EOS 2026 Workshop

from Monday, March 9, 2026 (1:30 PM) to Wednesday, March 11, 2026 (4:00 PM)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 9, 2026
Mar 10, 2026
Mar 11, 2026
AM
9:00 AM
Development - Cedric Caffy (CERN) (until 10:30 AM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM EOS Quotas by Logical Space - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
9:10 AM One File, Many Hashes: The New Alternative Checksums Feature - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
9:30 AM Some recent XRootD changes for EOS - David Smith (CERN)  
9:50 AM EOS RClone - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
10:00 AM EOS File Notifications - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
10:10 AM I/O Shaping in EOS - Luis Antonio Obis Aparicio (CERN)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Development & Storage Hardware - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 12:00 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:00 AM Unlocking SMR Capacity in EOS Using Zoned XFS - Hans Holmberg (Western Digital Research)  
11:20 AM New Technologies for Environmentally Responsible Data Growth - Ed Strong  
11:40 AM Next-Generation Exascale Flash Storage - Ruhi Choudhury  
9:00 AM
EOS based Site & Software Evolution - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 10:00 AM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM 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))  
9:20 AM EOS HPM Update - Pablo Medina Ramos  
9:40 AM CERN Tape Archive Status and Roadmap - Dr Jaroslav Guenther (CERN)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:20 AM
Site Reports - Cedric Caffy (CERN) (until 12:10 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:20 AM EOS Site report of the Joint Research Centre - Armin Burger  
10:40 AM EOS at the Fermilab LHC Physics Center - Yujun Wu (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:00 AM EOS operations at CERN - 2025 status report - Luca Mascetti (CERN)  
11:20 AM EOS in ALICE T2 deployments at ORNL and LBNL - Steve Moulton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
11:40 AM EOS Site report of IHEP - Dr Yujiang BI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
12:00 PM EOS Kolkata Tier-2 Storage Evolution - Dr Vikas Singhal (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))  
PM
1:45 PM --- Arrival ---
2:00 PM
Development - Luca Mascetti (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 3:35 PM)
2:00 PM Workshop Introduction - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
2:15 PM EOS development updates 5.3/5.4 - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
2:45 PM XRootD 6.0 - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
3:05 PM NFS4 R&D for EOS - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
3:35 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:05 PM
Development - Luca Mascetti (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) (until 5:00 PM)
4:05 PM A High-Performance S3 Gateway for EOS - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
4:25 PM News in HTTP's server-side support - Cedric Caffy (CERN)  
4:45 PM EOS recycle bin updates - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Operational Tools & Configuration - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) (until 3:30 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM Apollon & Hermes: Next step in EOS disk operations - Octavian-Mihai Matei (CERN)  
2:20 PM EOS Deployments through Ansible Automation - Martin Vala (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
2:35 PM CERN Disk Benchmark Tool - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
2:50 PM EOS-Alarms - Status Automatic Monitoring - Octavian-Mihai Matei (CERN)  
3:10 PM EOS ChatBot - Pilot Evaluation & Campaign Proposal - Dr Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Live QA, Demo & Discussion Session (until 5:00 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
7:00 PM
Workshop Dinner - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 9:00 PM)
12:10 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Ecosystem & Roadmap - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 4:00 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM ORCHIDE: Using EOS for space edge computing - Sergiu Weisz (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
2:20 PM Optimizing High-Dimensional Data Storage: NDMSPC with THnSparse and TTree on EOS - Martin Vala (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))  
2:40 PM The EOS Development Workplan & Roadmap - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)