CERN Computing

👉 The application to the Thematic CERN School of Computing (#tCSC) 2025 is open! The school will focus on #ComputingSecurity and is proposed to people working in academia and research institutes, who as part of their job need to ensure security and resilience of computing resources they manage and want to be prepared to detect and handle possible security incidents affecting the computing infrastructures. The complete programme will offer around 30 hours of lectures, workshops and hands-on exercises, as well as a student presentations session. Classes are prepared and given by speakers who are security professionals with many years of experience in academia and research. The school will take place in Abingdon and will be hosted in The Cosener's house, located in the grounds of the medieval Abbey of Abingdon, eight miles from Oxford. The school is sponsored by the UK Digital Research Infrastructures Cybersecurity. 🔥 Applications will remain open until 31 January 2025. Detailed information and registrations at https://lnkd.in/d3CbQk-Z ---------- Photo attribution: The original uploader was Jpbowen at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Welcome #2025, the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology! Throughout the year, at CERN and elsewhere, #quantum technologies will come into focus as a key area of scientific advancement that holds great potential for the future of research and innovation. Quoting CERN's IT Department Head, Enrica Porcari: "Early exploration of quantum technologies – both within the scientific domain and on the wider societal level – is essential, even if it may take decades before they are ripe for everyday use. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence underlines the importance of understanding, as early as possible, the potential impact of emerging technologies." The IYQ inaugural event at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 4 and 5 February 2025 will be followed by a series of initiatives and events worldwide, which will offer opportunities to learn about and engage with quantum science. At CERN, the 2025 public event season will be devoted to this quantum year. Events in CERN Science Gateway are set to include talks, performances, a film festival and more, and the programme will be available via visit.cern/events. #IYQ2025 https://lnkd.in/eDgrENTQ

As the year draws to a close, we can look back on all the achievements CERN celebrated in 2024.  Watch the video to review all of them. In 2024, CERN inaugurated a new #data centre with integrated heat-recovery system to address the data-processing needs of the worldwide scientific community and launched the Next-Generation Triggers project (#NGT) to significantly increase the efficiency, sensitivity and modelling of the #ATLAS and #CMS experiments. Having marked seven decades of discovery in 2024, CERN now looks forward to another 70 extraordinary years of scientific research and global collaboration and welcomes 2025, the International Year of #Quantum Science and Technology (#IYQ2025). https://lnkd.in/eaaA62-k

🤩 Are you a #PostgreSQL user or enthusiast? The CERN PGDay 2025 is the meeting opportunity you are looking for! The event will be held on Friday 17th January 2025. The organising team have just released the attractive programme featuring, among other things, the role of PostgreSQL at CERN, optimization strategies for data storage, architecture for seamless PostgreSQL upgrades and much more. The event is organised in collaboration with the Swiss PostgreSQL User Group. Find out more about the programme and register at the following link: https://lnkd.in/eQDAa-Pd The meeting day will be followed by a social event for discussion and networking. The CERN PostgreSQL Team is looking forward to welcoming you at CERN! Maurizio De Giorgi Miroslav Potocky Andrzej Nowicki

🏃♀️➡️ 🏃♂️➡️ Hurry up and register to take part in the Voxxed Days at CERN! On 15th January, a large community of experts and developers will gather at CERN to discuss technological developments around #Java, #JVM, performance, productivity, #web technologies or #developer practices. The conference will take place at Science Gateway, the iconic location in the CERN premises. Voxxed Days are a series of tech events organised by local community groups and supported by the Voxxed team. Sharing the Devoxx philosophy that “content comes first”, these events see both internationally renowned and local speakers converge at a wide range of locations around the world. Content on Voxxed is generated by the developer community, “from developers, for developers”. Discover the speakers and secure your seat at https://lnkd.in/dAif2xz6 Cristian Schuszter Andrzej Nowicki

📢 Registration Deadline Extended! Missed your chance to register for QT4HEP 2025? Don’t worry—registration is now open until January 10th, 2025! The International Conference on Quantum Technology for High-Energy Physics (QT4HEP2025) returns to CERN on 20–24 January 2025. It’s your opportunity to engage with experts, exchange ideas, and explore the frontiers of quantum technology and high-energy physics. 🌟 Why join us? 🔹 Discover advances in quantum computing, simulations, sensors, networks and more! 🔹 Connect with experts from academia, industry, and the HEP community 🔹 Experience the Quantum Hackathon on January 24th 🔗 Register now and secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/dsczRaKP 🔗 For more information: https://lnkd.in/dZR2Y6wv ⏳ Don’t miss this extended deadline—January 10th, 2025! Let’s shape the future of quantum innovation together! Michele Grossi Sofia Vallecorsa Kristina Gunne Edoardo Martelli Amanda Díez Fernández Benjamin Frisch Maurizio Pierini Michael Doser Annick Teepe CERN Innovation Partnerships Oleksandr Kyriienko Germán Rodrigo Jad C. Halimeh Matheus Sena Simone Eizagirre Barker Olivier Ezratty Mael Flament Petra Scudo Felix Bussieres Wolfgang Tittel Arian Stolk Eden Valentin Figueroa Barragan OQI – Open Quantum Institute

🎉 Happy 10th Anniversary to the CERN Open Data portal! The first 30 terabytes of open data from #LHC experiments were released at the end of 2014. Today, a growing 5 petabytes of #opendata are made available for dissemination and scientific research from the Open Data portal. The portal is designed to be attractive to the general public for educational purposes and to be used by independent researchers for referencing and for performing independent theoretical analysis. It includes the possibility to visualise collision events, while ensuring the best data preservation practices to describe, manage and disseminate the data for researchers. Data are searchable and downloadable, as described in the #OpenScience best practices. Analysis examples demonstrating how to extract physics objects out of the data and how to use them in one’s own analyses are also included. As a result, the data are being used in numerous masterclasses and education programs to train the next generation of scientists, as well as by software engineers in the efforts to benchmark software tools to ensure their feasibility in the forthcoming high-luminosity experimental data-taking era. Building on 10 years of proven success, the CERN Open Data portal is now becoming a sort of “#HEP Open Data” portal, covering not only the LHC experiments, but the particle physics domain at large, further demonstrating the success of the original idea. The LHC experimental collaborations plan to release even more data during the Run-3 phase, which calls for novel approaches to open data publishing. 👉 https://opendata.cern.ch/

✨How can cutting-edge algorithms and next-generation computing architectures transform our understanding of the universe? This week, CERN hosted the Next Generation Triggers #NGT Algorithm Workshop – Lattice QCD at the large scale on exascale computing facilities, where worldwide experts in physics and computing came together to tackle some of the most exciting challenges in lattice quantum field theory (#LQFT). Over three days, participants explored how innovative tools like variance reduction techniques, #MachineLearning, and novel sampling algorithms can revolutionize LQFT simulations. As Jacob Finkenrath, physicist at CERN and one of the main organizers of the event, highlighted: “Lattice QCD is currently the only way to solve the strong interaction via ab-initio calculations. The lattice allows us to understand phenomena of the strong interaction, but the predictions are limited by slowly evolving algorithms. During the workshop, we discussed novel ideas to take the next steps in our calculations, which will help us in the search for new physics.” 🔗 Curious to learn more about what was discussed? Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/d8FDJNXC

🎉 The CERN IT Department is proud to honour 61 colleagues with the prestigious Annual Award for Exceptional Services! 2024 has been an intense and demanding year for the entire department. The unprecedented data deluge from the #LHC experiments put immense pressure on our infrastructure, from data storage and distribution to networking and the constant upgrading of software tools for the global scientific community. Thanks to the unwavering dedication of the teams, all systems operated smoothly throughout the year supporting the work of thousands of scientists at CERN and beyond. Behind these achievements lie countless services, with many colleagues going above and beyond the call of duty. Congratulations to all awardees for their outstanding contributions! 👏

Here is a new #job opportunity to join the OQI – Open Quantum Institute! One of the main pillars of the #OQI is to help anticipate the education needs, in the field of #quantum, of the future generations. The OQI Educational Consortium, supports hackathons and educational games in locations around the globe, curating leading quantum learning material, and supporting development of quantum computing educational resources for diplomats and policy makers. Through this opportunity, you could become the OQI Education Project Manager! https://lnkd.in/eeycFDjJ Tim Smith, Coordinator of the Open Quantum Institute.