HEPiX Fall 2013 U Mich Ann Arbor, USA Workshop Wrap-Up Helge Meinhard, Sandy Philpott

Attendees  115 registered participants  Including many first-timers! 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 2 nd 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 May 19 – 23 confirmed  Same tracks as this time Same tracks as this time  Fall 2014: University of Nebraska interested  Need final site approval Need final site approval  Dates to be determined 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 organising committee:  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!