WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 Magnoni Luca Early Stage Researcher WP5 - ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 Who am I Training Technical work Dissemination Impact and conclusion Outline

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 I am from Modena, Italy Master degree in Computer Science, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna 2nd year PhD in Computer Science, University of Ferrara Previous research experience in Grid computing for LHC experiments StoRM: a storage resource manager for Grid data transfer ACEOLE Early Stage Researcher since 1 st June 2009 to work on the TDAQ software infrastructure of the ATLAS experiment Brief summary

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 Two important basic courses: "Poster and Presentation making workshop” "Leaders in science, learning from experience” Technical courses: "Advanced C++ lectures” "Secure coding for Web Applications and Web Services” "Secure coding for Java” "Python - Hands-on Introduction” Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) "Pattern Classification and Machine Learning” On the job training: very good training infrastructure in the ATLAS TDAQ group ISOTDAQ School 2010 teaching skills and interaction with students. Training experience

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) system Filtering Evaluate Computing Infrastructure ~3000 nodes ~20000 applications Flow of data Transport

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST ) Dynamic Error Recovery ~20000 Applications Running concurrently Interacting with each other Errors happen, all the time: Application failure Host crash Network error I am responsible for the TDAQ Expert System: A tool for error analysis and dynamic recovery Rule based knowledge I have to keep the knowledge base up to date with TDAQ system Investigate more advanced approach for system evolution RULEs If Applicatio n DIES then RESTART … RULEs If Applicatio n DIES then RESTART … RULEs If Applicatio n DIES then RESTART … RULEs If Applicatio n DIES then RESTART … RULE if Applicatio n DIES then RESTART … RULE if Applicatio n DIES then RESTART …

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST ) Analytics Dashboard: a real time web application to monitor messages Common error reporting system During data taking runs, streams of messages sent by applications via the message reporting system (MRS) together with data published via information services (IS) are the main sources of knowledge about correctness of running operations. This flow is constantly being monitored by experts to detect problem MESSAGES Web dashboard: to collect and present effectively information Applications MESSAGES

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 As attendee: ATLAS TDAQ week at CERN – July 2009 ATLAS Overview week in Barcelona - October 2009 Several technical reports in internal meeting ATLAS ADT Group meeting – Jan 2010 Online and System Administration report ISOTDAQ School 2010 – February 2010 Tutor for exercise ATLAS TDAQ week - May 2010 Control and Configuration Group report CHEP 2010 Taipei - October 2010: Talk: "The TDAQ Analytics Dashboard: a real-time web application for the ATLAS TDAQ control infrastructure" Dissemination

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE LDR RESEARCHER ACEOLE MID TERM REVIEW CERN 3 RD AUGUST 2010 Fundamental experience for my career Doing research at CERN is very good. Meeting people and discussing ideas Access to several training facilities, improving my technical and communication competences Upgrade skills in team coordination and in work analysis, planning and organization On my own project Coordinating technical student project Project responsibility: Design and technical choices Exploring and applying modern programming technologies and framework Acquiring competences Impact