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Board of Sponsors meeting launches CERN openlab's next phase

Morag Hickman — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:08:31 +0000

Wednesday, 9 May, 2012

On the 8^th and 9^th of May, the CERN openlab Board of Sponsors gathered at CERN to officially close phase III of the collaboration, and to launch its fourth phase, which will run through 2012 to the end of 2014.

Welcomed by the Head of CERN openlab, Bob Jones, delegates from industry member companies and CERN management joined CERN openlab staff to review the third phase. Various talks highlighted key achievements, and celebrated the positive impact on the development of Grid and computing services which underpin the LHC. They also looked forward to future plans for development.

The fourth phase of CERN openlab will address topics critical to the continued growth of the CERN scientific programme, such as cloud computing, business analytics, the next generation of hardware, and security for myriads of network devices. The industry investment over the three years of the fourth phase represents more than eight million Swiss Francs.

Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General chaired a Round-Table discussion at the end of the day with the heads of delegations from the openlab partner companies, HP, Intel, Oracle, Intel, and Huawei as a contributor for a year, and thanked all CERN openlab partners and contributors for their continued support. He emphasized that the fourth phase of CERN openlab will be instrumental in addressing the growing computing challenges posed by increases in LHC luminosity and energy in future.

The second day brought an opportunity to widen the scope of the meeting, showcasing the scientific diversity of CERN, future needs of the experiments, and exploring how CERN openlab fits into the broader picture.

CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolluci spoke on the scientific programme of CERN, Pierre Vande Vyvre, Project Leader of the ALICE Data Acquisition Project, gave an experiment’s-eye-view of CERN’s computing needs and how they will change as the LHC’s energy and luminosity increase. A key development in processing data from the LHC and its experiments will be the creation of the CERN' s remote data centre, plans for which were outlined in a talk by Wayne Salter, Computing Facilities Group Leader in the CERN IT Department.

Bernd Panzer-Steindel, CTO and resource manager in the CERN computer centre, turned the focus towards strategic direction outilining how CERN is moving towards an agile infrastructure making sure of reasoned virtualisation. This presentation was followed-up by a discussion and wrap-up session. Bob Jones concluded: “CERN openlab has established itself as a reference thanks to the excellent relationship and on-going commitment of all partners and contributors during the past 11 years. The combined knowledge and dedication of the engineers from CERN and the companies have produced remarkable results. The launch of this fourth phase is an exciting time for CERN openlab and I am confident that we will be equally successful in the future.”

The press release is available to you, as well as a video presenting the CERN openlab activities and the group picture taken at the occasion of this first CERN openlab IV annual Board of Sponsors meeting, in the presence of the CERN Director-General, the partners, and the openlab team members.

Details of the event are available to delegates on Indico.

Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation

Orestis Galanis — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:28:47 +0000

Date published:

30 Jan 2018

Outlet:

link.springer.com

Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites. This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.

Link:

link.springer.com

Gaining New Insights from Data Lakes

Orestis Galanis — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:34:20 +0000

Oracle

Link:

Gaining New Insights from Data Lakes

Friday, 26 January, 2018

A data lab is an incubator for innovation that enables fast experimentation with massive amounts of data. This allows you to discover, manipulate, visualize, and iteratively model data, and explore it for its potential.

31055-Oracle-Big-Data-Digibook-V12-RG.pdf

Phase:

openlab phase V

Technical area:

Data Storage Architectures

Compute Management and Provisioning

Data Analytics

Building Secure Rest Architectures With ORDS

Orestis Galanis — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:00:32 +0000

Author(s):

L. Rodríguez Fernández

Date presented:

Monday, 4 December, 2017

Event presented at:

Tech17 Conference, Birmingham

For more information about the event

Presentation file:

building-secure-rest-architectures-with-ords.pdf

CERN Uses Oracle Cloud to Support the LHC Research Program

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:24:41 +0000

Date Published:

Wednesday, 6 December, 2017

CERN is working with Oracle to make sure that the future infrastructures can scale out in a reliable and secure way. Given the right technology and operations, most of the applications will end up in the Cloud partially provided by Oracle.

1000 things you always want to know about SSO but you never dare to ask

Orestis Galanis — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:51:29 +0000

Date published:

Thursday, 12 October, 2017

Document type:

Poster

Author(s):

L. Rodríguez Fernández

Event published at:

icalepcs 2017, Barcelona

For more information about the event:

Technical document file:

THSH302_poster.pdf

Oracle Helps CERN to Innovate

Orestis Galanis — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:45:52 +0000

Date Published:

Thursday, 8 June, 2017

Research at CERN is based on constant innovation

CERN openlab Benefits from Cooperation with Oracle

Orestis Galanis — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:43:58 +0000

Date Published:

Thursday, 8 June, 2017

For the past 16 years CERN openlab profits from Oracle technology which helps to deal with the Extreme Data Environment. The cooperation is reciprocal allowing Oracle to use CERN infrastructure for testing new products.

Oracle Big Data Discovery is Crucial for CERN

Orestis Galanis — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:38:59 +0000

Date Published:

Thursday, 8 June, 2017

CERN is comprised of 110 different nationalities which requires the right tools in order to collaborate. Oracle Big Data Discovery allows scientists from different countries to access and analyze data and push the progress forward.

Oracle: Big Data Is Proving Harder Than Previously Thought

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:07:45 +0000

Date published:

23 Mar 2017

Outlet:

silicon.co.uk

Oracle’s big data lead explains the difference between ‘good hard’ and ‘bad hard’ as well as the future ethics of AI and machine learning. The combination of cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analytics is seen as a pillar of digital transformation, but the final part of that equation is still proving difficult, at least in Oracle’s eyes.

Link:

Article on silicon.co.uk

Copy of the coverage:

Oracle_ Big Data Is Proving Harder Than Previously Thought.pdf

Oracle Enables Research at Scale

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:05:49 +0000

Oracle

Link:

Oracle Enables Research at Scale

Wednesday, 29 March, 2017

Oracle has been deeply involved with the research community for more than a quarter century now. Recent advancements we’ve made in the cloud deployment of high performance computing infrastructure and advanced analytics solutions are focused on one goal - Accelerating Enterprise Research at Scale. Our advancements in key technologies including Big Data, Machine Learning/AI, and IoT, coupled with the far more cost-effective and elastic cloud delivery model - have radically changed what is possible in data driven research.

edu-enables-research-scale-sb-3657506.pdf

Phase:

openlab phase V

Technical area:

Data Storage Architectures

Compute Management and Provisioning

Data Analytics

Oracle Customer Viewpoint—CERN

Orestis Galanis — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:47:55 +0000

Oracle

Link:

Oracle Customer Viewpoint—CERN

Friday, 3 March, 2017

Exploration in the Cloud: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is turning to the cloud to see if its IT infrastructure can become more scalable, secure, and economical to operate.

CERN Tests Data Exploration Using Big Data, Analytics, and the Cloud.pdf

Phase:

openlab phase V

Technical area:

Data Storage Architectures

Compute Management and Provisioning

Data Analytics