HEPiX Spring 2025 Workshop

from Monday 31 March 2025 (08:00) to Friday 4 April 2025 (14:30)
Hotel De La Paix

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Mar 2025
1 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Welcome - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 09:30)
09:00 Welcome talk - Pablo Fernandez  
09:15 Logistics talk - Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))  
09:30
Site Reports - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Site Reports -Dr Sebastien Gadrat (CCIN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) (until 12:15)
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)  
09:00
Science talk - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 09:30)
09:00 Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Andrii Neronov (EPFL and APC Paris)  
09:30
Site Reports - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 10:15)
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 - Dr Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL, Switzerland)  
10:15
Software and Services for Operation - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 10:30)
10:15 Infrastructure Monitoring for GridKa and beyond - Evelina Buttitta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:15)
11:00 CSCS Sustainability: Utilizing Lake Water for Cooling and Reusing Waste Heat - Mr 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))  
09:00
Science talk - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 09:30)
09:00 The Big Data Challenge of Radio Astronomy - Dr Emma Elizabeth Tolley  
09:30
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 10:30)
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 - Elia Oggian (ETH Zurich (CH)) Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 12:15)
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 - Mr 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)  
09:00
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 10:00)
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 - Mr Nikolaj Majorov (SUSE)  
10:00
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 10:30)
10:00 Update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 12:15)
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  
09:00
Software and Services for Operation - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 10:35)
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 - Dr 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 ---
11:00
Miscellaneous - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 12:00)
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)  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Storage & data management -Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef) (until 15:30)
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 ---
16:00
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 17:25)
16:00 Updates on CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators - Dr 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 ---
12:15 --- Group Photograph ---
12:35 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Helge Meinhard (CERN) (until 15:20)
13:30 Introduction to HEPIX-OTF Topical Session - Helge Meinhard (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
13:35 Data challenges (DOMA + capacity vs performance) - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
13:55 HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Dr 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 ---
15:50
Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 17:20)
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  
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Storage & data management - Elia Oggian (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:30)
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 ---
16:00
Computing and Batch Services -Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 17:20)
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
Software and Services for Operation - Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) (until 17:45)
17:20 Windows device management at CERN: A new era - Siavas Firoozbakht (CERN)  
18:00 --- HEPIX Board (closed meeting) ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Computing and Batch Services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf (until 15:15)
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 - Mr Simone Rizzo (E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING Spa)  
15:15
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 15:30)
15:15 Preserving IT History for more than a decade at CC-IN2P3 - Dr Fabien WERNLI  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 16:45)
16:00 High-performance end-user analysis code; an example - Dr 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 ---
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:00
Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 12:30)
12:00 Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---