Name: CERN Tape Archive Workshop : CTA 2025
Start: 2025-03-27T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-28T15:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

CERN Tape Archive Workshop : CTA 2025

from Thursday, March 27, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, March 28, 2025 (3:00 PM)

Monday, March 24, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Michael Davis (CERN)

9:15 AM CERN Perspective on Tape Technology Evolution - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)
9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

9:45 AM CTA Status at DESY - Mwai Karimi

10:00 AM Fermilab site report and Enstore compatibility - Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:15 AM CTA status at IHEP - qiuling yao (IHEP)

11:00 AM Hardware provisioning for CTA - Julien Leduc (CERN)

11:15 AM Insights from Operating CTA at CERN - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)

11:30 AM Configuring ATRESYS to use Repack tapepools - Idriss Larbi

11:45 AM CTA’s Retrieve Backpressure Mechanism: Status and Future - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

12:00 PM Migrating CTA Frontend from XRootD/SSI to gRPC - Konstantina Skovola

12:15 PM Progress Report on CTA Scheduler DB - Jaroslav Guenther (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Restaurant 1

2:13 PM Travel from Meyrin to Prévessin
Travel from Meyrin to Prévessin
2:13 PM - 2:28 PM
Room: Front of Main Building (Building 500)
2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 774/2-058
Contributions

2:45 PM Evolution of Continuous Integration for CTA - Niels Alexander Buegel

3:00 PM Streamlining CTA version upgrades - Joao Afonso (CERN)

3:15 PM Deploying a CTA Test Instance using Helm - Niels Alexander Buegel

3:50 PM Upgrading the CTA Catalogue - Niels Alexander Buegel
7:00 PM CTA Workshop Dinner
CTA Workshop Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, March 28, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

9:00 AM Scaleway S3 Glacier: tape archiving for the masses - Florian FLORENSA (Scaleway) Saalik HATIA (Scaleway)

9:30 AM Cold storage using S3+GLACIER+CTA - Michael Davis (CERN)
9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

9:45 AM Developments in the Antares service at RAL - George Patargias

10:00 AM CTA at PIC. Site report. - Jordi Casals (PIC)

10:15 AM Tape system at TRIUMF, recent updates, CTA evaluation for site - Simon Liu (TRIUMF (CA))

10:30 AM Offsite Tape Backup Collaboration - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

11:15 AM CTA Tape Daemon Evolution - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)

11:30 AM Tape reading efficiency gain by collocation - Luc Goossens (CERN)

11:45 AM Optimising recall from tape using Archive Metadata - Julien Leduc (CERN)

12:00 PM CTA Roadmap - Michael Davis (CERN)

12:15 PM Discussion and close-out - Michael Davis (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Restaurant 1

2:00 PM Visit to CERN Data Centre
Visit to CERN Data Centre
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 513

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