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 31 March 2025 (08:00) to Friday 4 April 2025 (14:30)

Monday 31 March 2025

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome talk - Pablo Fernandez

09:15 Logistics talk - Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 CSCS site report - Miguel Gila (ETH Zurich)

09:45 KEK Site Report - Ryo Yonamine (KEK)

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

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

11:00 DESY site report - Yves Kemp

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

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

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

12:00 CERN site report - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 EOS latest developments and operational experience - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)

13:50 Design and production experience with a multi-petabyte file-system backup service at CERN - Roberto Valverde Cameselle (CERN)

14:10 Refurbishing the Meyrin Data Centre: Storage Juggling and Operations - Octavian-Mihai Matei

14:30 A Distributed Storage Odyssey: from CentOS7 to ALMA9 - Cedric Caffy (CERN)

14:50 Label-based Virtual Directories In dCache - Marina Sahakyan

15:10 NVMe-HDD Solution-Level Usage Models, Features and Advantages - Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology) Mohamad El-Batal
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:25
Contributions

16:00 Updates on CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators - Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

16:20 Trends of Energy Efficiency for computing and data centre - Eric Yen (Academia Sinica (TW))

16:40 Nikhef is renovated. So what to do with our new meetingrooms technology-wise? - Tristan Suerink
18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 23:00
Tuesday 1 April 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Andrii Neronov (EPFL and APC Paris)
09:30
09:30 - 10:15
Contributions

09:30 IHEP site report - Chaoqi Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:45 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

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

10:15 Infrastructure Monitoring for GridKa and beyond - Evelina Buttitta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

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

11:20 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 Transforming the Disaster Recovery of the Cloud Service - Varsha Bhat

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

12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:20
Contributions

13:30 Introduction to HEPIX-OTF Topical Session - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Helge Meinhard (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

13:35 Data challenges (DOMA + capacity vs performance) - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))

13:55 HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)

14:20 Italy vision - Daniele Spiga (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

14:50 IDAF @ DESY: Interdisciplinary Data and Analysis Facility: Status and Plans - Yves Kemp (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:20
Contributions

15:50 German University Tier-2s evolution - Michael Boehler (University of Freiburg (DE))

16:20 Evolution of US ATLAS Sites - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:50 "Round table" - Facilities in WLCG Technical Roadmap
Wednesday 2 April 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 The Big Data Challenge of Radio Astronomy - Emma Elizabeth Tolley
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Kubernetes and Cloud Native at the SKA Regional Centres - Lukas Gehrig (FHNW)

09:50 Cloud-native ATLAS T2 on Kubernetes - Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))

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

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

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

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

11:55 Computer Security Update - Jose Carlos Luna Duran (CERN)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 How CERN’s New Datacenter Enhances Cloud Infrastructure and Data Resilience with Ceph - Roberto Valverde Cameselle (CERN)

13:45 CERN update on tape technology - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)

14:10 Evolution of Continuous Integration for the CERN Tape Archive (CTA) - Niels Alexander Buegel

14:30 The CERN Tape Archive Beyond CERN - Niels Alexander Buegel

14:50 Storage Technology Outlook - Ed Childers (SpectraLogic)

15:10 Online Seamless HDD Self-Healing Options & Capabilities - Curtis Stevens Hugo Bergmann (Seagate Technology)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:20
Contributions

16:00 HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

16:25 Continuous calibration and monitoring of WLCG site corepower with HEPScore23 - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)

16:45 ARC 7 - new ARC major release - and future plans - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

17:05 MTCA starterkits of powerBridge - Thomas Holzapfel
17:20
17:20 - 17:45
Contributions

17:20 Windows device management at CERN: A new era - Siavas Firoozbakht (CERN)
18:00 HEPIX Board (closed meeting)
HEPIX Board (closed meeting)
18:00 - 19:30
Thursday 3 April 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Keeping the LHC colliding: Providing Extended Lifecycle support for EL7 - Ben Morrice (CERN)

09:20 Roadmap to LS3: CERN’s Linux Strategy - Ben Morrice (CERN)

09:40 Exploring SUSE Open-Source Technology for Your Datacenter - Nikolaj Majorov (SUSE)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:00 Network design and implementation status of HEPS - 曾珊 zengshan
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 Summary of the 2024 autumns european HTC workshop - Christoph Beyer

13:50 Current and Future Accounting with AUDITOR - Dirk Sammel (University of Freiburg (DE))

14:05 Provisioning and Usage of GPUs at GridKa - Matthias Jochen Schnepf

14:20 User and "queue" caps in HTCondor - Jeff Templon

14:35 Efficiency of job processing in many-core Grid and HPC environments - Gianfranco Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:55 Smart HPC-QC: flexible approaches for Quantum workloads integration - Simone Rizzo (E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING Spa)
15:15
15:15 - 15:30
Contributions

15:15 Preserving IT History for more than a decade at CC-IN2P3 - Fabien WERNLI
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:45
Contributions

16:00 High-performance end-user analysis code; an example - Daniël Geerts (Nikhef)

16:20 CC-IN2P3 user documentation - Gino MARCHETTI

16:35 RAL use case of XRootD Managers - Thomas Jyothish (STFC)
17:30 Visit to CSCS
Visit to CSCS
17:30 - 19:00

19:45 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:45 - 22:00
Friday 4 April 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Contributions

09:00 JUNO Distributed Computing Infrastructure and Services Monitoring System - Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

09:20 Integrated Configuration Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Nico Schlitter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)))

09:35 From Batch to Interactive: The "INK" for High Energy Physics Data Analysis at IHEP - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)

09:55 Grafana dashboards as code with Jsonnet - Ewoud Ketele (CERN)

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45

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