Quattor Workshop

18 Oct 2006, 12:00 → 20 Oct 2006, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminarroom 7a, Bldg. 7 (DESY Hamburg)

Uwe Ensslin

Wednesday 18 October

12:00 → 13:00 Welcome Snack and Registration

13:00 → 17:30 Experience panel

Sites will present their experiences with the Quattor
toolset. A wish list will be compiled. Time estimates
include time for discussions.

13:00 Site experiences with Quattor

Sites are from the list of registrants. Items without presenter are to be confirmed.

14:30 Experiences with QWG templates

Experiences of sites using the QWG templates will be presented and discussed.

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Experiences with YAIM based installations

Sites will present and discuss experiences made in installing GRID middleware using the YAIM tools

16:00 Special use cases from sites

Sites will present specific uses and developments in more detail, giving demonstrations, if suitable

17:30 → 18:30 Visit to the computer center for interested people

Thursday 19 October

09:00 → 10:00 Special use cases from sites (cont'd)

09:00 Creation and controlling of virtual machines (Stephen Childs, Trinity College, Dublin)

Slides quattor_xen.txt

09:30 Configuring Diskless Systems with Quattor (Matthias Schroeder, CERN)

Slides DisklessSystems.ppt

10:00 → 17:30 Quattor development

Developments of the Quattor toolkit will be presented and
discussed. Time estimates include time for discussions.

10:00 Pan compiler update, C++ and Java (Charles Loomis, LAL-Orsay)

Slides 20061018-quattor-workshop-panc.ppt

10:30 QWG templates update (Michel Jouvin, LAL/IN2P3)

11:00 Coffee

11:30 CDB update (Marco Emilio Poleggi, CERN,INFN)

Slides cdb-evolution-part2-MarcoEmilio.pdf cdb-evolution-part2.sxi

12:00 Update on how to start SCDB (Michel Jouvin, LAL/IN2P3)

Slides Jouvin-3-SCDB.ppt

13:00 Lunch

Lunch will be at the DESY cafeteria at your own expense.

14:00 Update on core modules maintained at CERN (German Cancio, CERN)

Progress on modules like spma, ccm, ncm will be presented and discussed

Slides quattor-core-modules-status-10-06.ppt

14:30 AII overview (Ronald Starink, NIKHEF)

Slides aii-development_Oct2006.pdf

15:00 Coffee

15:30 CDB schema change for blockdevices

A change to the CDB schema has been at proposed at CERN. It will be discussed by the participants.

Slides CDB_Raid_Proposal.ppt

16:00 Discussion of namespaces and loadpaths

19:00 → 23:00 Workshop dinner

Friday 20 October

09:00 → 09:30 Quattor development (cont'd)

09:00 Discussion of namespaces and loadpath's (cont'd)

09:30 → 13:00 Outlook

09:30 Date and location of the next workshop

Slides NextWorkshop.ppt

10:00 Missing features in Pan (all)

10:30 Roadmaps and stability of Quattor (all)

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Review of open items on Savanna

Discussion of open entries in savanna, especially their priorities.