Name: WLCG Open Technical Forum (OTF) #8
Start: 2026-02-03T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-04T17:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

WLCG Open Technical Forum (OTF) #8

from Tuesday, 3 February 2026 (09:00) to Wednesday, 4 February 2026 (17:00)
CERN (IT Amphi (3 Feb) + Kjell Johnson Amphi (4 Feb))

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

3 Feb 2026

4 Feb 2026

09:00	Alice and Tapes - retrospective and future needs
09:30	ATLAS and Tapes - retrospective and future needs - Mario Lassnig (CERN)
10:00	CMS and Tapes - retrospective and future needs - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN) Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
10:30	LHCb and Tapes - retrospective and future needs
11:00	--- Coffee and tea ---
11:30	Operational retrospective - feedback from the Tier1s - Julien Leduc (CERN) Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

13:30	WLCG OTF#8 Introduction - Johannes Elmsheuser (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
13:40	Technology and Market Evolution of Tape - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)
14:30	HPSS+dCache - BNL - Tim Chou Tim Chou (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
15:10	CTA+dCache - FNAL experience
15:50	--- Coffee and Tea ---
16:20	dCache evolution plans - Mr Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY) Tigran Mkrtchyan (CERN)
17:00	CTA+EOS CERN tape experience
18:00	--- drinks and chips/snacks in R1 ---

12:10	Performance Tape Tests (PTT) - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)
12:45	--- Lunch ---
13:45	CNAF experience - storm evolution wrt tape
14:15	SARA experience
14:45	Tape archive metadata - Xin Zhao (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
15:15	FTS and Tapes (and Tokens)

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