3–7 Nov 2025
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  1. Enrica Maria Porcari (CERN), Simone Campana (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 09:00
  2. Alberto Pace (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 09:15
  3. Sebastien Ponce (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 09:45

    Starting from accelerator and particle physics, we'll try to see what are the needs of the experiments and accelerator people in terms of IT services.

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  4. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 11:15
    • Short intro about databases
    • Presentation of the DBoD service
    • How to create a database in DBoD
    • How to connect to my DBoD
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  5. Abhishek Lekshmanan (CERN), Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 13:30

    This two-part lecture series provides an overview of the various storage
    services at CERN. We will look into the motivation behind our large scale
    storage systems, cover some fundamentals and the design principles of the
    storage systems we've developed and use. We will also look into some practical
    use cases covering the ecosystem of the many storage systems we run in the IT
    department....

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  6. Abhishek Lekshmanan (CERN), Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 14:30
  7. Francisco Borges Aurindo Barros (CERN)
    03/11/2025, 16:00

    In this session we will explore the solutions for project management and effective software development.

    We'll start by demonstrating how to plan and track project progress using Jira, available at https://its.cern.ch.

    Next, we'll highlight how GitLab Pages can be utilized to store and share information, whether for internal use or a broader audience, showcasing instances of technical...

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  9. Francisco Borges Aurindo Barros (CERN)
    04/11/2025, 08:45

    “I need to develop an application X for user community Y, which will need to be run and maintained over time”

    1. Application development
      a. This part of the session will explore the multiple types of applications, how to leverage version control system Gitlab and it's CI to have modern application deployment.
      This is organized as a workshop and will include a hands-on experience...
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  10. Lorenzo Del Pianta (CERN), Vasvi Sharma (CERN)
    04/11/2025, 10:45

    An introduction to website provisioning and hosting at CERN with the services provided by IT. We will focus on creating websites with WordPress and go into the details of the WordPress service at CERN.

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  11. Jose Castro Leon (CERN)
    04/11/2025, 13:30

    An in depth set of use case where IT services are heavily used for physics, analysis and engineering applications.

    In part I of the series we will show use cases for Openstack, Linux and virtual-machine based configuration management.

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  12. Diana Gaponcic (CERN), Jack Charlie Munday
    04/11/2025, 14:30
  13. Alberto Pimpo
    04/11/2025, 16:00

    In this lecture, we will understand the difference between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
    Then, we will learn how to deploy custom and off-shelf applications to OKD PaaS.

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  14. Alberto Pimpo
    04/11/2025, 17:00

    Exercises regarding how to deploy custom and off-shelf applications to OKD PaaS.

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  15. Antonio Delgado Peris (CERN), Panagiotis Gkonis (CERN)
    05/11/2025, 08:45

    An in depth set of use case where IT services are heavily used for physics, analysis and engineering applications.

    In part 2 of the series we will explore HTCondor, the high-throughput compute platform used for batch computing.

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  16. Giacomo Tenaglia (CERN)
    05/11/2025, 10:45

    IT central configuration management services for virtual and physical hosts.

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  17. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)
    05/11/2025, 13:30
    • What are the typical tasks to be performed as DBoD owner
      Exercises on:
    • Cloning mechanism
    • Upgrades
    • TLS certificates
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  18. Diogo Castro (CERN), Pedro Miguel Esteves Maximino, Rodrigo Fernando Henriques Sobral
    05/11/2025, 14:30

    In this first session, we will give an overview of the SWAN service. This will include the following points:
    - Interface: classic and JupyterLab
    - Creation of projects, notebooks and terminals
    - Integration with CVMFS for software provisioning
    - Integration with EOS for storage and CERNBox for sharing
    - Use of GPUs
    - Connection to Spark clusters

    Moreover, we will give a live demo that...

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  19. Hannah Short (CERN)
    05/11/2025, 16:00

    (Part of "Software development and hosting" track)

    In this class, we will see how to:

    • Enable authentication with CERN SSO
    • Define role-based authorization for our applications
    • Get tokens, and use them access APIs
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  20. Hannah Short (CERN)
    05/11/2025, 17:00

    (Part of "Software development and hosting" track)

    In this class, we will see how to:

    • Enable authentication with CERN SSO
    • Define role-based authorization for our applications
    • Get tokens, and use them access APIs
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  21. Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu
    06/11/2025, 08:45

    This session will introduce the different phases in a ML lifecycle, and how IT services can help in each of the parts. In particular, it will:

    • Overview of ML and use cases, containerization and how it helps out in defining single units of computation, isolate custom software environments, and ensure sustainability for reproducible results
    • Demo how cloud native environments (Kubernetes...
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  22. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN), Evangelos Katralis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)), Jorge Antonio Velasquez Belmonte
    06/11/2025, 09:45
    • Evangelos Katralis - GPU acceleration of a Particle in Cell (PIC) code
    • Jorge Belmonte - File Conversions and Batch Jobs Through Cluster Computing for the PLM Platform
    • Andrzej Nowicki - AI Meets Databases: How to build an image search using pgvector extension of PostgreSQL
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  23. Hannes Jakob Hansen
    06/11/2025, 10:45

    This session will focus on the infrastructure and low level tools required to efficiently deploy machine learning applications. In particular, it will cover:

    • The different data types and how they can impact ML workloads, as well as support in different types of hardware and software libraries
    • Key differences between CPUs and GPUs and how they impact ML workloads (training and...
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  24. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)
    06/11/2025, 11:45
    • Introduction of the Oracle Database service
    • Resource portal as a way to manage Oracle database users - needed e-groups
    • Other tooling provided by the team - Session Manager
    • How to connect to the Oracle database
    • Where to get the client?
    • What is the tnsnames.ora file?
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  25. Amine Lahouel (CERN)
    06/11/2025, 13:30

    This session will focus on available ML techniques for distributed training of models, hyperparameter optimization and model service. In particular, starting from a well known use case it will demonstrate:

    • How to go from a script, to a docker image training on a single node, to a distributed training setup with multiple nodes
    • How to do hyperparameter optimization, which kind of...
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  26. Cameron Duncan McClymont, Tibor Simko (CERN)
    07/11/2025, 08:45

    In the second session of this series, we shall present REANA reusable and reproducible analysis platform. REANA allows researchers to structure their data analyses by means of declarative workflow languages (CWL, Snakemake, Yadage) and run containerised data analysis pipelines on remote compute clouds (Kubernetes, HTCondor, Slurm).

    In the first part of this session, we shall discuss the...

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  27. Cameron Duncan McClymont, Diogo Castro (CERN), Pedro Miguel Esteves Maximino, Rodrigo Fernando Henriques Sobral, Tibor Simko (CERN)
    07/11/2025, 09:45

    In the third session of this series, we will propose short exercises using SWAN and REANA to cover more data analysis examples and use cases. The session will be split in two parts, one for each tool, where participants will be able to work on the exercises and get assistance from the lecturers.

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  28. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)
    07/11/2025, 11:15
    • What are the typical tasks to be performed as DBoD owner
      Exercises on:
    • Cloning mechanism
    • Upgrades
    • TLS certificates
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  29. Vincent Brillault (CERN)
    07/11/2025, 13:30

    Short introduction to best practices for secure development, testing and deployment

    • Three golden rules for system security
    • Software security, typical vulnerability types
    • How security analysis tools can help
    • Introduction to penetration testing
    • Deployment security best practices
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  30. Alberto Pace (CERN)
    07/11/2025, 16:45
  31. Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)

    Dbod, MySql, Postgress, ...

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  32. Nils Høimyr (CERN)

    An in depth set of use case where IT services are heavily used for physics, analysis and engineering applications.

    In part 3 of the series we will explore the Slurm, the technology underlying the HPC platform at CERN.

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  33. Vasvi Sharma

    Overview of the Web Services Portal, and how it can be used for website creation and management at CERN. Website hosting and management services - Drupal/WordPress, WebEOS, GitLab pages etc - will be highlighted and their specific use cases outlined. The use of Matomo for web analytics will be demonstrated.

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  34. Francisco Borges Aurindo Barros (CERN)

    “I need to develop an application X for user community Y, which will need to be run and maintained over time”

    1. Application development
      a. This part of the session will explore the multiple types of applications, how to leverage version control system Gitlab and it's CI to have modern application deployment.
      This is organized as a workshop and will include a hands-on experience...
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  35. Alberto Pimpo
  36. Giacomo Tenaglia (CERN)

    An in depth set of use case where IT services are heavily used for physics, analisys and engineering applications

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