PanDA Community forum

Thursday 9 Oct 2025, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

42/3-032 (CERN)

PanDA Community meeting

minutes

1 PanDA news

Speaker: Dr Edward Karavakis (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

• ATLAS SW&C week on 22–26 Sept 2025 
  - Unification of PanDA Server and JEDI (growing cross-dependencies), increasing overlap between functions. Repo consolidation, deployment simplification
  - Migration of clients to new PanDA server API
  - Worker node map: PanDA server provides new API calls to report the HW specs for a worker node and for GPUs
  - Monitoring statistics for MONIT (and beyond)
  - OSPool (GlideinWMS) Integration
  - AskPanDA update
  - BigPanDA Mon update from Tanya
• SKA-CH: 2 day hands-on meeting at CERN to setup their PanDA services and Q&A session
• CMS: discussions with Daniele Spiga for the preliminary, theoretical evaluation of PanDA and integration possibilities. A similar evaluation is being performed by other persons for DiracX and for upgrading their own system

Experiment round-table: issues, requests, feedback, status

2 ATLAS

Speakers: Dr Andreu Pacheco Pages (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies - Barcelona (ES)), Rodney Walker (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

Andreu is participating ex officio, as he stepped down as the ADC Coordinator on October 1st. The current ADC coordinators will nominate a new representative to replace him.

3 SKA

Speakers: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan, Rohini Joshi (SKA Organisation)

4 Vera Rubin Observatory

Speaker: Brian Yanny (Fermilab)

Things are going well with PanDA use for Rubin production processing at multiple sites.

5 PanDA for NP - AID2E and EIC

Speakers: Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Wen Guan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Xin Zhao (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

6 AOB

Wei: AskPanDA LLM meeting.
Eddie: Next meeting will be on the 13th of November.