HEPiX Fall 2025 Workshop

from Monday, 3 November 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 7 November 2025 (15:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Nov 2025
4 Nov 2025
5 Nov 2025
6 Nov 2025
7 Nov 2025
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:30
Welcome - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 10:30)
09:30 Welcome - Tomoaki Nakamura  
09:45 Introduction to Lanzhou University - Prof. Zhi-yi Liu (Lanzhou University)  
10:15 Logistics Information - Dong Xiao (Lanzhou University)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Site Report - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 12:00)
11:00 IHEP Site Report - Mr Xiaowei Jiang (IHEP(中国科学院高能物理研究所))  
11:20 ASGC site-report - 翔宇 楊  
11:40 KIT Site Report - Matthias Jochen Schnepf  
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30
Computing & Batch Services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf (until 10:30)
09:30 The development and upgrades of BESIII Offline Software System - Prof. Ziyan Deng (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
10:00 Accounting with AUDITOR: Experiences and News - Matthias Jochen Schnepf  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement - Eric Yen (Academia Sinica (TW)) (until 12:00)
11:00 HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Eric Yen (Academia Sinica (TW))  
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30
Software and Services for Operation - JinYang Shi (Institute of Modern Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,LanZhou,China) (until 10:30)
09:30 An update on the Web landscape at CERN - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
10:00 Evolving Data Stores Services for Big Data at CERN - Pedro Andrade (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Software and Services for Operation - JinYang Shi (Institute of Modern Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,LanZhou,China) (until 12:00)
11:00 Automating Resource Lifecycles and Service Subscriptions with Dynamic Authorization - Paolo Tedesco (CERN)  
11:30 New feature implementation of Interactive aNalysis worKbench (INK) - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)  
09:00
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Building Inference-as-a-Service for LLMs on CSCS ALPS - Mr Dino Conciatore (CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre))  
09:30 Design of Torch Computing Platform and The Platform Application in HEPS - Qingbao Hu (IHEP)  
10:00 CERN’s Apple Playbook: Smart Strategies for macOS and iOS Management - Maciek Muszkowski (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
(Topical session) Current status and future perspectives of projects involving Asian sites - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 12:00)
11:00 Current status and future perspectives of projects involving Asian sites - Tomoaki Nakamura  
11:30 discussions  
09:30
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 10:30)
09:30 Empowering early-career researchers through AI-driven studies on computing infrastructure at PIC - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Miscellaneous - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 11:30)
11:00 An AI multi-agent system for physics analysis - Zijie Shang (Lanzhou University)  
11:30
Wrap-up (until 12:00)
11:30 Wrap-up - Tomoaki Nakamura  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Site Report - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 14:30)
13:30 CERN Site Report - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
13:50 CNAF site report - Alessandro Pascolini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
14:10 ICEPP Site Report - Masahiko Saito (University of Tokyo (JP))  
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00
Site Report - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 15:20)
15:00 KEK Site Report - Go Iwai (KEK)  
15:20
Computing & Batch Services - Matthias Jochen Schnepf (until 16:50)
15:20 HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group: Status Update - Matthias Jochen Schnepf  
15:50 Harnessing restrictive HPC environments with fapptainer for complex data processing workloads - Gianfranco Sciacca (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
16:20 Elastic Resource Expansion and Scheduling Optimization at IHEP - Chaoqi Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
18:00 --- Reception ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Science talks - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 14:30)
13:30 Data analysis and Software at LHAASO - Dr Liqiao Yin (IHEP)  
14:00 Computing challenges of HEP experiments: the LHCb case - Miroslav Saur (Lanzhou University (CN))  
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00
Storage & data management - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) (until 17:00)
15:00 Building the data system for the application of light-source facilities and AI4S research - 胡鹏 hup  
15:30 Recent developments of the tape infrastructure at CNAF - Andrea Rendina  
16:00 Development and Practice of AI Agents and Framework for Scientific Data Processing - DONGBO XIONG (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)  
16:30 Ceph Storage for the Tier1 - Mr Maksim Abuajamieh (UKRI)  
18:00 --- Yellow River ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Network & Security - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (until 14:30)
13:30 Scientific SOC for STFC and RAL - Liam Atherton  
14:00 Investigating Routing Anomalies and Performance Degradation in WLCG Networks (Case Studies) - Petya Vasileva (University of Michigan (US))  
14:30 --- Coffe Break ---
15:00
Network & Security - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft (until 17:00)
15:00 HEPiX-IPv6 status report - Bruno Heinrich Hoeft  
15:30 Computer Security Update - Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)  
16:00 CENI Briefing - Bingqing Wu (Jiangsu Future Network Innovation Institute)  
16:30 WLCG site monitoring with ps-dash: insights, alarms, and visualization for network performance - Yana Holoborodko (IRIS-HEP, Princeton University (US))  
17:30 --- HEPIX Board (closed meeting) ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Science talks - Tomoaki Nakamura (until 14:30)
13:30 JUNO Status - Dr Yi Jia (IHEP)  
14:00 GNN application for BESIII/STCF tracking - Xiaoshuai Qin (Shandong University (CN))  
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00 --- Site Visit ---
18:00 --- Social Dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---