HPSS User Forum 2017

Asia/Tokyo
Seminar Hall (KEK Building K03)

Seminar Hall

KEK Building K03

Takashi Sasaki (KEK)
Description

HPSS User Forum 2017

HUF2017 will take place from Monday October 16th to Friday October 20th, 2017 in KEK, Tsukuba - Japan.

The HPSS User Forum (HUF) is the annual gathering of the HPSS community, bringing together new and existing HPSS users from around the globe to discuss best practices for managing, operating, monitoring and supporting HPSS installations. Attendees will include technologists, researchers, faculty, postdocs, business and industry representatives involved in the development, implementation, and management of HPSS software.

 

 

Slides
Participants
  • Guangwei Che
  • Nicholas Balthaser
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Brinette
  • Richard Watson
  • William Anderson
HUF2017 LOC
    • 08:00 09:00
      Registration 1F (KEK Building M01)

      1F

      KEK Building M01

    • 09:00 10:00
      Joint Plenary: Common session of HEPiX, HUF and LHCOPN/LHCONE Kobayashi Hall (KEK Building M01)

      Kobayashi Hall

      KEK Building M01

      Joint session with HEPiX

      Convener: Atsushi Manabe (KEK/CRC)
      • 09:00
        Welcome to KEK 20m
        Speaker: Yasuhiro Okada (KEK)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Logistics information 10m
        Speakers: Takashi Sasaki (KEK), Tomoaki Nakamura (KEK)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        The HEPiX workshop series 10m
        Slides
      • 09:40
        LHCOPN and LHCONE 10m
        Speaker: Edoardo Martelli (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        The HPSS User Forum 10m
        Speaker: Jim Gerry (IBM)
        Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      Keynote Kobayashi Hall (KEK Building M01)

      Kobayashi Hall

      KEK Building M01

      • 10:00
        Particulate magnetic tape for data storage and future technologies 30m
        Enterprise tape drives are widely used at major laboratories in the world, such as CERN, US DoE Labs, KEK and so on as well as data centers in commercial companies. Demands on capacity and speed of I/O inflate infinitely in the tape market. Not only drive technology but also media technology is the key for answering such future requirements. Fujifilm is the world-leading company in the market of magnetic tape media, and has played a major role for evolution of tape technologies in decades. Secure digital data storage sustainable in very long duration with lower costs is the concern of data centers. Particulate magnetic tapes on linear tape storage systems have been widely used for data backup and archival because of their low TCO, long-term stability, and high reliability. However, in order to meet the further demand, expanding the recording capacity of tape storage is essential. Currently, tape cartridges with a capacity of up to 10 TB are available commercially, and the future roadmap of tape storage systems shows to expand the cartridge capacity to 120 TB. To realize this, technologies to increase the areal density of magnetic tape are required. For this purpose, high-density recording studies using barium ferrite (BaFe) magnetic particles have been carried out. The latest study demonstrated an areal density of 123 Gb/in2, corresponding to a 220 TB cartridge capacity in 2015. Furthermore, fine strontium ferrite (SrFe) magnetic particles, which are almost half the size of the current BaFe particles, were also developed; therefore, magnetic tapes are the most effective data storage media to continue enhancing the recording capacity at a low TCO in long-term future.
        Speaker: Mr Masahito Oyanagi (Recording Media Research Laboratories, Fujifilm Corporation)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 11:00 12:30
      HPSS updates Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 11:00
        HPSS Support Update 30m
        Speaker: Thuy Tran (IBM)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        HPSS Software Development Update [Restricted] 1h
        Speaker: Michael Meseke (IBM)
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 13:30 13:55
      Sponsor session Kobayashi Hall (KEK Building M01)

      Kobayashi Hall

      KEK Building M01

      • 13:30
        Sony Optical Archive 25m
        Speaker: Horst Schellong (Sony Optical Archive)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      HPSS planning Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 14:00
        Planning for HPSS 7.5.1 45m
        Speaker: Jon Procknow
        Slides
      • 14:45
        HPSS 7.5.2 Feature Deep Dive 30m
        Speaker: Michael Meseke (IBM)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 16:00 17:00
      Site reports Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 16:00
        NCAR Tools to Help Manage HPSS 30m
        In this presentation, we'll share details about several tools that NCAR has developed over the years that help us manage HPSS and that may help other sites. The tools include ones for monitoring, tracking tapes and managing the disk cache. The presentation will describe the tools and how they've helped NCAR.
        Speaker: William Anderson (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        HSI/HTAR Support Transition Update 30m
        LBNL/NERSC has entered into a transitional support agreement with Gleicher Enterprises, LLC, on behalf of the HPSS Collaboration, to provide continued user support for HSI and HTAR. This talk will give an overview of the transitional HSI/HTAR support model. Topics include a description of the current agreement with LBNL/NERSC, how to get HSI/HTAR support under this agreement, and terms of the proposed HSI/HTAR support transition to the HPSS TC.
        Speaker: Nicholas Balthaser (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/NERSC)
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Banquet Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba

      Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba

      Jananese traditional cuisine

      Convener: Prof. Takashi Sasaki
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 1F (KEK Building M01)

      1F

      KEK Building M01

    • 09:00 09:45
      DB2 and QRep Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 09:00
        Future Planning Considerations for DB2 and QRep [Restricted] 45m
        Speaker: Dave BoomerDave (IBM)
    • 09:45 10:30
      Sponsor session Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 09:45
        Spectra Logic 45m
        Speaker: Matthew T. Starr (Spectra Logic)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 11:00 12:30
      HPSS advanced & web Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 11:00
        HPSS Treefrog interface for data management and integration with heterogenous storage 1h
        Speaker: Alan Giddens (IBM)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        HPSS Collaboration Website Review 15m
        Speaker: Jim Gerry (IBM)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 13:30 13:55
      Sponsor session Kobayashi Hall

      Kobayashi Hall

      KEK Building K03

      • 13:30
        DDN 25m
        Speaker: Ray Akimoto (DDN)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Site reports Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 14:00
        Feedback on TREQS-2, the new IN2P3 prestaging tools 30m
        IN2P3 Computing Center is one of the 14 major datacenters for the storage and the processing of the CERN – LHC physics data. IN2P3 also provides such resources and support for the most important physics and astrophysics experiments (VIRGO, CTA, LSST). Most of the data are stored on tapes on HPSS. To sustain efficiently the recalls activities between HPSS and DCache/Xrootd disks, IN2P3 developed in 2009 a staging product. This product is called TReqs, for Tape Request Scheduler. In 2015 we started a full rewrite of the software in order to improve the performances and the functionalities. TREQS 2 has been in production at IN2P3 for many months. This presentation will focus on the functionality of TREQS-2, the way use it it is used in production and the evolution plan for the next years.
        Speaker: Pierre-Emmanuel Brinette (IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Globus Online services HPSS 30m
        Globus Online is a powerful, reliable, and secure file transfer service with the underlying technology of GridFTP. A simple web interface lets users select the source and destination endpoints and the data movement directions as user’s will. Globus Online supports variety of storage formats. With specific designed HPSS Data Storage Interface (DSI) module, it can move data between disk and HPSS storage, as well as between different HPSS storage through the network. This presentation will provide a user case Proof of Concept, using Globus Online as a HPSS client interface to transfer data crossing multi endpoints on the ESnet test facilities.
        Speaker: Guangwei Che (BNL)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 16:00 17:00
      BOF Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Francis Dequenne (ECMWF)
    • 08:00 18:00
      Excursion: Nikko tour

      Nikko tour

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

    • 09:00 10:30
      Burning issues Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Jon PROCKNOW (IBM)
      • 09:00
        HUF Burning Issues Review 45m
        Speaker: Jon Procknow (IBM)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Discussion 45m
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 11:00 12:30
      HPSS logging & Tape products Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 11:00
        Deep Dive for HPSS 7.5.2 Logging 40m
        Speakers: Jon Procknow (IBM), Michael Meseke (IBM)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        IBM tapee product updates 45m
        Speakers: Ed Childers (IBM), Lee Jesionowski (IBM)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch
    • 13:30 13:55
      Sponsor session Kobayashi Hall

      Kobayashi Hall

      KEK Building K03

      • 13:30
        Lenovo Enterprise Solutions 25m
        Speaker: Noriyasu Murata (Lenovo Enterprise Solutions)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Site reports Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 14:00
        JAXA Site Presentation -Reliability of Data Management- 30m
        In recent years, large and/or unknown storage failures have occurred on JAXA's supercomputer. In HUF2015 we reported silent data corruption on JAXA supercomputer file system. This year we experienced file system failures on supercomputer file system two times, one HPSS cache disk failure, and one-pair HPSS tape read error. Are these storage system reliable? Should we change our system design and/or operation policy?
        Speaker: Naoyuki Fujita (JAXA)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        KEK site report 30m
        Speaker: Koichi Murakami (KEK)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 19:00 22:00
      Banquet Sansuitei

      Sansuitei

      Jananese traditional cuisine

      Convener: Prof. Takashi Sasaki
    • 09:00 10:30
      Future discussion Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 09:00
        HPSS Collaboration Development Executive Committee Overview 30m
        This talk will briefly review the 25 year history of the HPSS Collaboration, the role of the HPSS Executive and Technical Committees, the DOE development laboratories' high-performance computing five year plans, and HPSS plans for the next five years.
        Speaker: Richard Watson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Discission 1h
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m KEK Building M01

      KEK Building M01

    • 11:00 12:00
      Closing remark Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03

      Convener: Koichi MURAKAMI
      • 11:00
        HUF2018 10m
      • 11:10
        Closing 20m
        Speaker: Takashi Sasaki (KEK)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch
    • 13:00 14:30
      KEK facility visit Seminar Hall

      Seminar Hall

      KEK Building K03