NorduGrid 2017

Europe/Oslo
Teknologibygget (Tromsø, Norway)

Teknologibygget

Tromsø, Norway

Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo)
Description

From Data Factories to Insight as a Service

The Annual NorduGrid Conference 2017 will be held in Tromsø, Norway, on June 28-30. As usual, the plenary conference days will be preceeded by the Technical Workshop starting already on Tuesday morning, June 27. 

The Annual Nordugrid Conference is a long running tradition and the major annual gathering of the scientific community around the ARC middleware and thus brings together people from data intensive science and distributed computing including resource providers, technology developers and scientists both from academia and industry.

The conference theme this year is "From Data Factories to Insight as a Service" and will include presentations along the following three main topics, in addition to ARC reports:

  • Data factories (sensor data from Internet of Things, large databases and datasets from both HPC simulations and data producing experimental instruments)
  • Future computing (exascale directions, quantum computing, services and components for data intensive applications)
  • Knowledge building (scientific insight gained from data analytics, unconventional workflows)

 

Participants are kindly asked to register and indicate whether they will attend both the plenary conference (Wednesday 14:00 - Friday 12:00)  and the technical workshop (Tuesday 8:00 - Wednesday 12:00), or either of the events.

    
Participants
  • Aleksandr Konstantinov
  • Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
  • Andrej Filipcic
  • Andrew Lahiff
  • Andrii Salnikov
  • Balazs Konya
  • Boris Wagner
  • Borut Paul Kersevan
  • Cedric Serfon
  • Christian Soettrup
  • Dan Stanzione
  • David Cameron
  • Dieter Røhrich
  • Dmytro Karpenko
  • Farid Ould-Saada
  • Florido Paganelli
  • Gard Thomassen
  • Gianfranco Sciacca
  • Gunnar Boe
  • Håvard Helstrup
  • JAMES CATMORE
  • John White
  • Jon Kerr Nilsen
  • Jozef Černák
  • Lars Ailo Bongo
  • Maiken Pedersen
  • Martin Skou Andersen
  • Mattias Ellert
  • Mattias Wadenstein
  • Michael Rännar
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • Radovan Bast
  • Roger Oscarsson
  • Roy Dragseth
  • Serge Bogaerts
  • Sigve Haug
  • Tomas Lindén
  • ULF Tigerstedt
  • Vincent Garonne
  • Xavier Espinal
Contact-info
    • 09:00 18:00
      Technical workshop Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway

      Preliminary list of topics. The actual agenda will be fixed on Tuesday morning.

      1) The next generation Information Index Service for ARC: ARCHERY, the ARC Hierarchical Endpoints Registry.
      --Intro presentation by Andrii Salnikov
      --Discussion on deployment, operation, migration & retirement of the old EGIS framework.

      2) Managing VO-based access control in ARC (authgroups and other VO related concepts) versus VO's in ATLAS/WLCG.
      --Initial presentation by Andrej Filipcic and Oxana,
      --Discussion

      3) Elasticsearch and ARC
      -- presentation by Dmytro
      -- discussion

      4) ACT-ARC
      -- presentation by Maiken

      5) Evolution of ATLAS Distributed Data Management and its possible impact on ARC future,
      -- presentation by Vincent Garonne
      -- discussion

      6) Living in a world of no Globus: the effects of the Globus support discontinuation news.
      -- presentation by Mattias
      -- discussion

      7) Post mortem analysis and report on recent ARC instability troubles: the problem(s), the fixes and the lesson learnt.
      -- Intro by Oxana and Aleksander
      -- Discussion

      8) Misuse of mutexes and broken state of locking in ARC. Problems with sqlite3 delegation db.
      -- Presentation by Ulf

      9) Infosys I/O performance tests in the control-directory.
      -- Presentation by Florido
      -- discussion afterwards

      10) Feedback from KIT/German cloud (to be confirmed)

      11) Status Report from the ARC release manager: release plans, release procedures, svn status. Content of the next major release.
      -- presentation by Maiken followed by discussions

      12) Client-side development: API status, support status and plans for python, java, etc.. and the bad practice of coding against the CLI.
      -- Initial presentation by Martin
      -- discussion

      13) The new ARC config (server-side).
      -- presentation by Balazs,
      -- discussion

    • 09:00 10:00
      Board meeting: Open Forum Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 10:00 12:00
      Board meeting: Closed meeting Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 10:00 10:30
      Break 30m Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 10:30 13:00
      Technical workshop: one-to-one discussions Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway

      Preliminary list of topics. The actual agenda will be fixed on Tuesday morning.

      1) The next generation Information Index Service for ARC: ARCHERY, the ARC Hierarchical Endpoints Registry.
      --Intro presentation by Andrii Salnikov
      --Discussion on deployment, operation, migration & retirement of the old EGIS framework.

      2) Managing VO-based access control in ARC (authgroups and other VO related concepts) versus VO's in ATLAS/WLCG.
      --Initial presentation by Andrej Filipcic and Oxana,
      --Discussion

      3) Elasticsearch and ARC
      -- presentation by Dmytro
      -- discussion

      4) ACT-ARC
      -- presentation by Maiken

      5) Evolution of ATLAS Distributed Data Management and its possible impact on ARC future,
      -- presentation by Vincent Garonne
      -- discussion

      6) Living in a world of no Globus: the effects of the Globus support discontinuation news.
      -- presentation by Mattias
      -- discussion

      7) Post mortem analysis and report on recent ARC instability troubles: the problem(s), the fixes and the lesson learnt.
      -- Intro by Oxana and Aleksander
      -- Discussion

      8) Misuse of mutexes and broken state of locking in ARC. Problems with sqlite3 delegation db.
      -- Presentation by Ulf

      9) Infosys I/O performance tests in the control-directory.
      -- Presentation by Florido
      -- discussion afterwards

      10) Feedback from KIT/German cloud (to be confirmed)

      11) Status Report from the ARC release manager: release plans, release procedures, svn status. Content of the next major release.
      -- presentation by Maiken followed by discussions

      12) Client-side development: API status, support status and plans for python, java, etc.. and the bad practice of coding against the CLI.
      -- Initial presentation by Martin
      -- discussion

      13) The new ARC config (server-side).
      -- presentation by Balazs,
      -- discussion

    • 12:00 14:00
      Norwegian Tier-1: Closed session Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 14:00 15:40
      Conference: Plenary Session 1 Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
      • 14:00
        Welcome to the Plenary Conference and introduction of local activities 30m
        Speaker: Roy Dragseth
      • 14:30
        The NorduGrid Collaboration - Status and Plans 20m
        Speaker: Farid Ould-Saada (UiO)
      • 14:50
        Norwegian eInfrastructure for Research and Education 30m
        Speaker: Gunnar Bøe
      • 15:20
        Status and advances of ARC 20m
        Speaker: Balázs Kónya (LU)
        Slides
    • 15:40 16:10
      Break 30m Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 16:10 18:40
      Conference: Plenary Session 2 Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
      • 16:10
        DIRAC software framework 30m
        Speaker: Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CPPM)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        NeIC - The Nordic eInfrastructure Collaboration 30m
        Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)
        Slides
      • 17:10
        ALICE Computing 25m
        Speaker: Dr Boris Wagner (University of Bergen)
        Slides
      • 17:35
        HEP Software Foundation 15m
        Speaker: Dr James Catmore
        Slides
    • 19:30 20:30
      Social program: Football Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway

      See here for details: https://indico.lucas.lu.se/event/573/page/1
      Note: there will be a reception just after the demo session today. At around 18:00.
      Then we go for dinner in town (starts at 20:00).

    • 08:30 10:05
      Conference: Plenary Session 3 Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
      • 08:30
        The challenges of High luminosity LHC: computing, software and physics 35m
        Speaker: Borut Kersevan (IJS)
      • 09:05
        CERN-IT Challenges: the byte, the core and the bit 25m
        Speaker: Xavier Espinal (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        EISCAT-3D project 35m
        Speaker: John White (NeIC)
        Slides
    • 10:05 10:30
      Break 25m Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 10:30 13:00
      Conference: Plenary Session 4 Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
      • 10:30
        Virtualisation & containers - a RAL perspective 25m
        Speaker: Andrew Lahiff (RAL)
        Slides
      • 10:55
        Web-service for FPGA synthesis using ARC-powered grid infrastructure 25m
        Speaker: Andrii Salnikov (Kyiv University)
        Extended abstract
        Slides
      • 11:20
        How CodeRefinery can support ARC software and vice versa 25m
        In this short presentation I will introduce the CodeRefinery project and discuss recommendations for the ARC software maintenance and release cycle and how both projects could support each other.
        Speaker: Radovan Bast (NeIC / UiT)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        Machine learning and anomaly detection 25m
        Speaker: James Catmore (UiO)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        ELIXIR activities in Norway 25m
        Speaker: Lars Ailo Bongo (UiT)
        Slides
      • 12:35
        Population models 25m
        Is it possible to reverse the low total fertility rate (TFR) in the developed world? Using a hypothetical model of population we have analyzed the decline of the TFR which have took place in the background of ongoing global economic changes, and a liberalization process after the end of the Cold War. These phenomena have affected more that 110 millions of inhabitants of Central Europe and the Baltics and approximately 80 millions of inhabitants in Germany. The model has features of complex and evolving system of interacting individuals, and it enables to investigate a broad spectrum of input factors on individual decisions to limit the offspring. Evolving agents with simple implementation of AI features are key elements of the model. The model is in the initial state so we present initial ideas how to realize it.
        Speaker: Jozef Černák (UPJS)
        Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 14:00 15:10
      Demo: Introduction
      • 14:00
        Demo: Introduction to ARC, ARC Control Tower and ATLAS@home 45m
        Speaker: Andrej Filipcic (IJS)
      • 14:45
        Integrating Piz Daint @ CSCS in WLCG with ARC 20m
        Speaker: Mr Gianfranco Sciacca
        Slides
    • 15:10 15:40
      Break 30m Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 15:40 17:35
      Demo: ARC at work
      • 15:40
        ARC frontend to HPC 30m
        -David Cameron: ARC and ATLAS Event Service for HPC
        Speaker: David Cameron (UiO)
        Slides
      • 16:10
        ARC frontend to Clouds 30m
        Speaker: Sigve Haug (UniBe)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        ARC frontend to volunteer computing 30m
        Speaker: David Cameron (UiO)
        Slides
    • 18:00 21:00
      Social program Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway

      See here for details: https://indico.lucas.lu.se/event/573/page/1
      Note: there will be a reception just after the demo session today. At around 18:00.
      Then we go for dinner in town (starts at 20:00).

    • 08:30 09:50
      Conference: Plenary Session 5 Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
      • 08:30
        Advanced Computing and Cyberinfrastructure in the US : The View from the Texas Advanced Computing Center 40m
        Speaker: Dan Stanzione (TACC)
        Slides
      • 09:10
        PRACE in the European HPC landscape 40m
        Speaker: Serge Bogaerts (PRACE)
        Slides
    • 09:50 10:10
      Short Break 20m Teknologibygget

      Teknologibygget

      Tromsø, Norway

      Hansine Hansens veg 55, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
    • 10:10 11:10
      Conference: Plenary Session 5: Conclusion
      • 10:10
        From Data Factories to Insight as a Service: Conference summary and Outlook discussion 45m
        Speakers: All, Dr Sigve Haug
        notes