HEPiX Spring 2026 Workshop

from Monday, 20 April 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 24 April 2026 (14:30)
ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Auditório J.J. Laginha)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026
22 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Welcome - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 09:30)
09:00 Welcome talk - Jorge Humberto Lucio Oliveira Gomes (LIP)  
09:20 Logistics talk - Hugo Miguel Da Silva Gomes (LIP) Joao Antonio Tomasio Pina (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) Jorge Humberto Lucio Oliveira Gomes (LIP)  
09:30
Site Reports - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef) (until 10:30)
09:30 LIP and CNCA sites report - Jorge Humberto Lucio Oliveira Gomes  
09:50 CERN site report - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
10:10 RAL Site Report - Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Site Reports - Sebastien Gadrat (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) (until 12:20)
11:00 BNL SCDF Site Report - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:20 IHEP Site Report - Mr Xiaowei Jiang (IHEP(中国科学院高能物理研究所))  
11:40 GridKa Site Report - Dr Max Kühn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
12:00 PIC site report - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
09:00
Environmental sustainability, business continuity, and Facility improvement -Dr Dwayne Spiteri (DESY) Henryk Giemza (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL)) (until 10:10)
09:00 Power and Efficiency Monitoring for WLCG Sites - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)  
09:30 Technical aspects of RF2.0 and what you can learn about your cluster by running benchmarks - Jan Hartmann  
09:50 Dynamic Power Scaling at PIC: Optimizing AMD EPYC Processors for Carbon and Cost Reduction - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
10:10 --- Group Photograph ---
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Site Reports - Sebastien Gadrat (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)) (until 12:20)
11:00 US ATLAS SWT2 Site Report - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
11:20 DESY Site Report - Andreas Haupt (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:40 GSI Site Report - Christopher Huhn  
12:00 NT1 site report - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
09:00
Software and Services for Operation - Mary Catherine Hester (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 10:30)
09:00 WLCG Operations Coordination towards HL-LHC: Current Focus Areas and Near-Term Plans - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
09:20 EGI Software Provisioning Infrastructure - Joao Antonio Tomasio Pina (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
09:40 Modernizing the CNCA Helpdesk from RT to Zammad - João Machado  
10:00 Joblens: A Lightweight Observability Collector for Cluster Job - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Cloud Technologies, Virtualization & Orchestration, Operating Systems -Dr Michele Michelotto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 12:30)
11:00 BNL experience with RHEV to OpenShift Migration - Joseph Frith  
11:20 Kubernetes Adoption: Best Practices for Deployment, Architecture, and Integration - Samuel Bernardo  
11:40 Event-Driven Group Storage Provisioning in dCache via the Helmholtz Cloud Portal: A Reference Architecture - Franz Rhee (DESY)  
12:00 Migrating from Vmware to XCP-ng with XOA - Bart van der Wal (NIkhef)  
09:00
Storage & data management (until 09:20)
09:00 Scientific Data Transfer System for High Energy Physics Experiments - Bo Zhuang (中国科学院高能物理研究所)  
09:20
Computing and Batch Services -Dr Max Kühn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (until 10:30)
09:20 Summary of the european HTCondor Workshop 2025 - Christoph Beyer  
09:40 AUDITOR: Accounting challenges of future HC-LHC and CO2 accounting - Raghuvar Vijayakumar (University of Freiburg (DE))  
10:00 Misc Linux Things happening at DESY - Jan Hartmann  
10:20 Slurm Appliance: An open source HPC batch cluster defined as code for on-premises clouds (SLIDES ONLY) - Steve Brasier (StackHPC)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Computing and Batch Services - Matthias Schnepf (until 11:20)
11:00 News from the IDAF @ DESY - Christoph Beyer  
11:20
Software and Services for Operation - Jingyan Shi (IHEP) (until 12:30)
11:20 KEK IdP: Production Deployment and Future SSO Strategy for CRC Services - Konomi Omori (KEK)  
11:40 Design and Progress of IHEP Identity Authentication System Upgrade - qi luo (中科院高能物理所计算中心)  
12:00 From In-House Tools to HashiCorp Vault: CERN's Transition to Modern Scalable Secrets Management - Zhechka Toteva (CERN)  
09:00
Computing and Batch Services - Matthias Schnepf (until 09:20)
09:00 Experience with HTCondor job disk and memory limits at CZ WLCG sites - Alexandr Mikula (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
09:20
Miscellaneous - Ofer Rind (Brookhaven National Laboratory) (until 10:10)
09:20 SPECTRUM: A Strategic Framework and Technical Blueprint for European Exascale Research Data and Compute Infrastructure - Dr Jeff Wagg (OCA)  
09:50 Enhancing Accessibility and Discoverability of CERN Media - Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio (CERN)  
10:10
Applied AI in Computing Center Infrastructures - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 10:30)
10:10 New AI Infrastructure for Dr.Sai Agents at IHEP - Zhengde Zhang (中国科学院高能物理研究所)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Applied AI in Computing Center Infrastructures - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 12:00)
11:00 A Centralized LLM and Agentic AI Infrastructure for CERN - Juan Manuel Guijarro (CERN)  
11:20 Integrating Spack, MLflow, and AgenticAI in Maxwell Cluster at DESY: Advancing Reproducible and Intelligent Scientific Workflows - Shore Salle Chota  
11:40 NSSDC's data management and application practices towards AI4S - QI XU (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:20
Storage & data management -Dr Andrew Pickford (Nikhef) (until 15:30)
14:20 Report on the 2026 CS3 conference - Peter van der Reest  
14:40 Rearchitecting RAL's Ceph Storage for the needs of 2030 - Robert Appleyard  
15:00 Sync-Polen: A sync&share service for the Portuguese scientific community - Mario Jorge Moura David  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Storage & data management - Peter van der Reest (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) (until 17:00)
16:00 CosmoHub: Building the next generation multimessenger open science platform - Dr Pau Tallada-Crespí (PIC-CIEMAT)  
16:20 HERD data management and workflow - Hao Hu (Institute of High Energy of Physics)  
17:30 --- Welcome Drink ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Follow-up on mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:00 Introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
14:10 Operational Effort at Sites - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
14:35 Evolution of tape (archival) storage incl. performance requirements (report from OTF#8) - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
15:05 Storage Capacity vs. Throughput - Thomas Birkett  
15:35 U.S. CMS Facility Evolution Plans - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Follow-up on mid-long term evolution of facilities (Topical Session with WLCG OTF) - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 17:45)
16:30 IHEP (China) Facility Evolution Plans - Mr Xiaowei Jiang (IHEP(中国科学院高能物理研究所))  
16:55 Panel: Services Deployment with K8s  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Computing and Batch Services - Matthias Schnepf (until 14:30)
14:00 HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group Report - Domenico Giordano (CERN)  
14:30
Techwatch (Topical Session) -Mr Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:30 Fujifilm’s Evolution of Magnetic Tape: BaFe and SrFe Innovations for Next-Generation HPC Storage - Ms Elisabeth Gameiro (FUJIFILM Recording Media France)  
14:50 Tape Technology evolution update from the CERN perspective - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
15:10 HEPiX Technology Watch Working Group Report - Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN)  
15:40 Technology Watch: A broad view on cooling - Tristan Suerink  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Techwatch (Topical Session) -Mr Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Dr Andrea Sciabà (CERN) (until 18:00)
16:30 The future of cooling @ Nikhef - Tristan Suerink  
16:50 WLCG Workshop on Heterogeneous Architectures Summary - Oxana Smirnova (Lund University)  
17:20 GPU deployment at KIT - Matthias Jochen Schnepf  
17:40 CERN IT Data Centre Compute & Storage Procurement Towards LHC Run 4: Challenges and Community Perspectives - Luca Atzori (CERN)  
18:30
HEPIX Board (closed) (until 20:00)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Network & Security - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Evolution and Development of PIC’s Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure - Marc Santamaria Riba (INSTITUT DE FÍSICA D´ALTES ENERGIES)  
14:20 HEPiX IPv6 Working Group Update - David Kelsey (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
14:50 LHCOPN IPv6-only progress at IHEP - 曾珊 zengshan  
15:10 A phased phase-out plan for IPv4 at a WLCG Tier-1 site - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Network & Security - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US)) (until 16:40)
16:00 CZ-Tier-2 Network Tests - Jiri Chudoba (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
16:20 Worldwide Computer Security Situation - Dawid Kulikowski  
16:40
Show me Your Toolbox - Peter van der Reest Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE)) (until 17:20)
16:40 Dennis van Dok - gitlab pipelines for building sw packages - Dennis van Dok (Nikhef)  
16:50 Chris Brew - introducing the slowest NFS server in the world - Chris Brew (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) Chris Brew (Department of Physics) Chris Brew (Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science &) Chris Brew (CCLRC - RAL)  
17:00 Garhan Attebury - Updates to his HEPiX Fall 2024 toolbox - Garhan Attebury (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
17:10 Mattias Wadenstein - CLI Tape Management Utility  
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:00
Wrap-up - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) (until 12:30)
12:30 --- Lunch ---