2015 ICT workshop

6 Oct 2015, 08:00 → 9 Oct 2015, 14:00 UTC

Cefalu'

Aniello Grado, Bianca Garilli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Giuliano Taffoni, Mauro Nanni, Riccardo Smareglia (Chair), Ugo Becciani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Vincenzo Testa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Anche quest’anno lo scopo e’ quello di coordinare al meglio le risorse sia umane che informatiche/infrastrutturali che l’INAF possiede. Come l’altr’anno si desidera coinvolgere i progetti ICT attualmente presenti o futuri, parlare e visualizzare gli sviluppi futuri legati all’industria ICT o ai grossi centri di calcolo, creare un punto di acculturamento sia per il personale scientifico sia per quello che da supporto alla ricerca. In particolare la parte di “Calcolo” e’ molto calda, soprattutto a seguito dell’evento “Astrofrontiere”. Sono previste sessioni di formazione su temi caldi quali il cloud, e sessioni in cui discutere delle neccessita’ dell’INAF tramite presentazioni legate al calcolo teorico e simulazione, progetti piccoli/medi e grandi, etc.

 

Le slide, i video e le foto del meting sono scaricabili presso il sito dell'ICT
(per il solo personale INAF in possesso delle credenziali IDEM)

Tuesday 6 October

08:50 → 09:00 Start & Welcom

09:00 → 09:55 Attivita' ICT

Cosa e' stato fatto Attivita' GCSI Attivita' CC Mous CRIS-like I corsi COntratti campus

Speaker: Riccardo Smareglia

Slides Smareglia_-_Cefalu.pdf

09:55 → 10:25 Il Nuovo Sistema Informativo/gestionale ... Verso Noi-PA

Speaker: Mauro Nanni

Slides Nanni_-_NoiPa_&_c..pdf

10:25 → 10:40 Nuovo Campus Microsoft

Come' e come viene distribuito

Speaker: Chiara Giorgieri

Slides giorgieri.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:25 Chi siamo con H1-HRMS e Astro-dip

Saranno descritte le funzionalita' del programma H1-HRMA per la gestione giuridica del personale e le relazioni con Astro-DIP che costituisce la base dei servizi di rete autenticati.

Speaker: Barbara Neri

Slides Neri.pdf

11:25 → 11:50 Il Programma Missioni TNSJ

Presentazione del programma per la gestione telematica delle fasi autorizzative e dei rendiconti delle missioni del personale, programma che si sta' sperimentando presso alcune strutture.

Speaker: Stefano Giovannini

Slides Giovannini_-_Da_CSA_a_TNSJ.pdf

11:50 → 13:00 Discussione

Integrazione tra il sistema informativo dell'Ente e quello delle strutture (Link tra siti, visibilita' dei database)

13:00 → 14:30 Pranzo

14:30 → 15:45 L'Identita' Digitale INAF, Certificati e Firme Digitali

-- IdP INAF, policy e servizi -- La federazione IDEM e SPID -- Nuovi servizi per l'astronomia (SKA proto) -- Certificati e firme digitali PDF (PAdES)

Speaker: Franco Tinarelli

Slides Tinarelli_-_certificati.pdf Tinarelli_-_PresentazoineIDEM_Cefalu.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Reti locali e geografiche

Stato e Prospettive delle reti INAF, Criticita' nel passaggio a 10Gbit/s, Esperienze reti locali innovative

Speaker: Mauro Nanni

Slides Nanni_-_Network.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 16:55 Configuraione di sistemi HA

Speaker: Dr Francesco Tribioli

Slides Tribioli.pdf

16:55 → 17:15 Server Ridondanti

Esperianza del OA-Bologna nella messa in opera di un sistema ad alta affidabilita' per l'amministrazione ed i servizi

Speaker: Michele Gatti

Slides Gatti_-Workshop_ICT_INAF_2015.pdf

17:15 → 17:35 Sistemi di posta ridondante

Speaker: Francesco Bedosti

Slides posta-cefalu.pdf

17:35 → 18:30 Discussione: Come organizzare e garantire i servizi INAF

18:30 → 18:40 End of the day

Wednesday 7 October

08:50 → 09:00 Start

09:00 → 11:00 Cloud Computing - La sistemistica

Speaker: Cozzini

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 13:00 Cloud Computing: Utilizzo Scientifico

Speaker: Cozzini

13:00 → 14:30 Pranzo

14:30 → 14:50 Polvere di stelle : tecnologie astronomiche applicate alla conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio storico

Polvere di stelle : tecnologie astronomiche applicate alla conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio storico Mauro Gargano1 & Antonella Gasperini2 1 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte 2 INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Il patrimonio culturale dell’INAF, costituito da libri antichi e moderni, strumenti scientifici e documenti d’archivio, rappresenta un caposaldo nella storia dell’astronomia europea. Per la conservazione e valorizzazione della propria eredità storico culturale il Servizio Biblioteche e Archivi e il Servizio Musei dell’INAF hanno sviluppato un progetto che ha portato alla pubblicazione del portale Polvere di stelle. Il sito web ospita le collezioni librarie, documentarie e strumentali dei principali centri di ricerca astronomica in Italia. Polvere di stelle consente agli studiosi, ma anche alla più ampia platea dei curiosi e degli appassionati di astronomia e di cultura scientifica, di accedere alle informazioni attraverso una ricerca simultanea su specifici database sviluppati per la catalogazione di manoscritti, libri antichi e moderni, documenti di archivio, strumentazione scientifica, opere d’arte e biografie di astronomi. Inoltre, per la conservazione e fruizione del materiale digitalizzato è stato creato un repository nazionale, ospitato presso l’IA2 di Trieste, utilizzando le tecnologie infrastrutturali per la gestione dei dati astronomici.

Speaker: Mauro Gargano

Slides Gargano-ict_ws_2015.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 Dati VLBI - Registrazione, processamento e archiviazione

Descrizioni delle possibili pipeline di gestione dei dati VLBI prodotti dalle antenne italiane con riferimento ad esperimenti realizzati, al fine di automatizzare il più possibile la filiera e prevenire errori.

Speaker: Matteo Stagni

Slides MatteoStagni_ICT_2015.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 Propagating (almost) relativistic jets within galaxies.

I will shortly illustrate the computational challenge posed by modelling the mechanical feedback from AGNs jets on their host galaxies, and its effect on stellar populations. Few animations of recent simulations performed on up-to-date platforms will help to illustrate the computational problems of migrating individual simulations to a cosmological context.

Speaker: Vincenzo Antonuccio

Slides Antonuccio_talk_ict2015.ppt.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 The ASTRI Data Management System

The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is leading the "Astrofisica con Specchia Tecnologia Replicante Italiana" (ASTRI) project, in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory. We recently inaugurated the first end-to-end prototype of a dual-mirror (2M) small-size telescope (SST) on Mt. Etna, in Sicily. This prototype will be followed by the ASTRI/CTA mini-array composed of nine SST-2M units to be installed at the final CTA southern site, being one of the CTA precursors. The ASTRI SST-2M prototype includes the complete data handling and data archiving chains, from the proposal handling to the data acquisition and from the data reduction up to the delivery of the final scientific products. A data archive and a dedicated data reduction and analysis software are now under development within the ASTRI Project following a typical approach of an open astronomical observatory. The ASTRI data management system is presented here. The focus is given to the various adopted solutions and software subsystems currently in development for the support of the ASTRI SST-2M and the ASTRI/CTA mini-array science operations such as: proposal preparation and submission; observation scheduling (Scheduler); data archive (Archive); data reduction pipelines, data analysis suites. Additional user support systems (science operations, web pages, user portal, etc.) are also outlined.

Speaker: Lucio angelo Antonelli

Slides ASTRI-DATA.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 16:30 Supercomputing: the challenge of the incoming architectures

I will present examples of numerical computations in the field of formation and evolution of cosmic structures, from galaxies to galaxy clusters. To overcome their current limitations, we will need to be able to fully exploit next generation supercomputing facilities. I will describe our statring experience with the european network ExaNest, whose aim is to produce an European exascale machine together with the fellow network ExaNode. I will focus on the need to move from a pioneeristic phase, in which scientists produced their own numerical codes, to a mature one: scientists should focus on physics algorithms and physics modelling, leaving to computer experts the task to implement them inside a professionally devised code architecture.

Speaker: Giuseppe Murante

Slides Cefalu2015_Murante.pdf

16:30 → 18:30 Discussione sulla gestione ed organizzazione dei servizi

18:30 → 18:40 End of the day

Thursday 8 October

08:50 → 09:00 Start

09:00 → 09:45 Presentazioni Industriali: E4

Slides E4_-_INAF_ICT_Workshop.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Presentazioni Industriali: HP (HPC New Platforms overview)

The HPC platforms are diversifying, in the next year the 'one-system-fits-all' will show all its limit. We address quickly in this talk how HP is solving this issue by providing platforms capable of adapting to different compute technologies

Speaker: Edmondo @ HP Orlotti

10:30 → 11:15 Presentazioni Industriali: IBM

Speakers: Cecilia Carniel, Daniele Piccarozzi

Slides IBM-ICTINAF.pdf

11:15 → 11:35 Coffee Break

11:35 → 12:20 Presentaioni Industriali: Oracle

Speaker: Ezio Caudera (Oracle)

Slides Oracle_INAF2015.pptx

12:20 → 13:05 Presentazioni Industriali: ALTEC

Speakers: Michele Martino, Rosario Messineo

Slides ALTEC_8_10_2015_FINAL.pdf

13:05 → 14:30 Pranzo

14:30 → 15:00 INDIGO

Speaker: Giacinto Donvito

Slides indigo_inaf_ws.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 EGI

Speaker: Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)

Slides EGI_intro-INAF-ICT-WS.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 OpenPOWER and Cognitive Computing

This talk covers OpenPOWER foundation activities and discusses some thought about the coming Cognitive Computing systems. OpenPOWER is an open development foundation for the development of Power Architecture solutions. OpenPOWER uses an “open source” and “open hardware” model (i) to create an open ecosystem using POWER architecture, (ii) to share expertise participating to work groups within the OpenPOWER foundation, and (iii) to access to technical information for POWER systems. INAF has an academic membership since 2015. We will show the activities performed for astrophysical projects with IBM and in the context of the OpenPOWER foundation. The Cognitive Computing systems learn from large structured and unstructured data set to build Question&Answering systems, generation a range of hypotheses and interacting with humans. We introduce some ideas about the possibility to use Cognitive Computing for astrophysics.

Speaker: Andrea Bulgarelli

Slides Bulgarelli.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 ASTERICS

The large infrastructure projects for the next decade will allow a new quantum leap in terms of new possible science. ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, a strategic instrument to develop the scientific integration of Europe, has identified four facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net and E-ELT) to support. ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster) aims to address the cross-cutting synergies and common challenges shared by the various Astronomy ESFRI facilities and other world-class facilities. The project (22 partners across Europe) was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme with 15 MEuro in 4 years. It brings together for the first time, the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities, in addition to other related research infrastructures.

Speaker: Fabio Pasian

Slides fpasian_ASTERICS_Cefalu15.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Exanest EU/H2020

Speakers: Giuliano Taffoni, Stefano Borgani

Slides Taffoni_Cefalu_2015.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:30 Discussione ( Quale modello di Calcolo per INAF?)

18:30 → 18:40 End of the day

Friday 9 October

08:50 → 09:00 Start

09:00 → 09:25 ASTRI/CTA data analysis on parallel and low-power platforms

In addition to performing the entire data reduction and analysis chain of data acquired by the ASTRI Cherenkov telescope(s), one of the main goals of the ASTRI/CTA data reduction pipeline is to fit into a versatile data center, obtaining high-throughput and low-power consumption at low-cost. The performance of the processing algorithms, especially those on the low-level stages of the pipeline, can greatly benefit from an implementation on modern many-core parallel computing hardware, such as GPUs. Furthermore, the inherent energy efficiency of these architectures opens up attractive new scenarios when coupled with low-power ARM processors. In this talk we’ll showcase the implementation and the results of the GPU-accelerated code for the ASTRI SST-2M prototype pipeline modules. On datacenter-class hardware, either with x86 or ARM CPUs, the software achieves a net speedup of over 25x compared to the original serial implementation, while on an ARM/GPU SoC development board it surpasses real-time processing requirements consuming around 10W. This would make possible to equip an embedded module on the telescope carrying out preliminary data reduction, greatly decreasing the bandwidth required by an array installation.

Speaker: Alberto Madonna

Slides ASTRI_GPU_ARM.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 AZDORA: Continuous Integration for the DISCOS project

DISCOS is the "Development of the Italian Single-dish Control System" used in SRT, Medicina and Noto radiotelescopes. As the DISCOS project grows bigger every day, we need to assist the software development process with tools that automate the testing, building and releasing of the software package. We thus implemented AZDORA, a continuous integration system used to assess software quality and to automate environment installation for developers and in production systems.

Speaker: Marco Bartolini

Slides Bartolini_ICT@INAF_2015.pdf

09:50 → 10:15 ERC_FIRST HPC-class Projects @ INAF-OAR

This talk will introduce three HPC-level projects developed in the ERC-funded group FIRST (@INAF-OAR): dustyGadget, HPCCRASH, and GAMESH. Our projects span from the implementation of accurate dust production, spreading and evolution in the SPH algorithm of Gadget3, to a traditional Monte Carlo radiative transfer (RT) method implemented in the code CRASH. Finally I will describe our novel pipeline GAMESH, which combines both CRASH and the semi-analytical chemical evolution code GAMETE. GAMESH is currently used to study the effects of the radiative feedback in the formation and evolution of the Local Group. I will focus both in presenting our tools and their computational requirements, also highlighting the many advantages that could derive from partnerships of INAF with HPC-oriented organisations as PRACE or the OpenPower fundation

Speaker: Luca Graziani

Slides LucaGraziani_Cefalu_2015.pdf

10:15 → 10:35 Coffee Break

10:35 → 13:00 Discussione finale e Action

13:00 → 13:10 End of the Meeting