ALICE Tier-1/Tier-2 Workshop in Kosice, High Tatras

from Monday, 7 September 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 9 September 2026 (23:30)
Hotel Atrium (Conference room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Sept 2026
8 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30 Welcome, logistics - Ivan Kralik (Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))  
10:00 JAliEn status and future directions - Costin Grigoras (CERN)  
10:40 --- Cofee break ---
11:10 Discovery, matching and control of heterogenous resources - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))  
11:50 Whole node operation and Grid visualisation - Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)  
09:00 ALICE computing resources and data processing - status and plans - Irakli Chakaberia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:35 WLCG network - status and future - Edoardo Martelli (CERN)  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 EOS status and future - Elvin Alin Sindrilaru (CERN)  
11:15 Computing for Physics at a New Scale: Infrastructures Under Pressure - Xavier Espinal (CERN)  
11:50 --- Lunch break ---
09:00 --- Visit to the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences ---
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Strategic direction of the WLCG services - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)  
14:40 The new MonALISA monitoring system - Maria Mateea Popescu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 AI use in services operation - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO)) Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)  
16:30 Payload resources optimisation - TTL and Disk - Maria-Elena Mihailescu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
13:10 EOS and xrootd deployment guidelines for ALICE - Dr Adrian Sevcenco (Institute of Space Science subsidiary of INFLPR (RO))  
13:45 Grid security - Pau C (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 HPC resources in Korea - Hyeonjin Yu (Chungbuk National University (KR))  
16:30 Prague T2 - status and plans - Dagmar Adamova (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
17:00 KISTI T1 - status and plans - Mr Byungyun Kong (KISTI Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))  
19:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Transforming UPB into a Tier-1 - Sergiu Weisz (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))  
14:30 Slovak Tier-2 centres - status and plans - Ingrid Kulkova (Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)) Michal Meres (Comenius University (SK))  
15:00 GSI status and plans - Soren Lars Gerald Fleischer (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Raffaele Grosso (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 LBNL and ORNL - status and plans - Steve Moulton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))  
16:30 GridKa - status and plans - Raquel Quishpe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
17:00 Closing remarks