CB & EB meeting

8 Feb 2018, 12:00 → 9 Feb 2018, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Riunioni (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

Thursday 8 February

1 Arrival & Welcome

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2 Approval of last meeting mintues, actions review

Speaker: Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

EU-T0_February2018.pdf

EU-T0_Meeting_Minutes_20170904.pdf

3 Supporting Virgo/LIGO; Euclid computing model

Speakers: Jeff Templon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Dr Luca Valenziano (INAF), Peter Clarke (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

VIRGO-LIGO-EUT0-20180208.pdf

e-mail from Luca Valenziano concerning the action on him "how to establish a link between EU-T0 and the Euclid SGS":

As you probably know, the Euclid SGS successfully passed the Design Review. Euclid computing model is fully consolidated, as it is also reported in APPEC computing roadmap (http://www.appec.org/roadmap/computing - please note that Euclid data rate is 230 Gbit/day). There is no major concern on input data volume and raw data processing. At present, the major challenge the SGS is facing is including all calibration data needed. As confirmed by the positive review output, there is confidence that the actual development activity will be able to fulfill all pipeline requirements.

Being well aware of the complexity of exploiting results of such a mission, I discussed with Andrea where EU-T0 could have a positive impact on Euclid. Results from Euclid data processing, ‘products’ as to say, will be verified against quality requirements, as foreseen in the SGS plan. Resources are already planned for that. Yet, as it is the case for Planck data analysis, additional validation activity could significantly improve the final science assessment. Large simulations and huge computing resources (simply scaling Euclid from Planck) are needed for that. This is an area where EU-T0 could act to support the Euclid Consortium. Since this is outside the actual SGS perimeter, the Euclid Consortium Lead, Yannick Mellier, should be contacted on this topic. I think it could be the right time, in the project development, to address that.

So, I am proposing to the EU-T0 board to take an action to invite the EC lead to discuss possible synergy on extended data validation, beyond SGS activities.

 

4 CERN Scientific Computing Forum and computing model for HL-LHC

The HSF community white paper has been finalised: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06982
The 3rd CERN Computing Forum took place in October 2017: https://indico.cern.ch/event/663273/
The next one is going to take place February 23, 10:30 - 12:30 at CERN: https://indico.cern.ch/event/702775

Speaker: Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

EU-T0_February2018_HL-LHC.pdf

HSF White Paper

14:45 Coffee break

5 EU-T0

A short presentation of EU-T0, including presentations by the EU-T0 partners on their project priorities, computing resources, and national strategies.

Speakers: Achim Streit (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Antonio Zoccoli (Bologna), Jeff Templon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Pierre-Etienne Macchi (CC-IN2P3), Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

20180208_EU-T0_zoccoli_cmputing_.pdf

20180208_EU-T0_zoccoli_cmputing_.ppt

2018-02-08 GridKa EU-T0.pdf

20180209-IN2P3-EU-T0.pdf

EU-T0_Introduction.pdf

Dutch National e-Infrastructure (DNI)

Charged with computing for research in the Netherlands
Also with innovation of above

Legal Entity and EU-T0 Signer : SURFSara (lead party of DNI)
Current Partners SURFsara, Nikhef, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Initial link to EU-T0: DNI provides Tier-1 to LHC experiments ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE

Resources contained within DNI ecosystem:

• Supercomputer (Cartesius)
• High Performance Cloud (two generations)
• First generation already in 2011
• New GPU cluster
• new non-grid HTC cluster with fast object store
• various storages (different per scientific community)
• Grid computing and Grid (SRM) Storage (WLCG/EGI)

Projects

• European projects EOSC Hub, EGI, EUDAT, PRACE, Comp Biomed, HPC EUR-3
• Participate in HNSciCloud project (overflow to commercial clouds) together with CERN, other EU-T0 partners
• data lakes prototype (SKA + LHC) together with CERN and STFC

Communities using the infrastructure

• Life Sciences (by far the largest in number of scientists and number of requests)
• Astronomy (LOFAR, SKA), largest in terms of amount of data stored
• HEP (LHC Tier-1, XENON, VIRGO, Pierre Auger, ILC), by far largest in terms of computing volume
• Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Science (Supercomputer)

6 Computing efforts at DOE / HEP

Speakers: Lali Chatterjee (DOE), Richard Carlson (Internet2)

EUT0 Slides Lali-Rich 2018 Feb.pdf

7 DOE - EU-T0 discussion

Joint discussion to explore potential synergies.

Possible starting questions:
What are the major upcoming challenges and what are the priorities on both sides of the Atlantic?
How can we benefit from a closer collaboration between DOE and EU-T0?

Speakers: Achim Streit (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Dr Anthony Davenport (STFC), Donatella Lucchesi (INFN Padova), Frederic Hemmer (CERN), Jeff Templon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Lali Chatterjee (DOE), Peter Clarke (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Richard Carlson (Internet2), Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

8 Dinner at Osteria De' Poeti

Via de' Poeti, 1/b

Osteria home page

Friday 9 February

9 European landscape: EOSC-pilot and EOSC-hub

Volker: EOSC-pilot status
Luciano: EOSC-Hub

Speakers: Luciano Gaido (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)), Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

EOSC-hub_EU_T0_meeting.pdf

EU-T0_EOSC-pilot_status.pdf

10 INFRAEOSC-01, INFRAEOSC-04 and ICT-34-2018

Speakers: Bob Jones (CERN), Volker Beckmann (CNRS / IN2P3)

EUT0-CERN-H2020.pdf

H2020-INFRA-2018-2020_amd.pdf

WP2018-2020_EU-T0.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

11 New European computing projects 2018: XCD and ICDI

Donatella reports about the Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure (ICDI).
XDC started with the beginning of 2018. Here we have a short presentation by Daniele and a discussion of possible synergies.

Speakers: Daniele Cesini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)), Donatella Lucchesi (INFN Padova)

EU_T0-ICDI.pdf

XDC home page

XDC_Plenary_KoM_240118.pdf

XDC_Plenary_KoM_240118.pptx

12 Next meeting, AOB

Proposal for next EU-T0 meeting: Friday: June 29, 2018 in Karlsruhe. Volker will send around a poll to determine whether time and place are convenient for a majority of EB/CB members.