The document discusses CERN, an international organization for particle physics located in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides details on CERN's origins in 1954 with 12 founding member states, its current 20 member states and additional observers and applicants. It notes CERN has around 2,300 staff, 1,000 other personnel, and over 11,000 users with a 2013 budget of around 1,000 million Swiss francs. The document also discusses CERN's transition to open source tools and OpenStack for its computing infrastructure to better support expanding research needs.
"Integrating access of scientists from CEI countries to research infrastructu...SEENET-MTP
At the second CEI – SEENET- MTP Workshop “Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe", Sofia, Bulgaria, 23-25 November 2014
Today, there is an increasing availability of human body 3D data and an increasing number of anthropometric owners. This is due to the fact of the progressive conduction of large national surveys using high resolution 3D scanners and due to the increasing number of low-cost technologies for acquiring body shape with electronic consumer devices like webcams, smartphones or Kinect. However, the commercial use and exploitation in industry of digital anthropometric data is still limited to the use of 1D measurements extracted from this vast 3D information. There is a lack of universal resources enabling: to conjointly use and analyse datasets regardless from the source or type of scanning technology used, the flexible measurement extraction beyond pre-defined sets, and the analysis of the information contained in human shapes. This paper presents four software tool solutions aimed at addressing different user profiles and needs regarding the use and exploitation of the increasing number of 3D anthropometric data
Il nuovo programma Talents Up for and International House - TALENTS UP a sostegno della mobilità di ricercatori esperti / The new Fellowship Programme TALENTS UP for and International House supporting the incoming mobility of expert researchers - by Mia Tomad
"Integrating access of scientists from CEI countries to research infrastructu...SEENET-MTP
At the second CEI – SEENET- MTP Workshop “Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe", Sofia, Bulgaria, 23-25 November 2014
Today, there is an increasing availability of human body 3D data and an increasing number of anthropometric owners. This is due to the fact of the progressive conduction of large national surveys using high resolution 3D scanners and due to the increasing number of low-cost technologies for acquiring body shape with electronic consumer devices like webcams, smartphones or Kinect. However, the commercial use and exploitation in industry of digital anthropometric data is still limited to the use of 1D measurements extracted from this vast 3D information. There is a lack of universal resources enabling: to conjointly use and analyse datasets regardless from the source or type of scanning technology used, the flexible measurement extraction beyond pre-defined sets, and the analysis of the information contained in human shapes. This paper presents four software tool solutions aimed at addressing different user profiles and needs regarding the use and exploitation of the increasing number of 3D anthropometric data
Il nuovo programma Talents Up for and International House - TALENTS UP a sostegno della mobilità di ricercatori esperti / The new Fellowship Programme TALENTS UP for and International House supporting the incoming mobility of expert researchers - by Mia Tomad
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Presentation and demo of provider to provider mediated scenario in the EU/US Marketplace event, State House, Oct 22 in Boston, MA
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The presentation is addressing the complexity of data sharing from two view points: (1) Ethical, legal and regulatory challenges, (2) Data sharing between Research Infrastructures.
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CERN is the European Centre for Particle Physics based in Geneva. The home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birth place of the world wide web is expanding its computing resources with a second data centre to process over 35PB/year from one of the largest scientific experiments ever constructed.
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
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Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
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Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
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Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
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Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
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Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
3. 19/09/2013 CERN Infrastructure Evolution 3
CERN was founded 1954:CERN was founded 1954: 12 European States12 European States
““Science for Peace”Science for Peace”
Today: 20 Member StatesToday: 20 Member States
Member States:Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark,Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland andPoland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
the United Kingdomthe United Kingdom
Candidate for Accession:Candidate for Accession: RomaniaRomania
Associate Members in Pre-Stage to Membership:Associate Members in Pre-Stage to Membership: Israel, SerbiaIsrael, Serbia
Applicant States for Membership or Associate Membership:Applicant States for Membership or Associate Membership:
Brazil, Cyprus (awaiting ratification), Pakistan, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, UkraineBrazil, Cyprus (awaiting ratification), Pakistan, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine
Observers to Council:Observers to Council: India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, United States of America;India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, United States of America;
European Commission and UNESCOEuropean Commission and UNESCO
Member States:Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark,Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland andPoland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
the United Kingdomthe United Kingdom
Candidate for Accession:Candidate for Accession: RomaniaRomania
Associate Members in Pre-Stage to Membership:Associate Members in Pre-Stage to Membership: Israel, SerbiaIsrael, Serbia
Applicant States for Membership or Associate Membership:Applicant States for Membership or Associate Membership:
Brazil, Cyprus (awaiting ratification), Pakistan, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, UkraineBrazil, Cyprus (awaiting ratification), Pakistan, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine
Observers to Council:Observers to Council: India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, United States of America;India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, United States of America;
European Commission and UNESCOEuropean Commission and UNESCO
~ 2,300 staff~ 2,300 staff
~ 1,000 other paid personnel~ 1,000 other paid personnel
> 11,000 users> 11,000 users
Budget (2013) ~1,000 MCHFBudget (2013) ~1,000 MCHF
~ 2,300 staff~ 2,300 staff
~ 1,000 other paid personnel~ 1,000 other paid personnel
> 11,000 users> 11,000 users
Budget (2013) ~1,000 MCHFBudget (2013) ~1,000 MCHF
4. What are the Origins of Mass ?
19/09/2013 CERN Infrastructure Evolution 4
19. Status
• Toolchain implemented in 18 months with
enhancements and bug fixes submitted back to
the community
• Now in production in 3 OpenStack clouds (over
50,000 cores in total) in Geneva and Budapest
managed by Puppet
• Target is more than 300,000 cores by 2015 and
90% compute resources in the private cloud
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20. Summary
• Constraints on resources have led to major
technology transformations at CERN
• Open source community participation helps
drive cultural change and motivates staff
• CERN benefits and contributes back through
code and outreach
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23. Service Models
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• Pets are given names like pussinboots.cern.ch
• They are unique, lovingly hand raised and cared for
• When they get ill, you nurse them back to health
• Cattle are given numbers like vm0042.cern.ch
• They are almost identical to other cattle
• When they get ill, you get another one
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Tier-1 (11 centres):
•Permanent storage
•Re-processing
•Analysis
Tier-0 (CERN):
•Data recording
•Initial data reconstruction
•Data distribution
Tier-2 (~200 centres):
• Simulation
• End-user analysis
• Data is recorded at CERN and Tier-1s and analysed in the Worldwide LHC
Computing Grid
• In a normal day, the grid provides 100,000 CPU days executing over 2 million jobs
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Microsoft Active
Directory
CERN DB
on Demand
CERN Network
Database
Account mgmt
system
Horizon
Keystone
Network
Compute
Glance
Scheduler
Cinder
Nova
Block Storage
Provider
Over 1,600 magnets lowered down shafts and cooled to -271 C to become superconducting. Two beam pipes, vacuum 10 times less than the moon
These collisions produce data, lots of it. Over 100PB currently 45,000 tapes… data rates of up to 35 PB/year currently and expected to significantly increase in the next run in 2015. The data must be kept at least 20 years so we’re expecting exabytes….
Recording and analysing the data takes a lot of computing power. The CERN computer centre was built in the 1970s for mainframes and crays. Now running at 3.5MW of power, it houses 11,000 servers but is at the limit of cooling and electrical power. It is also a tourist attraction with over 80,000 visitors last year! As you can see, racks are only partially empty in view of the limits on cooling.
We asked our 20 member states to make us an offer for server hosting using public procurement. 27 proposals and Wigner centre in Budapest, Hungary was chosen. This allows us to envisage sufficient computing and online storage for the run from 2015.
While it was great news to be allocated the budget for a new data centre, there was bad news associated with this. No additional budget for staff would be made available… we needed to find a way for the IT department to manage twice the number of servers with the same personnel The current toolset would not scale to the additional DC The tools needed significant maintenance effort, IPv6, new linux versions, … were using up valuable engineering resource Users were asking for faster response times to resource requests and more dynamic configurations
So, we looked around at how others were solving these problems and found we were not special. While CERN has a research culture, there is a need to understand that not all our services are pioneering. It is not always necessary to start from a blank sheet of paper but instead build on the work of others rather than lead. The world wide web invention at CERN reflected a need which was original but not all of our work is new. Companies such as Yahoo, Rackspace, Zynga, eBay, Paypal are facing scalability and management issues far beyond ours. Thus, we need to try to not innovate but to follow
We adopted a Google toolchain approach. The majority of home written software was replaced by open source projects. Commercial tools which were already working well such as JIRA and Active Directory were maintained. The approach was to select a tool, prototype, fail early and then refine requirements (following the we are not special approach) Key technologies were Puppet for configuration management and OpenStack for the private cloud.
So, we assembled a team made up of experienced service managers and new students. By freezing developments on legacy projects, we were able to make resources available but only as long as we could rapidly implement new functions. Many of the staff had to do their ‘day’ jobs as well as work on the new implementations. Several effects - Newcomers often had experience of the tools from university People learnt very rapidly by following mailing lists, going to conferences and interacting with the community. Contributions such as contributing to the governance, use cases and testing in addition to standard development contributions. Short term staff saw major improvements in their post-CERN job prospects as they left with very relevant skills
The agile approach is a major cultural change which is an ongoing process. To illustrate this, there are some characteristics which I show extreme examples of to watch out from Tolkein…. Luckily, we never had characters like this at CERN: Don’t be hasty, let’s go slowly… transformations such as this cannot be done in a reasonable time by incremental change Move away from silos… top to bottom from application to hardware managed by a single team to a layered model with shared budget and resources. Knowledge management responsibilities change. The guru who wrote the tool and trains others on how to use it is replaced by the outside community in which people participate. Everything can appear to be research if you start with a blank piece of paper. The server or application manager of ‘precious’ applications that need special handling and care has to be understood… some cases are inevitable but many reflect non-technical aspects of the application or server management and may justify changes of process
Already 3 independent clouds – federation is now being studied Rackspace inside CERN openlab Helix Nebula as discussed later
The Worldwide LHC Computing grid is used to record and analyse this data. The grid currently runs over 2 million jobs/day, less than 10% of the work is done at CERN. There is an agreed set of protocols for running jobs, data distribution and accounting between all the sites which co-operate in order to support the physicists across the globe.