HEPiX Fall 2013U Mich Ann Arbor, USA
Workshop Wrap-Up
Helge Meinhard, Sandy Philpott
Attendees
115 registered participants Including many first-timers! 47 from North-America (including 27 attendees
from 8 North-American universities), 48 from Europe, 3 from Asia, 2 from Australia, 15 (!) from companies
42 different affiliations 13 from North America, 17 from Europe, 2 from
Asia, 1 from Australia, 9 (!) companies Fortunate that the “man-made business
continuity issue” (US budget crisis) was (temporarily) averted so that US DoE labs could largely participate
Presentations
65 contributions Scheduled total duration: 26 hours Rich and very interesting program Had to cut down many standard slots to
25 minutes, site reports to 15 minutes, in order to fit everything in Speakers played this very well
High quality of presentations
Tracks and Trends…
Security and networking: 9 total, 3 on federations
Storage and file systems: 10 total, 3 on AFS, 2 on CEPH, WD vendor talk
Grids/clouds: 7 total, 3 on production private clouds
Computing: 6 total, 4 on batch systems – HTCondor
IT facilities and business continuity: 3 total Basic IT services: 8 total, 4 on Puppet, 2 on log
analysis End-user IT services and operating systems: 3
total
Breaks
Coffee breaks Lunch breaks Dinner, evening discussions
Welcome reception Social event at Henry Ford Museum
Countless hours of valuable discussion
Board Meeting (1)
Current and next meetings Working groups
IPv6: see report; plan to hold a 2-3 day workshop Storage: terminated – no final report as Andrei
couldn’t attend Benchmarking: New SPECcpu next October, plan to
start working with experiments early Batch: stop the working group but keep updating the
wiki, add HTCondor info Configuration management: co-chairs not able to
attend; needs more visibility Bit preservation: focus on technical advice on bit
perservation Energy efficiency: keep open for Annecy
Board Meeting (2)
Web site needs attention – help by DESY much appreciated
North-American co-chair – Sandy’s 2nd term ends fall 2014 Search to begin at Annecy, election in
board meeting during fall meeting
Next meetings
Spring 2014: LAPP Annecy, France May 19 – 23 confirmed Same tracks as this time
Fall 2014: University of Nebraska interested Need final site approval Dates to be determined
Spring 2015: Candidate site in Europe identified
Proposals always welcome…
Thanks
… to all participants
… to all speakers … for their contribution and for having
accepted constraints
… to the track convenors and chairs … for having solicited contributions, and
having kept things well within schedule
Special thanks
Western Digital U Michigan DataDirect Networks Netapp Univa
Without their support and their participation, many things would not have been possible
Special thanks (cont’d)
Local organisingcommittee: Shawn McKee Ben Meekhof Robert Ball Beth Demkowski Bing Zhou Junjie Zhu
The University of Michigan
Local organisers(cont’d): Liang Guan Xueye Hu Ziru Sang Nan Lu Ed Diehl Jinhong Wang Claudio Ferretti Heidi Madias
Final Words
Have a good trip back…
… and see you in Annecy!