Time |
Title |
Description |
Speaker |
7:00-8:00
(60 min) |
Breakfast |
Location: Alcove South
|
|
8:00-9:00
(60 min) |
Dynamic Circuit Networks
Location: Bayview Ballroom South 214A |
This
tutorial provides an introduction to the use of dynamic
circuit networks in data intensive research.
Today's data intensive applications, like High Energy
Physics research at the LHC, rely on efficient bulk data
transfers of large datasets over distances spanning several
continents. Such transfers, in order to proceed efficiently,
require a guaranteed bandwidth from source to destination,
something that is hard to achieve on the general-purpose
network like the Internet.
Other examples of research applications using dynamic
circuit provisioning are gravitational wave detectors
(LIGO) and radio astronomy. Both rely on guaranteed bandwidth
channels between sites distributed around the globe.
Dynamic circuit networks are designed to provide such
bandwidth guarantees by creating virtual circuits upon
request from the user or user application.
In this tutorial we will cover the concepts of dynamic
circuit networks and their interoperation for multi-domain
provisioning, necessary for creation of end-to-end circuits
on large geographical scale. We will discuss applications
such as LambdaStation and TeraPaths, making use of dynamic
circuit provisioning.
A live demonstration will show the actual process of
creating a light-path from a user/application perspective. |
Dr.
Artur Barczyk
California Institute of Technology
and
Mr. Azher Mughal |
9:10-9:50
(40 min) |
Configuring Servers To Do Maximum
Throughput Bandwidth
Location: Bayview Ballroom South 214A |
A
presentation of how to select hardware for optimum disk
and network bandwidth. A set of common tools used to benchmark
disk and network hardware in order to detect where bottlenecks
occur will be demonstrated.
|
Mr.
Michael Thomas
HEP Systems Administrator
California Institute of Technology |
10:00-10:20
(20 min) |
AM Break |
Location: Alcove South |
|
10:20-11:15
(55 min) |
End System Tuning to Maximize
Data Transfer Performance
Location: Bayview Ballroom South 214A |
A
hands-on tutorial showing some of the common ways to measure
and tune an end host to maximize data transfers. |
Mr.
Michael Thomas
HEP Systems Administrator
California Institute of Technology |
11:25-12:00
(35 min) |
Virtualization
and Cloud Computing |
The
Enterprise Cloud - an example of Cloud Computing |
Mr.
Kurt W Robinson
Sales Engineer
Terremark Worldwide
Mr. John Zima
Terremark World Wide Inc. NAP of the Americas
Corporate
Sponsor |
12:00-1:00
(60 min) |
Lunch |
Location: Bayview Ballroom
North 214B |
|
1:00-2:30
(90 min)
|
MonALISA Monitoring |
Within
the large distributed LHC infrastructure monitoring is
vital to pinpoint anomalies and quickly respond to them,
but also to identify trends. This tutorial will discuss
the distributed monitoring framework MonALISA. You will
learn how to setup MonALISA services, publish parameters,
deploy dynamic web pages displaying various monitoring
parameters, and setup alerts. In this tutorial we will
deploy MonALISA services on hosts at FIU, Caltech and U.
Florida. Attendees with access to a computer can participate
by installing their own MonALISA services.
The only system requirements are java 1.4.2 or greater and
internet connectivity through a set of configurable ports.
A recent version of python is recommended as well. The tutorial
has been tested on Linux but other platforms should work. |
Dr.
Jorge Luis Rodriguez,
Florida International University
Dr. Frank van Lingen
Grid Job Submission
California Institute of Technology, CERN |
2:30
|
PM Break |
Location: Bayview Ballroom
North 214B
(Participants will be provided access to refreshments during
the meeting.) |
|
2:30-4:00
(90 min) |
Grid Job Submitting
Location: Bayview Ballroom South 214A |
Submitting
a job to the Grid is one of the two fundamental tasks a
user engages in when utilizing grid resources. In this
tutorial you will learn how this is done on the world wide
distributed infrastructure known as the Open Science Grid
(OSG). We will begin by describing the authentication and
authorization mechanism used to allow users onto resources
and then illustrate the process of submitting jobs. We
will do this with a series of example beginning with a
simple "Hello world" submission, and then we
will submit jobs that will interact with monitoring agents
and retrieve status information. Finally we will demonstrate
process used by the researchers on the Compact Muon Solenoid
experiment one of the larger Virtual Organizations on the
OSG and one of the LHC experiments. |
Dr. Jorge Luis Rodriguez,
Florida International University
Dr. Frank van Lingen
Grid Job Submission
California Institute of Technology, CERN |
4:10-5:10
(60 min) |
FDT Tool
Location: Bayview Ballroom South 214A |
This
hands-on tutorial will introduce the Fast Data Transfer
(FDT) tool and show how it can be used to transfer data
between end hosts in an optimized manner. At the end of
the tutorial we will have a brief introduction to the dCache
storage system and show how FDT has been integrated with
dCache. Users who have access to an existing dCache system
will be encouraged to follow along. |
Mr.
Michael Thomas
HEP Systems Administrator
California Institute of Technology |
5:10 |
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Program ends |
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