SRM2.2 Deployment Workshop

13 November, 07 01:00 PM - 14 November, 07 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=827

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN begin to operate in 2008, they will generate petabytes of data per year. In order to store and process all of the information, an international data and computing grid is being constructed, coordinated by the Worlwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project. The ability to store the generated data is central to the success of the project. Part of the solution is SRM2.2, a storage management protocol which has been implemented by multiple software providers. The software provides a uniform interface for accessing storage in a distributed Grid environment. The two most widely deployed systems in production are dCache and DPM. In addition, some Grid sites have recently been evaluating StoRM.

The goal of the workshop is to bring Grid site administrators with experience of dCache, DPM and StoRM together with software developers and other Grid storage experts. This will present a forum for information exchange regarding the deployment and operation of SRM2.2 services. By the end of the workshop, site administrators will be fully aware of the technology that must be deployed by February 2008 in order to provide a service that fully meets the needs of the LHC physics programme. Particular attention will be paid to the large number of sites who contribute small amounts of computing and storage resource (Tier-2s), as compared with national laboratories (Tier-1s). Configuration of SRM2.2 spaces and storage information publishing will be the main topics of interest during the workshop.

Since SRM2.2 has been proposed as an Open Grid Forum (OGF) standard, it is likely that the workshop will be of wider interest than only WLCG. However, it should be noted that the intention of the meeting is not to continue discussions of the current specification or any future version.

The meeting will focus on the deployment of a production system.

Everyone that wants to attend the hands on session will need to bring their own laptop.

A list of participants is available.

Target Audience

This event is by invitation only.

Programme

The workshop will start at 13:00 Tuesday 13 November 2007 and close at 17:00 on Wednesday 14 November 2007.

Prior to the start of the workshop, a meeting has been organised for the dCache Tier-1s. Information gathered from this session will be used during the workshop. In addition, the StoRM developers and sites are meeting prior to the start of the workshop. This gives them a chance to attend the parallel DPM/dCache sessions that will take place during the morning of Wednesday 14th.

A programme is available at:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=21405

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Important Dates

10 Oct - Registration Opens
06 Nov - Registration Deadline
06 Nov - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
13 Nov - Event Starts at 13:00hrs

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator. Further information is available on the blog at: http://gridpp-storage.blogspot.com

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