event size with negligible dead time (<=1%). It builds upon lessons learned in the BaBar and LHC experiments and implements simple, fully synchronous front-ends, a scalable ROM and back-end architecture and utilizes commercial off-the-shelf components where possible.

Speaker: Dr Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

Slides Ferrara-2011-ETDO-Intro.pdf

15:50 (databases)

Speaker: Luca Tomassetti (FE)

Slides lt_superb11.pdf

16:00 Discussion

Open discussion of areas of joint interest, common R&D, etc.

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:00 Software Development Tools

17:00 Quality check tools for software developers

Speaker: Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides qa-check-tools.pdf

17:20 ALICE experience using Coverity

This talk will convey the experience of using Coverity for AliRoot software in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE). AliRoot consistently undergoes intensive development and release cycles, thus creating an increasing demand for automated high precision tools aiding developers in maintaining coding standards and ensuring code correctness. Coverity as a software solution, providing both static code analysis facilities and a centralised web interface, is actively enforced within the collaboration. The talk will start by describing the approach taken to set up Coverity and the automation process. It will also look at the use policy and the observed effects. The presentation will then explore checkers of varying impact with few examples of observed defects. In addition, examples of false positive cases will be presented with an explanation on how to model Coverity to ignore them. Thirdly, the talk will provide a critical evaluation of the application of Coverity to the AliRoot code with some considerations on the usage of automated tools in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiment software development. In conclusion, the talk will explore additional tools extensively used within ALICE for ensuring good coding standards.

Speaker: Olga Datskova (Cern)

Slides 2011-Jul-01-conferencefile-Presentation-Olga.odp 2011-Jul-01-conferencefile-Presentation-Olga.pdf

17:40 Experience in using Etics, a multi-platform and open source build and test system for big software projects

Speaker: Elisabetta Ronchieri (Cnaf)

Slides ExperienceusingETICS-v2.ppt

18:00 CMS build and integration workflows: present and future perspectives

Speaker: Giulio Eulisse (Northeastern Uni)

Slides SuperB_-_Workshop_(1).pdf

18:20 Evaluation of the Git Version Control System

Speaker: Marco Corvo (Cnrs & INFN)

Slides The_Git_system.pdf

Wednesday, 6 July

08:30 → 10:30 Distributed Computing (I)

EVO meeting:
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=eBele2vtv9anaeIeauIB

08:30 Future of distributed data management systems

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

Slides OverviewDM.pptx

08:55 Future of Grid parallel exploitation, Grid MPI

Parallelism support in the current grid middleware (gLite) and in the forthcoming EMI middleware will be overviewed, with special focus on the new features (support of the Wholenodes reservation, CPU affinity and hybrid MPI-openMP programming). Eventually I will shortly present the experience of parallel clusters installed in grid and supporting a preliminary version of these new features.

Speaker: Roberto Alfieri (PR)

Slides gridmpi_superb_20110706.pdf

09:20 Future of Grid resource exploitation systems

Speaker: Ricardo Graciani (Barcellona University)

Slides Grid_resource_exploitation.pdf

09:45 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Distributed Computing (II)

11:00 LHC current and future proposals

In this talk we'll present the current solutions adopted for the LHC Computing and their evolutions, with a final overview of a possible future scenario of the HEP Computing Models and tools.

Speaker: Alessandro De Salvo (ROMA1)

Slides LHC_Computing_-_SuperB_-_DeSalvo_-_20110706.ppt

11:25 Evolution of the distributed computing model - The case of CMS

The presentation starts from the description of how the CMS experiment is changing its approach in the exploitation of distributed resources and concludes with thoughts on possible evolutions for the future of HEP experiments.

Speaker: Claudio Grandi (BO)

Slides Workshop-superB-110706.ppt

11:50 Middleware Evolution in EMI

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides emi.pdf

12:15 Discussion

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 Storage (I)

14:00 SuperB R&D on going on storage and data access

Speaker: Dr Silvio Pardi (INFN Napoli)

Slides FERRARA-01.pptx

14:25 The Storage @ INFN Tier1: status and perspective

Speaker: Luca Dell'agnello (CNAF)

Slides lda-superb-20110705.pdf

14:50 Distributed Tier1: NDGF experience and future developments

Speaker: Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)

Slides 20110706-bologna.pdf bologna.ps

15:15 EMI Storage Evolution

Speaker: Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides 20110706-superb-emi-data-static.pdf 20110706-superb-emi-data-static.pptx

15:40 HDFS and Remote Xrootd in a CMS Tier2

Speaker: Dr Brian Bockelman

Slides HDFS_SuperB.pdf

16:05 Discussion

Speaker: All

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:15 Storage (II)

17:00 DataManagement in LHC experiments

Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (BO)

Slides 110706_SuperBComputingWs_LHCDataMgmt_DBonacorsi.pdf

17:25 Experience and future prospects of Lustre at a large Tier 2 site

Speaker: Alex Martin (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides superb-workshop.ppt

17:50 Discussion

Speaker: All

Thursday, 7 July

08:30 → 10:30 R&D support platforms & Action Items Discussion

EVO meeting:
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MIM9Ms2D2nDDDv9v9tDa9I

08:30 Planning of SuperB Computing Infrastructure in Southern Italy

Speaker: Guido Russo (NA)

Slides progetto_PON_Re_Ca_S_.pptx progetto_PON_Re_Ca_S_.pptx

08:50 Action Items from R&D on new computing architectures

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides SuperB2011Summary.pptx

09:20 Summary from Accelerator Controls / ETD/Online Session and Action Items

Speaker: Dr Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

Slides Ferrara-CompRD-11-Closeout.pdf

09:30 Action Items on Software Development Tools

Speaker: Mr Marco Corvo (PD)

Slides Software_development_tools_summary.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Action Item discussion and Closeout

11:00 Action items on Distributed Computing

Speaker: Armando Fella (PI)

Slides work_proposals.pdf

11:30 Action Items on Storage

Speaker: Dr Silvio Pardi (NA)

Slides FERRARA-02.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch