Name: WLCG/HSF Workshop 2024
Start: 2024-05-13T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-17T13:00:00+02:00
Location: DESY

Monday 13 May 2024

12:00 Registration with Coffee
Registration with Coffee
12:00 - 14:00
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
14:00 Opening
Opening
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

14:00 Introduction: WLCG and DESY - Beate Heinemann (DESY and University of Freiburg (Germany)) David South (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

14:35 WLCG workshop objectives - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) Simone Campana (CERN) Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

15:00 HSF retrospective and future - Graeme A Stewart (CERN)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
16:00 Opening
Opening
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

16:00 Transformation of the university-based WLCG-Tier-2 structure in Germany: technical aspects and status of the implementation - Sebastian Wozniewski (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

16:30 Technology outlook - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Canteen Extension
Tuesday 14 May 2024
09:00 Community Software and Software Projects
Community Software and Software Projects
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

09:00 The ROOT Project: Status and Future Directions - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

09:25 The Scikit-HEP project - overview and future - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

09:50 Key4hep - The common software stack for future experiments - Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
Data Challenge
Data Challenge
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

09:00 LHC Experiments - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

09:30 Belle II - Silvio Pardi (Universita Federico II e INFN Sezione di Napoli (IT))

09:45 DUNE - Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

10:00 Site Perspective - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 Community Software and Software Projects
Community Software and Software Projects
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

11:15 The HSF-India Project - David Lange (Princeton University (US))

11:35 User analysis software in a large collaboration (xAODAnaHelpers): development, maintenance and training. - Tobias Fitschen (University of Manchester (GB))

11:55 Pythia8 status and future developments - Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

12:20 The Phoenix Event Display - Edward Moyse (University of Massachusetts (US))
Data Challenge
Data Challenge
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

11:15 FTS Perspective - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN) Steven Murray (CERN)

11:35 Rucio Perspective - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN) Martin Barisits (CERN)

11:55 IAM Perspective - Berk Balci (CERN)

12:15 Network Perspective - Edoardo Martelli (CERN) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Room: Canteen
14:15 HSF Strategy
HSF Strategy
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

14:15 Documents

14:16 HSF Organisation - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

14:31 Discussion

14:50 HSF and Software Projects - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:05 Discussion
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
16:00 Software Tools, Generators and File Formats
Software Tools, Generators and File Formats
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

16:00 Recent developments in the HepMC event record - Andrii Verbytskyi (Max Planck Society (DE))

16:20 NuHepMC: A standardized event record format for neutrino event generators - Luke Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:40 The HSF Conditions Database - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:00 The Gaussino core simulation software - Adam Morris (CERN)
Operations
Operations
16:00 - 17:50
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

16:00 Overview of the ongoing changes and OPS campaigns on the WLCG infrastructure - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

16:15 Improving LHCONE security and Use of Jumbo frames - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)

16:25 Transition from VOMS Admin to IAM. Token profile definition. Implications on the middleware. - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

16:40 APEL status and plans - Thomas Dack

17:00 AUDITOR - Michael Boehler (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

17:15 Follow up on the outcome of the WLCG review on the accounting and pledge management tools - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)
Wednesday 15 May 2024
09:00 Operations
Operations
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

09:00 New WLCG helpdesk. Status and plans. - Pavel Weber

09:20 Handling of high memory jobs. Whole-node scheduling. Standard 16-core instead of 8-core slots. VO and site perspective. - Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Latchezar Betev (CERN) Rodney Walker (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 File Formats and Performance
File Formats and Performance
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

11:15 Development Status of RNtuple, the future HEP Columnar Storage Software Technology - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

11:35 BALER: Bespoke data compression using autoencoders - James Smith (University of Manchester (GB))

11:55 Analysis Grand Challenge benchmarking tests on selected sites - David Martin Koch (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

12:15 Cloud Data Lake Technologies - Benjamin Galewsky (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Room: Canteen
14:15 WLCG Strategy
WLCG Strategy
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

14:15 Introduction on [TECH] strategy

14:55 Environment
15:30 Photograph
Photograph
15:30 - 15:35
Room: Outside of the Hoersaal

15:35 Coffee
Coffee
15:35 - 16:00
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
16:00 Training
Training
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

16:00 HSF Training - Alexander Moreno Briceño (Universidad Antonio Nariño)

16:10 HELIOS - Francesca Calegari

16:20 SMARTHEP - Jamie Gooding

16:30 ErUM-Data-Hub - Angela Warkentin

16:40 HEP Experiments - Valeriia Lukashenko

16:50 EVERSE - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

17:00 HSF Training Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seminar Room 1

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Thursday 16 May 2024
09:00 Fitting and Reinterpretation
Fitting and Reinterpretation
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

09:00 Contur: A tool for reinterpreting particle-level measurements - Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)

09:20 Constructing model-agnostic likelihoods, a method for the reinterpretation of particle physics results - Lorenz Gärtner (LMU)

09:40 Model fitting in Python with zfit and Scikit-HEP - Jonas Eschle (Syracuse University (US))

10:00 NUISANCE <3 HEPData: Automated Neutrino Scattering Comparisons - Patrick Stowell (University of Sheffield) Patrick Stowell
WLCG Strategy
WLCG Strategy
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to [INFRA] strategy
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 Accelerated Computing
Accelerated Computing
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

11:15 Accelerating Monte Carlo event generator analysis using efficient scalable data handling - Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK))

11:35 Portable event generation on GPU-accelerated hardware - Max Knobbe (University of Göttingen)

11:55 Experiences on the software performance of LHCb's first level software trigger - Arthur Hennequin (CERN)

12:15 Traccc: Track Reconstruction on GPU in ACTS - Attila Krasznahorkay (CERN)
WLCG Strategy
WLCG Strategy
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

11:15 Introduction to [FIN] strategy
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Room: Canteen
14:15 Analysis Facilities
Analysis Facilities
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

14:15 LHCC questions draft document discussion - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
16:00 Analysis Facilities
Analysis Facilities
16:00 - 17:50
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

16:00 Demonstrator Analysis 200 Gb/s - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

16:20 User experience discussion - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))

16:50 Data Access discussion - Dirk Hufnagel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:20 User Monitoring discussion - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
Friday 17 May 2024
09:00 Closing
Closing
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

09:00 WLCG strategy and governance: recap - Julia Andreeva (CERN) Simone Campana (CERN)

09:15 HSF summary and next steps - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

09:30 Analysis Facilities - summary and next steps - Jamie Gooding (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

10:00 OpenScience EVERSE - Stefan Roiser (CERN)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 Closing
Closing
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

11:15 OpenScience OSCAR/ESCAPE - Paul Millar

11:40 Data Challenges - DC24 - summary and next steps

12:05 Closing