Visit of WCSIM

Friday 3 Jun 2022, 13:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

IdeaSquare

13:30 Arrival at CERN reception

1 Visit to SynchroCyclotron

The 600-MeV Synchrocyclotron (SC), which came into operation in 1957, was CERN’s first accelerator. It provided beams for CERN’s first experiments in particle and nuclear physics. In 1967, it began supplying beams for a dedicated radioactive-ion-beam facility called ISOLDE, which still carries out research ranging from pure nuclear physics to astrophysics and medical physics. In 1990 the SC closed down after 33 years of service.

2 Knowledge Transfer to Medical Applications & Entrepreneurship

IdeaSquare is a test facility at CERN that hosts detector research and development projects.

3 Visit to DataCentre

The 230 000 processor cores and 15 000 servers run 24/7. Over 90% of the resources for computing in the Data Centre are provided through a private cloud based on OpenStack, an open-source project to deliver a massively scalable cloud operating system.

17:00 Departure from CERN reception