Friday, Oct. 17, 2008

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Friday, Oct. 17 Diversity Fair today Opportunistic storage increases 3:30 p.m. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fermilab will hold its grid job success rate DIRECTOR'S COFFEE inaugural Diversity Fair. The fair will give BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over employees a chance to see the many aspects THERE WILL BE NO JOINT of diversity at the laboratory. The fair includes EXPERIMENTAL- a variety of performances in Ramsey THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK Auditorium (noon to 1 p.m.), including music and dance, as well as tables with ethnic Saturday, Oct. 18 desserts in the atrium. 7 p.m. Title: The Atom Smashers - About 20 display tables in the cafeteria and atrium (see map) will provide information on Ramsey Auditorium various ethnic groups from Europe, Asia, the Events processed by DZero per week from May to Sunday, Oct. 19 Americas and Africa. Other display tables will October 2008. The vertical scale goes to 12M have information on veterans and people with 2:30 p.m. events. Image courtesy of DZero. Fermilab Arts Series - disabilities as well as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual Auditorium and transgender people. Everybody is invited. The DZero high-energy physics experiment at Title: George Winston in Fermilab, an Open Science Grid user, typically Please note that the cafeteria will close at 1 p. Concert submits 60,000-100,000 simulation jobs per m. to begin the setup for the labwide party. Tickets: $25/$13 week at 23 sites. The experiment’s application Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. executables make many requests for input Monday, Oct. 20 Special Announcement data in quick succession. Due to the lack of 2:30 p.m. storage local to the processing sites, up until Particle Astrophysics Seminar recently much of DZero’s simulated data had - Curia II Labwide party today to transfer in real-time over the wide area Speaker: Marta Volonteri, To say thank you and to celebrate Fermilab’s network, leading to high latencies, job University of Michigan achievements of the last year, the Fermi timeouts and job failures. Title: Massive Black Holes Research Alliance invites all Fermilab from Early Times to the employees, retirees, users, contractors and OSG worked with member institutions to allow Present Day DOE employees to today’s party in the Wilson DZero to use opportunistic storage, that is, idle 3:30 p.m. Hall atrium from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. storage on shared machines, at several sites. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE This represents the first successful BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over - Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. deployment of opportunistic storage on OSG, 4 p.m. The cafeteria and lunch area close at 1 p.m. and opens the door for other OSG Virtual All Experimenters' Meeting - Please use the seating on the 2nd floor Organizations. With allocations of up to 1 TB Curia II crossover after 1 p.m. at sites where it processes jobs, DZero has Special Topic: Collider Shot increased its job success rate from roughly 30 Setup Improvements - To enter drawings for door prizes and to percent to upwards of 85 percent. receive a ticket for a free Fermilab travel mug, Click here for NALCAL, bring your postcard invitation to the party and Hosting storage resources is often tricky, a weekly calendar with links drop it in the raffle drum located outside One especially for smaller grid sites, both in terms to additional information. West. Users can pick up a postcard at the of hardware and professional expertise, says Weather Users' Office. Drawings start at 4 p.m. You Abhishek Singh-Rana, coordinator of the must be present to win. Second-chance Virtual Organizations group in OSG, which helps science communities achieve good Mostly sunny 50°/37° drawing at 6 p.m. results using the OSG. For this reason, the VO - To reduce wait times, use any of the six food group negotiated with the larger OSG science stations and three stations with beverages Extended Forecast communities, US ATLAS and US CMS, to (see map). allow other OSG communities to use their Weather at Fermilab CERN Press Release storage resources opportunistically. So far, Current Security Status DZero has used storage at six US-LHC Tier-2 sites, and is looking for more. Secon Level 3 CERN releases analysis of LHC Read more incident Wilson Hall Cafe Announcements Investigations at CERN following a large Friday, Oct. 17 helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Have a safe day! - Chunky vegetable soup w/ Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have confirmed orzo that cause of the incident was a faulty George Winston piano concert Oct. 19 - Gyros electrical connection between two of the The Fermilab Arts Series presents George - Cajun breaded catfish accelerator's magnets. This resulted in Winston at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, in Ramsey - Polish sausage mechanical damage and release of helium Auditorium. Winston's solo piano concert - Southwestern chicken wrap from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel. features music from his melodic seasonal - Assorted slice pizza recordings, Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts pieces, - Korean garlic chicken Proper safety procedures were in force, the New Orleans R & B piano, stride piano, and safety systems performed as expected, and more, including pieces from his latest CD, Wilson Hall Cafe Menu no one was put at risk. Sufficient spare "Gulf Coast Blues and Impressions: A Chez Leon components are in hand to ensure that the Hurricane Relief Benefit." Tickets are $25 for LHC is able to restart in 2009, and measures adults and $13 for those 18 and younger. For to prevent a similar incident in the future are Wednesdsay, Oct. 22 reservations, call (630) 840-2787 weekdays being put in place. Lunch from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, see www.fnal.gov/culture. - Grilled salmon w/scallion "This incident was unforeseen," said CERN sauce Director General Robert Aymar, "but I am now Fire drill Oct. 22 - Lemongrass rice confident that we can make the necessary - Pineapple upside down cake A fire drill will take place on Wednesday, Oct. repairs, ensure that a similar incident can not 22. happen in the future and move forward to Thursday, Oct. 23 achieving our research objectives." Dinner Wilson Hall emergency warden training - Closed If you are a current or new emergency warden The summary report follows: and have not gone through annual training, Chez Leon Menu SUMMARY OF THE ANALYSIS OF THE 19 please contact John Kent via e-mail or at Call x4598 to make your SEPTEMBER 2008 INCIDENT AT THE LHC x4753. reservation. Archives On 19 September 2008, during powering tests Bike path closures begin Oct. 20 of the main dipole circuit in Sector 3-4 of the Beginning Monday, Oct. 20, the bike path LHC, a fault occurred in the electrical bus between Road D and the Wilson Hall east Fermilab Today connection in the region between a dipole and parking area will close for construction. A a quadrupole, resulting in mechanical damage project will begin Monday to install a and release of helium from the magnet cold redundant source of drinking water for Wilson Result of the Week mass into the tunnel. Proper safety Hall. Crews will excavate and install a water procedures were in force, the safety systems service pipe between the reflecting pond and Safety Tip of the Week performed as expected, and no-one was put at the Tevatron berm, adjacent to the bike/ risk. walking path. Check the map for alternate routes. 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