XRootD and FTS Workshop @ CNRS Rhône Auvergne Delegation Lyon, France

from Monday, September 14, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, September 18, 2026 (6:00 PM)
CNRS Delegation Rhône-Auvergne ( Amphitheatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 14, 2026
Sep 15, 2026
Sep 16, 2026
Sep 17, 2026
Sep 18, 2026
AM
11:30 AM
Registration (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 10:15 AM)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
FTS Presentations (until 12:00 PM)
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)  
9:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 10:30 AM)
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 (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 11:50 AM)
11:00 AM FTS4: Introducing TimescaleDB - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
11:20 AM FTS Open Discussion  
11:50 AM
Group Photo (until 12:00 PM)
8:30 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 10:30 AM)
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 (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM An XRootD Agent as A Unified Storage Interface for INK Platform - Dr 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 - Mr Gustavo Lopes (Federal University of Minas Gerais)  
9:00 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 10:00 AM)
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 (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 11:45 AM)
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 (until 12:00 PM)
PM
1:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Welcome & Logistics (until 2:50 PM)
2:50 PM
FTS Presentations (until 3:50 PM)
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 (until 4:20 PM)
4:20 PM
FTS Presentations (until 5:20 PM)
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))  
12:00 PM
Coffee break (until 12:15 PM)
12:15 PM
FTS Presentations (until 1:15 PM)
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 (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
FTS Presentations (until 3:30 PM)
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 - Mr Diego Davila (UCSD)  
3:30 PM
Coffee break (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM Introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
4:10 PM FTS status and plans - Dr Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN)  
4:30 PM Discussion  
7:30 PM
Workshop Dinner (Les Adrets - 30 Rue du Bœuf, 69005 Lyon) - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN) Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Dr Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN) Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 9:30 PM)
12:00 PM
Welcome & Logistics (until 12:05 PM)
12:05 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 1:00 PM)
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 (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 3:40 PM)
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 (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 5:20 PM)
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 - Dr 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)  
1:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 3:30 PM)
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 (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
4:10 PM XRootD project development roadmap - Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
4:30 PM XRootD monitoring - status report and next steps. - Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
12:00 PM
Boxed lunch (take away) (until 1:00 PM)