Joint DOE/NSF Review of U.S. LHC Software and Computing
January 16-17, 2003 at LBNL

 

Purpose:

Independent peer review of the U.S. LHC Software and Computing projects to continue systematic oversight of the U.S. LHC Research Program -- see Charge

Agenda Logistics Attendees Documentation Report

Agenda: (email suggestions/corrections to Bakul Banerjee)

The meeting will be held at Preserverance Hall (in the LBNL Cafeteria Building) on both days. Copies of the slides presented will be available for the meeting and also be made available electrobnically by linking to this page.

Day 1, Thursday January 16, 2003, Location: Preserverance Hall
Start of Meeting 1:30 pm Pacific Time (other time zones)

Time Title Speaker Duration
1:15 PM Video Setup    
1:30 PM Executive Session (closed) Panel 30'
2:00 PM CMS status and US CMS Research Program Dan Green 15'+5'
2:20 PM S&C Project overview LATBauerdick 35'+5'
3:00 PM CCS overview David Stickland 25'+5'
 
3:30 PM
 		  
Coffee break
 		    
10'
 
3:40 PM CAS Overview Ian Fisk 25'+5'
4:10 PM Facilities and Fabrics R&D Michael Ernst 20'+5'
4:35 PM Distributed Production and Grid Integration Greg Graham 20'+5'
5:00 PM Discussion and questions posed to CMS 30'  
5:30 PM Adjourn  

 

Day 2, Friday January 17, 2003, Location: Preserverence
Start of Meeting 8:30 am Pacific Time (other time zones))

Time Session Duration
8:15 AM Video Setup
8:30 AM CMS breakout sessions 150'
11:00 AM Discussion and committee exec session 90'
12:30 PM Lunch 60'
1:30 PM CMS answers to questions 30'
2:00 PM Committee exec session (writing) 90'
3:30 PM CMS closeout 90'

 

Agenda and Topics for CMS Breakout Sessions

Core Application Software and User Analysis
Topics
Use of software and facilities by US physicists: Report from DAQ TDR (Jim Branson, UCSD)
preparations for Data Challenges, new Object Persistency, Architecture developments, GEANT4 Validation and Detector Description Database (Ian Fisk, UCSD and David Stickland, Princeton)
NSF ITR proposal "Globally Enabled Analysis Communities" (Ruth Pordes, Fermilab)
R&D for Physics Analysis on the Grid (Julian Bunn, Caltech)
 
Fabrics, Testbeds and Distributed Production Grids
Topics
Overview: Approach to Protyping, Integration, Production Services (Rick Cavanaugh, U.Florida)
Distributed Production and SW Integration (Greg Graham, Fermilab)
Fabric Component R&D: Storage and Data Access, Networks and Throughput, Farms, etc (Michael Ernst, Fermilab)
Facility Operations and Upgrades, Procurements (Hans Wenzel, Fermilab)
 
Project Management, Relationship to External Entities
Topics
Project Office Report
other topics TBD

 

Project Documentation:

Project Documents

Project Work Breakdown Structure in XProject Format:

Memoranda of Understanding:
  • Proposed MOU between US CMS and the iVDGL.
  • Other MOUs and SOWs here.
NSF proposals: FY02 Fourth (Quartly Report) (most recent)
Requirements and Plans Scope and Organization of CMS-CPT document
Planning for 5% Data Challenge DC04 document
LCG Grid Use Cases document
LCG Regional Center Catagory and Services Definition document
CMS Grid Implementation Plan - 2002 document
IGUANA Plans for 2002
Process Document
 CMS Software Quality document
Facilities

USCMSSC User Facility Hardware Procurements for FY2002 (pdf)
USCMSSC Distributed Storage Management document
Cluster File Systems and Object Storage Devices document
USCMS Facilities R&D Status document

Production

The Spring 2002 DAQ TDR production – CMS NOTE 2002/034 (pdf)
US CMS Integration Grid Testbed
Core Application Software

LCG Detector Description and Material Description RTAG Draft 3.0 (pdf)
ROOT-based Object Persistency: ROOT I/O (pdf)
New Persistency RTAG Final Report
Production Tools Review Report (pdf)
IGUANA User Guide
Demonstration Demonstration at SC2002, including MonaLisa: http://cil.cern.ch:8080/MONALISA/ and Clarens http://clarens.sourceforge.net/
Tutorial CMS Software Tutorial, May 2002: http://heppc16.ucsd.edu/cms_tutorial/agenda.html

Previous DOE/NSF Reviews

DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting June 2002
DOE/NSF Review November 2001 Report
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting May 2001
DOE/NSF Review November 2000

Previous SCOP Reviews

SCOP Review October 2002 Report
SCOP Review October 2001
SCOP Review May 2001
SCOP Review October 2000 Report

   
Additional Information

Facilities
Online dCache Home: http://gyoza7.fnal.gov:443/
Ganglia Cluster/FBSNG: http://gyoza8.fnal.gov/
A white paper - Logical Volume Manager (pdf)
Production:
CMS Production at Fermilab: http://computing.fnal.gov/cms/Monitor/cms_production.html
USCMS Grid Test bed: http://grid.fnal.gov/test_beds/USCMSTestBed.htm
Information on CMS Grid set up: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~adesmet/cms_notes.html
Tiger Team Action for Grid Test bed: http://www.uscms.org/s&c/testbed/Tiger/

 

Committee Members:

Deb Agarwal LBNL DAAgarwal@lbl.gov
Dominique Boutigny LAPP boutigny@in2p3.fr
Joel Butler FNAL butler@fnal.gov
Richard Dubois SLAC richard@slac.stanford.edu
Tobias Haas DESY Tobias.Haas@desy.de
Nick Hadley U Maryland njhadley@physics.umd.edu
Barbara Jacak SUNY jacak@nuclear.physics.sunysb.edu
Albert Lazzarini Caltech lazz@ligo.caltech.edu
Cathy Newman-Holmes FNAL cath@fnal.gov
Jim Smith U Colo James.Smith@Colorado.EDU
Chip Watson TJNAF chip.watson@jlab.org
Jon Urheim U Minn urheim@hep.umn.edu


CMS Attendees

Paul Avery U. Florida GriPhyN and iVDGL PI avery@phys.ufl.edu
Bakul Banerjee Fermilab US CMS S&C Project Engineer bakulb@fnal.gov
LAT Bauerdick Fermilab US CMS S&C Project Manager bauerdick@fnal.gov
Jim Branson UCSD US CMS Physics Coordinator branson@ucsd.edu
Julian Bunn Caltech Grid Integration Analysis, Caltech Tier-2 lead julian@cacr.caltech.edu
Rick Cavanaugh U. Florida US CMS Testbed Coordinator, GriPhyN CMS cavanaug@phys.ufl.edu
Michael Ernst Fermilab US CMS Fabrics Component R&D ernst@fnal.gov
Greg Graham Fermilab US CMS Project Lead Distributed Production ggraham@fnal.gov
Dan Green Fermilab US CMS Research Program Manager dgreen@fnal.gov
Ian Fisk (by video) UCSD US CMS S&C Core Application Software Level2 Project Manager ifisk@physics.ucsd.edu
Hugh Montgomery Fermilab Fermilab Research Director, US CMS S&C PMG Chair michelle@fnal.gov/mont@fnal.gov
Harvey Newman Caltech US CMS Collaboration Board Chair, PPDG PI newman@hep.caltech.edu
Ruth Pordes Fermilab Fermilab Computing Division Projects Coordinator, PPDG Project Manager Ruth@fnal.gov
David Stickland Princeton CMS Computing and Core Software Project Manager David.Stickland@cern.ch
Hans Wenzel Fermilab Project Lead Tier-1 Facilities wenzel@fnal.gov
Vicky White (by video) Fermilab Fermilab Computing Division Head white@fnal.gov

Logistics

All sessions will take place at LBNL in Preserverence Hall, rooms for the Break-out Sessions will be announced seperately. Video on VRVS is in the MARS virtual room.

Please contact Anna Smith for assistance with general logistics at LBNL. She has the dinner menu and other information. Her address is amsmith@lbl.gov, LBNL, MS70R0319, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720-81 Fax: 510-486-4794, Phone: 510-486-6921

 

Last updated
January 9, 2003 by LATBauerdick.


January 7, 2003 by Bakul Banerjee.