XRootD and FTS Workshop @ PIC (Barcelona)

from Monday, 13 October 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 17 October 2025 (18:00)
Hotel Exe Campus (Lluis Vives I)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Oct 2025
14 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025
AM
11:00
Registration (until 12:15)
09:10
FTS Presentations (until 10:30)
09:10 FTS3: State of stable affairs - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
09:50 FTS@PIC - Christian Neissner (PIC)  
10:10 Site update on FTS at RAL - Rose Cooper  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
FTS Presentations (until 12:30)
11:00 ATLAS Community Talk - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)  
11:20 CMS community talk - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
11:40 LHCb <3 FTS - Christophe Haen (CERN)  
12:00 FTS4: November test planning  
09:00
FTS Presentations (until 10:30)
09:00 FTS, Tape & Tokens: Making First Contact - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
09:30 EOSCTA tape integration with WLCG tokens - Joao Afonso (CERN)  
09:50 Tape & Tokens: Discussion  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
FTS Presentations (until 12:15)
11:00 FTS Open Discussion  
09:30
XRootD Presentations (until 10:30)
09:30 XCache -- recent developments - Alja Mrak Tadel (UCSD)  
09:50 XCache: plans, suggestions/feedback and Q&A - Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
10:10 Pelican and XRootD: Moving Petabytes for the broader US Science and Engineering community - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
XRootD Presentations (until 12:30)
11:00 Implementing functionality via the Open Storage Service (OSS) Interface - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
11:20 OssArc - Rucio aware backup plug-in - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
11:40 Building plugins for the XRootD client - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
12:00 Tracking file integrity with an XRootD plugin - David Smith (CERN)  
12:15 XrdCeph Streamed Checksums - Jyothish Thomas (STFC)  
09:00
XRootD Presentations (until 10:30)
09:00 XRootD Collaboration Meeting - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
09:30 XRootD Release Management - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
09:45 XRootD Continuous Integration Infrastructure - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Workshop Wrap-up (until 12:00)
PM
12:15
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Welcome & Logistics (until 14:30)
14:00 Welcome to PIC and UAB - Gonzalo Merino (IFAE - Institute for High Energy Physics)  
14:20 Workshop logistics - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
14:30
FTS Presentations (until 15:30)
14:30 FTS4: Plans and Developments - Steven Murray (CERN)  
15:10 FTS4: The Reinvented Scheduler - Nicola Pace  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
FTS Presentations (until 17:30)
16:00 FTS4: The New File API - Louis Regnier  
16:20 FTS & Rucio - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)  
18:00
Welcome drink (until 18:30) (Terrace)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
WLCG Open Technical Forum #7 - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 15:15)
14:00 Introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
14:10 FTS - status and plans - Steven Murray (CERN)  
14:40 XRootD - status and plans - Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford University/SLAC)  
15:15
Coffee break (until 15:45)
15:45
WLCG Open Technical Forum #7 (until 17:00)
15:45 XRootD Monitoring - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
16:20 Evolution of Grid Data Management clients - Luca Mascetti (CERN)  
12:15
Lunch (until 13:45)
13:45
Welcome & Logistics (until 14:00)
14:00
XRootD Presentations (until 15:00)
14:00 What happened since the last workshop - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
14:20 Plans for XRootD 6.0 and Other News - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
14:40 XRootD Evolution Discussion - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
15:00
Coffee break (until 15:30)
15:30
XRootD Presentations (until 17:00)
15:30 Introducing file cloning in XRootD R6 - David Smith (CERN)  
15:45 Scitags: A Standardised Framework for Traffic Identification and Network Visibility - Pablo Collado Soto (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
16:15 Monitoring a distributed XRootD infrastructure - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:35 Evolution of Summary Monitoring - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
17:30
PIC DataCenter Visit (until 18:30)
20:00
Workshop Dinner (until 23:00)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
XRootD Presentations (until 15:30)
14:00 How the ALICE experiment uses Xrootd - Costin Grigoras (CERN)  
14:20 XRootD developments at RAL - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
14:40 Experiences for Early SKA Data Movement - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
14:55 OU XRootD Site Report anf Plans - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
15:15 Refactoring HTTP-TPC - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
XRootD Presentations (until 17:35)
16:00 XRootD Admin Dashboard - Jyothish Thomas (STFC)  
16:20 Explaining Xrootd to Users by AI - Ian Erbacher Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Sarah Yang  
16:40 Benchmarking the Open Science Data Federation services - S3 plugin and cache selection - Fabio Andrijauskas (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
17:00 XRootD’s improved support for SENSE deployments - Diego Davila Foyo (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
17:20 WebDAV Error Improvement Initiative - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
12:00
Boxed lunch (take away) (until 13:00)