Fwd: Reminder: Third joint FTS and XRootD Workshop 2025 - PIC, Barcelona, Spain

[Josep Flix]

Dear colleagues,

The early bird for the workshop has been extended to next Friday 19th September. After that date, the regular fare will apply. The workshop hotel discount has also been extended to 19th September.

Cheers,

Pepe

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From: Mihai Patrascoiu <mihai.pa...@cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 15:14
Subject: Reminder: Third joint FTS and XRootD Workshop 2025 - PIC, Barcelona, Spain
To: Mihai Patrascoiu <mihai.pa...@cern.ch>, Guilherme Amadio <guilherm...@cern.ch>, Luca Mascetti <luca.m...@cern.ch>, a...@slac.stanford.edu <a...@slac.stanford.edu>
Cc: FTS-and-XRootD-workshop-community (FTS-and-XRootD-workshop-community) <FTS-and-XRootD-w...@cern.ch>

Dear software & computing experts, conveners, coordinators, and managers!

We take this chance to remind you of the upcoming FTS & XRootd Workshop, which will take place 13 - 17th October 2025, at PIC, Barcelona, Spain.
Registrations until 15th September 2025 benefit from the early bird offer.

Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop in Barcelona!

Mihai, Guilherme and Andy,
on behalf of the organizing team

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We are pleased to announce that FTS and XRootD projects are organizing their third joint workshop to be held at Hotel Exe Campus, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain in collaboration with Port d'Informació Científica (PIC), from Monday 13th to Friday 17th October 2025.

The FTS and XRootD workshop will also host the WLCG Open Technical Forum (OTF) on Tuesday, 14th October 2025, focusing on the community requirements and evolution of the FTS and XRootD software for HL-LHC (Run4 and Run5). We encourage you to take part in the discussion shaping the evolution of these systems!

The workshop agenda and registration page are available at:

https://indico.cern.ch/e/ftsxrootd25

For the FTS and XRootD workshop, we kindly invite you to submit your contributions using the link below:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1542060/abstracts/

Simply submit the title of your talk, along with the desired presentation duration. If the title is not self-explanatory, please include a brief description or context as well.

Consider submitting a presentation in one or more of the following areas:

• Status, statistics, and projected usage of FTS and XRootD for Run3 and beyond.
• Storage access for analysis use, including performance and CPU efficiency under realistic running conditions (e.g., local disk, EOS, Tier2, remote data access, with or without XCache).
• Data distribution and data management needs, and use-cases within scientific communities: scientific frameworks used and how they integrate FTS and/or XRootD within their workflow.
• Structured input and future requirements from experiments and community members on the medium-to-long term evolution of the FTS and XRootD projects (aiming at HL-LHC).
• Discussion of related topics such as Authentication frameworks (IAM, CILogon, etc.), integration of Cloud Storage, scientific data management workflows or Network data movement optimization (e.g. scitags).
• Desired extension or new features and how they would make your workflow easier.

 

This is not an exhaustive list; presentations on related subjects not mentioned above are also encouraged.

Please forward this announcement to the relevant communication channels of your community!

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop in October 2025 in Barcelona!

Andrew Hanushevsky,

Guilherme Amadio,

Luca Mascetti,

Mihai Patrascoiu,

Jose Flix Molina,

Andreu Pacheco Pages,

Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo

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Dr. Josep Flix Molina

Senior Researcher at CIEMAT / PIC

LHC Tier1 Project Manager

UAB Physics Professor

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