From alan.sill at ttu.edu  Fri Jul  8 12:19:17 2011
From: alan.sill at ttu.edu (Alan Sill)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:19:17 -0500
Subject: [THEGrid] Registration open for 2011 OSG Summer Workshop and CMS T3
	workshop
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FYI, please see the announcement below. A short form for the conference URL is

    http://indico.fnal.gov/event/osgsw2011

Note that there will be material on preparing and running campus grids, optimizing and running HPC clusters, high-throughput parallel computing scheduling using new OSG tools, and we hope to invite a special talk by the Globus group on using the new Globus Online and Globus Connect tools in conjunction with campus-based site systems as well.  Connections to at least some of the talks will be available by video  for two-way interaction using the usual ECS, phone and EVO systems and we hope to be able to broadcast all of the plenary sessions using Adobe Connect as well.

The OSG Summer Workshop will take place at TTU Aug. 9-11, 2011 and as the announcement says, registration is now open.  We have worked hard to reduce the price of the registration fee to a minimum, so we hope that even in these difficult financial times people will take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the Summer Workshop and to interact with their fellow OSG and campus grid administrators and VO members.

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact the conference organizers by email at the conference support address,

    osg2011 at highenergy.phys.ttu.edu

Alan Sill for Chris Cowden (local organizing chair) and the TTU HEP and HPCC groups


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From: Marco Mambelli <marco at hep.uchicago.edu>
Date: July 8, 2011 11:49:51 AM CDT
To: OSG Sites Mailing List <osg-sites at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG>, "OSG-VO-FORUM at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG" <OSG-VO-FORUM at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG>, "osg-int at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG" <osg-int at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG>, "OSG-T3-LIASON at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG" <OSG-T3-LIASON at OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG>
Cc: Dan Fraser <fraser at anl.gov>, Rob Snihur <snihur at fnal.gov>, "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill at ttu.edu>
Subject: Registration open for 2011 OSG Summer Workshop and CMS T3 workshop

Dear OSG colleagues,

On August 9 and 10 there will be an OSG site administrators meeting in 
Lubbock, TX, hosted by Texas Tech University.
The event will be followed by the CMS Tier 3 meeting on August 10 and 11.

Please register by 8/1 whether you plan to attend one, the other or both.
Here is the registration page:
https://indico.fnal.gov/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/display?confId=4531

The workshop will be an occasion to learn more, exchange experiences
and get support. The main goals of this meeting are to provide guidance 
and support for users interested on running jobs on OSG production and 
campus grids and for sites providing these resources.

We will focus on the important changes in OSG software distribution moving 
from Pacman to RPM packages providing insights and guidance for the 
migration. There will also be sessions on cluster management, security 
best practices, network tuning and troubleshooting, installation and 
tuning of OSG services (Campus Grids, Glidein WMS VO frontend, Compute 
Elements, Storage Elements, GUMS, ...).
And we will cover also job submission and execution, from basic to Glidein 
WMS to Campus Grids and HPTC jobs.
All with a very practical and hands-on style and with one-on-one support.

It will be a good opportunity to get your workflow running on OSG 
production or Campus Grid or your site up and running or up to date with 
the latest OSG release.

Here is a link to the Indico page and the current temporary agenda:
https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=4531

Best regards,
Marco Mambelli