I am announcing a new development related to ROOT: the repository root_mcp_server.

This project implements an MCP (Model-Context-Protocol) server that allows executing ROOT code (both Python and C++) inside a ROOT process via the MCP protocol. Unlike a simple HTTP API, MCP provides a protocol for sending code snippets, invoking ROOT functionality, and receiving structured results — enabling interactive execution of analysis tasks within a controlled ROOT runtime.

The CHEP conferences address the computing, networking and software issues for the world’s leading data‐intensive science experiments that currently analyze hundreds of petabytes of data using worldwide computing resources. The Conference provides a unique opportunity for computing experts across Particle and Nuclear Physics to come together to learn from each other and typically attracts over 500 participants. The event features plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and poster presentations; it publishes peer-reviewed proceedings.

Our contribution link

SWAN (Service for Web-based ANalysis) is CERN’s Jupyter notebook service, giving access to data from EOS and CERNBox, software from CVMFS and connectivity to CERN Spark clusters.

The goal of this workshop is to share use cases among the community and for the SWAN team to learn in more detail how the service is used and how it should evolve to suit the users’ needs. https://indico.cern.ch/event/834069/