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
11:00 AM
Registration (until 12:15 PM)
9:10 AM
FTS Presentations (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
FTS Presentations (until 12:15 PM)
8:30 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 9:30 AM)
8:30 AM XCache - the future development menu - Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
9:00 AM XCache setup and support in Germany - Raphael Kleinemuehl  
9:30 AM
Coffee break (until 10:00 AM)
10:00 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 11:30 AM)
10:00 AM XRootD Redirectors at Fermilab: Architecture and Operations - Lorena Lobato Pardavila (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:20 AM Verifying replica integrity before XRootD redirects - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))  
10:40 AM An XRootD Agent as A Unified Storage Interface for INK Platform - LI Haibo lihaibo Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
11:00 AM Secure data access to ancient data sets: XRootD in and for data preservation - Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)  
11:30 AM
Lunch (until 1:00 PM)
9:00 AM
XRootD Presentations (until 10:30 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 New experimental XRootD plug-ins & R&D - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)  
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Workshop Wrap-up (until 12:00 PM)
PM
12:15 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Welcome & Logistics (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
FTS Presentations (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
Coffee break (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
FTS Presentations (until 5:30 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) (until 3:15 PM)
3:15 PM
Coffee break (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 (until 5:00 PM)
12:15 PM
Lunch (until 1:45 PM)
1:45 PM
Welcome & Logistics (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Catch up with XRootD! - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
2:30 PM Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Metrics - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
3:00 PM
Coffee break (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 6:20 PM)
3:30 PM Evolution of XRootD Monitoring: Logs and Traces - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
4:00 PM Towards WLCG-wide XRootD monitoring: deployment plans and the road to DC27 - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)  
4:20 PM Improving the OSG XRootD Collector and Validating Against MonaLisa - Karanjot Singh (CERN)  
4:40 PM Benchmarking and Optimisation of High-Performance Data Access and Storage Systems - Gustavo Mattos Lopes  
5:00 PM Global Profiling of Open Science Data Federation Services using the Pelican Platform - Fabio Andrijauskas (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
5:20 PM Experience of AI Assisted Code Improvement for XRootD - Sarah Yang  
8:00 PM
Workshop Dinner (until 11:00 PM)
1:00 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 2:30 PM)
1:00 PM XRootD Remote Reads for WLCG Data Challenge - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin (US))  
1:20 PM Update on OU_OSCER_ATLAS backend storage migration from XRootD to CephFS - Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))  
1:40 PM Real-time checksums in XRootD - Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
2:00 PM uCache: Transparent Client-Side Caching for XRootD - Dmytro Kovalskyi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
2:30 PM
Coffee break (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
XRootD Presentations (until 4:00 PM)
3:00 PM XRootD Architectures for modern storage use cases - Jyothish Thomas (STFC)  
3:20 PM Pelican: Building out XRootD functionality via plugins - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin (US))  
4:00 PM
WLCG Open Technical Forum #13 (until 5:00 PM)
12:00 PM
Boxed lunch (take away) (until 1:00 PM)