HEPiX Spring 2024 Workshop

from Monday, April 15, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 19, 2024 (1:00 PM)
Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) de l'Université Paris-Cité (Amphithéatre Buffon)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 17, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 19, 2024
AM
8:00 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Welcome - Helge Meinhard (CERN) (until 9:30 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:00 AM CEA-IRFU - Andrea Formica (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Andrea Formica (CEA Irfu/Lilas)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:20 AM Workshop logistics - Imed Magroune (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP//LIS) Joël Surget Dr Pierre-Francois Honore   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:30 AM
Site reports -Dr Sebastien Gadrat (CCIN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 10:30 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:30 AM SiteReport IRFU/GRIF-IRFU - Sophie Catherine Ferry (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:45 AM CC-IN2P3 Site Report - Mattieu PUEL   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:00 AM KEK Site Report - Tomoe Kishimoto   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:15 AM GSI Site Report - Mr Christopher Huhn   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:30 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Site reports -Dr Sebastien Gadrat (CCIN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 12:15 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:00 AM ASGC Site Report - Mr Eric YEN (ASGC)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:15 AM RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:30 AM CERN site report - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:45 AM BNL Site Report - Thomas Smith   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:00 PM IHEP Site Report - Dr Jingyan Shi   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
8:30 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Storage and file systems -Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef) Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) (until 10:40 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:00 AM CernVM-FS 2.11: Lessons learnt from large-scale data processing at Jump Trading - Matt Harvey (Jump Trading) Valentin Volkl (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:25 AM Enabling LHC Run 3 data storage workflows at CERN - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:50 AM Performance of Cluster File System Backed by an HDD-Based Data Storage System Under True Concurrent Read-Write Load - Uwe Falke (KIT SCC , GridKa)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:15 AM Future of Hard Drives - Mr Hugo Bergmann   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:40 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Basic and end-user IT services - Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 12:25 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:10 AM Monitoring the Green IT Cube - Daniel Bruins (GSI) Gabriele Iannetti (GSI)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:35 AM Towards a DevSecOps approach in the CICD pipelines for the INFN Information System apps - Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:00 PM Streaming Science Globally: CERN’s Live Streaming Service - Rene Fernandez Sanchez (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
8:30 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Storage and file systems -Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef) Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) (until 10:40 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:00 AM Backing up ET EMR Seismic data - Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:25 AM CERNBox: Community Distribution for Analysis Facilities - Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:50 AM EPICS archiver infrastructure at ESS - Stephane Armanet (European Spallation Source)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:15 AM The Evolution of Storage Media in Data Centers: Assessing the Future of Flash/SSD, Hard Drives, and Tape Storage - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:40 AM --- Group photo: tentative - timing subject to change according to weather conditions ---
10:45 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Network and security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 12:25 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:10 AM Grand Unified Token (GUT) profile working group - Dr Mischa Sallé (NWO-I Nikhef)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:35 AM Collaborative operational security and Security Operations Centre deployment models - Dr David Crooks (UKRI STFC)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:00 PM Computer security update - Roman Sumailov (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
8:30 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
IT facilities, business continuity and Green IT - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 10:40 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:00 AM Carbon life cycle modelling of scientific computing - Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:25 AM Carbon Costs in IRIS & UKRI NetZero DRI - Dr Richard Alexander Owen (Queen Mary University of London)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:50 AM Power and Performance Impact of Inlet temperature differences - Erik Kooistra   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:15 AM HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:40 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Operating systems, clouds, virtualisation, grids - Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 12:25 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:10 AM Streamlining solution for the hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS - Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:35 AM Cloud Resilience Unleashed: A Dual-Site Approach for HL-LHC era - Daniel Failing (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:00 PM Infrastructure as Code and DevOps approach for the SVOM mission - Dr David Corre (CEA Irfu/Lilas)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
8:30 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Basic and end-user IT services -Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) (until 10:40 AM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:00 AM From VOMS to INDIGO-IAM - Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:25 AM Prototyping an Analysis Facility at CERN - Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
9:50 AM Re-designing the Remote Desktop Service: A solution for remote desktop access management at CERN - Petar Stojkovic   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:15 AM The intelligent operation and maintenance system of the IHEP computing platform - Yaosong Cheng (Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, IHEP)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
10:40 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Basic and end-user IT services - Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 12:00 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:10 AM Packaging and system administration with Nix and NixOS - Remi Nicole (CEA IRFU/DIS)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
11:35 AM Secret management with HashiCorp Vault at DESY - Kai Wiemann (DESY Hamburg)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
PM
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Site reports - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Dr Sebastien Gadrat (CCIN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) (until 2:00 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:30 PM DESY site report - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:45 PM AGLT2 Site Update - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:00 PM
Linux future - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 3:00 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:00 PM The state of AlmaLinux - benny Vasquez (AlmaLinux OS Foundation)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM Debian: What it is and what it can do for science - Nicolas Dandrimont   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:40 PM Experience with migrating to Debian - Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:55 PM Discussion   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:00 PM --- Coffee ---
3:30 PM
Linux future - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Helge Meinhard (CERN) Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 5:00 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:30 PM From Entanglement to Duality: Preparing a multi-ecosystem Linux strategy at CERN - Dr Arne Wiebalck (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:50 PM Status and plans at DESY - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:00 PM Dealing with CentOS 7 EOL   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:30 PM Discussion   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
5:30 PM --- Welcome reception ---
12:25 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Computing and batch services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf Max Fischer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 3:10 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:30 PM Institute Computing Infrastructure with Dynamic Extension - Matthias Jochen Schnepf   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:55 PM News from the DESY clusters - Christoph Beyer   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM ARM Compute Testing and Provision at Glasgow’s Tier2 - Dwayne Spiteri (University of Glasgow)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:45 PM Computing for the KM3NeT research infrastructure - Mieke Bouwhuis (NIKHEF)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:10 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Computing and batch services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf Max Fischer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 4:30 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:40 PM HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Domenico Giordano (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:05 PM Measuring Machine Metrics and Performance - Domenico Giordano (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:30 PM
IT facilities, business continuity and Green IT - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 5:20 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:30 PM Simulating Carbon Opportunity Cost at Grid Site - Dwayne Spiteri (University of Glasgow)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:55 PM Navigating the Intersection of Data Growth, Sustainability, and Innovation in Data Centers - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:25 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Network and security - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 2:20 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:30 PM WLCG Network Monitoring and Analytics Updates - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:55 PM Research Networking Technical Working Group Status and Plans - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM
Basic and end-user IT services - Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Mr Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 3:10 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM A Lightweight Analysis Facility for the DARWIN Collaboration - Sebastian Brommer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:45 PM Micro-services for ATLAS muon alignment monitoring system - Andrea Formica (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:10 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Computing and batch services - Max Fischer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Matthias Jochen Schnepf (until 4:05 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:40 PM Exascale challenges - Christophe Calvin   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:05 PM
Show us your toolbox - Peter van der Reest Erik Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE)) (until 5:30 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:05 PM Intro   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:15 PM Dennis' Toolbox   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:50 PM Alex's Toolbox   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
7:00 PM --- Social dinner ---
12:25 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Operating systems, clouds, virtualisation, grids -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 2:20 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:30 PM Wiring the Future: Open Virtual Networking and Beyond - Daniel Failing (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
1:55 PM Ready for Windows 11 in your endpoint device park? - Sebastien Dellabella (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM
Network and security - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 2:45 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:20 PM Update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:45 PM
Deploying dual-stack IPv6/IPv4 connectivity to site computing services -Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN) David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 3:10 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
2:45 PM WLCG GGUS ticket campaign for dual-stack CPU services and worker nodes - Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:10 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Deploying dual-stack IPv6/IPv4 connectivity to site computing services - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN) David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 5:00 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:40 PM Puppet module for Network Manager - Alexandr Mikula (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
3:55 PM IPv6 deployment on containers at RAL Tier1 - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:15 PM IPv6 deployment at KIT and removing IPv4 - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
4:45 PM DIscussion and further information - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))   (Amphithéatre Buffon)
5:15 PM --- HEPiX Board meeting - by invitation only ---
12:00 PM
Wrap-up - Helge Meinhard (CERN) (until 12:30 PM) (Amphithéatre Buffon)
12:00 PM Wrap-up - Helge Meinhard (CERN)   (Amphithéatre Buffon)