PaN Facilities VISA Meeting 2025

2 Jun 2025, 08:00 → 4 Jun 2025, 20:00 Europe/Madrid

Tesla Training Room (ALBA Synchrotron)

Nicolas Soler (ALBA-CELLS), Óscar Matilla Barceló

VISA is a data analysis platform developed at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL). It has been chosen as the reference tool among European PaN facilities for providing users with the possibility of (re)processing their data from anywhere using the facilities' compute/HPC resources. It is already in production not only at the ILL but also at other Photon and Neutron (PaN) facilities, such as the ESRF and DESY. 

A VISA committee has been formed, comprising members of different European PaN facilities, and has agreed to meet face-to face twice a year.

This meeting will be the occasion to gather VISA experts from other facilities to share experience and define future lines of action. The invited people will also discuss FAIR data management practices among PaN facilities in a dedicated sub-meeting.

The event will take place in the Tesla training room.

 

https://zoom.us/j/91746012558?pwd=uEJ4PA4IDK7VWTwgwHa5ip5IglGVIX.1

 

 

Monday, 2 June

1 Welcome

Speaker: Nicolas Soler (ALBA-CELLS)

2 Introduction: MoU Status

Speaker: Majid Ounsy (Soleil Synchrotron)

3 VISA status per facility

Lst of speakers:
- ALBA : Rodrigo Cabezas Quirós
- ESRF: Jean François Perrin
- HZDR: Oliver Knodel
- ILL: Erwan Le Gall, Stuart Caunt, Delphine Floret, Ludovic Leroux
- PSI (remote): Carlo Minotti
- Soleil: Alain Buteau, Majid Ounsy
- EuXFEL: Michael Schuh

2025-06 ESRF and VISA - Smal.pptx

ESRFvisa-GPUs.pptx

VISA_status_report_ALBA.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

4 VISA status per facility II

Lst of speakers:
- ALBA : Rodrigo Cabezas Quirós
- ESRF: Jean François Perrin
- HZDR: Oliver Knodel
- ILL: Erwan Le Gall, Stuart Caunt, Delphine Floret, Ludovic Leroux
- PSI (remote): Carlo Minotti
- Soleil: Alain Buteau, Majid Ounsy
- EuXFEL: Michael Schuh

12:30 Lunch

5 Cloud providers

Presentation of VISA cloud provider at ALBA: Rodrigo Cabezas Quirós
VISA on Kubernetes at ALBA: Matías Fisz and Ádara Carrión (ALBA ITS team)
Possible update / demo by Michael Schuh (EuXFEL)

alba25-visa-Michael_Schuh_cloud_providers.pdf

VISA-IT-ALBA.pdf

VISA_k8s_cloud_provider_ALBA.pdf

6 Windows services

Open discussion
ESRF andALBA have worked on this topic

15:30 Coffee break

7 Specifications for developments

• Discuss current needs, future directions of development

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 3 June

8 PaNOSC EOSC node: how to include VISA?

Round table

Speaker: Erwan Le Gall (ILL)

10:50 Coffee break

9 Status of current OSCARS developments regarding VISA

Presentation on WebX

Speaker: Stuart Caunt (ILL)

WebX - VISA Workshop @ ALBA Synchrotron 2025.pdf

10 CVMfs software distribution

Round table

Speaker: Alain BUTEAU (SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL)

12:30 Lunch

11 Licencing issues

Open discussion
- how to deal with commercial licences

12 Funding opportunities

Open discussion

Speaker: Jean-François PERRIN (ESRF)

15:00 Coffee break

13 Wrap-up, next actions

Speaker: Nicolas Soler (ALBA-CELLS)

Wednesday, 4 June

14 FAIR data management: current status

11:00 Coffee break

15 FAIR data management: priorities for the future

12:45 Lunch, end of the meeting