The 4th CTA Workshop is a two-day in-person event which will bring together developers, users and sites running CTA software. Newcomers are also welcome to join the community.

The workshop will feature a programme of technical presentations, site reports, hands-on sessions and the roadmap for CTA's plans and future developments.

The CTA Workshop will be co-located with the EOS Workshop as part of CERN's TechWeekStorage25 (24-28 March 2025).

Location and Timetable

The workshop will take place at CERN, in Salle Bohr, on 27-28 March 2025.

Thursday morning and Friday morning will be dedicated to technical presentations and site reports.

Thursday afternoon will be dedicated to hands-on sessions.

TechWeekStorage25

TechWeekStorage25 will kick off on Monday 24 March with a plenary session giving an overview of the storage technologies developed and used at CERN: EOS Open Storage (disk storage), CTA (tape archival storage), Ceph (block, file and object storage) and CERNBox (sync and share platform for collaboration).

This will be followed by the EOS Workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please note that these events must be registered for separately from the CTA Workshop.

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and published (subject to agreement of the speakers).

Fees

Participation in the workshop is free of charge.

There will be a workshop dinner on Thursday 27 March. Participation is optional and is at the participant's own expense. See Social Programme for details.

Registration

Registration is open to anyone. Please register here.

If you would like to share your experience with the community, please submit an abstract (deadline 28 February 2025).

We look forward to seeing you at the in-person workshop in March 2025 during TechWeekStorage25!

—The CTA team