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!