Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)

Robin Hofsaess

Information

Institutes: ETP/SCC
Room: 8-21 (CS,30.23)/Flexoffice (CN,449)
Phone:
Email: Robin.Hofsaess#kit.edu

PhD Topics

Jet Energy Calibration for CMS and Workflow Optimization for HEP Jobs on National HPC Centers
Referee: Prof. Dr. Günter Quast
Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Achim Streit
Supervisor: Dr. Manuel Giffels

Other Projects

Contributions to the XRootD Community - power user - docs + input for the developers, bug finding etc
Developments and Enhancements for the CMS Monitoring
Support for CMS CompOps from the Site POV
Analysis Facility Concept and Prototype for the DARWIN Collaboration
Technical Support for the DELight Collaboration
Administration of the IT Infrastructure and User Support -ldap,wiki, gitlab/mattermost, ansible,ceph

Conferences and Talks

2021

Fidium Kickoff Meeting 2021
DPG 2021

2022

JETMet Workshop Florence 2022 (L3Res Z+Jet: Framework Synchronization)
DPG 2022 (Jet Energy Calibration for Ultra Legacy Data with Z+Jet Events at CMS)
FSP CMS 2022 in Aachen

2023

DPG 2023 (Caching in Distributed Computing Infrastructures)
XRootD&FTS Workshop at Ljubljana 2023 (Data-Aware Scheduling for Opportunistic Resources (with XRootD and HTCondor))
FSP CMS 2023 at Hamburg (GridKa Report and R&D Overview at KIT)
Thematic CERN School of Computing Security (sCSC) 2023 at Split
CMS Week at CERN

2024

DPG 2024 (Workflow Optimization for HEP Jobs on Opportunistic Resources with XRootD)
ACAT 2024 at Stony Brook, Long Island (Paving the Way for HPC: An XRootD-Based Approach for Efficiency and Workflow Optimizations for HEP Jobs on HPC Centers)
Lecturer at the Inverted Cern School of Computing iCSC 2024 (Unraveling Grid Computing: From Basics to WLCG)
WLCG Workshop 2024 at DESY
XRootD&FTS Workshop at Abingdon 2024 (Experince with XCache on HPC in Germany (CMS))
FSP CMS 2024 at Aachen (GridKa Report)
FIDIUM Collaboration Meeting 2024 and FC-AC Kickoff Meeting at Aachen (Optimizations for HEP Jobs on HPC with XRootD Caching)
CHEP 2024 at Krakau (Author: First Deployment of XCache for Workflow and Efficiency Optimizations on Opportunistic HPC Resources in Germany, Co-Author: A Lightweight Analysis & Grid Facility for the DARWIN Experiment)
CMS OnC Week 2024 at CERN

Publications

kseta fellow workshop other contributions: darwin, max

Tools and Helpful Resources

phd hacks, ssh-agent, ldap, xrd-interactive