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In this Wiki you will find materials an hands-on to some of the courses held during GridKa School 2011. For all other information you may visit the GKS website.

dCache administration workshop with hands-on

Authors

S. Kalinin, C. Mitterer, X. Mol, D. Ressmann, O. Tsigenov, known as the German storage support group.

Abstract

dCache is a storage for huge amounts of data which are distributed among a large number of heterogenous server nodes.

The workshop involves theoretical sessions about most important functionalities, hands-on tutorials regarding the installation of dCache and configuration of the security and authorization module.

Event

Thursday, September 8, 10:50-18:30
The maximal number of participants is restricted to 30.

Requirements

Please notice the following strong requirements:

• In order to participate with highest learning effect, everyone is advised to bring their own laptops.
• An own laptop where you may install new software on is needed so you can install VirtualBox and profit from our prepared images of virtual machines. You can find an explanation on the basics of how to use VirtualBox in this article.
• So the virtual machines can be run normally, you need up to 2 GB free disk space and at least 512 MB spendable memory for the guest machine (ideally 1 GB).
• These requirements should be fulfilled before start of the workshop. During lunch time on Tuesday the tutors of the workshop will offer you support in case you have trouble installing VirtualBox and running the supplied virtual machines.

HEP Workshop with a few hands-on

Authors

Ch. Wissing, B. Hegener, A. Petzold

Abstract (Draft)

The High Energy Physics (HEP) community has been following the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN with great interest. The collision data collected over the last months exceed the volume from the 2010 run by orders of magnitude. The Standard Model has been "rediscovered" with remarkable precision in the new energy regime and the experiments are sharpening the tools for the expected discoveries.

On the computing site the infrastructure had to ramp-up rapidly to operations at full scale and computing models and analysis strategies are confronted with data taking in full swing. Although the computing part worked generally well, some evolution is already ongoing in various areas.

The HEP track will consist of two parts. In the first part we will have some presentations about new trends and technologies, like CernVMFS, remote data access and Clouds for HEP. In the second part we will have some small practical hands-on exercising some of mentioned techniques.

Event

Tuesday, September 6th, 13:30-18:30

Requirements

to be defined!