Name: Throughput Computing Week 2026
Start: 2026-06-09T00:05:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-12T15:20:00-05:00
Location: Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Throughput Computing Week 2026

from Tuesday, June 9, 2026 (12:05 AM) to Friday, June 12, 2026 (3:20 PM)

Monday, June 8, 2026
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

6:30 AM Lakeshore Run
Lakeshore Run
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM

7:30 AM Registration, Coffee, and Light Breakfast
Registration, Coffee, and Light Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:59 AM
9:00 AM The PATh Forward
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome to Throughput Computing Week - Patrick McDaniel (UW-Madison)

9:05 AM TT&T - on Transition, Trust and Throughput - Miron Livny (UW-Center for High Throughput Computing) Peter Couvares (LIGO Laboratory - Caltech)

9:35 AM A Perspective from Smaller Institutions - Jason Simms (Swarthmore College)

10:05 AM AI Meets CI, Report from the CI Compass Community Workshop - Ewa Deelman (USC Information Sciences Institute)
USATLAS Meeting: T1/T2 Operations & LS3 Priorities
T1/T2 Operations & LS3 Priorities
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Monona Room - 8th Floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and meeting Overview - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Lab) Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)

9:05 AM ADC Priorities During LS3 and Site Procurement implications - Ivan Glushkov (BNL)

9:30 AM T1/T2 Priorities and Hardware Cost Mitigations - Frederick Luehring (Indiana University) Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington)

10:00 AM Wrap Up Discussion
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Facilitation for HTC, AI Challenges and HTC AI Toolkit, David Swanson Awardee Researcher Talk
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Introduction of David Swanson Awardee - Ronda Swanson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

11:10 AM Justice at Scale: Leveraging High-Throughput Computing to Analyze Millions of Judicial Records - Presented by David Swanson Awardee - Saloni Bhogale (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:45 AM Research Computing Facilitation - Christina Koch (UW Madison)

12:10 PM Enabling Large-Scale and Ultra-Large AlphaFold3 Predictions with Distributed High-Throughput Computing - Daniel (Danny) Morales (UW-Center for High Throughput Computing)
USATLAS Meeting: AF and AI: Tools and Policies
AF and AI: Tools and Policies
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Monona Room - 8th Floor
Contributions

11:00 AM AF Survey Results - Viviana Cavaliere (BNL)

11:25 AM LLM Assisted Analysis at the UC AF - Giordon Stark (UCSC) Giordon Stark (SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz)

11:50 AM Towards Agentic Ops - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago)

12:15 PM Testing a Hermes Agent: LLM to design web pages via natural language - Louis Pelosi (BNL)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM The Promise of Multi-Messenger Astronomy: Transforming Research (Keynote)
1:30 PM - 2:35 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Keynote Introduction - Brian Bockelman (Morgridge Institute for Research)

1:35 PM Keynote: The Present and the Future of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics - Michael Coughlin (University of Minnesota)
2:35 PM Break
Break
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
3:05 PM Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Computing Challenges
3:05 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

3:05 PM The hidden latencies in real-time astronomy - Kendall Ackley (University of Warwick/Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer)

3:30 PM Computing hurdles in wide-field target-of-opportunity searches with Rubin and ZTF (Remote Presentation) - Shreya Anand (Standford University)

3:50 PM On the role of multimodality for the real-time discovery and classification of transients - Ved Shah (Northwestern University)

4:15 PM Ten Million Alerts a Night: Computing Bottlenecks in Real-Time Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (Remote Presentation) - Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

4:40 PM Constraining Degeneracies in Gamma-Ray Burst Simulations - Nathan Walker (Oregon State University)
USATLAS Meeting: Tools, R&D and Storage
Tools, R&D and Storage
3:05 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Monona Room - 8th Floor
Contributions

3:05 PM Fabrics and Storage for USATLAS - Oszkar Tarjan (BNL)

3:30 PM Storage Policies for USATLAS Users - Ofer Rind (BNL)

3:55 PM HTCondor Modernization at BNL - Thomas Smith (BNL)

4:10 PM USATLAS Ops & Monitoring - Ofer Rind (BNL)

4:30 PM Discussion on Tools and R&D
5:00 PM Closing Remarks

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

5:05 PM Evening on the Memorial Union Terrace
Evening on the Memorial Union Terrace
5:05 PM - 7:35 PM
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

8:00 AM Coffee, Pastries and Registration
Coffee, Pastries and Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Computing Challenges Part 2
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Processing Every Image: Rubin Observatory's Data Release Production - Colin Slater

9:25 AM Of Needles and Haystacks: Lessons from the GW-MMADS follow-up campaign during the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run - Tomas Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon University)

9:50 AM Radio Follow-up of GW Events: Opportunities and Challenges (Remote Presentation) - Alessandra Corsi (John Hopkins University)

10:10 AM The VLA Sky Survey and multi-messenger astronomy - Mark Lacy
USATLAS Meeting: (Mini) Data Challenges and Prep for HL-LHC
(Mini) Data Challenges and Prep for HL-LHC
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Skyview Room - 8th Floor
Contributions

9:00 AM DC27 and Mini-Challenge Planning - Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)

9:15 AM SENSE Rucio Discussion - Justas Balcas (ESnet) Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Rob Gardner (University of Chicago)

9:30 AM Results from NET2->Prague 400 Gbps Testing - Eduardo Bach (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

9:45 AM RP1 Core, Open Data Facility and Implications for AFs in the HL-LHC era - Aidan Rosberg (Indiana University)

10:05 AM Discussion, Wrap-up including USATLAS Topics for WLCG-HSF November Meeting
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Campus Impacts and Broader Outreach
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Lightning Updates for the Community of OSDF and OSPool Contributors - Tim Cartwright (University of Wisconsin–Madison, OSG)

11:10 AM A Statewide Perspective from a REN (Remote Presentation) - Pierrette Dagg (MERIT)

11:35 AM Trends in campus resource planning and resource sharing - Preston Smith (Purdue University)

12:00 PM Community-Operated CI Resources for Campus Researchers - Stephen Deems
Throughput Computing at Work: Reports from the Field
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM The IceCube CredMon - Going Beyond the Manual to Support Pelican - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:25 AM Rubin Observatory: Scaling towards Data Release Production using HTCondor - Greg Daues (NCSA)

11:50 AM JAWS and the Backend Architecture: HTCondor and Pool Management for Portable Scientific Workflows - Seung-Jin Sul (Staff Software Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:10 PM Evolving the CMS Submission Infrastructure - Marco Mascheroni (UCSD)
USATLAS Meeting: WBS 2.3 Activities Review and Planning
WBS 2.3 Activities Review and Planning
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Joint Room 216, Room 218
Contributions

11:00 AM Review of WBS 2.3 Activities (Beyond T1/T2) - Kaushik De (University of Texas at Arlington) Ofer Rind (BNL)

11:25 AM Lightning Talks - What to do better for WBS 2.3? - William Leight (University of Massachusetts) philippe Laurens (Michigan State University) wenjing wu (University of Michigan)

12:05 PM Scrubbing Planning and Discussion - Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Sharing Data, Data Stores and Utilizing the OSDF
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Booster rockets for Birds: New Backends for the Pelican Origin - Justin Hiemstra (Morgridge Institute for Research)

1:55 PM Sharing Data: Authentication, Users, and Group Management in Pelican - Brian Aydemir (Morgridge Institute for Research, UW–Madison)

2:15 PM Open Science data federation and National Research platform - Fabio Andrijauskas
USATLAS Meeting: Closeout and Next Steps
Closeout and Next Steps
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Skyview Room - 8th Floor
Contributions

1:30 PM Gather and Summarize Key Decisions

1:50 PM Create Action Items and Associated Responsibles

2:10 PM Next Steps and Wrapup
2:30 PM Break
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Vibe-coding the future: Successes and Dramatic Failures in using Agentic AI
3:00 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

3:00 PM Agents and Birds - Leveraging LLMs for Throughput Computing - Brian Bockelman (Morgridge Institute for Research)

3:25 PM Deploying Nextflow on CHTC: A Case Study for Serving Biology's Software Needs with AI-Assisted Engineering - Nicholas Minor (Dave O'Connor's Laboratory/UW-Madison)

3:50 PM The PATh to NAIRR: Heterogeneous Training of Machine Learning Models in OSPool and NAIRR - Ian Ross (U. Wisconsin)

4:10 PM Pegasus and AI: Use a Napkin, Run a Workflow - Ewa Deelman (USC Information Sciences Institute)

4:35 PM Heterogeneous Prompt Processing Challenges in DUNE - Steven Timm (Fermilab (DUNE))
4:55 PM Closing Remarks

4:55 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

5:30 PM Small Group Dinners
Small Group Dinners
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

6:00 PM Evening Bike Ride
Evening Bike Ride
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

7:30 PM Bonfire at Picnic Point with Smores and Hotdogs
Bonfire at Picnic Point with Smores and Hotdogs
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, June 11, 2026

8:00 AM Coffee, Pastries and Registration
Coffee, Pastries and Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Keeping an Eagle Eye On Things (monitoring)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Using OSG to enable the development of Simulation based inference for Cosmology - Yuanyuan Zhang (NSF NOIRLab)

9:25 AM OSG Security Status and The Future - Mark Krenz (Indiana University)

9:50 AM OrangeGrid Cloud Workers - Peter Pizzimenti

10:15 AM HTC in the Search for Very High Energy Neutrinos with the Trinity Demonstrator - Lily Sheram (Georgia Institute of Technology)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM CHTC Work
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM From Per-Job Data to an Aggregated Workload Insight: A Toolkit for Profiling HTCondor Workload - Kashika Mahajan (UW-Center for High Throughput Computing)

11:25 AM The HTCon-Door: Opening Your Compute Cluster to the World - Cole Bollig (UW-Center for High Throughput Computing)

11:50 AM Files Common Across Jobs (Part II) - Todd Miller (CHTC)

12:15 PM Authorizing Remote Placement with the PlacementD - Matyas Selmeci (UW-Madison CHTC)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Workflows, near and far
1:30 PM - 2:35 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM GlideinWMS Improvements and Challenges - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab) Namratha Urs (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

1:55 PM Auto-regulating input files that save time when jobs fail - Benjamin FitzGerald (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:15 PM Wrangling Massive Task Graphs with VineReduce - Douglas Thain (University of Notre Dame)
2:35 PM CHTC Fellows Lightning Talks

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM HTCSS - the Migratory Path: Where We Have Been, and Where We are Going
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

3:30 PM HTCondor Flight Path - Todd Tannenbaum (University of Wisconsin)

4:15 PM Todd or Bot Game Show - Greg Thain (Center for High Throughput Computing) Todd Tannenbaum (University of Wisconsin)
4:45 PM Closing Remarks

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

5:00 PM Small Group Dinners
Small Group Dinners
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

6:00 PM Sunset Kayak or Paddleboard
Sunset Kayak or Paddleboard
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

6:20 PM 80's Tribute Night at the Monona Terrace rooftop featuring the band Sixteen Candles
80's Tribute Night at the Monona Terrace rooftop featuring the band Sixteen Candles
6:20 PM - 9:00 PM

8:45 PM Karaoke Night
Karaoke Night
8:45 PM - 10:45 PM
Friday, June 12, 2026

8:00 AM Coffee, Pastries, and Registration
Coffee, Pastries, and Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM AI Facilitation, User Challenges, and best practices. + AI driven Research
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM INK (Interactive aNalysis worKbench) : Progress and AI Exploration (Remote Presentation) - Jingyan Shi (INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, Chinese Academy of Science)

9:20 AM Climate Policy Modeling with HTCondor - Ken Judd (Stanford University)

9:45 AM Where's the Big Data for Protein Dynamics? - Hannah Wayment-Steele (UW-Madison)

10:10 AM YOL-No: Guiding Agent Usage on the Access point - Ian Ross (U. Wisconsin)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Is AI for The Birds? Using AI tools to understand and debug HTCondor and Pelican
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Analyzing and Optimizing Machine Timeout Duration Using AI (Remote Presentation) - Khyathi Vagolu (UW-Madison)

11:25 AM MCP for HTCondor Admins - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago)

11:50 AM HTCondor operational improvement efforts @ BNL - Tom Smith (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:20 PM Closing Remarks

12:20 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM No Session

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Howard Auditorium

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