openlab student visit to Opensystems and Google in Zurich

16 Jul 2014, 06:30 → 17 Jul 2014, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

This visit is organised for openlab summer students, plus other IT summer students and a few interns. The programme consists of visits to Opensystems, Google and ETHZ in Zurich. A tour of Zurich will also be organised, visiting among other things the Münsterhof . . We will leave in the morning (at 6.30) of July 16th by bus and stay overnight at the Youth Hostel in Zurich (3 or 4 persons bedrooms). The return at CERN is foreseen in the evening of July 17th (around 20h). The excursion is free of charge; transport, hostel and food is included. More information and details on the logistics will follow. Please note that the places are distributed on a first come, first served basis. More details on the programme can be found under the link "timetable".

Google programme CERN_interns_at_Google_Zurich_July_17_2014.pdf

opensystems programme CERN_program_20140716.pdf

Travel Authorization Travel_authorization_Zurich_2014.docx Travel_authorization_Zurich_2014.pdf

Wednesday 16 July

Pick up at Hostel

Transport to Zurich

Visit to opensystems

Time Topic
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome Speech and Introduction to Open Systems
11:00 - 11:30 Technical Speech about Legal Interception
11:30 - 12:00 Technical Speech about Network Monitoring
12:00 - 12:05 The Academy – Job Opportunities at Open Systems
12:05 - 12:30 Open Systems and Mission Control tour
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch on our Skybar together with Open Systems Employees

Zurich Sightseeing

ETHZ Visit with short Presentation about education possibilities

Check in and dinner at Youth hostel

Thursday 17 July

Check out and departure from Youth Hostel

Visit at Google (Please note: No photos allowed inside the building!)

8.30-8.40
Arrival & Registration
8.40-9.30
Breakfast
9.30-10.00
Welcome to Google
10.00-11.00
How search works, and what is needed in the background?
A 10'000 foot overview of how search works: how do pages end up in our index, how do they get surfaced on Google, and how Google Search infrastructure help with this?
11.00-11.20
Coffee break
11.20-12.20
Engineering Reliability
What does it mean to run services at "Google scale"? What problems does one need to solve in order to provide reliable uptime "in the cloud"? This talk describes some of the challenges involved in running largescale services, and introduces the organization tasked with this goal at Google.
12.20-13.20
Office tour
13.20-14.20
Lunch
14.20-14.45
Internship & Conversion process
14.50-15.40
Panel discussion / Q&A
Get to know a Googler

Transport to Geneva