HEPiX Spring 2025 Workshop

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 31, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 2, 2025
Apr 3, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
AM
8:00 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Welcome - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 9:30 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome talk - Pablo Fernandez  
9:15 AM Logistics talk - Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))  
9:30 AM
Site Reports - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 10:30 AM)
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 ---
11:00 AM
Site Reports -Dr Sebastien Gadrat (CCIN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) (until 12:15 PM)
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)  
9:00 AM
Science talk - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 9:30 AM)
9:00 AM Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Andrii Neronov (EPFL and APC Paris)  
9:30 AM
Site Reports - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 10:15 AM)
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 - Dr Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL, Switzerland)  
10:15 AM
Software and Services for Operation - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 10:30 AM)
10:15 AM Infrastructure Monitoring for GridKa and beyond - Evelina Buttitta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:15 PM)
11:00 AM CSCS Sustainability: Utilizing Lake Water for Cooling and Reusing Waste Heat - Mr 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))  
9:00 AM
Science talk - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 9:30 AM)
9:00 AM The Big Data Challenge of Radio Astronomy - Dr Emma Elizabeth Tolley  
9:30 AM
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 10:30 AM)
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 - Elia Oggian (ETH Zurich (CH)) Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 12:15 PM)
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 - Mr 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)  
9:00 AM
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 10:00 AM)
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 - Mr Nikolaj Majorov (SUSE)  
10:00 AM
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 10:30 AM)
10:00 AM Update from the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Network & Security - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) (until 12:15 PM)
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  
9:00 AM
Software and Services for Operation - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 10:35 AM)
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 - Dr 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 ---
11:00 AM
Miscellaneous - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 12:00 PM)
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)  
PM
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Storage & data management -Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef) (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement - Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 5:25 PM)
4:00 PM Updates on CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators - Dr 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 ---
12:15 PM --- Group Photograph ---
12:35 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Helge Meinhard (CERN) (until 3:20 PM)
1:30 PM Introduction to HEPIX-OTF Topical Session - Helge Meinhard (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
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 - Dr 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 ---
3:50 PM
Mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - Helge Meinhard (CERN) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 5:20 PM)
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  
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Storage & data management - Elia Oggian (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Computing and Batch Services -Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 5:20 PM)
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 - Jingyan Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) (until 5:45 PM)
5:20 PM Windows device management at CERN: A new era - Siavas Firoozbakht (CERN)  
6:00 PM --- HEPIX Board (closed meeting) ---
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Computing and Batch Services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf (until 3:15 PM)
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 - Mr Simone Rizzo (E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING Spa)  
3:15 PM
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 3:30 PM)
3:15 PM Preserving IT History for more than a decade at CC-IN2P3 - Dr Fabien WERNLI  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 4:45 PM)
4:00 PM High-performance end-user analysis code; an example - Dr 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 ---
7:30 PM --- Social dinner ---
12:00 PM
Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 12:30 PM)
12:00 PM Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---