Derek Weitzel

Research Assistant Professor

Dissertation

  • Weitzel, Derek. “Enabling Distributed Scientific Computing on the Campus.” Diss. U of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2015. Online

Publications

  • Fajardo, E., Zvada, M., Weitzel, D., Rynge, M., Hicks, J., Selmeci, M., Lin, B., Paschos, P.,Bockelman, B., Sfiligoi, I., Hanushevsky, A., and Würthwein, F. Creating a content delivery networkfor general science on the backbone of the internet using xcaches. InJournal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted).
  • Babik, M., McKee, S., Andrade, P., Bockelman, B., Gardner, R., Hernandez, E. M. F., Martelli, E.,Vukotic, I., Weitzel, D., and Zvada, M. Wlcg networks: Update on monitoring and analytics. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted).
  • Alex Withers, Brian Bockelman, Derek Weitzel, Duncan Brown, Jason Patton, Jeff Gaynor, Jim Basney, Todd Tannenbaum, You Alex Gao, Zach Miller, “SciTokens: Demonstrating Capability-Based Access to Remote Scientific Data using HTCondor” Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning) (PEARC ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 8 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3333258 online (arxiv)
  • Derek Weitzel, Marian Zvada, Ilija Vukotic, Rob Gardner, Brian Bockelman, Mats Rynge, Edgar Fajardo Hernandez, Brian Lin, and Mátyás Selmeci. 2019. StashCache: A Distributed Caching Federation for the Open Science Grid. In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning) (PEARC ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3332212 online (arxiv)
  • Bockelman, B., Hanushekvsky, A., Keeble, O., Lassnig, M., Millar, P.,Weitzel, D., and Yang, W. Bootstrapping a new lhc data transfer ecosystem. CHEP18 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted), IOP Publishing
  • Babik, M., McKee, S., Bockelman, B., Fajardo, Edgar Martelli, E., Vukotic,I., Weitzel, D., and Zvada, M.Improving wlcg networks through monitoring and analytics. CHEP18 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted), IOP Publishing
  • Fajardo, E., Rynge, M., Weitzel, D., Merino, G., Shultz, D., Brik, V.,and Skarlupka, H. Osg and gpus: A tale of two use cases. CHEP18 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted), IOP Publishing
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Basney, J., Tannenbaum, T., Miller, Z., and Gaynor, J. Capability-based authorization for hep. CHEP18 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted), IOP Publishing
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Retzke, K., and Bhat, S. Gracc: Grid accounting collector. CHEP18 In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Accepted), IOP Publishing
  • Withers, A., Bockelman, B., Weitzel, D., Brown, D., Gaynor, J., Basney, J., Tannenbaum, T. and Miller, Z. 2018. SciTokens: Capability-Based Secure Access to Remote Scientific Data. In Proceedings of the PEARC ‘18: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2018, doi:< 10.1145/3219104.3219135
  • Zhang, Z., Bockelman, B., Weitzel, D. and Swanson, D. 2018. Discovering Job Preemptions in the Open Science Grid. In Proceedings of the PEARC ‘18 Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2018, doi:< 10.1145/3219104.3229282
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Brown, D.A., Couvares, P., Würthwein, F. and Hernandez, E.F., 2017. Data Access for LIGO on the OSG. In Proceedings of the PEARC ‘17 Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, New Orleans, TX, USA, July 2017. DOI: 10.1145/3093338.3093363
  • Weitzel, D., & Bockelman, B. (2017, October). Contributing opportunistic resources to the grid with HTCondor-CE-Bosco. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 898, No. 9, p. 092026). IOP Publishing. Online
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Dykstra, D., Blomer, J., & Meusel, R. (2017, October). Accessing Data Federations with CVMFS. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 898, No. 6, p. 062044). IOP Publishing. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/898/6/062044 Online
  • Retzke, K., Weitzel, D., Bhat, S., Levshina, T., Bockelman, B., Jayatilaka, B., … & Wuerthwein, F. (2017, October). GRACC: New generation of the OSG accounting. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 898, No. 9, p. 092044). IOP Publishing. Online
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Brown, D. A., Couvares, P., Würthwein, F., & Hernandez, E. F. (2017, July). Data Access for LIGO on the OSG. In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 on Sustainability, Success and Impact (p. 24). ACM. Online
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B. & Swanson, D. Distributed Caching Using the HTCondor CacheD. In Proceedings for Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, 2015. Online
  • Weitzel, D., Frey, J., Mambelli, M., Fraser, D., Ahronovitz, M., & Swanson, D. BoscoR: Extending R from the desktop to the Grid. MTAGS’ 14. Online
  • Weitzel, D., Sfiligoi, I., Bockelman, B., Frey, J., Wuerthwein, F., Fraser, D., & Swanson, D. (2014, June). Accessing opportunistic resources with Bosco. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 513, No. 3, p. 032105). IOP Publishing. Online
  • Levshina, T., Sehgal, C., Bockelman, B., Weitzel, D., & Guru, A. (2014, June). Grid accounting service: state and future development. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 513, No. 3, p. 032056). IOP Publishing. Online
  • He, C., Weitzel, D., Swanson, D., & Lu, Y. (2012, November). HOG: Distributed Hadoop MapReduce on the Grid. In High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC), 2012 SC Companion: (pp. 1276-1283). IEEE. Online
  • Weitzel, D. (2011). Campus Grids: A framework to facilitate resource sharing (Masters Thesis, University of Nebraska).
  • Weitzel, D., Fraser, D., Bockelman, B., & Swanson, D. (2012, December). Campus Grids: Bringing Additional Computational Resources to HEP Researchers. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 396, No. 3, p. 032116). IOP Publishing.
  • Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Fraser, D., Pordes, R., & Swanson, D. (2011, December). Enabling campus grids with open science grid technology. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 331, No. 6, p. 062025). IOP Publishing.
  • Andrews, W., Bockelman, B., Bradley, D., Dost, J., Evans, D., Fisk, I., … & Weitzel, D. (2011, December). Early experience on using glideinWMS in the cloud. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 331, No. 6, p. 062014). IOP Publishing.

Awards

  • Best Software and Data Paper: Weitzel, D., Bockelman, B., Brown, D.A., Couvares, P., Würthwein, F. and Hernandez, E.F., 2017. Data Access for LIGO on the OSG. In Proceedings of the PEARC ‘17 Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, New Orleans, TX, USA, July 2017. DOI: 10.1145/3093338.3093363

Presentatations

  • Paper Presentation: Weitzel, Derek. StashCache: A Distributed Caching Federation for the Open Science Grid at Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC 19) July 30, 2019 (online)

  • Invited Talk: Weitzel, Derek. Enabling Microsoft OneDrive Integration with HTCondor at Humans in the Loop: Enabling and Facilitating Research on Cloud Computing at PEARC19. July 29, 2019 (online)

  • Weitzel, Derek; Bockelman, Brian; Thiltges, John. Hiding All the Details: Running Grid Jobs Inside Docker Containers on the OSG. at HTCondor Week 2016. (online)