HEPiX Fall 2014 U Nebraska Lincoln, USA Workshop Wrap-Up Sandy Philpott, Helge Meinhard

Attendees  93 registrants  again including several first-timers!  6 of 8 US-CMS Tier-2 sites  2 of 5 US-ATLAS Tier-2 sites  45 international sites represented  North American, European, Asian, Australian  Average 4 remote Vidyo sites  Unfortunate that some registrants did not receive Visas in time to attend

Presentations  60 contributions  Scheduled total duration: 4.5 days  Rich and very interesting program  High quality of presentations  2 remote presentations via Vidyo

Continue with Usual Tracks  Site reports  Security and Networking  Storage & Filesystems  Grid, Cloud & Virtualization  Compute and Batch Services  IT Facilities & Business Continuity  IT Basic Services  IT End-User Services & OSs

Face to Face  Coffee breaks  Lunch breaks  Dinner, evening discussions  Welcome reception on Monday  Social event at Sheldon Museum of Art on Wednesday Countless hours of valuable exchange

Board Meeting (1)  Current and next meeting planning  Working groups –HEPiX website updates needed  IPv6  experiments pushing for services at Tier 1 & 2 sites  see report during the workshop  Configuration Management  YAIM to Puppet investigation  Benchmarking  Awaiting SPECCPU, some experiments want “fast” benchmark, working towards HS14  Batch  little WG activity; noted moves toward HTCondor  Bit Preservation  little WG activity

Board Meeting (2)  hepix.org website still needs cutover  from FNAL plone to w.hepix.org from FNAL plone to w.hepix.org  before next meeting! before next meeting!  Revisit 3 year inactive sites for continued membership …  SLAC, TRIUMF, Cornell, Genome Institute, Taiwan  Adding UNL Brian Bockelman  New North-American co-chair elected  Tony Wong, BNL Tony Wong, BNL  3 year term 3 year term

Next meetings  Spring 2015: Oxford University  March 23 – 27 March 23 – 27  Same tracks as this time Same tracks as this time  Add CEPH focus – BOF or dedicated sessions Add CEPH focus – BOF or dedicated sessions  Fall 2015: Brookhaven National Lab  Propose October 12-16 Propose October  Any known conflicts presently? Any known conflicts presently?  Spring 2016:  Possibly DESY Zeuthen Possibly DESY Zeuthen  Confirm with Wolfgang Friebel Confirm with Wolfgang Friebel Proposals always welcome…

Thanks  Participants  … for attending, some from quite far!  Presenters  … for their contribution and for having accepted constraints  Track convenors and chairs  … for soliciting contributions, and keeping within schedule

Special thanks  University of Nebraska  Western Digital  DataDirect Networks Without their support and their participation, many things would not have been possible HEPiX Fall 2014 is proudly sponsored by Western Digital at the platinum level and DDN at the silver level.

Special thanks (2) Local organizers:  Brian Bockelman  LaRita Lang   Marian Zvada (for taking care of Vidyo issues)   The rest of the HCC crew: Carl, Garhan, Derek, Emelie, Adam   HCC director David Swanson … and all other the behind the scenes support to make this meeting a success!

Final Words Feedback welcome! Have a good trip back… … and see you in Oxford!