CERNBox User Forum

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

Zoom (online)

Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

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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Q&A document (CERN login required)

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08:45 → 09:00 Welcome: Virtual Coffee and Logistics

CERNBox-User-Forum-Welcome.pdf

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09:00 → 09:05 Welcome from the IT management

Conveners: Alberto Pace (CERN), Enrica Maria Porcari (CERN)

09:05 → 09:50 CERNBox Service: Introduction and Roadmap

Convener: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

09:05 CERNBox: an overview

Speaker: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

CERNBox-Service.pdf

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09:10 Applications Ecosystem

Speaker: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)

CERNBox apps - GLoPresti - User Forum.pdf

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09:15 Data safety

Speaker: Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)

DataSafety_CERNBox_User_Forum.pdf

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09:20 User engagement and feedback

Speaker: Jakub Moscicki (CERN)

CERNBox User Forum - Kuba.pdf

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09:25 New features in Web UI

Speaker: Elizaveta Ragozina (CERN)

CERNBox_new_features_Ragozina.pptx

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09:35 New features in Desktop client

Speaker: Samuel Alfageme Sainz (CERN)

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VFS_CERNBox_user_forum_Samuel_Alfageme_Sainz.pdf

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09:40 Roadmap for 2022

Speaker: Diogo Castro (CERN)

7. Roadmap for 2022.pdf

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09:50 → 10:00 Coffe break

10:00 → 10:50 Experiments

Convener: Luca Mascetti (CERN)

10:00 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

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10:20 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

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10:27 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

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10:42 ATLAS documentation team and CERNBox

Using CERNBox to migrate atlas sites to EOS.

Speaker: Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster University (GB))

cernboxtalk.pdf

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10:50 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Privacy

Convener: Oliver Keeble (CERN)

11:00 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

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11:20 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

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11:35 Sharing folders with confidentiality - CSC

Sharing folders with confidentiality - CSC

Speaker: Joelma Tolomeo (CERN)

CERNboxUF-JoelmaTolomeo_8December2021.pdf

CERNboxUF-JoelmaTolomeo_8December2021.pptx

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11:50 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))

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12:00 → 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 → 14:00 Engineering

Convener: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)

13:15 Cernbox use in Alice MFT project

Cernbox use in Alice MFT project

Speaker: Charlotte Riccio (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

MFT and cernbox use.pdf

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13:30 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

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13:45 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

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13:52 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

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14:00 → 14:10 Coffee Break

14:10 → 14:30 Engineering

14:10 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

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14:30 → 15:40 Outreach, Education and Learning

Convener: Jakub Moscicki (CERN)

14:30 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

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14:45 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

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15:00 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

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15:07 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

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15:14 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

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15:29 Using CERNBox for a CERN OpenDays's Selfie-Station

Speaker: Manuel Rodriguez (CERN)

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Using CERNBox for a CERN OpenDays's Selfie-Station

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15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:50 Integrations

Convener: Diogo Castro (CERN)

16:00 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

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16:15 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

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16:30 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)

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Talk_lxplus.pdf

Talk_lxplus.pptx

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16:50 → 17:30 CERNBox Service: Closing remarks

Convener: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

16:50 Closing remarks

Closing remarks

Speaker: Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

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