GridPP53 & SWIFT-HEP09

9 Apr 2025, 11:00 → 11 Apr 2025, 18:00 Europe/London

Schuster Building, The University of Manchester

GridPP53 meeting will take place between Wednesday the 9th and Friday the 11th of April 2025.

There will be a face to face PMB meeting on Wednesday 9th, 2-5pm in the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre (Schuster Building)

The Collaboration Meeting will take place between 10th and 11th of April at  University of Manchester, in the Schuster Building [University o f Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL] - the Rutherford Lecture theatre both days.

Accessibility and other info available https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-manchester/access-guides/schuster-building

= the GridPP component will start at 9 am on the 10th, and end in the early afternoon of the 11th. The SWIFT-HEP component will start after midday on the 10th and end later on the 11th.

Registration is opened until the 10th of March 2025.

Please send any questions to Samuel.Skipsey@glasgow.ac.uk, jill.sambrook@glasgow.ac.uk or Davide Costanzo d.costanzo@sheffield.ac.uk  (for SWIFT-HEP matters).

ACCOMMODATION: Will be in the Pendulum Hotel, 

Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB

COLLABORATION DINNER: The Wharf, Manchester

and is sponsored by: Lenovo

 

 

 

Wednesday 9 April

14:00 → 17:00 GridPP PMB Placeholder

Thursday 10 April

09:00 → 10:30 GridPP53 - GridPP Block 1: GridPP Block 1

09:00 Introduction

Intro from University / host (Alessandra? Connor?)

09:10 GridPP Context

Speaker: David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

09:50 Tier-1 Status

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 GridPP53 - GridPP Block 1: GridPP - Block 2

11:00 LHCb

Speakers: Alexander Rogovskiy (NRC-KI), Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:20 CMS

Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:40 ATLAS

Speakers: Brij Kishor Jashal (IFIC, Valencia), Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford appelton laboratory)

12:00 SKA UK

Speaker: Prof. Rob Beswick

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 GridPP-SWIFT-HEP Joint: GridPP/SWIFT-HEP

13:30 HSF Update

Speaker: Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

13:50 GPU @ Glasgow

Speaker: Albert Gyorgy Borbely (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:10 GPU for Geant4

Speakers: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

14:30 A word from our sponsors

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 GridPP-SWIFT-HEP Joint: GridPP/SWIFT-HEP Joint 2

15:30 Network Update, inc LHC[OPN|ONE]

Speakers: Matthew Doidge (Lancaster University), Dr Matthew Steven Doidge (Lancaster University (GB))

15:50 SRCNet

Speaker: James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

16:10 Analysis Infrastructure

Speaker: Dr Luke Kreczko (University of Bristol (GB))

16:30 SWIFT-HEP Project

Speaker: Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield (GB))

Friday 11 April

09:00 → 10:30 GridPP53 - GridPP Block 1: GridPP Block 3

09:20 Security Update

Speakers: Matthew Doidge (Lancaster University), Dr Matthew Steven Doidge (Lancaster University (GB))

09:40 miniDC

Speakers: Alessandra Forti (The University of Manchester (GB)), Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

10:00 Science DMZs + JISC

Speakers: Duncan Rand (Imperial College (GB)), Tim Chown

09:00 → 10:30 SWIFT-HEP Block: SWIFT-HEP Block 1

09:10 Further funding opportunities - Discussion

Speaker: Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield (GB))

09:30 Event generators progress

Speakers: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB)), Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK)), Marek Schoenherr (Durham University)

09:50 Progress on EvtGen and Tauola

Speaker: Dr Fernando Abudinén (University of Warwick (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 GridPP53 - GridPP Block 1: GridPP Final Block

11:00 Federating Services

Speaker: Mr Greg Corbett

11:20 CEPH/Storage Update

Speaker: Samuel Cadellin Skipsey

11:00 → 12:40 SWIFT-HEP Block: SWIFT-HEP Block 2

11:00 Tracking update

Speakers: Ryan Cross (University of Warwick (GB)), Stewart Martin-Haugh (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:20 Update on reconstruction-trigger

Speaker: Alison Elliot (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:40 ATLAS GPU pipelines

Speaker: Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:00 Profiling Celeritas

Speaker: Peter Thomas Heywood (University of Sheffield (GB))

12:20 Optical photons on GPUs

Speaker: Andrew Gait (University of Manchester)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:20 SWIFT-HEP Block: SWIFT-HEP Final Block

13:30 Lunch

14:30 More discussion on analysis facilities

Speakers: Dr Luke Kreczko (University of Bristol (GB)), Sam Eriksen (University of Bristol (GB))

14:50 Follow up on AI document and next steps

Speakers: Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield (GB)), Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))