Name: XRootD and FTS Workshop @ CNRS Rhône Auvergne Delegation Lyon, France
Start: 2026-09-14T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CNRS Delegation Rhône-Auvergne

Monday, September 14, 2026

11:30 AM Registration

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre

1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Welcome & Logistics

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM FTS Presentations
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:50 PM FTS in Rubin Data Transfers - Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

3:20 PM Operating Data Movement at SKA Scale: Progress and Future Directions for SRCNet - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
3:50 PM Coffee break

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM FTS Presentations
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Site update on FTS at RAL - Rose Cooper

4:40 PM Operational Evolution of the Fermilab FTS3 Service for non-CMS experiments: Modernizing Deployment, Automation, and Elastic Operations - Lorena Lobato Pardavila (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:00 PM FTS Status and Future Plan at IHEP - Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
9:00 AM FTS Presentations
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM FTS4: State of Testing Affairs - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)

9:30 AM FTS4@CERN: Establishing QA Procedures - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)
10:15 AM Coffee break

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM FTS Presentations
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM FTS4: Optimising Performance & Efficiency - Louis Regnier

11:00 AM FTS4: Scheduler and FlowController: Scalable Scheduling and Adaptive Transfer Concurrency - Nicola Pace

11:30 AM FTS4: Tape Daemon Re-Engineering for LHC Run 4 - Joao Pedro Lopes (CERN)
12:00 PM Coffee break

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:15 PM FTS Presentations
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

12:15 PM ATLAS Community Talk - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

12:35 PM LHCb <3 FTS[34] - Christophe Haen (CERN)

12:55 PM CMS Community Talk - Christos Emmanouil (CERN)
1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM FTS Presentations
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Data Challenge 2027 - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

3:10 PM USCMS Mini-challenges: from DC24 to DC27 - Diego Davila (UCSD)
3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM WLCG Open Technical Forum #13
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

4:10 PM FTS status and plans - Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN)

4:30 PM Discussion
7:30 PM Workshop Dinner (Les Adrets - 30 Rue du Bœuf, 69005 Lyon): Workshop Group Dinner
Workshop Group Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
9:00 AM FTS Presentations
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Rucio Project Talk - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

9:30 AM Rucio/SENSE Integration update on the path to production - Diego Davila (UCSD)

9:50 AM XRootD and FTS in the MADDEN Multi-RI Data Lake - Nikita Avdeev (INFN Torino)

10:10 AM Deploying FTS in a Kubernetes cluster with S3-only backends - Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM FTS Presentations
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM FTS4: Introducing TimescaleDB - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)

11:20 AM FTS Open Discussion
11:50 AM Group Photo

11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre

12:00 PM Welcome & Logistics

12:00 PM - 12:05 PM
12:05 PM XRootD Presentations
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

12:05 PM Catch up with XRootD! - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:30 PM Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Metrics - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)
1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM XRootD Presentations
2:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:30 PM Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Logs and Traces - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

3:00 PM Towards WLCG-wide XRootD monitoring: deployment plans and the road to DC27 - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)

3:20 PM Improving the OSG XRootD Collector and Validating Against MonaLisa - Karanjot Singh (CERN)
3:40 PM Coffee break

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM XRootD Presentations
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

4:00 PM Global Profiling of Open Science Data Federation Services using the Pelican Platform - Fabio Andrijauskas (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

4:20 PM Secure data access to ancient data sets: XRootD in and for data preservation - Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)

4:40 PM Experience of AI Assisted Code Improvement for XRootD - Sarah Yang

4:50 PM Mirage – File-Level Simulation on an XRootD Server - Diogo Mattioli (CERN)
Thursday, September 17, 2026
8:30 AM XRootD Presentations
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM XCache - the future development menu - Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

9:30 AM XCache setup and support in Germany - Raphael Kleinemuhl (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

9:50 AM Verifying replica integrity before XRootD redirects - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))

10:10 AM XRootD Redirectors at Fermilab: Architecture and Operations - Lorena Lobato Pardavila (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM XRootD Presentations
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:00 AM An XRootD Agent as A Unified Storage Interface for INK Platform - Yujiang BI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:20 AM XRootD Remote Reads for WLCG Data Challenge - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))

11:40 AM Update on OU_OSCER_ATLAS backend storage migration from XRootD to CephFS - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))

12:00 PM Real-time checksums in XRootD - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:20 PM uCache: Transparent Client-Side Caching for XRootD - Dmytro Kovalskyi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

12:40 PM Benchmarking and Optimisation of High-Performance Data Access and Storage Systems - Gustavo Lopes (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM XRootD Presentations
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:30 PM XRootD Architectures for modern storage use cases - Jyothish Thomas (STFC)

3:00 PM Pelican: Building out XRootD functionality via plugins - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin (US))
3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM WLCG Open Technical Forum #13
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM introduction - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

4:10 PM XRootD project development roadmap - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

4:30 PM XRootD monitoring - status report and next steps. - Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)
Friday, September 18, 2026
9:00 AM XRootD Presentations
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM XrdHttp and XrdHttpTPC: The 12-Month Diff - Cedric Caffy (CERN)

9:20 AM HTTP/XRootD clients and ROOT - Back on the case - Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

9:40 AM A Native XRootD Path for GFAL Workflows - Luis Antonio Obis Aparicio (CERN)
10:00 AM Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM XRootD Presentations
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Amphitheatre
Contributions

10:30 AM New experimental XRootD plug-ins & R&D - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

11:00 AM XRootD - HTTP TPC Client support XrdClHttp - Diogo Mattioli (CERN)

11:20 AM Terabyte Transfers over High-BDP Links: Tactics vs. Architecture - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:30 AM XRootD Open Discussion - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
11:45 AM Workshop Wrap-up

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre

12:00 PM Boxed lunch (take away)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheatre