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Software & Computing: SCOP Reviews

2002-10

Fermilab Software and Computing Oversight Panel Review of the U.S. CMS Software and Computing Project October 24-25, 2002

Purpose:

Review of the status the U.S. CMS Software and Computing Project Report to Fermilab Project Oversight and Project Management. See Charge to the SCOP

Agenda Logistics Attendees Documentation Report

Agenda: (email suggestions to Bakul Banerjee)

The meeting will be held Conference Room: Black Hole, WH2W on both days. Copies of the slides presented will be available for the meeting.

Thursday October 24, 2002
Start of Meeting 8:30am Chicago Time (other time zones)
, 8:00am Video Setup

Time Title Speaker Duration
8:00 AM Setup of Video    
8:30 AM Executive Session (closed) Panel 15'
8:45 AM Welcome / Charge H.Montgomery 15'
9:00 AM Project Overview, General Issues, including restructuring of the project (slides) LATBauerdick/Fermilab 60'+20'
10:20 AM Status of CMS Computing and Core Software (slides) D.Stickland/Princeton 20'+5'
10:45 AM Coffee   15'
11:00 AM CMS Software and Systems for the Data Challenge 04 (slides) T. Wildish/Princeton 20'+10'
11:30 AM Status and Plans Core Application Software (slides) I.Fisk/UCSD 45'+15'
12:30 PM Lunch   60'
1:30 PM Fabric Components, Facilities R&D and Operations (slides) M.Ernst/Fermilab 20'+10'
2:00 AM Distributed Production and Grid Integration (slides) G.Graham/Fermilab 20'+10'
2:30 PM Development Testbed and Grid Developments (slides) R.Cavanaugh/U.Florida 20'+10'
3:00 PM Physics Analysis on the Grid (slides) J.Bunn/Caltech 20'+10'
3:30 PM Coffee   30'
4:00 PM US CMS Research Program and Software and Computing (slides) D.Green/Fermilab 20'+10'
4:30 PM LHC computing at CERN, in the US, and elsewhere in the world (slides) M.Kasemann/CERN+Fermilab 20'+10'
5:00 PM US CMS Software and Computing and the Grid Projects (slides) R.Pordes/Fermilab 20'+10'
5:30 PM Summary, Conlcusions, including Budgets LATBauerdick/Fermilab 30'
6:00 PM Executive Session, formulation of questions (closed)   30'
6:30 PM Adjourn    
       
7:00 PM Dinner at Chez Leon    

Friday October 25, 2002
Start of Meeting 9:00am Chicago Time (other time zones)
, 8:30am Video Setup

Time Title Speaker Duration
9:00 AM Answers to Questions, discussions Panel+Project 90'
10:30 AM Coffee   30'
11:00 AM Closed Session, Drafting of Report, continuing during Lunch Panel 150'
12:30 PM Working Lunch   60'
1:30 PM Close Out Dry Run Panel 60'
2:30 AM Close Out Panel+Project 30'
3:00 PM Adjourn    

Logistics

All the sessions will take place at Fermilab in Wilson Hall, in the Black Hole Conference Room (2nd floor, next to west side elevator). Video on VRVS is in the SUN virtual room.

Dinner menu for on Thursday night 7pm at Chez Leon is available here.

Please contact Michelle Gleason at 630 840 8062 for assistance with logistics.


Attendees

Committee Members:

Name email Institution
Edward C Blucher, Chair blucher@hep.uchicago.edu U.Chicago
James Branson branson@ucsd.edu UC San Diego
Joel Butler butler@fnal.gov Fermilab
Mattias Kasemann kasemann@fnal.gov Fermilab
Pere Mato Pere.Mato@cern.ch CERN
Donald L Petravick petravick@fnal.gov Fermilab
Torre Wenaus torre@wenaus.com BNL

Speakers:

Name email Institution
Lothar A T Bauerdick bauerdick@fnal.gov Fermilab
Julian Bunn julian@cacr.caltech.edu Fermilab
Richard Cavanaugh cavanaug@phys.ufl.edu U. of Florida
Mike Ernst ernst@fnal.gov Fermilab
Ian Fisk ifisk@physics.ucsd.edu UC San Diego
Greg Graham ggraham@fnal.gov Fermilab
Dan Green dgreen@fnal.gov Fermilab
Matthias Kasemann kasemann@fnal.gov Fermilab
Ruth Pordes ruth@fnal.gov Fermilab
David Stickland David.Stickland@cern.ch Princeton U
Tony Wildish Tony.Wildish@cern.ch Princeton U

Project Documentation:

Project Documents

WBS Baseline 1.0 (Nov2001, old):  here.
WBS Baseline 2.0 (new): http://heppc16.ucsd.edu/Planning_new/
*Proposed MOU between US CMS and the iVDGL. Please note that there was an incorrect earlier version here during the SCOP review. As of 12/19/02, it contains the correct version.
Process Document
CMS Software Quality (pdf)

Requirements and Plans

Grid Use Cases: http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/SC2/RTAG4/default.htm
CMS Implementation Plan - 2002 (pdf)
Scope and Organization of CMS-CPT (pdf)
Planning for 5% Data Challenge DC04 (pdf)
IGUANA Plans for 2002

Facilities

U.S. CMS Software and Computing Project User Facility Hardware Procurements for FY2002 (pdf)
A User Analysis Cluster for CMS Data Analysis (pdf)

Production

The Spring 2002 DAQ TDR production - CMS NOTE 2002/034 (pdf)

Core Application Software

ROOT-based Object Persistency: ROOT I/O (pdf)
New Persistency RTAG Final Report
PPDG internal review on CMS PPDG work, MOP, CMS Grid Enabled Monte Carlo Production
IGUANA User Guide

Demonstration

Demonstration at  SC2002:  USCMS will present MonaLisa: http://cil.cern.ch:8080/MONALISA/ and Clarens http://clarens.sourceforge.net/

Tutorial

CMS Software Tutorial, May 2002: http://heppc16.ucsd.edu/cms_tutorial/agenda.html

Previous SCOP Reviews

SCOP Review October 2001
SCOP Review May 2001
SCOP Review October 2000 Report

Previous DOE/NSF Reviews

Report of the November 2001 Joint DOE/NSF Baselining Review
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting June 2002
DOE/NSF Review November 2001
DOE/NSF Status Report Meeting May 2001
DOE/NSF Review November 2000
   
Additional Information

Facilities
Online dCache Home: http://gyoza7.fnal.gov:443/
Ganglia Cluster/FBSNG: http://gyoza8.fnal.gov/
A white paper - Logical Volume Manager (pdf)
Production:
CMS Production at Fermilab: http://computing.fnal.gov/cms/Monitor/cms_production.html
USCMS Grid Test bed: http://grid.fnal.gov/test_beds/USCMSTestBed.htm
Information on CMS Grid set up: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~adesmet/cms_notes.html
Tiger Team Action for Grid Test bed: http://www.uscms.org/s&c/testbed/Tiger/


Note to organizers: Please follow the SCOP Review Checklist to keep track of the list of tasks to be performed.

Last updated

October 14, 2002 by Bakul Banerjee.

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