Name: HEPiX Spring 2024 Workshop
Start: 2024-04-15T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-04-19T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) de l'Université Paris-Cité

Monday 15 April 2024

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:00 CEA-IRFU - Andrea Formica (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Andrea Formica (CEA Irfu/Lilas)

09:20 Workshop logistics - Imed Magroune (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP//LIS) Joël Surget Pierre-Francois Honore
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:30 SiteReport IRFU/GRIF-IRFU - Sophie Catherine Ferry (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

09:45 CC-IN2P3 Site Report - Mattieu PUEL

10:00 KEK Site Report - Tomoe Kishimoto

10:15 GSI Site Report - Christopher Huhn
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

11:00 ASGC Site Report - Eric YEN (ASGC)

11:15 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

11:30 CERN site report - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)

11:45 BNL Site Report - Thomas Smith

12:00 IHEP Site Report - Jingyan Shi
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
13:30
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

13:30 DESY site report - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

13:45 AGLT2 Site Update - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

14:00 The state of AlmaLinux - benny Vasquez (AlmaLinux OS Foundation)

14:20 Debian: What it is and what it can do for science - Nicolas Dandrimont

14:40 Experience with migrating to Debian - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef)

14:55 Discussion
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

15:30 From Entanglement to Duality: Preparing a multi-ecosystem Linux strategy at CERN - Arne Wiebalck (CERN)

15:50 Status and plans at DESY - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

16:00 Dealing with CentOS 7 EOL

16:30 Discussion
17:30 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Tuesday 16 April 2024

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:00 CernVM-FS 2.11: Lessons learnt from large-scale data processing at Jump Trading - Matt Harvey (Jump Trading) Valentin Volkl (CERN)

09:25 Enabling LHC Run 3 data storage workflows at CERN - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)

09:50 Performance of Cluster File System Backed by an HDD-Based Data Storage System Under True Concurrent Read-Write Load - Uwe Falke (KIT SCC , GridKa)

10:15 Future of Hard Drives - Hugo Bergmann
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
11:10
11:10 - 12:25
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

11:10 Monitoring the Green IT Cube - Daniel Bruins (GSI) Gabriele Iannetti (GSI)

11:35 Towards a DevSecOps approach in the CICD pipelines for the INFN Information System apps - Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN)

12:00 Streaming Science Globally: CERN’s Live Streaming Service - Rene Fernandez Sanchez (CERN)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

13:30 Institute Computing Infrastructure with Dynamic Extension - Matthias Jochen Schnepf

13:55 News from the DESY clusters - Christoph Beyer

14:20 ARM Compute Testing and Provision at Glasgow’s Tier2 - Dwayne Spiteri (University of Glasgow)

14:45 Computing for the KM3NeT research infrastructure - Mieke Bouwhuis (NIKHEF)
15:10 Coffee
Coffee
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
15:40
15:40 - 16:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

15:40 HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

16:05 Measuring Machine Metrics and Performance - Domenico Giordano (CERN)
16:30
16:30 - 17:20
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

16:30 Simulating Carbon Opportunity Cost at Grid Site - Dwayne Spiteri (University of Glasgow)

16:55 Navigating the Intersection of Data Growth, Sustainability, and Innovation in Data Centers - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)
Wednesday 17 April 2024

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:00 Backing up ET EMR Seismic data - Andrew Pickford (Nikhef)

09:25 CERNBox: Community Distribution for Analysis Facilities - Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)

09:50 EPICS archiver infrastructure at ESS - Stephane Armanet (European Spallation Source)

10:15 The Evolution of Storage Media in Data Centers: Assessing the Future of Flash/SSD, Hard Drives, and Tape Storage - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)
10:40 Group photo: tentative - timing subject to change according to weather conditions
Group photo: tentative - timing subject to change according to weather conditions
10:40 - 10:45
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon

10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
11:10
11:10 - 12:25
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

11:10 Grand Unified Token (GUT) profile working group - Mischa Sallé (NWO-I Nikhef)

11:35 Collaborative operational security and Security Operations Centre deployment models - David Crooks (UKRI STFC)

12:00 Computer security update - Roman Sumailov (CERN)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
13:30
13:30 - 14:20
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

13:30 WLCG Network Monitoring and Analytics Updates - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

13:55 Research Networking Technical Working Group Status and Plans - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))
14:20
14:20 - 15:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

14:20 A Lightweight Analysis Facility for the DARWIN Collaboration - Sebastian Brommer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

14:45 Micro-services for ATLAS muon alignment monitoring system - Andrea Formica (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
15:10 Coffee
Coffee
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
15:40
15:40 - 16:05
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

15:40 Exascale challenges - Christophe Calvin
16:05
16:05 - 17:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

16:05 Intro

16:15 Dennis' Toolbox

16:50 Alex's Toolbox
19:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday 18 April 2024

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:00 Carbon life cycle modelling of scientific computing - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

09:25 Carbon Costs in IRIS & UKRI NetZero DRI - Richard Alexander Owen (Queen Mary University of London)

09:50 Power and Performance Impact of Inlet temperature differences - Erik Kooistra

10:15 HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
11:10
11:10 - 12:25
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

11:10 Streamlining solution for the hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS - Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))

11:35 Cloud Resilience Unleashed: A Dual-Site Approach for HL-LHC era - Daniel Failing (CERN)

12:00 Infrastructure as Code and DevOps approach for the SVOM mission - David Corre (CEA Irfu/Lilas)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
13:30
13:30 - 14:20
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

13:30 Wiring the Future: Open Virtual Networking and Beyond - Daniel Failing (CERN)

13:55 Ready for Windows 11 in your endpoint device park? - Sebastien Dellabella (CERN)
14:20
14:20 - 14:45
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

14:20 Update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
14:45 WLCG GGUS ticket campaign for CPU services and worker nodes
WLCG GGUS ticket campaign for CPU services and worker nodes
14:45 - 15:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

14:45 WLCG GGUS ticket campaign for dual-stack CPU services and worker nodes - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)
15:10 Coffee
Coffee
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
15:40
15:40 - 17:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

15:40 Puppet module for Network Manager - Alexandr Mikula (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

15:55 IPv6 deployment on containers at RAL Tier1 - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

16:15 IPv6 deployment at KIT and removing IPv4 - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

16:45 DIscussion and further information - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
17:15 HEPiX Board meeting - by invitation only
HEPiX Board meeting - by invitation only
17:15 - 19:15
Friday 19 April 2024

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

09:00 From VOMS to INDIGO-IAM - Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)

09:25 Prototyping an Analysis Facility at CERN - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)

09:50 Re-designing the Remote Desktop Service: A solution for remote desktop access management at CERN - Petar Stojkovic

10:15 The intelligent operation and maintenance system of the IHEP computing platform - Yaosong Cheng (Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, IHEP)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
11:10
11:10 - 12:00
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

11:10 Packaging and system administration with Nix and NixOS - Remi Nicole (CEA IRFU/DIS)

11:35 Secret management with HashiCorp Vault at DESY - Kai Wiemann (DESY Hamburg)
12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphithéatre Buffon
Contributions

12:00 Wrap-up - Helge Meinhard (CERN)