HSF Seminar - dCache

Wednesday 24 Sept 2025, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

53/R-044 (CERN)

 

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16:30 → 16:35 Introduction

16:35 → 17:20 dCache - sustainable software for the HEP community

For over two decades, the dCache project has provided open-source software to satisfy ever-more demanding storage requirements.
More than 80 sites worldwide rely on dCache to provide services for LHC experiments, Belle-II, EuXFEL, and many others.
This can be achieved only with a well-established process from a whiteboard, where ideas are created, through development,
packaging, and testing. During this seminar, we will present how dcache developers ensure the software quality, the challenges they met,
and the techniques that were used to solve them.

Speaker: Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

dcache-sustainable-software-development.pdf