Name: HEPiX Spring 2025 Workshop
Start: 2025-03-31T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-04T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel De La Paix

HEPiX Spring 2025 Workshop

from Monday, March 31, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 4, 2025 (2:30 PM)

Monday, March 31, 2025

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome talk - Pablo Fernandez

9:15 AM Logistics talk - Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))
9:30 AM Site Reports
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM CSCS site report - Miguel Gila (ETH Zurich)

9:45 AM KEK Site Report - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)

10:00 AM NCG-INGRID-PT site report - Jorge Gomes (LIP)

10:15 AM NDGF Site Report - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Site Reports
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM DESY site report - Yves Kemp

11:15 AM BNL Site Report - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:30 AM US ATLAS SouthWest Tier2 Site Report - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))

11:45 AM Introduction of LHCb Tier2 Site at Lanzhou University - Dong Xiao (Lanzhou University)

12:00 PM CERN site report - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Storage & data management
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM EOS latest developments and operational experience - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)

1:50 PM Design and production experience with a multi-petabyte file-system backup service at CERN - Roberto Valverde Cameselle (CERN)

2:10 PM Refurbishing the Meyrin Data Centre: Storage Juggling and Operations - Octavian-Mihai Matei

2:30 PM A Distributed Storage Odyssey: from CentOS7 to ALMA9 - Cedric Caffy (CERN)

2:50 PM Label-based Virtual Directories In dCache - Marina Sahakyan

3:10 PM NVMe-HDD Solution-Level Usage Models, Features and Advantages - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology) Mohamad El-Batal
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement
4:00 PM - 5:25 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Updates on CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators - Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

4:20 PM Trends of Energy Efficiency for computing and data centre - Eric Yen (Academia Sinica (TW))

4:40 PM Nikhef is renovated. So what to do with our new meetingrooms technology-wise? - Tristan Suerink
6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
9:00 AM Science talk
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Andrii Neronov (EPFL and APC Paris)
9:30 AM Site Reports
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM IHEP site report - Chaoqi Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9:45 AM RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

10:00 AM CTAO Swiss Data Center and Data Processing and Preservation System Deployment Strategy - Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL, Switzerland)
10:15 AM Software and Services for Operation
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

10:15 AM Infrastructure Monitoring for GridKa and beyond - Evelina Buttitta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM CSCS Sustainability: Utilizing Lake Water for Cooling and Reusing Waste Heat - Tiziano Belotti (CSCS)

11:20 AM Natural job drainage and power reduction studies in PIC Tier-1 using HTCondor - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

11:40 AM Transforming the Disaster Recovery of the Cloud Service - Varsha Bhat

12:00 PM Update on Energy Efficiency: AmpereOne and Turin - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))
12:15 PM Group Photograph
Group Photograph
12:15 PM - 12:35 PM

12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF)
1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to HEPIX-OTF Topical Session - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Helge Meinhard (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

1:35 PM Data challenges (DOMA + capacity vs performance) - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

1:55 PM HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)

2:20 PM Italy vision - Daniele Spiga (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

2:50 PM IDAF @ DESY: Interdisciplinary Data and Analysis Facility: Status and Plans - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
3:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF)
3:50 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM German University Tier-2s evolution - Michael Boehler (University of Freiburg (DE))

4:20 PM Evolution of US ATLAS Sites - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:50 PM "Round table" - Facilities in WLCG Technical Roadmap
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
9:00 AM Science talk
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The Big Data Challenge of Radio Astronomy - Emma Elizabeth Tolley
9:30 AM Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Kubernetes and Cloud Native at the SKA Regional Centres - Lukas Gehrig (FHNW)

9:50 AM Cloud-native ATLAS T2 on Kubernetes - Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))

10:10 AM Hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS - Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) Elia Oggian (ETH Zurich (CH))
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Network & Security
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM CERN Prevessin Datacentre network - Overview and feedback after one year in production. - Vincent Ducret (CERN)

11:20 AM Cybersecurity at the Speed of HPC - Monitoring and Incident Response - Fabio Zambrino (CSCS)

11:40 AM Improving CERN's security with an Endpoint Detection and Response Solution - Alexandros Petridis

11:55 AM Computer Security Update - Jose Carlos Luna Duran (CERN)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Storage & data management
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM How CERN’s New Datacenter Enhances Cloud Infrastructure and Data Resilience with Ceph - Roberto Valverde Cameselle (CERN)

1:45 PM CERN update on tape technology - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)

2:10 PM Evolution of Continuous Integration for the CERN Tape Archive (CTA) - Niels Alexander Buegel

2:30 PM The CERN Tape Archive Beyond CERN - Niels Alexander Buegel

2:50 PM Storage Technology Outlook - Ed Childers (SpectraLogic)

3:10 PM Online Seamless HDD Self-Healing Options & Capabilities - Curtis Stevens Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Computing and Batch Services
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

4:25 PM Continuous calibration and monitoring of WLCG site corepower with HEPScore23 - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)

4:45 PM ARC 7 - new ARC major release - and future plans - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

5:05 PM MTCA starterkits of powerBridge - Thomas Holzapfel
5:20 PM Software and Services for Operation
5:20 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

5:20 PM Windows device management at CERN: A new era - Siavas Firoozbakht (CERN)
6:00 PM HEPIX Board (closed meeting)
HEPIX Board (closed meeting)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, April 3, 2025
9:00 AM Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keeping the LHC colliding: Providing Extended Lifecycle support for EL7 - Ben Morrice (CERN)

9:20 AM Roadmap to LS3: CERN’s Linux Strategy - Ben Morrice (CERN)

9:40 AM Exploring SUSE Open-Source Technology for Your Datacenter - Nikolaj Majorov (SUSE)
10:00 AM Network & Security
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Network & Security
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Activities Update from the Research Networking Technical Working Group - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

11:20 AM WLCG Network Monitoring Infrastructure and perfSONAR Evolution - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

11:40 AM Single Sign-On Evolution at CERN - Paul Van Uytvinck (CERN)

12:00 PM Network design and implementation status of HEPS - 曾珊 zengshan
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Computing and Batch Services
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Summary of the 2024 autumns european HTC workshop - Christoph Beyer

1:50 PM Current and Future Accounting with AUDITOR - Dirk Sammel (University of Freiburg (DE))

2:05 PM Provisioning and Usage of GPUs at GridKa - Matthias Jochen Schnepf

2:20 PM User and "queue" caps in HTCondor - Jeff Templon

2:35 PM Efficiency of job processing in many-core Grid and HPC environments - Gianfranco Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))

2:55 PM Smart HPC-QC: flexible approaches for Quantum workloads integration - Simone Rizzo (E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING Spa)
3:15 PM Miscellaneous
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Preserving IT History for more than a decade at CC-IN2P3 - Fabien WERNLI
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Miscellaneous
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM High-performance end-user analysis code; an example - Daniël Geerts (Nikhef)

4:20 PM CC-IN2P3 user documentation - Gino MARCHETTI

4:35 PM RAL use case of XRootD Managers - Thomas Jyothish (STFC)
5:30 PM Visit to CSCS
Visit to CSCS
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

7:30 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, April 4, 2025
9:00 AM Software and Services for Operation
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM JUNO Distributed Computing Infrastructure and Services Monitoring System - Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

9:20 AM Integrated Configuration Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Nico Schlitter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)))

9:35 AM From Batch to Interactive: The "INK" for High Energy Physics Data Analysis at IHEP - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)

9:55 AM Grafana dashboards as code with Jsonnet - Ewoud Ketele (CERN)

10:15 AM MarmotGraph @ CSCS - A knowledge graph for linked HPC data - Oliver Schmid
10:35 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Miscellaneous
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Managing Microsoft SQL Infrastrucuture at CERN - Ricardo Martins Goncalves

11:15 AM PIC's Big Data Analysis Facility - Francesc Torradeflot

11:30 AM Machine learning for developers and administrators - Andrey Shevel (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics)

11:45 AM Enabling Accessibility to CERN audiovisual content via Automated Speech Recognition - Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio (CERN)
12:00 PM Wrap-up
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM