HEPiX Spring 2026 Workshop

Scientific Program

Site Reports

Concise reports highlighting notable updates, changes, and news from participating sites. Contributions from new sites or those less frequently highlighted are strongly encouraged.

Networking & Security

This track covers issues related to networking technologies and associated monitoring tools, including the planning for and the use of IPv6. It also covers computer security.

Storage & data management

This track covers diverse areas related to storage technologies, from hardware to distributed file systems as well as storage systems and data management tools used to orchestrate the movement and distribution of data.

Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems

This track focuses on modern orchestration tools (like Kubernetes) for managing and scaling containerized applications. It also covers operating systems, grid services, cloud technologies, and virtualization as foundations for dynamic resource provisioning.

Computing & Batch Services

This track is about computing technology tracking, benchmarking, HPC, GPU processors and batch schedulers used in High Throughput Computing.

Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement

This track discusses news on, and experience with, computer rooms, cooling, electricity and facility monitoring, including any measures to improve energy efficiency. In addition, it covers the strategy for providing/improving business continuity.

Software and Services for Operation

This track covers the services that are needed as a layer between the facilities and the user-facing services, for example configuration, IaaS, CMDB, and monitoring. It also discusses services that are user-facing such as mail, version control, issue tracking, messaging, and service management.

Applied AI in Computing Center Infrastructures

As computing infrastructures grow in scale and complexity, AI offers new opportunities to transform how centers are operated and managed. This track discusses applied AI use cases in computing centers, including intelligent automation, adaptive resource management, and decision support systems. Speakers will share experiences from production environments, discuss data and model challenges, and outline future directions for AI-driven infrastructure management within the HEPIX community.

"Show Me Your Toolbox"

The session related with this track features quick interactive demonstrations of tools of interest to the HEPiX community that participants find useful. Registering via submitting an abstract will be appreciated, but there will also be time for spontaneous contributions.

Techwatch (Topical Session)

This workshop session seeks contributions examining recent hardware technology developments and their cost implications for HEP computing. We particularly encourage presentations on emerging challenges including rising memory costs (or HDD costs) and the probable migration toward liquid cooling infrastructure. We aim to identify practical strategies for data centers navigating this rapidly evolving technical and economic landscape.

Follow-up on mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session)

Topical session jointly organized with WLCG OTF that aims to explore and converge on likely directions for WLCG facility evolution, informed by ongoing developments in storage, workflow management, and resource provisioning. By bringing together cross-site and cross-experiment perspectives on CPU, GPU, disk, tape, and network evolution, the goal is to identify a small set of concrete milestones and a 3–5 year timeline for deploying and validating production-ready infrastructure in advance of Run 4, feeding directly into the WLCG Technical Roadmap.

Miscellaneous

If you have something that doesn't fit in any other track...