Analysis Infrastructure or Fabric for Analysis or Analysis Ecosystem or ??

Friday 22 May 2026, 14:00 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

513/1-024 (CERN)

Useful information and links:

e-mail list: cern-analysis-facility@cern.ch

Overall description and useful information

Mattermost Channel

Workbook

Minutes

As we discussed before, the focus and nature of this series of meetings has to be redirected and aligned to support the Key Elements as shared by Oliver, with the central topics:

Evolution "Future" of lxplus/lxbatch/$HOME

Coexistence/Interaction of SWAN/ml.cern.ch 

Topics of this meeting:

 

Rebranding

Scope

Permanent Members

Parties concerned 

 

 

 

 

 

14:00 → 14:15 Progress on understanding the CMS Analysis Universum(s)

The last meeting used ATLAS analysis workflows as the backdrop for a discussion on the suitability of the current infrastructure.

Since then some of us, especially Giovanni, started to look at CMS's approaches to analysis.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pf4vsK_bcuuiXvO8WaHo4g4D90jGz6mVB0TnD2TEw8k/edit?tab=t.0

We found:
Chapter 9 in:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2957472/files/LHCC-G-186.pdf
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1330797/papers/5796853/files/13266-CAT_ACAT24_proceeding.pdf
https://github.com/columnflow/columnflow
https://iris-hep.org/projects/coffea-casa.html

Speakers: Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN), Markus Schulz (CERN)

14:15 → 15:00 Discussion on the structural changes

Speakers: Markus Schulz (CERN), Oliver Keeble (CERN)

Objectives and Scope - Analysis Ecosystem Evolution.pdf