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Are you thinking of applying for the CERN openlab 2025 summer student programme? Find out more about our programme by listening to the experiences of last year's students 🤗 Hear about Karanjot Singh and Mohammed Touami's thrilling experience with the 2024 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme ⬇ ➡ Karanjot, a student at the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, had the opportunity to work on the Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) project. COSI is a new standard designed to provision and manage object storage within #Kubernetes environments, similar to how the Container Storage Interface (CSI) handles block and file storage. As organisations increasingly rely on Kubernetes to orchestrate containerised workloads, a robust, vendor-neutral interface for object storage has become paramount. The COSI project aims to fill this gap by providing a dynamic provisioning API that integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, enabling users to manage object storage resources in a consistent and Kubernetes-native manner. ➡ Mohammed, a student from the Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI), got to work on Generative Neural Network Models for Fast Particle Shower Simulation in Calorimeters for Geant4. The extensive high-energy physics (#HEP) experiments program relies on Monte Carlo simulation. Simulation can be used to test hypotheses regarding the underlying distribution of the data. The need for fast and large-scale simulated samples for HEP experiments motivates the development of new simulation techniques, particularly those based on neural network models. #MachineLearning models are studied mainly in the context of fast shower simulation, as calorimeters are typically the most time-consuming detectors to simulate. Both accuracy and performance must be validated before their implementation in production software. Mohammed's project focused on improving the accuracy of the fast shower simulation, studying the difference between different machine-learning solutions focusing on low-energy particle showers. You can read about last year's projects on the CERN openlab Zenodo community: https://lnkd.in/dBX9Zb3u. For more information on our programme: https://lnkd.in/dARQYVNg CERN CERN Computing

Discover how CERN openlab is contributing to the SPECTRUM Project 💻 The volume of data collected, shared and processed in frontier research is set to increase exponentially over the next decade, creating unprecedented demands for data processing, simulation and analysis capabilities. In particular, the fields of high-energy physics and radio astronomy are preparing for the introduction of new, cutting-edge instruments that will require infrastructure capabilities many times larger than those currently in place. In this context, the EU-funded SPECTRUM project unites leading European science organisations and e-Infrastructure providers with the objective of formulating a Strategic Research, Innovation, and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) and a Technical Blueprint for a European computer and data continuum. This joint initiative will establish an Exabyte-scale research data federation and compute continuum, facilitating data-intensive scientific collaborations across Europe. Hear from David Southwick and Eric Wulff how CERN, through CERN openlab, is contributing to this project by leading a Work Package on the 'Technical Blueprint for Compute and Data Continuum' 👇 Discover more on openlab.cern and spectrumproject.eu

'What documents do I need? What are the working hours? Can I choose my own project?' 🤔 If you have questions about the 2025 CERN openlab summer student programme, see the FAQs guide below 👇 More information here: https://lnkd.in/dVJ8SvD5 CERN CERN Computing

🚨We are calling all students pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics 🚨 📥 The call is now open for the 2025 CERN openlab summer student programme! If you are looking for a summer programme focused on #Computing topics, we have just the right programme for you: the CERN openlab summer student programme. Over nine weeks, the CERN openlab summer students have the chance to work with some of the latest hardware and software technologies and see how advanced IT solutions are used in #ParticlePhysics 💻 Discover more: https://lnkd.in/d_RWiGwN CERN CERN Computing

This week, Maria Girone (Head of CERN openlab) was in Barcelona presenting CERN's work on high-performance computing (#HPC) and artificial intelligence (#AI) at the International HPC User Forum in Spain.   Maria was also in Amsterdam for the EuroHPC User Day 2024, where the newly formed User Forum Coordination Group (UFCG) was presented to the community. In September, Maria was elected vice-chair of the UFCG, which serves as a pivotal platform for bringing together HPC users across the European Union.   The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) allows the European Union and the #EuroHPC JU participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources to make Europe a world leader in #supercomputing. This boosts Europe's scientific excellence and industrial strength, support the digital transformation of its economy while ensuring its technological sovereignty.    The UFCG is responsible for organising, coordinating and moderating the User Forum, with the objective of involving users from public and private HPC communities in Europe. The forum provides a space for users to share strategies, exchange best practices, collaborate on topics critical to HPC and collect feedback from active users. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d2knVE6x Group photo by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) CERN Computing

Calling all students interested in the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme 💻 🗣 Have you ever wondered what our students get up to during their summer programme? Get to know what their experience was like! Listen to Asal Mehrabi and Saumy Sharma exciting experience with the 2024 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme 🤩 Asal, who was a student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, had the opportunity to work with the ROOT team. She evaluated various #HPC storage solutions, focusing on the RNTuple data format. She looked at how well they performed, how scalable they were, and whether they were suitable for processing the vast amounts of data generated by particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (#LHC). This analysis offers insights into how HPC systems could support and enhance future HEP workflows. Saumy, a student from the Institute of Technology at the Guru Ghasidas University, got to work on creating a comprehensive #DigitalTwin of CERN's #LargeHadronCollider (LHC) using NVIDIA's Omniverse platform. This digital replica will allow researchers, engineers, and scientists to visualise, analyse, and interact with the LHC in a virtual environment, helping them understand it better, work more efficiently, and make scientific discoveries faster. And there is more, you can read about last year's projects on the CERN openlab Zenodo community ➡ https://lnkd.in/dBX9Zb3u. The applications call for the 2025 CERN openlab Summer Students Programme will open soon ⏳ We'll post updates on our social media channels and website, so stay tuned! For more information on our programme ➡ https://lnkd.in/eKiyr5xw

#CERNopenlab is at this year's Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (#CHEP2024) in Kraków, Poland. It is happening this week, and if you are at CHEP 2024, do not miss the talks and posters from some of our members.   ➡ Tomorrow, Thomas Owen James (CERN openlab CTO for AI and Edge Devices) will talk about 'A technical overview of industry-science R&D projects for the High Luminosity LHC under CERN openlab'. Hear from Thomas how CERN openlab enables industry-science partnerships that aim to accelerate #Computing for science and contribute to CERN's High-Luminosity LHC operations. https://indi.to/s4dRF ➡ On Thursday, check Giovanna Lazzari Miotto's poster on 'Real-time Level-1 Trigger Data Scouting at #CMS using CXL Memory Lake' — an R&D project resulting from a partnership between CERN openlab, Micron Technology and the CMS Collaboration. https://indi.to/CkrbV ➡ Multiple representatives from the Spectrum and interTwin projects will also be at CHEP2024, giving multiple talks. Discover more about these projects where CERN openlab is a partner and contributes with use cases. SPECTRUM Project aims to deliver a Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) and a Technical Blueprint for a European compute and data continuum.  https://lnkd.in/eUYXGaKg interTwin aims to design and build an interdisciplinary #DigitalTwin Engine (DTE) prototype based on a co-designed Blueprint Architecture. https://www.intertwin.eu/ If you do not have the chance to be at #CHEP2024 or be present in these presentations, check out all of our projects here: https://lnkd.in/dgJ7nKs7 Find more about CHEP 2024 here: https://lnkd.in/deBY2Dt9

At #CERNopenlab, we are delighted to facilitate this new collaboration between CERN, the Government of Luxembourg, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). 'In our mission to accelerate computing for science, we develop R&D on #AI and Applications for #Society and #Environment. CERN openlab has proven to be an effective mechanism in fostering long-term incubation of innovation for a positive societal impact', says Maria Girone, Head of CERN openlab. Read more about this partnership here: https://lnkd.in/dgKsyYNf

This year, The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists who made considerable contributions to Artificial Intelligence research, marking a significant indicator of the advancements in #Computational Sciences. But how can #Physics relate to #ArtificialIntelligence? Big scientific experiments, like the ones in the #LHC, produce a vast amount of data. Identifying rare events or new particles in a big dataset is like finding a needle in a haystack! With challenges such as the High-Luminosity LHC leading to more data generated by the LHC experiments, #Technology that helps select the events worth analysing is essential. AI algorithms are perfectly suited to help process and analyse this data. For example, they can help recognise patterns and anomalies that might indicate new physics phenomena. At CERN, #CERNopenlab contributes to this area of innovation via collaborations with technology providers and research institutions that are developing state-of-the-art platforms, services, and methodologies. We aim to foster the widespread adoption of AI methods and techniques applicable to various AI use-cases, providing the community with access to specific expertise and resources. Many other fields face similar Big Data challenges and can profit from the innovations made within the #HEP community, such as #RadioAstronomy, #ClimateSciences and #HealthSciences. In our mission to accelerate #Computing for science, at CERN openlab we do R&D on AI and HPC through collaborations with our industry and research partners: E4 Computer Engineering SpA, Intel Corporation, Micron Technology, Oracle, Siemens, and Simons Foundation. Read more about this R&D activity 👇

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