Introduction dCache strategic direction. dCache.org 20 min
- New dCache license model : AGPL
- New develoement already available. StAR, IT-HIT, Catalogue Synchronziation
- Planned development: Hadoop FS, GPFS, Using 3Tier storage
- Stratigic parnership: CERN DM: WebDAV fedarations, EMI, Science Soft
- New web administaration interface instead of GUI (Maybe details in a separate presentation)
Deployment: review and future Christian (confirmed) 30 min
- What changed from our last meeting to now, in terms of features and BUG fixes?
- What do you need to take into account when upgrading from 1.9.5 or 1.9.12 to 2.2?
- New Media (Customer information services),Twitter,RSS Feed,Google Plus,User Forum. What are customers interested in?
- What is the release policy (new and depricated) for the next 12 months.
- The packages we provide (RPM, Tar...)
- The move towards FHS, and dCache processes are no longer 'root' owned. (Details in presentation later)
dCache Master class Gerd (confirmed) 30 min Developers will give a short Introduction of the internals of dCache. We will touch on
- The components, dCache is composed of.
- How do they interact.
gPlazma 2, the enhanced authentication/authorization infrastructure High level design of gPlazma2 Paul (confirmed) 20 min
- Why gPlazma2. Examples of use cases which we woudn't be able to realize with GP1.
- How is gPlazma2 structured. What are the performed steps during the aa step.
- How does the pPlazma1 structure relates to the new gPlazma2 pluggin structure.
- Which gPlazma2 plug-ins already exist.
How to configure gPlazma2 and the corresponding plug-ins Karsten (confirmed) 30 min
- How to configure the plug-in framework.
- Which plug-ins are available and how do they need to be configured.
- Example for the standard WLCG use case.
- Example for a non-HEP use case with WebDAV, Kerberos and LDAP/NIS
- How to configure ARGUS
Hands on (with dCache 2.2) Oleg (confirmed) 90 min
- Migration from a default/standard WLCG installation to gPlazma2
- Migration of an customized installation to gPlazma2
- Manual configuration of WebDAV with username/password
- Manual configuration of pNFS with Kerberos and LDAP.
News on supported protocols in dCache and related work. Details on NFS 4.1/pNFS Tigran (confirmed) 30 min
- Complete description on how to setup a minimal NFS4.1/pNFS dcache-server and sl6-client infrastructure.
- ID Mapping on server and client.
- Setup with Kerberos and LDAP to integrate with your local site infrastructure.
- Plans on GSS/X509 with NFS 4.1
- Examples and Demo applications which work on dCache/pNFS and those which don't work (immutable files)
Hands-on for NFS 4.1/pNFS See gPlazma hands-on -
- This will be done in cooperation with the gPlazma2 hands-on.
Details on WebDAV Paul (tentative) 15 min
- WebDAV with basic username/password authentication.
- WebDAV with Certificate client authentication.
- WebDAV with username/password authentication against your local Kerberos KDC.
- How to use the IT HIT javascript system.
Details on xroot Paul (tentative) 10 min
- Whats new with the xroot protocol in dCache.
- Recipe on how to enable the CMS xrootd redirector within dCache.
HTW Berlin: Http federations Daniel (confirmed) 10 min
New features in the next Golden Release. The dCache Pluggin Infrastructure Gerd (confirmed) 30 min
- gPlazma plugins (Only for completeness as it is (will be) presented in the gPlazma2 section)
- Pool selection plugins
- Xrootd authentication plugins
- Xrootd authorization plugins
- Name space provider plugins
- Pool file store plugins
- Pool meta data store plugins
- Packaging of plugins (ie where to install jars,how to hook into dCache configuration system,how to hook into dCache service abstraction).
Improved pool selection algorithm: WASS Gerd (confirmed) 30 min
- Problems and challenges in pool selection
- The WASS plugin
- Tuning parameters
- The partition manager shell commands
The move towards FHS, and dCache processes are no longer 'root' owned. Christian (confirmed) 10 min
Site and feature reports by customers PIC: Nagios probes Gerard (confirmed) 10 min DESY: dCache for Photon science Birgit (confirmed) 10 min Wuppertal: Visusalization of the billing DB Sergey (confirmed) 15 min WLCG TEG: Consequences from the storage TEG Paul (confirmed) 10 min MetaQuant : a new platform dealing with DNA samples to produce metagenomics analysis, a use case for big data. Nicolas Pons (inra.fr) 10 min
Operating external components Postgres Sergey (confirmed) 40 min
- Postgres tuning e.g. how to run in-memory or Postgres profiling.
- What to look for in your production system.
- Postgres backup (10min)
- Postgres high availability (10min)
File Systems Christoph (confirmed) 30 min
- Blocksizes and scheduler
- Possible configurations of FS's (xfs, ext4)