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    CERN School of Computing on IT Services 2026

    9–13 Nov 2026
    Europe/Zurich timezone

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    1. 2. Welcome address from the IT department head
      Simone Campana (CERN)
      09/11/2026, 09:00
    2. 3. Opening Session
      Alberto Pace (CERN)
      09/11/2026, 09:15
    3. 4. Opening Lecture: The need for IT Service in accelerator and particle physics
      Sebastien Ponce (CERN)
      09/11/2026, 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. 5. Database Services (part 1 of 4) - Introduction to DBoD
      09/11/2026, 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. 6. Storage (part 1 of 2) and pre-requisites
      09/11/2026, 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. 7. Storage (part 2 of 2)
      09/11/2026, 14:30
    7. 8. Project Management and documentation
      09/11/2026, 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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    8. 9. Student self presentation
      09/11/2026, 17:00
    9. 10. Modern Application Development & Deployment
      10/11/2026, 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. 11. Creating and managing websites at CERN
      10/11/2026, 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. 12. Core compute services (part 1 of 2)
      10/11/2026, 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. 17. Core compute services (part 2 of 2)
      11/11/2026, 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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    13. 18. Configuration & Infrastracture as Code
      Mr Daniel Juarez (CERN)
      11/11/2026, 10:45

      IT central configuration management services for virtual and physical hosts.

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    14. 19. Database Services (part 2 of 4) - DBoD maintenance exercises
      11/11/2026, 13:30
      • What are the typical tasks to be performed as DBoD owner
        Exercises on:
      • Cloning mechanism
      • Upgrades
      • TLS certificates
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    15. 20. Data Analysis Techniques using SWAN and REANA (part 1 of 3)
      11/11/2026, 14:30
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      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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    16. 21. Authentication and authorization
      11/11/2026, 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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    17. 22. Authentication and authorization (Excercises)
      11/11/2026, 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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    18. 23. Services for Machine Learning applications (part 1 of 3)
      12/11/2026, 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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    19. 24. Lightning talks
      12/11/2026, 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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    20. 25. Services for Machine Learning applications (part 2 of 3)
      12/11/2026, 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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    21. 26. Database Services (part 3 of 4) - Oracle Database
      12/11/2026, 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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    22. 27. Services for Machine Learning applications (part 3 of 3)
      12/11/2026, 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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    23. 13. Introduction to registry.cern.ch and Kubernetes
      12/11/2026, 14:30
    24. 14. Deploying applications (part 1 of 2)
      12/11/2026, 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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    25. 15. Deploying applications (part 2 of 2)
      12/11/2026, 17:00

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

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    26. 28. Data Analysis Techniques using SWAN and REANA (part 2 of 3)
      13/11/2026, 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. 29. Data Analysis Techniques using SWAN and REANA (part 3 of 3)
      13/11/2026, 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. 30. Database Services (part 4 of 4) - DBoD maintenance exercises
      13/11/2026, 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. 31. Application security
      13/11/2026, 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. 32. Closing Session
      Alberto Pace (CERN)
      13/11/2026, 16:45
    31. 16. Deploying applications (part 1 of 2)
      Alberto Pimpo

      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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    32. 1. Welcome coffee