6–8 Mar 2023
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  1. Jakub Moscicki (CERN)
    06/03/2023, 09:30
  2. Jonathan Wareham (ESADE)
    06/03/2023, 09:50
  3. Prof. Alfonso Valencia
    06/03/2023, 10:00
  4. Diogo Castro (CERN)
    06/03/2023, 11:00
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    With the HL-LHC, the HEP community will experience orders of magnitude more data at a multi-exabyte scale. To prepare for such unprecedented scientific data collection, the different research sites are combining their diverse resources into integrated Analysis Facilities' systems.
    SWAN, CERN's Service for Web based ANalysis, is following this approach, evolving from a plain notebook-based...

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  5. Diego Ciangottini (INFN, Perugia (IT))
    06/03/2023, 11:20
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) has a long history of designing and implementing large-scale computing infrastructures and applications.
    INFN has spent the past ten years heavily investing in developing solutions to enable, optimise and simplify transparent access to a multi-site federated Cloud infrastructure. A primary goal of this effort is to provide a generic...

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  6. Davide De Marchi (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)
    06/03/2023, 11:40
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has set up the JRC Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP) as a multi-petabyte scale infrastructure to enable EC researchers to process and analyse big data in support to EU policy needs [1]. One of the service layers of the platform is based on Jupyter notebooks and the Python programming language to enable exploratory visualization and...

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  7. Jonathan Xu
    06/03/2023, 13:30
    File Sync&Share Products
    Presentation

    Seafile is a popular open-source file sync and share solution. The focus of Seafile is reliability, security and performance. It's widely used by many large educational institutes in Europe.

    This talk will review the new features and improvements that we have made to Seafile in 2022. Topics include:
    1. Performance improvements to the server
    2. Improved user experience
    3. New drive client...

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  8. Frank Karlitschek
    06/03/2023, 14:00
    File Sync&Share Products
    Presentation

    This talk will give an overview of the Nextcloud developments and improvements in the last 12 month. Several noteworthy things happened in the last Nextcloud releases. From architectural improvements to changes on APIs and the sync engine, to usebility and functionality. This Talk will give a full overview.

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  9. Holger Dyroff
    06/03/2023, 14:30
    File Sync&Share Products
    Presentation

    The first supported version of ownCloud Infinite Scale was released in November 2022 and was received very well in the community and by the first customers of ownCloud.

    This presentation gives a brief overview about the status of the stable and released product, before we start to look at the current "hot" new features and developments. That will include features and new APIs, deployment...

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  10. Dr. Tilo Steiger (ETH Zuerich)
    06/03/2023, 15:30

    CS3 community summary

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  11. Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)
    06/03/2023, 15:45
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    CERNBox is key enabler service for users at CERN and beyond. The service is used by more than 37K users and stores over 15PB of data, representing all the user communities at the laboratory.

    In this talk we will explain the current status of the service, the challenges we faced in 2022 and we look into the future: CERNBox as the gateway for heterogeneous storage spaces at CERN and beyond.

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  12. Stefano Stalio
    06/03/2023, 16:00
    CS3 Community Site Reports
    Presentation

    Following up on 20 years of successful development and operation of the largest Italian research e-infrastructure through the Grid, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) has been running for the past three years INFN Cloud, a production-level, integrated and comprehensive cloud-based set of solutions, delivered through distributed and federated infrastructures. 

    INFN...

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  13. Narges Zarrabi
    06/03/2023, 16:15
    CS3 Community Site Reports
    Presentation

    One of the challenges of research institutes is finding a proper tooling and platforms to practice and support research data management. SURF has more than 100 institutes in different sectors and has various user types from researchers and data stewards to librarians and research supporters. This translates to a wide range of requirements for research data management in our user community. To...

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  14. Mr Gabriel Paues (Safespring), Mr Richard Freitag (SUNET)
    06/03/2023, 16:30
    CS3 Community Site Reports
    Presentation

    Sunet Drive is a federated and scalable Enterprise File Sync and Share solution, that has been developed, deployed, and packaged as part of the European Open Science Cloud and can be transparently extended to new participating organizations. The two main building blocks of Sunet Drive are Nodes and Buckets, both elements designed to promote data sovereignty and FAIR principles. Participating...

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  15. Marcel Wunderlich
    06/03/2023, 16:45
    CS3 Community Site Reports
    Presentation

    Toil is the enemy of any admin and SRE.

    Automation of our processes has made operations quite smooth, allowing us to spend more time in supporting and coevolving some long awaited projects (overleaf, sccuot_ng, rds...)

    The technical side of things almost seems trivial compared to keeping an
    overview of the todos across ticket systems or resolving dependencies of people
    waiting for...

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  16. Mario Reale
    06/03/2023, 17:15
    Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure Stacks
    Presentation

    This short (5 minutes) presentation will summarise the goals and the activities of the Special Interest Group on Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks of the GÉANT Community Programme.
    The SIG-CISS will meet on Wednesday, March 8, in the afternoon, co-located with the CS3 Conference in Barcelona.

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  17. Andrea Dell'Amico (CNR-ISTI)
    06/03/2023, 17:20
    Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure Stacks
    Presentation

    TripleO, https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-docs/latest/, is a set of tools for the deployment and management of OpenStack. Its strategy consists in using a underlying OpenStack installation (undercloud) to install and manage the main one (overcloud).
    It's the installation method used by RDO, https://www.rdoproject.org/.
    In our project to deploy a HyperConverged (HCI) OpenStack cloud...

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  18. Christian Schmitz
    06/03/2023, 17:40
    Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure Stacks
    Presentation

    The talk will provide an overview of the Sovereign Cloud Stack, an open-stack release partially funded by the German government and German open-source companies, enabling governments, organizations and companies to deploy and manage their own public/private/hybrid clouds based on a common stack. This stack is designed to address the growing concern of data sovereignty, which is the ability to...

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  19. Alessandro Olivero (Politecnico di Torino)
    06/03/2023, 18:00
    Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure Stacks
    Lightning talk

    LIQO ([https://liqo.io][1]) is an open-source multi-cluster orchestrator that enables the creation of "virtual Kubernetes clusters" spanning across an arbitrary number of real clusters, even crossing multiple administrative boundaries.
    Liqo enables the sharing of resources (e.g., CPU, memory, GPUs) and services (e.g., an existing cloud-native service) among different clusters, and facilitates...

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  20. Dr Tilo Steiger
    07/03/2023, 09:00
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    Today requirements in teaching, learning and ultimately also examination at universities make more and are more digital alignments and resilient Learning IT Management Systems necessary.

    Within this contribution we want to show the system components and their interaction. We will show what added value the use of sync & share storage provides.

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  21. Reinhard Schüller
    07/03/2023, 09:15
    CS3 Community Site Reports
    Presentation

    In this talk we'd like to share recent experiences with customer deployments.
    The product oCIS has a new architecture that allows new approaches to practical requirements of data management and its corresponding processes.

    We'd discuss customer scenarios with their key challenges. This will include a setup with a few 1000 tenants to share some specific administrative and provisioning...

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  22. Prof. Barend Mons
    07/03/2023, 09:30
  23. Juri Hößelbarth (University of Münster), Richard Freitag (SUNET)
    07/03/2023, 10:30
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    Research Data Services (RDS) is a self-hosted cross-platform interoperability layer which allows research data to be curated, prepared and published directly from an EFSS solution such as Sciebo (ownCloud) or Sunet Drive (Nextcloud). It provides modular interoperability to external data repositories like the Open Science Framework (OSF), InvenioRDM (e.g., Zenodo), Harvard Dataverse, or Doris...

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  24. René Ranger (Max Planck Digital Library)
    07/03/2023, 10:45
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    The Max Planck Society runs a customized installation of Seafile called KEEPER (https://keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/) for its scientists which offers the possibility to certify research data with or without metadata by leveraging on blockchain technology. Snapshot data and a certificate representing the data on the blockchain are stored on application side and presented to the user.
    This...

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  25. Andreas Klotz, Mr Björn Schießle (Nextcloud GmbH)
    07/03/2023, 11:25
    Future research with European Open Science Cloud
    Presentation

    After two years of planning for Virtual Organisations (VO; Community AAI[1] based group of any size) as the basis for a new kind of EFSS Federation [2,3] by HIFIS in coordination with the CS3 community, the development of this new feature for the Nextcloud software has been completed, thanks to the strong support of Nextcloud and their subcontractor publicplan.

    Admins of Nextcloud...

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  26. Alessio Paccoia
    07/03/2023, 11:45
    File Sync&Share Products

    In the last year Cubbit has delivered many Cubbit cells in Italy. A cubbit cell is a very simple device that provides encrypted block storage service. These cubbit cells connect to each other from different datacenters of different Italian companies. Each cell relies on a different data link and is powered by a different power line. Even cubbit cells hosted in a specific company do not contain...

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  27. Michiel de Jong
    07/03/2023, 12:00
    Future research with European Open Science Cloud
    Lightning talk

    For SURF (the Dutch NREN), Ponder Source are proud to build a connection between ResearchDrive (based on ownCloud) and SRAM (their AAI solution).

    As part of this process, we also implement Federated Groups in OC-10, and improve OC-10's Open Cloud Mesh implementation to allow not only OCM-sharing to a user, but also to a (local) group.

    In this presentation we will briefly present the...

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  28. Pedro Ferreira (CERN), Jakub Moscicki (CERN)
    07/03/2023, 12:15

    ScienceMesh is an interoperable research platform developed for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), in the context of the CS3MESH4EOSC project.

    It is designed to be an interoperable research platform for seamless sharing and collaboration on data across different EFSS systems, including major open-source platforms such as Owncloud,...

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  29. Michiel de Jong
    07/03/2023, 14:00
    Technology & Research
    Lightning talk

    This short presentation will give a brief overview of the current status of the OCM test suite, and present our latest knowledge of the compatibility matrix, showing how various EFSS systems (now also including Reva) can act as an OCM sender or an OCM receiver (with / without the new invite flow that is used on the ScienceMesh).

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  30. Klaas Freitag
    07/03/2023, 14:15
    Technology & Research
    Presentation

    The CS3 APIs are the most important technical building block of the CS3 community. ownCloud Infinite Scale is implementing these APIs and has added some new functions to continue to drive innovation.

    In this talk we will present some of the most important changes to the CS3 APIs that come with the so called "edge" branch, and how that is beneficial to the community.

    Furthermore, the CS3...

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  32. Pedro Ferreira (CERN)
    07/03/2023, 14:45
  33. Michiel de Jong
    07/03/2023, 14:50
    Future research with European Open Science Cloud
    Lightning talk

    We built a two-way connection between Nextcloud / OC-10 and Reva, which is deployed at many of the sites that are currently connected to the ScienceMesh testnet.

    In this short presentation we'll explain how the connection between the EFSS GUI and Reva works in different scenarios.

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  34. Milan Danecek (Data Storage Specialist)
    07/03/2023, 15:05
  35. Elizaveta Ragozina (CERN)
    07/03/2023, 15:15
    Future research with European Open Science Cloud
    Presentation

    The Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol has been adopted as part of the CS3MESH4EOSC project to enable interactive and agile collaboration across various file synchronization and sharing providers at a pan-European level.

    We present CERNBox production service that enables the management of invitations and shares via OCM Invite and Share APIs and integrates with ownCLoud and nextCloud. After the...

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  36. Marcin Sieprawski
    07/03/2023, 15:30
  37. Ron Trompert
    07/03/2023, 15:50
  38. Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)
    07/03/2023, 16:30
    Collaborative Platforms
    Presentation

    The Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) protocol has been adopted as part of the ScienceMesh infrastructure to enable interactive and agile collaboration across various file synchronization and sharing providers at a pan-European level.

    With such infrastructure emerging as the collaboration space across institutions, an important added value is the ability to open document files and work with other...

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  39. Oleksii Ivanov
    07/03/2023, 16:45
    Collaborative Platforms
    Presentation

    Aimed at improving the automation of document creation and co-authoring tasks, OFORMs allow building, exporting, and sharing fillable forms for standardized paperwork. The technology behind combines flexibility of working with fields, properties, and protection tools with complete editing, formatting, and collaboration instruments of ONLYOFFICE Docs.

    ONLYOFFICE continues expanding the...

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  40. Michael Meeks
    07/03/2023, 17:05
    Collaborative Platforms
    Presentation

    Come and see how Collabora Online (COOL) can be a pleasure to deploy and integrate into your File Sync & Share or LMS provision. Hear about the work we've done in the last year to make it even better. From dynamic load balancing in Kubernetes, to accelerated compression of tiles reducing both CPU and bandwidth use and improving interactivity.

    Admins should know about our new Grammar...

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  41. Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger
    07/03/2023, 17:25
    Collaborative Platforms
    Presentation

    SeaTable is like a lego kit for IT. It enables you to develop and build efficient business process in the shortest possible time. You can easily design your database structure, store any kind of data, define access rights for your team or externals and visualize your data with various charts. Automations help to streamline your work.

    In this presentation, I will give an overview of the...

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  42. Tom Wezepoel (SURF)
    08/03/2023, 09:00
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    Research Drive, the Dutch Sync & Share service based on ownCloud, uses OpenStack Swift S3 as its storage backend. Where the integration of S3 within the software is not that good, we will migrate back to a posix compliant file system, namely CephFS. But how to migrate almost 2 PB of data without too much downtime...

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  43. Krzysztof Wadówka (PSNC)
    08/03/2023, 09:15
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    From 1VM+LUN to k8s+S3 - an uneasy way…

    Since 2015 PSNC has provided a sync & share service for science and academia in Poland, based on the Seafile software. We started small by running a 1VM+1LUN setup and community version of the software, integrated with the local PSNC’s LDAP. In 2016 we began to build a fully-fledged setup based on a cluster of application servers, background jobs...

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  44. Gregor Molan (Comtrade 360's AI Lab)
    08/03/2023, 09:30
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    Different high-performance, high-available file systems can store big data (hundreds of PB) and provide high data throughput (hundreds of TB per second). Each of these solutions highlights its advantages, and it is challenging to compare them.

    Based on 30 years of storage development experience, Comtrade provided test scenarios to compare these file systems. On the appropriate...

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  45. Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)
    08/03/2023, 09:45
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    The IT storage group at CERN is resposible to ensure integrity and security of all the stored data for physics and general computing services. In the last years a backup orchestrator, cback, has been developed based on the open source backup software restic. Cback is able to backup EOS, CephFS and any local mountable file system, like NFS or DFS. cback is currently used to daily backup CERNBox...

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  46. Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage)
    08/03/2023, 10:00
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    Data are said to live forever, however their life is a complex journey. Initiated at acquisition or production date, data start a whole life cycle. During the different epochs of this life cycle, data will be moved, processed, compressed, shipped, archived.
    To ease the management of this data orchestration, modern storage systems provide powerful tools. The foundation of these tools remains...

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  47. Mr Kory Draughn
    08/03/2023, 10:15
    Scalable Storage Backends for Cloud, HPC and Global Science
    Presentation

    The open source iRODS (Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System) data management platform presents a virtual filesystem, metadata catalog, and policy engine designed to give organizations maximum control and flexibility over their data management practices and enforcement. Since iRODS defines its own RPC API and protocol, interoperability with other software has always lagged new server features...

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  48. Mr Michiel de Jong (Ponder Source), Mr Micke Nordin (SUNET)
    08/03/2023, 11:00
    Technology & Research
    Presentation

    Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) systems have become an integral part of every researcher's life, handling an abundance of scientific data for multiple projects. Those projects generally span multiple collaborators and can extend over a significant geographic area. However, there is an inherent conflict when handling research data, between the researcher's need to collaborate and share...

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  49. Marco Antonio Tangaro (Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies)
    08/03/2023, 11:15
    Technology & Research
    Presentation

    Galaxy is the de facto standard workflow manager for bioinformatics providing a complete collaborative platform for researchers. Even though several Galaxy public servers are currently available, there are some situations where users would benefit more from having full administrative control over a private Galaxy instance. These situations include, but are not limited to, worries about data...

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  50. Tom Wezepoel (SURF)
    08/03/2023, 11:30
    Technology & Research

    How to change the login method for almost 90000 users from 5 different login scenarios and different backends to 1 method with OIDC. Welcome in the world of flows with Keycloak. What could possibly go wrong?

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  51. Samuel Alfageme Sainz (CERN)
    08/03/2023, 11:45
    Future research with European Open Science Cloud
    Presentation

    In this talk we describe the 2022 reboot of the ScienceBox project, the demonstrator package for some of CERN’s storage and analysis services. We evolved the original implementation to make use of Helm charts across the entire dependency stack.

    We’ve also incorporated the major architectural update to **CERNBox, replacing the previous PHP backend with a catalog of distributed...

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  52. Mr Pietro Marini (Nextcloud GmbH)
    08/03/2023, 12:00

    Deploying Nextcloud at scale implies a close monitoring of critical software and infrastructure components. In enterprise environments, Nextcloud is typically run in a clustered setup and it requires both infrastructure and application monitoring. In this talk we are going to discuss the basic elements of monitoring, with a focus on understanding why some metrics are important to monitor to...

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  53. Javier Ferrer (CERN)
    08/03/2023, 12:15

    The new CERNBox platform was successfully released for CERN-Wide usage on October 24. It has been quickly adopted by the whole community of about 27.000 users. The platform is comprised of a new Web User Interface based on modern web framework technologies, and a scalable distributed micro-service backend architecture based on Reva.
    One of the most prevalent feature requests received after...

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  54. Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger
    08/03/2023, 14:00
    Collaborative Platforms
    Presentation

    One of the main challenges in dealing with large amounts of data is to find a suitable presentation for the different target groups. With the new module External App, SeaTable allows you to build individual frontends for the different stackholders and process participants in no time.

    In this way, processes can be streamlined and the transfer of information can be made more...

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  55. Michał Orzechowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland)
    08/03/2023, 14:15
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    Onedata is a distributed, global, high-performance data management system, which provides transparent and unified access to globally distributed storage resources and supports a wide range of use cases from personal data management to data-intensive scientific computations. Due to its fully distributed architecture, Onedata allows for the creation of complex hybrid-cloud infrastructure...

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  56. Marcin Sieprawski
    08/03/2023, 14:30
    User Voice: Novel Applications, Data Science Environments & Open Data
    Presentation

    Data Science is a complex field that requires a high level of expertise and collaboration among teams of experts. With the rise of big data, it has become increasingly important to create collaborative workflows that enable data scientists to combine their skills and knowledge to create better results. This, however, can be a challenge in an environment of heterogenous cloud and storage...

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  57. Jakub Moscicki (CERN)
    08/03/2023, 14:45