19th International dCache Workshop

20 May 2025, 09:00 → 21 May 2025, 22:33 Europe/Berlin

IN2P3 computing centre Amphitheatre (IN2P3 computing centre)

Adrien Georget (IN2P3), Fabio Hernandez (IN2P3), Marina Sahakyan (IT (IT Scientific Computing)), Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY-IT, Scientific Computing)

 

The 19th International dCache workshop 2025 will be held in person from 2025-05-20 to 2025-05-21 and hosted by IN2P3/CNRS computing centre (CC-IN2P3) in Lyon, France. As with earlier workshops, the dCache team is eager to maintain and strengthen its relationship with dCache system administrators, experienced or novice. Contributions to the workshop will focus on presenting mechanisms helping sysadmins run secure and fault-tolerant dCache systems. 

⚠️ Please bring a valid identification document every day to enter the event venue. Only registered participants who show a valid identification document will be allowed to enter the site. 

CC-IN2P3 sponsors the workshop. 

Social dinner

A social dinner at a restaurant serving French cuisine is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20th 19h30 at Maison Villemanzy (GoogleMap, OpenStreetMap).

plan_CCIN2P3_EN.pdf

Tuesday 20 May

09:00 → 17:30 User workshop session

09:30 Welcome & workshop logistic

10:00 dCache project status & update

Speaker: Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY-IT, Scientific Computing)

dcache-update.pdf

10:30 Coffee, Tee, Stretching

11:00 dCache deployment at IN2P3

Speaker: Adrien GEORGET (IN2P3-CC)

dCacheWS_CCIN2P3_2025.pdf

11:30 High Availability setup at Nordic Tier-1

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (HPC2N, Umeå Universitet)

20250520-dCache-HA.pdf

12:00 Hardware, OS, Deployment - open discussion

Speaker: Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY-IT, Scientific Computing)

large-installation-issues.pdf

12:30 Lunch

14:00 From DPM to dCache: Experience by French LCG T2s

Speaker: Frederic Gillardo (CNRS)

2025_05_20_workshop_dCache-7.pdf

14:20 Things that went wrong, and how we fixed (most of) them – a site report

Speaker: Onno Zweers (SURFsara)

Things that went wrong - SURF - 2025 edition.pptx

14:40 File Taging and Virtual directories

Speaker: Marina Sahakyan (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

dcache_workshop2025_VD.pdf

15:00 Automating dCache monitoring test transfers with OIDC tokens using Mytoken

Speaker: Xavier Mol (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Mytoken.dCacheWS25.pdf

15:20 Coffee, Tee, Stretching

17:30 → 18:30 Visit to CC-IN2P3 machine room

19:30 → 21:00 Social Event: Social Dinner

Maison Villemanzy
25, Montée Saint-Sébastien
69001 Lyon

https://maison-villemanzy-lyon.com/en

OpenStreet Map: https://osm.org/go/0AsrQHVpI
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/giFSBQ1y2fRfSGmF9

Wednesday 21 May

09:30 → 22:33 User workshop session

09:30 Fermi News

Speaker: Dmitry Litvintsev (Fermilab)

workshop19_1.pdf

10:00 dCache usage for data processing by the Rubin observatory

Speaker: Fabio HERNANDEZ (IN2P3 / CNRS computing centre)

slides

10:30 Coffee, Tee, Stretching

10:50 ADA, the Advanced Dcache API client, has grown!

Speaker: Onno Zweers (SURFsara)

Ada has grown - dCache workshop 2025.pptx

11:10 Use cases by ASTRON community

Speaker: Aras Bozkurt (NWO Institute ASTRON: Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

dCache_Workshop_ArasBozkurt.pdf

11:30 NFS improvements

Speaker: Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY-IT, Scientific Computing)

nfs-update.pdf

11:50 CTA @ DESY

Speaker: Mwai Karimi (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

MwaidCache25.pdf

12:30 Lunch

22:30 Group Photo