Joint DOE/NSF Review of U.S. LHC Software and Computing
January 13-16 at Fermilab

 


Charge to the Review Committee, Questions to US CMS

Report on the Joint DOE/NSF Review of U.S. LHC Computing

Agenda Logistics Attendees
Documentation

Agenda: (email suggestions/corrections to Mark Leininger)

Day 1, Plenary Session, Tuesday January 13, 2004, Location: 1West
Video Streaming available in 1West.

Start of Meeting 8:30am CST (other time zones)

Time Title Speaker Duration
8:00 AM
Video Setup    
8:30 AM
Executive Session (closed, in WH1E) Panel 30'
9:00 AM
U.S. CMS Research Program [slides] Dan Green 25'+5'
9:30 AM U.S. CMS S&C overview [slides] LATBauerdick 60'+10'
10:40 AM
 Coffee

 20'
11:00 AM
CMS Software Overview [slides]
David Stickland
35'+5'
11:40 AM
CAS Overview [slides]
Bob Clare
40'+10'
12:30 PM
Lunch
  60'
1:30 PM UF Overview [slides]
Ian Fisk
40'+10'
2:20 PM Grid2003 [slides] Ruth Pordes 25'+5'
2:50 PM Coffee   10'
3:00 PM Parallel Sessions

150'
5:30 PM Executive Session (closed, in WH1E) Panel 30'
6:00 PM Adjourn    


Day 2, Wednesday, January 14. Location: 1 West
Start of Meeting 8:30 am CST (other time zones)
)

Time Session Duration
8:45 AM Video Setup
9:00 AM CMS answers to questions 120'
11:00 AM Discussion and committee exec session (WH1E)
90'
12:30 PM Lunch 60'
1:30 PM Committee exec session (writing, in WH1E)
120'
3:30 PM CMS closeout 90'
6:30 PM
Dinner at Chez Leon

 

Parallel Sessions

Core Application Software and User Analysis
Location: 7X (VRVS is in the Forest virtual room)
Topics 
Robert Clare
David Stickland
Harvey Newman [slides]
 
 
Fabrics, Testbeds and Distributed Production Grids
Location: Curia II
Topics
Ian Fisk [slides]
Greg Graham [slides]
Michael Ernst,[slides]
 
 
Project Management, Relationship to External Entities
Location: 1 North
Topics
LATBauerdick, Dan Green, Mark Leininger [slides], Vick White



 
Logistics

The plenary sessions will take place at Fermilab in Wilson Hall, in the 1W conference room.

Dinner Wednesday at 7pm at Chez Leon.

Please contact Michelle Gleason at 630 840 8062 for assistance with logistics.



Attendees

 

Committee Members:

Deb Agarwal, LBNL DAAgarwal@lbl.gov
Richard Dubois, SLAC richard@slac.stanford.edu
Steve Gowdy gowdy@slac.stanford.edu
Tobias Haas, DESY Tobias.Haas@desy.de
Nick Hadley, U Maryland njhadley@physics.umd.edu
Patty McBride, Fermilab mcbride@fnal.gov
Albert Lazzarini, Caltech lazz@ligo.caltech.edu
Cathy Newman-Holmes, Fermilab cath@fnal.gov
Paul Sheldon, Vanderbilt Paul.Sheldon@Vanderbilt.edu
Chip Watson, TJNAF chip.watson@jlab.org
Jon Urheim, U Minn urheim@hep.umn.edu


CMS Attendees and Speakers:

Paul Avery U. Florida GriPhyN and iVDGL PI avery@phys.ufl.edu
LAT Bauerdick Fermilab US CMS S&C Project Manager bauerdick@fnal.gov
Julian Bunn Caltech Grid Integration Analysis, Caltech Tier-2 lead julian@cacr.caltech.edu
Robert
Clare
UC Riverside
US CMS S&C
CAS Level2
Project
Manager
robert.clare@ucr.edu
Michael Ernst Fermilab US CMS Tier-1 Facility Manager ernst@fnal.gov
Greg Graham Fermilab US CMS Project Lead Distributed Applications ggraham@fnal.gov
Dan Green Fermilab US CMS Research Program Manager dgreen@fnal.gov
Ian Fisk Fermilab US CMS S&C User Facilities Level2 Project Manager ifisk@fnal.gov
Mark Leininger Fermilab US CMS S&C Project Engineer markl@fnal.gov
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
Vicky White Fermilab Fermilab Computing Division Head white@fnal.gov





Documents

Project Documents

Glossary of Acronyms used in talks...

Software and Computing Work Breakdown Structure WBS

Revised USCMS S&C Management Plan (draft) [pdf]

USCMS S&C Status Reports FY03 Q3/4 [pdf], FY03 Q1/2 [pdf]

Answers to previous recommendations (given at the DOE/NSF Status Meeting July 2003 [pdf])

Report of recent SCOP review January 2004 [pdf]

Open Science Grid White Paper pdf

US Position on LHC Computing [pdf] given by the funding agencies to the Computing Resources and Review Board

LCG Architectural Blueprint for Distributed Analysis (ARDA) report pdf

Memoranda of Understanding:

  • [MOU] between US CMS and the iVDGL.
  • Other MOUs and SOWs here.

CMS DC04 Milestones (draft) pdf

USCMS Plan for Meeting the CD04 Milestone (Draft) pdf

User Facilities (UF)

 

Proposed for Tier 1 Center Procurements for FY04 pdf

Tier-1 Center Procurements for FY03 pdf

User Analysis Facility Requirements pdf

Data Streaming Project pdf

Deployment of the Initial LCG-1 Service at the Fermilab Tier-1 Center pdf

"Grid Interoperability": Supporting the LCG Installation on the Fermilab Tier 1 Facility pdf

Grid2003 Project Lessons pdf

CHEP2003 papers:

  • The CMS Integration Testbed pdf
  • Virtual Data in CMS Production [pdf] and Analysis [pdf]
Core Application Software (CAS)

IGUANA User Guide

POOL FileCatalog Documentation pdf

POOL 1.4 User's Guide pdf

Project Work Plan
SEAL: Core Libraries and Services pdf

CHEP2003 papers:

  • A ROOT/IO Based Software Framework for CMS pdf
  • BOA: Framework for Automated Builds pdf
  • McRunjob: A High Energy Physics Workflow Planner for Grid Production Processing pdf
  • IGUANA Architecture, Framework and Toolkit for Interactive Graphics pdf
  • Clarens Client and Server Applications pdf
  • SEAL: Common Core Libraries and Services for LHC Applications pdf
  • POOL File Catalog, Collection and Meta Data Components pdf
Previous DOE/NSF Reviews and Reports
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting July 2003
DOE/NSF Review January 2003 and Report pdf
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting June 2002
DOE/NSF Review November 2001
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting May 2001
DOE/NSF Review November 2000
Report DOE/NSF Baselining Review November 2001
Previous SCOP Reviews and Reports

SCOP Review January 2004 and Report [pdf]

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

   

 

Last updated January 11, 2004 by

Mark Leininger