4th dCache Workshop

Europe/Berlin
University of Wuppertal

University of Wuppertal

Christopher Jung (KIT)
Description
This dCache workshop is jointly organized by the dCache developer team, the dCache competence center of the German grid initiative D-Grid, and the storage support group of the HGF Alliance 'Physics at the Terascale'. This workshop will focus on performance optimization, but will also cover the topics of cost calculation, hot replication, info provider, check sum module and transfer parameters. In addition, there will be a presentation on future developments of dCache. Registration is open until March, 31st. The number of participants is limited, so please register soon ("first come, first served"). For the hands-on tutorials, virtual dCache machines on a local cluster will be used. Participants will work in pairs or groups of three and will use their personal notebooks to access these machines via SSH. The workshop fee is 50 Euros, to be payed in cash in Wuppertal.
  • Tuesday 13 April
    • 1
      Welcome and Overview
    • 2
      Introduction to the Training Environment
      Speaker: Sergey Kalinin Kalinin (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
      Slides
    • 3
      Cost Calculation and Hot Replication
      Speaker: Dr Christopher Jung (KIT)
      Slides
    • 15:15
      coffee break
    • 4
      Info Service, GLUE And Checksum Module
      Presentation of the info service, GLUE as well as its generation within dCache and the Checksum Module.
      Speaker: Christoph Anton Mitterer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
      Slides
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    • 5
      Monitoring Tools - “dCache mon”
      Presentation of “dCache mon”, a monitoring webservice for dCache.
      Speaker: Christoph Anton Mitterer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
      Demonstration
      Slides
    • 6
      Mover Queues and Transfer Parameters
      Speaker: Xavier Mol (SCC)
      Slides
    • 7
      The new dCache configuration system
      Speaker: Dr Gerd Behrmann (NDGF)
      Slides
    • 8
      Social Event
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  • Wednesday 14 April
    • 9
      Future Development of dCache
      Speaker: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)
    • 10
      Optimizing your dCache Configuration (part 1)
      Speakers: Mr Oleg Tsigenov (RWTH-Aachen), Sergey Kalinin Kalinin (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
      Slides
    • 11:30
      coffee break
    • 11
      Optimizing your dCache Configuration (part 2)
      Speakers: Mr Oleg Tsigenov (RWTH-Aachen), Sergey Kalinin Kalinin (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
    • 12
      Workshop Summary and Conclusion
      Speaker: Dr Christopher Jung (KIT)
    • 13:30
      joint lunch