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

from Monday, 14 September 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 18 September 2026 (18:00)
CNRS Delegation Rhône-Auvergne ( Amphitheatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Sept 2026
15 Sept 2026
16 Sept 2026
17 Sept 2026
18 Sept 2026
AM
11:30
Registration (until 13:00)
09:00
FTS Presentations (until 10:15)
09:00 FTS4: State of Testing Affairs - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
09:30 FTS4@CERN: Establishing QA Procedures - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
10:15
Coffee break (until 10:30)
10:30
FTS Presentations (until 12:00)
10:30 FTS4: Optimising Performance & Efficiency - Louis Regnier  
11:00 FTS4: Scheduler and FlowController: Scalable Scheduling and Adaptive Transfer Concurrency - Nicola Pace  
11:30 FTS4: Tape Daemon Re-Engineering for LHC Run 4 - Joao Pedro Lopes (CERN)  
09:00
FTS Presentations (until 10:30)
09:00 Rucio Project Talk - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)  
09:30 Rucio/SENSE Integration update on the path to production - Diego Davila (UCSD)  
09:50 XRootD and FTS in the MADDEN Multi-RI Data Lake - Nikita Avdeev (INFN Torino)  
10:10 Deploying FTS in a Kubernetes cluster with S3-only backends - Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
FTS Presentations (until 11:50)
11:00 FTS4: Introducing TimescaleDB - Mihai Patrascoiu (CERN)  
11:20 FTS Open Discussion  
11:50
Group Photo (until 12:00)
08:30
XRootD Presentations (until 10:30)
09:00 XCache - the future development menu - Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
09:30 XCache setup and support in Germany - Raphael Kleinemuhl (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)  
09:50 Verifying replica integrity before XRootD redirects - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))  
10:10 XRootD Redirectors at Fermilab: Architecture and Operations - Lorena Lobato Pardavila (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
XRootD Presentations (until 13:00)
11:00 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 XRootD Remote Reads for WLCG Data Challenge - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))  
11:40 Update on OU_OSCER_ATLAS backend storage migration from XRootD to CephFS - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
12:00 Real-time checksums in XRootD - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
12:20 uCache: Transparent Client-Side Caching for XRootD - Dmytro Kovalskyi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:40 Benchmarking and Optimisation of High-Performance Data Access and Storage Systems - Mr Gustavo Lopes (Federal University of Minas Gerais)  
09:00
XRootD Presentations (until 10:00)
09:00 XrdHttp and XrdHttpTPC: The 12-Month Diff - Cedric Caffy (CERN)  
09:20 HTTP/XRootD clients and ROOT - Back on the case - Fabrizio Furano (CERN)  
09:40 A Native XRootD Path for GFAL Workflows - Luis Antonio Obis Aparicio (CERN)  
10:00
Coffee break (until 10:30)
10:30
XRootD Presentations (until 11:45)
10:30 New experimental XRootD plug-ins & R&D - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
11:00 XRootD - HTTP TPC Client support XrdClHttp - Diogo Mattioli (CERN)  
11:20 Terabyte Transfers over High-BDP Links: Tactics vs. Architecture - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
11:30 XRootD Open Discussion - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
11:45
Workshop Wrap-up (until 12:00)
PM
13:00
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Welcome & Logistics (until 14:50)
14:50
FTS Presentations (until 15:50)
14:50 FTS in Rubin Data Transfers - Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
15:20 Operating Data Movement at SKA Scale: Progress and Future Directions for SRCNet - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
15:50
Coffee break (until 16:20)
16:20
FTS Presentations (until 17:20)
16:20 Site update on FTS at RAL - Rose Cooper  
16:40 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))  
17:00 FTS Status and Future Plan at IHEP - Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
12:00
Coffee break (until 12:15)
12:15
FTS Presentations (until 13:15)
12:15 ATLAS Community Talk - Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)  
12:35 LHCb <3 FTS[34] - Christophe Haen (CERN)  
12:55 CMS Community Talk - Christos Emmanouil (CERN)  
13:15
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
FTS Presentations (until 15:30)
14:30 Data Challenge 2027 - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))  
15:10 USCMS Mini-challenges: from DC24 to DC27 - Mr Diego Davila (UCSD)  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 17:00)
16:00 Introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
16:10 FTS status and plans - Dr Maria Arsuaga Rios (CERN)  
16:30 Discussion  
19:30
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 21:30)
12:00
Welcome & Logistics (until 12:05)
12:05
XRootD Presentations (until 13:00)
12:05 Catch up with XRootD! - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
12:30 Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Metrics - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
XRootD Presentations (until 15:40)
14:30 Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Logs and Traces - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
15:00 Towards WLCG-wide XRootD monitoring: deployment plans and the road to DC27 - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
15:20 Improving the OSG XRootD Collector and Validating Against MonaLisa - Karanjot Singh (CERN)  
15:40
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
XRootD Presentations (until 17:20)
16:00 Global Profiling of Open Science Data Federation Services using the Pelican Platform - Fabio Andrijauskas (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
16:20 Secure data access to ancient data sets: XRootD in and for data preservation - Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)  
16:40 Experience of AI Assisted Code Improvement for XRootD - Sarah Yang  
16:50 Mirage – File-Level Simulation on an XRootD Server - Diogo Mattioli (CERN)  
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
XRootD Presentations (until 15:30)
14:30 XRootD Architectures for modern storage use cases - Jyothish Thomas (STFC)  
15:00 Pelican: Building out XRootD functionality via plugins - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin (US))  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 (until 17:00)
16:00 introduction - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
16:10 XRootD project development roadmap - Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
16:30 XRootD monitoring - status report and next steps. - Guilherme Amadio (CERN) Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
12:00
Boxed lunch (take away) (until 13:00)