dCache Workshop 2007

18 Jan 2007, 08:45 → 19 Jan 2007, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Main Auditorium, Bld 5 (DESY)

Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Welcome to the second dCache workshop at DESY.
This time the topics are

• The SRM 2.2 implementation
• Space Tokens and Storage spaces
• dCache operational issues
• Yaim (Quattor) Installation
• Meet the FERMI and DESY developers
• Reports from some of the Tier I sites

Beside sponsering the Conference Dinner, Sun Microsystems
agreed to send Bill Moore, the Co-lead of the team that delivered Sun's innovative file
system, ZFS. Bill will present insights into the SUN ZFS filesystem and will briefly report
on SUNs new storage hardware, the X4500

As usual, suggestions on further topics are welcome.

Thursday 18 January

08:45 → 09:45 Reception and Welcome

08:45 Registration

09:15 Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr Volker Guelzow (DESY)

09:25 dCache Project Layout

Speaker: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides ws2007-intro.pdf

10:00 → 12:00 Tier I/II Reports

Including plans concerning SRM 2.2

10:15 dCache in gridPP Tier II

Speaker: Dr Greig cowan (University of Edinburgh)

Slides cowan-gridpp-t2.pdf

10:15 In2P3 report and experience with 1.7.0

1. SRM/dCache/HPSS setup (hardware/software/configuration) 2. Monitoring and operations tools 3. The 1.7 story and current issues

Speaker: Dr Lionel Schwarz (IN2P3 Lyon)

Slides pgfouine_report.pdf SRM_dCache_HPSS_en_dcache_ws.pdf

10:35 FERMI Lab Tier I Report

Speaker: Mr Timur Perelmutov (FNAL)

Slides US.CMS.T1.Status.pdf

10:55 dCache at BNL, experience with 1.7.0 and SRM 2.2 deployment

Speaker: Dr Jason Smith (BNL)

Slides BNL_dCache-2.pdf

11:15 dCache at SARA

Speaker: Dr Jurriaan Saathof (SARA)

Slides dCache_presentation_sara.ppt

11:30 gridKa plans for setting up SRM 2.2

Speaker: Dr Doris Ressmann (gridKa)

Slides dCacheWorkshop20070118.ppt

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:30 SUN Storage Solutions

Bill Moore, SUNs prominent Hardware/Software Architect and
Co-lead of the team that delivered Sun's innovative file
system, ZFS will talk about the SUN Thumper (X4500) and ZFS

13:30 Insight SUNs ZFS

Speaker: Dr Bill Moore (SUN Microsystems)

14:10 The X4500 Storage Solution

Speaker: Dr Bill Moore (SUN Microsystems)

14:30 → 15:15 Tier I/II Report (Cont)

14:30 Nordu Grid dCache deployment plans and NDGF dCache contributions

Speaker: Dr Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)

Slides workshop2007.pdf

14:55 dCache @ PIC

Speaker: Dr Adria Casajus (PIC)

Slides dCachePICWorkshop2007.pdf

15:15 → 17:30 SRM 2.2

15:15 SRM 2.2 and WLCG Deployment Schedule

Speaker: Dr Jamie Shiers (CERN)

Paper wlcg-service-plan-Jan07.doc

Slides wlcg-dCache.ppt wlcg-dCache.ppt

SRM v2.2 critical methods SRM_2_2_critical_methods.doc

15:35 SRM 2.2 and the Storage Systems Deployment Group

Speaker: Dr Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

Slides SC-maarten-expts.pdf

15:55 break

16:25 SRM 2.2 in dCache

Speaker: Mr Timur Perelmutov (FNAL)

Slides SRM.Presentation.dCacheWorkshop.2007.January.DESY.pdf

17:35 → 18:55 Selected Topics

17:35 The xrootd Protocol in dCache

Speaker: Mr Martin Radicke (DESY)

Slides xrootd-dCacheWorkshop2007.pdf

xrootd Book chapter http://www.dcache.org/manuals/Book/cf-xrootd.shtml

17:55 New dCache Authorization (gPlazma)

Speaker: Mr Ted Hesselroth (FERMI)

dCache Book Chapter http://www.dcache.org/manuals/Book/cf-gplazma.shtml

Discussion List http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/gplazma.html

gPlazma Talk in OpenOffice 1.0 Format dCacheWorkshop07tdh.sxi

gPlazma Talk in OpenOffice 2.0 Format dCacheWorkshop07tdh.odp

gPlazma Talk in PDF Format dCacheWorkshop07tdh.pdf

gPlazma Talk in PowerPoint Format dCacheWorkshop07tdh.ppt

18:20 dCache in resilient mode

Speaker: Mr Timur Perelmutov (FNAL)

Slides Resilient_dCache.pdf

18:40 Monitoring Plots for dCache data movement

Speaker: Mr Timur Perelmutov (FNAL)

Slides dCache.Plots.Vladimir.Podstavkov.pdf

19:00 → 23:00 Dinner

Friday 19 January

09:00 → 11:10 Installation and Maintenance

09:00 dCache hardware layout recommendations

Speaker: Mr Martin Gasthuber (DESY)

Slides dcws2007.pdf

09:20 dCache installation and YAIM

Speaker: Owen Synge (DESY)

Slides testing.suite.and.release.management.odp testing.suite.and.release.management.pdf

09:40 dCache Installation and Quattor

Speaker: Dr Stijn De Weirdt (IIHE-VUB, Brussels)

Slides quattor-dcache-installation-dcache-workshop-19-01-07.pdf

10:00 dCache monitoring and MonAmi

Speaker: Dr Greig cowan (University of Edinburgh)

Slides cowan-dcache-monami.pdf

10:20 Trouble Shooting and FAQs

Speaker: Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

Slides troubleshooting.pdf

11:10 → 11:25 Coffee Break

11:25 → 13:15 In Preparation

11:25 Chimera, the new dCache file system name space provider

Speaker: Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

Slides chimera-dws07.pdf

11:55 ACL's for chimera

Speaker: Mr David Melkumyan (DESY)

Slides dcache-acl.pdf

12:05 Improved HSM Interface

Slides hsm-interface.pdf

12:35 dCache administration Client (JPython & GUI)

Speaker: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides admin-clients.pdf

12:55 Discussion on Tier I/II issues

Speaker: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides faq2.pdf

13:15 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 18:00 SUN Session

14:00 → 20:00 Meet the developers

14:00 BOF Munich

15:00 BOF LIP