CERN Tape Archive Workshop : CTA 2025

from Thursday 27 March 2025 (09:00) to Friday 28 March 2025 (15:00)
CERN (40/S2-D01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025
AM
09:00
Plenary Session (until 09:45)
09:00 Welcome and Introduction - Michael Davis (CERN)  
09:15 CERN Perspective on Tape Technology Evolution - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
09:45
CTA Operations and Site Reports (until 12:00)
09:45 CTA Status at DESY - Mwai Karimi  
10:00 Fermilab site report and Enstore compatibility - Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:15 CTA status at IHEP - qiuling yao (IHEP)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Hardware provisioning for CTA - Julien Leduc (CERN)  
11:15 Insights from Operating CTA at CERN - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)  
11:30 Configuring ATRESYS to use Repack tapepools - Mr Idriss Larbi  
11:45 CTA’s Retrieve Backpressure Mechanism: Status and Future - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)  
09:00
Plenary Session (until 09:45)
09:00 Scaleway S3 Glacier: tape archiving for the masses - Florian FLORENSA (Scaleway) Saalik HATIA (Scaleway)  
09:30 Cold storage using S3+GLACIER+CTA - Michael Davis (CERN)  
09:45
CTA Operations and Site Reports (until 10:45)
09:45 Developments in the Antares service at RAL - George Patargias  
10:00 CTA at PIC. Site report. - Jordi Casals (PIC)  
10:15 Tape system at TRIUMF, recent updates, CTA evaluation for site - Mr Simon Liu (TRIUMF (CA))  
10:30 Offsite Tape Backup Collaboration - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
CTA Development and Roadmap (until 12:30)
11:15 CTA Tape Daemon Evolution - Pablo Oliver Cortes (CERN)  
11:30 Tape reading efficiency gain by collocation - Luc Goossens (CERN)  
11:45 Optimising recall from tape using Archive Metadata - Julien Leduc (CERN)  
12:00 CTA Roadmap - Michael Davis (CERN)  
12:15 Discussion and close-out - Michael Davis (CERN)  
PM
12:00
CTA Development and Roadmap (until 12:30)
12:00 Migrating CTA Frontend from XRootD/SSI to gRPC - Konstantina Skovola  
12:15 Progress Report on CTA Scheduler DB - Dr Jaroslav Guenther (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:13 --- Travel from Meyrin to Prévessin ---
14:45
Hands-on Session (until 17:30) (774/2-058)
14:45 Evolution of Continuous Integration for CTA - Niels Alexander Buegel  
15:00 Streamlining CTA version upgrades - Joao Afonso (CERN)  
15:15 Deploying a CTA Test Instance using Helm - Niels Alexander Buegel  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50 Upgrading the CTA Catalogue - Niels Alexander Buegel  
19:00 --- CTA Workshop Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Visit to CERN Data Centre ---