Description
Networking and the connected e-Infrastructures are becoming ubiquitous. Ensuring the smooth operation and integrity of the services for research communities in a rapidly changing environment are key challenges. This track focuses on the current state of the art and recent advances in these areas: networking, infrastructure, operations, security and identity management. The scope of this track includes advances in high-performance networking (software defined networks, community private networks, the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, cross-domain provisioning), the connected data and compute infrastructures (storage and compute systems architectures, improving service and site reliability, interoperability between infrastructures, data centre models), monitoring tools and metrics, service management (ITIL and SLAs), and infrastructure/systems operations and management. Also included here are issues related to the integrity, reliability, and security of services and data: developments in security middleware, operational security, security policy, federated identity management, and community management. Submissions related to the general theme of the conference are particularly welcome.
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN has successfully optimized the usage of its High-Level Trigger (HLT) farm by integrating the tools that make its usage transparent as a Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Tier-2D site, used opportunistically when the HLT needs are reduced. This innovative transformation leverages the power of XRootD for data access, HTCondor for...
Anomaly detection is a critical component of predictive maintenance in data centers, where early identification of abnormal patterns in system behavior can prevent failures and reduce operational costs. This work explores the application of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for unsupervised anomaly detection in data collected from data center infrastructure. VAEs are probabilistic generative...
The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG) community’s deployment of dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 on its worldwide storage infrastructure is very successful and has been presented by us at earlier ISGC conferences. Dual-stack is not, however, a viable long-term solution; the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group has focused on studying where and why IPv4 is still being used, and how to change such...
