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

WLCG/HSF Workshop 2024

from Monday, May 13, 2024 (12:00 PM) to Friday, May 17, 2024 (1:00 PM)

Monday, May 13, 2024

12:00 PM Registration with Coffee
Registration with Coffee
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
2:00 PM Opening
Opening
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction: WLCG and DESY - Beate Heinemann (DESY and University of Freiburg (Germany)) David South (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

2:35 PM WLCG workshop objectives - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) Simone Campana (CERN) Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

3:00 PM HSF retrospective and future - Graeme A Stewart (CERN)
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
4:00 PM Opening
Opening
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

4:00 PM 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))

4:30 PM Technology outlook - Bernd Panzer-Steindel (CERN)
6:00 PM Reception
Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Canteen Extension
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
9:00 AM Community Software and Software Projects
Community Software and Software Projects
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

9:00 AM The ROOT Project: Status and Future Directions - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

9:25 AM The Scikit-HEP project - overview and future - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

9:50 AM Key4hep - The common software stack for future experiments - Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
Data Challenge
Data Challenge
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

9:00 AM LHC Experiments - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

9:30 AM Belle II - Silvio Pardi (Universita Federico II e INFN Sezione di Napoli (IT))

9:45 AM DUNE - Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:55 AM IAM Perspective - Berk Balci (CERN)

12:15 PM Network Perspective - Edoardo Martelli (CERN) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Canteen
2:15 PM HSF Strategy
HSF Strategy
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

2:15 PM Documents

2:16 PM HSF Organisation - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

2:31 PM Discussion

2:50 PM HSF and Software Projects - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:05 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
4:00 PM Software Tools, Generators and File Formats
Software Tools, Generators and File Formats
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent developments in the HepMC event record - Andrii Verbytskyi (Max Planck Society (DE))

4:20 PM NuHepMC: A standardized event record format for neutrino event generators - Luke Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London)

4:40 PM The HSF Conditions Database - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

5:00 PM The Gaussino core simulation software - Adam Morris (CERN)
Operations
Operations
4:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

4:00 PM Overview of the ongoing changes and OPS campaigns on the WLCG infrastructure - Julia Andreeva (CERN)

4:15 PM Improving LHCONE security and Use of Jumbo frames - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)

4:25 PM Transition from VOMS Admin to IAM. Token profile definition. Implications on the middleware. - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

4:40 PM APEL status and plans - Thomas Dack

5:00 PM AUDITOR - Michael Boehler (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

5:15 PM Follow up on the outcome of the WLCG review on the accounting and pledge management tools - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
9:00 AM Operations
Operations
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

9:00 AM New WLCG helpdesk. Status and plans. - Pavel Weber

9:20 AM 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 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 AM File Formats and Performance
File Formats and Performance
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

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

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

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

12:15 PM Cloud Data Lake Technologies - Benjamin Galewsky (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Canteen
2:15 PM WLCG Strategy
WLCG Strategy
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

2:15 PM Introduction on [TECH] strategy

2:55 PM Environment
3:30 PM Photograph
Photograph
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Outside of the Hoersaal

3:35 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
4:00 PM Training
Training
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

4:00 PM HSF Training - Alexander Moreno Briceño (Universidad Antonio Nariño)

4:10 PM HELIOS - Francesca Calegari

4:20 PM SMARTHEP - Jamie Gooding

4:30 PM ErUM-Data-Hub - Angela Warkentin

4:40 PM HEP Experiments - Valeriia Lukashenko

4:50 PM EVERSE - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

5:00 PM HSF Training Discussion
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Seminar Room 1

7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Thursday, May 16, 2024
9:00 AM Fitting and Reinterpretation
Fitting and Reinterpretation
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

9:00 AM Contur: A tool for reinterpreting particle-level measurements - Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)

9:20 AM Constructing model-agnostic likelihoods, a method for the reinterpretation of particle physics results - Lorenz Gärtner (LMU)

9:40 AM Model fitting in Python with zfit and Scikit-HEP - Jonas Eschle (Syracuse University (US))

10:00 AM NUISANCE <3 HEPData: Automated Neutrino Scattering Comparisons - Patrick Stowell (University of Sheffield) Patrick Stowell
WLCG Strategy
WLCG Strategy
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to [INFRA] strategy
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
11:15 AM Accelerated Computing
Accelerated Computing
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Seminar Room 4
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:15 AM Introduction to [FIN] strategy
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Canteen
2:15 PM Analysis Facilities
Analysis Facilities
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

2:15 PM LHCC questions draft document discussion - Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB))
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hoersaal Foyer
4:00 PM Analysis Facilities
Analysis Facilities
4:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

4:00 PM Demonstrator Analysis 200 Gb/s - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

4:20 PM User experience discussion - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))

4:50 PM Data Access discussion - Dirk Hufnagel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:20 PM User Monitoring discussion - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
Friday, May 17, 2024
9:00 AM Closing
Closing
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hoersaal
Contributions

9:00 AM WLCG strategy and governance: recap - Julia Andreeva (CERN) Simone Campana (CERN)

9:15 AM HSF summary and next steps - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

9:30 AM Analysis Facilities - summary and next steps - Jamie Gooding (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

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

11:15 AM OpenScience OSCAR/ESCAPE - Paul Millar

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

12:05 PM Closing

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