CERNBox User Forum

Name: CERNBox User Forum
Start: 2021-12-08T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2021-12-08T18:35:00+01:00
Location: Zoom (online)

Wednesday 8 Dec 2021, 08:45 → 18:35 Europe/Zurich

Zoom (online)

Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

Description

CERNBox is CERN's collaboration hub and an integrated storage platform to store, share and collaborate securely on data.

CERNBox User Forum is an opportunity to exchange and share experience and use-cases between the CERN user community and the CERNBox service support team.

User feedback and recent and future improvements of the service are presented by the CERNBox service team. Selected use-cases are presented by users representing all sectors at CERN (Physics, Engineering, Administration and General Services).

This event is an opportunity to ask questions, engage in a discussion of needs, improvements and future roadmap of the service.

This will be a remote-only event using Zoom for webcast.

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Contact

cernbox-admins@cern.ch

hugo.gonzalez.labrador@cern.ch

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Participants

Abhishek Lekshmanan
Adam Edward Barton
Africa Marco-Gimeno
Aikaterini Leventaki
Alberto Pace
Andre Sailer
Andrea Mazzolari
Andrea Musso
Andreas Joachim Peters
Andrei Dumitru
Andrii Maltsev
Angel Navascues Cornago
Angela Ricci
Anna Chrul
Anna Maria De Frutos
Anne Kerhoas
Antonella Vignes-Magno
Antonio Giannini
Antonio Vivace
Antra Gaile
Apostolos Theodoridis
Aristeidis Mamaras
Aritz Brosa Iartza
Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre
Aswin Toni
Beatriz Arias Alonso
Ben Poquette
Branko Blagojevic
Brice Copy
Caio Costa
Carole Dargagnon
Caroline Laignel
Cathelijne Hazelaar-Bal
Cedric Caffy
Celso Oviedo da Lopes
Charlotte Riccio
Chris Lee
Christel Paris
Christian Fabjan
Christoph Balle
Christoph Frei
Christophe Bault
Christophe Renaud
Costanza Pollini
Cristian Contescu
Daina Dirmaite
Danilo Piparo
Dario Barberis
Dario Mapelli
David Jericho
Devdatta Majumder
Diana Leliukh
Diogo Castro
Duarte Galvao
Duc Bao Ta
Efthymia Laderi
Eleftherios Fadakis
Elena Benvenuto
Elena Gianolio
Elena Wildner
Elizabeth Gallas
Emmanuele Ravaioli
Enrico Bocchi
Esa Prakasa
Fabio Farina
Fabrizio Furano
Felix Pol Gaston Soubelet
Francesca Galluccio
Francois Gildas Nizery
Frank Lan
Gabriele Thiede
Gabriella Azzopardi
Gaelle Duperrier
Gaohan Yang
Georgina Hobgen
Giacomo Tenaglia
Gian Piero Siroli
Gianluca Rigoletti
Gianmaria Del Monte
Giuseppe Lo Presti
Giuseppe Pezzullo
Gyorgy Balazs
Hugo Gonzalez Labrador
Igor Pshenichnov
Ioannis Kopsalis
Ishank Arora
Ivan Arizanovic
Ivana Hristova
Javier Ferrer
Javier Mauricio Duarte
Jean Cenede
Jeanette Kotzian
Jenny Mathilde Bonsak
Joel Albertone
Joel Closier
Joelma Tolomeo
John Shade
Jose Luis Bardanca Iglesias
João Oliveira
Juan Gonzalez
Juan Manuel Guijarro
Julien Leduc
Juraj Smiesko
Justin M Elhalabi
Justine Depoisier
Katarina Sigerud
Keziban Kandemir
Klaas Freitag
Konstantin Zioutas
Krasimira Kostova Markova Sciacca
Krzysztof Stachon
Kuldeep Pal
Lajos Cseppento
Livia Lungu
Loraine Massarotti
Louis Rinolfi
Luca Bruno
Luca Mascetti
Manuel Reis
Manuel Rodriguez
Maria Llorente Herraiz
Marie Luz Cavagna
Mario Lassnig
Mark Donszelmann
Markus Widorski
Marta Adamina Krawczyk
Martin R. Jaekel
Martin Zemko
Marton Ady
Marzena Lapka
Mateus Hufnagel
Matthias Bonora
Michael Alexander D'Silva
Michael Pham
Mihai Patrascoiu
Nalamotse Joshua Choma
Nicole Polivka
Nicolo Jacazio
Oliver Keeble
Olivia May Emilia Fabreschi
Pascal Wengerter
Patrick Aretz
Patrick Maier
Pedro Morales Sanchez
Petya Georgieva
Philippe Berset
Philippe Bouvard
Pierre Barroca
Priyanka Dasgupta
Priyanka Sadangi
Rachel Avramidou
Rachel Lavanant
Radu Popescu
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez
Richard Bachmann
Roberto Valverde Cameselle
Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio
Samuel Alfageme Sainz
Sascha Mehlhase
Sebastian Lopienski
Shehu AbdusSalam
Sonia Palmira Dos Santos Pereira
Sonja Sandell
Sophie Baron
Sophie Etienne
Stephane Deghaye
Stephanie Laura Aubert
Steven Sorlut
Sylvain Girod
Sébastien BOUCLY
Teresa Maria Afonso
Theofilos Mouratidis
Tobias Baader
Tomas Roun
Tuukka Lehtinen
Umit Sozbilir
Valentina Baldassarre
Valerie Huret
Vasco Miguel Antonio Guita
Veronique Wedlake
Viktor Richard Varga
Walid Fadel
Walter Scandale
Wilke Van Der Schee
Willemjan Maan
Xavier Eric Ouvrard
Xavier Espinal
Youri Robert
Yusra Rashid
Yves Thurel
Zohra Yettou
Émilien Chapon

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- Welcome: Virtual Coffee and Logistics
  
  CERNBox-User-Forum-Welcome.pdf
  
  Q&A (CERN login required)
- Welcome from the IT management
  
  Conveners: Alberto Pace (CERN), Enrica Maria Porcari (CERN)
- CERNBox Service: Introduction and Roadmap
  
  Convener: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)
  - 1
    
    CERNBox: an overview
    
    Speaker: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)
    
    CERNBox-Service.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 2
    
    Applications Ecosystem
    
    Speaker: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)
    
    CERNBox apps - GLoPresti - User Forum.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 3
    
    Data safety
    
    Speaker: Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)
    
    DataSafety_CERNBox_User_Forum.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 4
    
    User engagement and feedback
    
    Speaker: Jakub Moscicki (CERN)
    
    CERNBox User Forum - Kuba.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 5
    
    New features in Web UI
    
    Speaker: Elizaveta Ragozina (CERN)
    
    CERNBox_new_features_Ragozina.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 6
    
    New features in Desktop client
    
    Speaker: Samuel Alfageme Sainz (CERN)
    
    Recording
    
    VFS_CERNBox_user_forum_Samuel_Alfageme_Sainz.pdf
    
    Video preview
  - 7
    
    Roadmap for 2022
    
    Speaker: Diogo Castro (CERN)
    
    7. Roadmap for 2022.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
- 09:50
  
  Coffe break
- Experiments
  
  Convener: Luca Mascetti (CERN)
  - 8
    
    A CMS perspective about CERNBox
    
    CERNBox is a unique service, part of the strategic portfolio of storage services provided by CERN IT to the Organisation. CMS relies on CERNBox for multiple usecases, for example as a safe backup of personal documents relying on the custodial storage in the computer centre, home directory accessible from SWAN or lxplus, as a storage element destination of output of grid jobs or again a way to safely share sensitive information among colleagues.
    In this contribution we'll review cathergories of use cases, underlying the strenghts of today's CERNBox and trying to highlight avenues to further improve in the future.
    
    Speaker: Danilo Piparo (CERN)
    
    211208_CERNBoxUserForum.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 9
    
    Use of CERNbox by the FASER experiment
    
    The FASER experiment has been using CERNbox to store calibration files, as well as RAW commissioning data in 2020. I will describe our use case and experience from this year.
    
    Speaker: Jamie Boyd (CERN)
    
    CERNbox_FASER.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 10
    
    My experience as an ALICE analyser
    
    Scientific collaboration plays an ever-increasing role in our world. The need for tools that make it easy to share results, portable setups, and code is fundamental. The use of CERNbox and Jupyter notebooks with SWAN has become de facto the standard to ensure collaboration across many people and to handle several projects. In this talk, I will report on my experience as an ALICE user, and I will be giving my feedback and a few suggestions.
    
    Speaker: Nicolo Jacazio (CERN)
    
    jacazio_08_12_21.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 11
    
    ATLAS documentation team and CERNBox
    
    Using CERNBox to migrate atlas sites to EOS.
    
    Speaker: Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster University (GB))
    
    cernboxtalk.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
- 10:50
  
  Coffee Break
- Privacy
  
  Convener: Oliver Keeble (CERN)
  - 12
    
    CERNBox for storage and transfer of personal data - Data privacy considerations
    
    In our presentation we will give an overview about technical, functional and ergonomic aspects of tools for storage and transfer of personal data. We will assess in how far CERNBox meets these requirements and identify potential areas for improvement.
    
    Speakers: Costanza Pollini (CERN), Gabriele Thiede (CERN)
    
    CERNBox data privacy.pdf
    
    CERNBox data privacy.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 13
    
    Service Médical du CERN et CERNBOX
    
    Présentation de l'utilisation de la CERNBOX par le service médical du CERN
    
    Speaker: Walid Fadel (CERN)
    
    Cernbox et le service médical du CERN.pdf
    
    Cernbox et le service médical du CERN.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 14
    
    Sharing folders with confidentiality - CSC
    
    Sharing folders with confidentiality - CSC
    
    Speaker: Joelma Tolomeo (CERN)
    
    CERNboxUF-JoelmaTolomeo_8December2021.pdf
    
    CERNboxUF-JoelmaTolomeo_8December2021.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 15
    Just an anecdote
    
    Last week I was in a conference centre in the NL with a wifi network that blocked ssh and smtp (!). I could read mails but not send any. To get home on the same day I needed to fill the Dutch covid form. It's required to have it filled on your phone at all times. It's editable pdf, but editing doesn't work on my phone. So I filled it on my laptop and cernbox-ed it to my phone. Thanks, CERNbox app. You saved me.*
    
    actually not really as predictably nobody checked the form.
    ** I now realise I could have used webmail. That never occurs to me under stress.
    
    Speaker: Patrick Koppenburg (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- Engineering
  
  Convener: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)
  - 16
    
    Cernbox use in Alice MFT project
    
    Cernbox use in Alice MFT project
    
    Speaker: Charlotte Riccio (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
    
    MFT and cernbox use.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 17
    
    CERNBox integration in small team designing power converters
    
    SY-EPC-LPC is in charge of designing, producing and operating low power converters. Usually a design is obtained through a rather small team of 2-6 people, working together and exchanging daily informations about the on going design, from office files up to large CAD ones. Section being used to focus on final EDMS document storage, some way of integrating CERNBox was put in place in our workday flow. It will be shown how we intend to profit from CERNBox in remote (home) work conditions, as well as using CERNBox to facilitate MALT approach (using open source LibreOffice suite).
    
    Speaker: Yves Thurel (CERN)
    
    CERNBox-Return-from-Experience-in-LPC-section_2021-11.odp
    
    CERNBox-Return-from-Experience-in-LPC-section_2021-11.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 18
    
    CERNBox use cases for remote calculations on terminal servers
    
    The TE-VSC section leases two Windows Terminal servers that users can offload long simulation tasks to. This short talk would show how we delegate computation tasks and synchronize results back to our local PCs, among the issues we encountered.
    
    Speaker: Marton Ady (CERN)
    
    20211122 cernbox use cases te-vsc.pdf
    
    20211122 cernbox use cases te-vsc.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 19
    
    CERNBox contribution to drone mapping
    
    How CERN box is used to store drone imagery
    
    Speaker: Youri Robert (CERN)
    
    2021_08_12_CERNBOX_YR.pdf
    
    2021_08_12_CERNBOX_YR.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
- 14:00
  
  Coffee Break
- Engineering
  - 20
    
    EN-MME's Early Evaluation of CERNBox to Store Group Data
    
    EN-MME manages a large amount (10s TB) of diverse data. This data comes from sources such as the large laboratory characterization files, computer simulations, fabrication process and the automated seismic systems of the LHC. The physical limits of DFS servers have led to data being stored in many, unconnected folders in DFS. In the early days of EOS and CERNBox, EN-MME approached IT for a solution to store, archive and re-group this data. This complex project presented a perfect test case and IT and EN-MME began to work together to evaluate and improve the new CERNBox system. This talk will highlight some of the key findings of this cooperation and some of the improvements developed as a result.
    
    Speaker: Ben Poquette (CERN)
    
    EN-MME CERNBox presentation 2021-12-08.rev1.pdf
    
    EN-MME CERNBox presentation 2021-12-08.rev1.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
- Outreach, Education and Learning
  
  Convener: Jakub Moscicki (CERN)
  - 21
    
    How CERN's Knowledge Transfer Communication team uses CERNbox
    
    The Knowledge Transfer Communication team uses CERNbox as the go-to place for storing all material to share within the team and the group. These include folders on all campaigns, comms plans, draft versions, lists, raw material and more. A key use is using the stored files for live collaborations, for eg. Collaborating on spreadsheets during weekly meetings, to track the team’s progress on tasks and projects. It is also useful for sharing stored (and updated) data with people across CERN in different departments, by giving them a certain level of access as needed- only view/download ; only upload; or edit. For the website, creating public links to view content on CERNbox, is an easy way to display documents which can be updated internally on CERNbox itself.
    
    Speakers: Priyanka Dasgupta (CERN), Marzena Lapka (CERN)
    
    How KT Communication group uses CERNbox.pdf
    
    How KT Communication group uses CERNbox.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 22
    
    Indico + CERNBox: A VCHEP 2021 use-case
    
    Indico is an open-source tool for event management used by the whole CERN community, as well as a large amount (more than 200) of organizations, institutes and research centers. One very prominent workflow in Indico is to attach files to an event (slides, documents, etc.). This presented a perfect opportunity to integrate CERNBox into the service, by allowing users to attach files stored in their CERNBox space. This talk presents the upcoming new feature and the findings in this cooperation, as well as a secondary use case for the paper review flow in cooperation with VCHEP21 organizers.
    
    Speaker: Javier Ferrer (CERN)
    
    Indico-CERNBox.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 23
    
    Publish and preserve files from CERNBox in Open Repositories (InvenioRDM/CDS)
    
    Digital repositories such as CERN Document Server and Zenodo are used to publish and preserve research outputs. We’ll demonstrate in this presentation how we’re making archiving of files in CERNBox into a repository seamless and how you can easily upload potentially very large datasets directly from your CERNBox.
    
    Speaker: Jenny Mathilde Bonsak (CERN)
    
    cernbox-presentation.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 24
    
    CERNbox EOS website for e-learning previews
    
    I am working in HR-LD and my use case of CERNbox includes of course common administrative documents storing/editing/sharing (MS office and Libre office).
    
    I do also use the Website creation functionality to make the preview of the e-learning development projects available to stakeholders. Thanks to that, I can avoid multiple uploads to the LMS and I can also dodge the need to enrol to a course in order to access it.
    I provide only one link to the reviewers and I can upload very quickly the updates with a single drag and drop.
    
    the final course on the LMS is free of multiple revisions and the LMS itself is free of tons of garbage files while the development progresses.
    
    The preview are in HTML5/Javascript format.
    
    Example of course stored on CERNbox
    
    The same course released on the LMS
    
    Created with Articulate Storyline 3
    
    Speaker: Mr Philippe Berset (CERN)
    
    e-learning-previews-CERNBox-use-case.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 25
    
    The ATLAS Education & Outreach Box – A comms CERNbox use case
    
    The ATLAS Education & Outreach Box – A comms CERNbox use case
    
    Speaker: Sascha Mehlhase (LMU Munich)
    
    2021-12-08 CERNbox Outreach.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 26
    
    Using CERNBox for a CERN OpenDays's Selfie-Station
    
    Speaker: Manuel Rodriguez (CERN)
    
    Recording
    
    Using CERNBox for a CERN OpenDays's Selfie-Station
    
    Video preview
- 15:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Integrations
  
  Convener: Diogo Castro (CERN)
  - 27
    
    Building the LCG Software Stacks and EOS
    
    The SPI team of the EP-SFT group is creating software stacks of hundreds of packages for the use by the LHC experiments, SWAN, and other users around the world. For the caching and provisioning of the build results the EOS storage is a key ingredient of the build infrastructure. This presentation will briefly describe what the stacks are, how they are created, and what their reliance on the EOS system is.
    
    Speaker: Andre Sailer (CERN)
    
    211208_lcgstack_sailer.pdf
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 28
    
    Integration of CERNBox in the DBOD service
    
    The Database on Demand service is a DBaaS (database as a service) that empowers CERN users to create and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL and InfluxDB database server instances.
    by means of a simple and intuitive web interface.
    
    The DBOD web interface allows users to perform certain operations like start/stop, backups, restoring, monitoring ,configuration files, logs…
    
    During the first quarter of 2021 we deployed a new version of the DBOD web application in which we integrated access to CERNBox
    as a way of facilitating to our users the access to log files and upgrade reports.
    
    During this talk I will explain how we integrated our service with CERNBox and the benefits that it has brought to us.
    
    Speaker: Abel Cabezas Alonso
    
    Integration of CERNBoxInThe DBODService.pdf
    
    Integration of CERNBoxInThe DBODService.pdf
    
    Integration of CERNBoxInThe DBODService.pptx
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview
  - 29
    
    Measuring the quark-gluon plasmas viscosities by colliding heavy ions on lxplus
    
    Measuring the quark-gluon plasmas viscosities by colliding heavy ions on lxplus
    
    Speaker: Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)
    
    Recording
    
    Talk_lxplus.pdf
    
    Talk_lxplus.pptx
    
    Video preview
- CERNBox Service: Closing remarks
  
  Convener: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)
  - 30
    
    Closing remarks
    
    Closing remarks
    
    Speaker: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)
    
    Recording
    
    Video preview