EOS 2026 Workshop

from Monday, 9 March 2026 (13:30) to Wednesday, 11 March 2026 (16:00)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026
AM
09:00
Development - Cedric Caffy (CERN) (until 10:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 EOS Quotas by Logical Space - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
09:10 One File, Many Hashes: The New Alternative Checksums Feature - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
09:30 Some recent XRootD changes for EOS - David Smith (CERN)  
09:50 EOS RClone - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
10:00 EOS File Notifications - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
10:10 I/O Shaping in EOS - Luis Antonio Obis Aparicio (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Development & Storage Hardware - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 12:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:00 Unlocking SMR Capacity in EOS Using Zoned XFS - Hans Holmberg (Western Digital Research)  
11:20 New Technologies for Environmentally Responsible Data Growth - Ed Strong  
11:40 Next-Generation Exascale Flash Storage - Ruhi Choudhury  
09:00
EOS based Site & Software Evolution - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 10:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 EOS Implementation Phase at INPE - Mr Wanderley Oliveira Mendes (Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE (BR)) Dr Jorge Luis Gomes (Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE (BR))  
09:20 EOS HPM Update - Pablo Medina Ramos  
09:40 CERN Tape Archive Status and Roadmap - Dr Jaroslav Guenther (CERN)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:20
Site Reports - Cedric Caffy (CERN) (until 12:10) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:20 EOS Site report of the Joint Research Centre - Armin Burger  
10:40 EOS at the Fermilab LHC Physics Center - Yujun Wu (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:00 EOS operations at CERN - 2025 status report - Luca Mascetti (CERN)  
11:20 EOS in ALICE T2 deployments at ORNL and LBNL - Steve Moulton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
11:40 EOS Site report of IHEP - Dr Yujiang BI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
12:00 EOS Kolkata Tier-2 Storage Evolution - Dr Vikas Singhal (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))  
PM
13:45 --- Arrival ---
14:00
Development - Luca Mascetti (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 15:35)
14:00 Workshop Introduction - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
14:15 EOS development updates 5.3/5.4 - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
14:45 XRootD 6.0 - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
15:05 NFS4 R&D for EOS - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
15:35 --- Coffee Break ---
16:05
Development - Luca Mascetti (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 17:00)
16:05 A High-Performance S3 Gateway for EOS - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
16:25 News in HTTP's server-side support - Cedric Caffy (CERN)  
16:45 EOS recycle bin updates - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Operational Tools & Configuration - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) (until 15:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 Apollon & Hermes: Next step in EOS disk operations - Octavian-Mihai Matei (CERN)  
14:20 EOS Deployments through Ansible Automation - Martin Vala (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
14:35 CERN Disk Benchmark Tool - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
14:50 EOS-Alarms - Status Automatic Monitoring - Octavian-Mihai Matei (CERN)  
15:10 EOS ChatBot - Pilot Evaluation & Campaign Proposal - Dr Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Live QA, Demo & Discussion Session (until 17:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
19:00
Workshop Dinner - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 21:00)
12:10 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Ecosystem & Roadmap - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 16:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 ORCHIDE: Using EOS for space edge computing - Sergiu Weisz (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
14:20 Optimizing High-Dimensional Data Storage: NDMSPC with THnSparse and TTree on EOS - Martin Vala (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
14:40 The EOS Development Workplan & Roadmap - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)