CERN openlab - openlab phase V

Press Release: CERN openlab tackles ICT challenges of High-Luminosity LHC

Orestis Galanis — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:28:28 +0000

Thursday, 21 September, 2017

CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years.

CERN is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The complexity of the scientific instruments at the laboratory throw up extreme ICT challenges, and make it an ideal environment for carrying out joint R&D projects and testing with industry.

A continuing programme of upgrades to the LHC and the experiments at CERN will result in hugely increased ICT demands in the coming years. The High-Luminosity LHC, the successor to the LHC, is planned to come online in around 2026. By this time, the total computing capacity required by the experiments is expected to be 50-100 times greater than today, with data storage needs expected to be in the order of exabytes.

CERN openlab works to develop and test the new ICT solutions and techniques that help to make the ground-breaking physics discoveries at CERN possible. It is a unique public-private partnership that provides a framework through which CERN can collaborate with leading ICT companies to accelerate the development of these cutting-edge technologies.

With a new three-year phase of CERN openlab set to begin at the start of 2018, work has been carried out throughout the first half of 2017 to identify key areas for future collaboration. A series of workshops and discussions was held to discuss the ICT challenges faced by the LHC research community — and other ‘big science’ projects over the coming years. This white paper is the culmination of these investigations, and sets out specific challenges that are ripe for tackling through collaborative R&D projects with leading ICT companies.

The white paper identifies 16 ICT ‘challenge areas’, which have been grouped into four overarching ‘R&D topics’ (data-centre technologies and infrastructures, computing performance and software, machine learning and data analytics, applications in other disciplines). Challenges identified include ensuring that data centre architectures are flexible and cost effective; using cloud computing resources in a scalable, hybrid manner; fully modernising code, in order to exploit hardware to its maximum potential; making sure large-scale platforms are in place to enable global scientific collaboration; and successfully translating the huge potential of machine learning into concrete solutions .

“Tackling these challenges — through a public-private partnership that brings together leading experts from each of these spheres — has the potential to positively impact on a range of scientific and technological fields, as well as wider society,” says Alberto Di Meglio, head of CERN openlab.

“With the LHC and the experiments set to undergo major upgrade work in 2019 and 2020, CERN openlab’s sixth phase offers a clear opportunity to develop ICT solutions that will already make a tangible difference for researchers when the upgraded LHC and experiments come back online in 2021,” says Maria Girone, CERN openlab CTO.

Follow the launch event for the white paper live via webcast from 09:50 CEST today: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/49

Attachment(s)

CERN openlab white paper on future IT challenges in scientific research (PDF): http://openlab.cern/whitepaper

Further information

CERN openlab website: www.cern.ch/openlab

CERN openlab press pack www.cern.ch/openlab/press

Contact

Andrew Purcell

CERN openlab communications officer

andrew.purcell@cern.ch

Tel: +41 22 76 62287

About CERN openlab

CERN openlab was established in 2001. It is a unique public-private partnership that works to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions for the worldwide LHC community and wider scientific research. Through CERN openlab, CERN collaborates with leading ICT companies and research institutes.

Within this framework, CERN provides access to its complex ICT infrastructure and its engineering experience — in some cases even extended to collaborating institutes worldwide.

Testing in CERN’s demanding environment provides the ICT industry collaborators with valuable feedback on their products, while enabling CERN to assess the merits of new technologies in their early stages of development for possible future use. This framework also offers a neutral ground for carrying out advanced research-and-development activities with more than one company.

Today, the following companies and research institutes are collaborating in CERN openlab:

Partners: Huawei, Intel, Oracle, Siemens

Contributors: Brocade, Cisco, IDT, Rackspace, Seagate

Associates: Comtrade, Yandex

Research members: EMBL-EBI, GSI, INFN, Innopolis University, Kazan Federal University, King’s College London, Newcastle University, SCImpulse Foundation.

CERN's Maria Girone outlines computing challenges at the Large Hadron Collider LHC

Orestis Galanis — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:23:18 +0000

Date Published:

Monday, 12 February, 2018

In this keynote talk at the HiPEAC conference on 22 January 2018, Maria Girone (CERN openlab) sets out some of the challenges of processing data from experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

CERN Openlab Summer Students Program for International Students to Switzerland 2018

Ioanna Katsina Dimoula — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:03:12 +0000

Date published:

26 Jan 2018

Outlet:

musiclyricszone.com

During two full months corresponding to nine weeks (June-August 2018), the CERN openlab summer students will be given a series of IT lectures (link is external) especially prepared for them by experts at CERN and other institutes. The students also have the opportunity to attend the CERN generic student programme lectures (link is external), if they wish. Visits to the accelerators and experimental areas are part of the programme, as well as visits to external companies. A report on the work project carried out is to be handed in at the end of the stay. Type: Training

Link:

musiclyricszone.com

Copy of the coverage:

CERN Openlab Summer Students Program for International Students to Switzerland 2018 – Music Lyrics Zone.pdf

CERN openlab Summer Students Internship Program in Switzerland, 2018

Ioanna Katsina Dimoula — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:41:46 +0000

Date published:

16 Feb 2018

Outlet:

freshnigerianjobupdates.blogspot.ch

CERN openlab Summer Students Internship in Switzerland invites an applications for B.Sc. or M.Sc. students who will have completed at least three years of full-time studies at university level by next spring in Computer Science or Mathematics, Engineering or Physics. The internship is for those interested in working on an advanced IT project for two full months during the summer.

Link:

Article on freshnigerianjobupdates.blogspot.ch

Copy of the coverage:

CERN openlab Summer Students Internship Program in Switzerland, 2018 _ Fresh Job Updates - in Nigeria.pdf

CERN openlab project: AVEDITOR

Orestis Galanis — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:20:16 +0000

Date published:

9 Feb 2018

Outlet:

pierpaololucarelli.com

The project that I worked on during my CERN Openlab internship in the summer of 2017, was the AVEditor project. This project consisted of the development of a server side application used for video manipulation and encoding. In this post I will describe the functionalities and the technologies used to create the AVEditor.

Link:

Article on pierpaololucarelli.com

Copy of the coverage:

CERN Openlab project_ AVEditor – Pierpaolo Lucarelli.pdf

OpenStack in Production

Orestis Galanis — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:16:21 +0000

Date published:

21 Feb 2018

Outlet:

openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch

The CERN cloud consists of around 8,500 hypervisors providing over 36,000 virtual machines. These provide the compute resources for both the laboratory's physics program but also for the organisation's administrative operations such as paying bills and reserving rooms at the hostel.

Link:

Article on scholarship-positions.comopenstack-in-production.blogspot.ch

Copy of the coverage:

OpenStack in Production_ February 2018.pdf

Applications now open for CERN OpenLab Summer Student Programme 2018

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:49:38 +0000

Date published:

6 Feb 2018

Outlet:

apniphysics.com

Are you a B.Sc. or M.Sc. student (who will have completed at least three years of full-time studies at university level by next spring) in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics — with a strong computing profile? Would you be interested in working on an advanced IT project for two full months (nine weeks) during the period June-September 2018? If so, you should apply to the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme!

Link:

Article on apniphysics.com

Copy of the coverage:

CERN OpenLab Summer Student Programme 2018 _ apniPhysics.pdf

Computing Challenges at the Large Hadron Collider

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:38:44 +0000

Date published:

19 Feb 2018

Outlet:

insidehpc.com

CERN’s Maria Girona gave this talk at the HiPEAC 2018 conference in Manchester. “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest and most complicated scientific apparata ever constructed. “In this keynote, I will discuss the challenges of capturing, storing and processing the large volumes of data generated at CERN. I will also discuss how these challenges will evolve towards the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the upgrade programme scheduled to begin taking data in 2026 and to run into the 2030s, generating some 30 times more data than the LHC has currently produced.”

Link:

Article on insidehpc.com

Copy of the coverage:

CERN openlab Archives - insideHPC.pdf

CERN : programme de stages d’été pour étudiants au profil scientifique (publié le 14.02.18)

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:25:39 +0000

Date published:

14 Feb 2018

Outlet:

diplomatie.gouv.fr

Ce stage de deux mois à temps plein s’adresse aux étudiants en licence ou en maîtrise dans le domaine des sciences informatiques ou de mathématiques, ingénierie ou sciences physiques avec une forte dominante en informatique.

Link:

Article on diplomatie.gouv.fr

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CERN _ programme de stages d'été pour étudiants au profil scientifique (publié le 14.02.pdf

Applications open for 2018 CERN openlab Summer Students

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:20:21 +0000

Date published:

7 Dec 2017

Outlet:

efojs.com

Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics? Do you have a strong computing profile, and would be interested in working on advanced ICT projects at CERN during summer 2018? If so, we have just the solution for you… the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme.

Link:

Article on efojs.com

Copy of the coverage:

Applications open for 2018 CERN openlab Summer Students _ ANANNOUNCE.pdf

Computing the future in Manchester at HiPEAC18

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:17:30 +0000

Date published:

7 Feb 2018

Outlet:

hipeac.net

With over 530 participants from 35 countries, the thirteenth HiPEAC conference demonstrated the breadth and depth of expertise within the HiPEAC community once again. Taking place in Manchester on 22-24 January 2018, the conference included sessions on everything from machine learning to secure and safe real-time systems, from exascale computing to the latest cyber-physical innovations.

Link:

Article on hipeac.net

Copy of the coverage:

Computing the future in Manchester at HiPEAC18 - Press - HiPEAC.pdf

Летняя программа для IT-студентов

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:05:59 +0000

Date published:

21 Feb 2018

Outlet:

neupusti.net

магистра в области компьютерных наук или математики, инженерии или физики с сильными вычислительными навыками? Хотели бы вы работать над передовым IT-проектом в течение двух полных месяцев в течение лета? Если это так, вам следует обратиться в Летнюю студенческую программу CERN openlab

Link:

Article on neupusti.net

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Летняя программа для IT-студентов - Neupusti.pdf

Cern Openlab Summer Students Jobs Vacancy in Cern

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:01:44 +0000

Date published:

18 Feb 2018

Outlet:

gr.jobscenter.co

Cern urgently required following position for Cern Openlab Summer Students. Please read this job advertisement carefully before apply. There are some qualifications, experience and skills requirement that the employers require. Does your career history fit these requirements? Ensure you understand the role you are applying for and that it is suited to your skills and qualifications.

Link:

Article on gr.jobscenter.co

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Job Offer for 6fac549e1752243a Cern Openlab Summer Students Cern - Greece Jobs Center.pdf

CERN OPENLAB SUMMER STUDENT PROGRAMME

Orestis Galanis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:56:50 +0000

Date published:

13 Feb 2018

Outlet:

fit.nsu.ru

Are you a B.Sc. or M.Sc. student (who will have completed at least three years of full-time studies at university level by next spring) in Computer Science or Mathematics, Engineering or Physics with a strong computing profile? Would you be interested in working on an advanced IT project for two full months during the summer? If so, you should apply to the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme!

Link:

Article on fit.nsu.ru

Copy of the coverage:

CERN openlab Summer Student Programme.pdf