CERN School of Computing 2015

13 Sept 2015, 08:00 → 26 Sept 2015, 23:40 Europe/Athens

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology

Alberto Pace (CERN)

BOOKLET_V1.pdf

List of participantsV2.pdf

Live@Kavala_part1.mp3

Live@Kavala_part2.mp3

Sunday 13 September

15:00 → 20:00 Registration - Welcome of participants

21:00 → 22:30 Dinner at Hotel

Monday 14 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 09:45 Opening Ceremony (Part 1)

Prof. D. Bandekas - Vice-President of ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ (5') Prof. A. Mitropoulos - President of EMATTECH (5') Mr. T. Markopoulos - Vice-Governor of EMTH (5') Ms D. Tsanaka - Mayor of Kavala - (5') Mr. P. Soukoulias - President of Innovation Committee of EMTH (10') Prof Samaras Stavros - President of the Union of Greek Physicists (10') Prof. L. Magafas - President of Organisation Committee (15')

09:45 → 10:45 Opening Ceremony (part 2)

Dr. F. Hemmer - CERN IT Department Head Introduction to CERN and upcoming challenges in scientific computing (20') Prof. E. Gazis - Professor of Particle Physics at CERN CERN and Greece, a long standing collaboration (20') Mr. A. Pace - CSC director The CERN School of Computing (20')

2015-09-14 - CSC 2015 Opening - Frédéric Hemmer

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:15 Physics Computing

Conveners: Arnulf Quadt (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE)), Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc), Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:15 Introduction to Physics Computing L1

Speaker: Arnulf Quadt (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 Physics Computing

13:45 Tools and Techniques L1

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

14:45 Tools and Techniques L2

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 19:15 Physics Computing

16:15 Tools and Techniques E1

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

17:15 Tools and Techniques E2

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

18:15 Tools and Techniques E3

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

19:15 → 19:30 Bus to Lucy Hotel

19:30 → 20:15 Free time

20:15 → 20:30 Bus to Egnatia Hotel

20:30 → 23:00 Welcome Cocktail and Dinner (Egnatia Hotel)

23:00 → 23:15 Bus to Lucy Hotel

Tuesday 15 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 09:45 Physics Computing

08:45 Introduction to Physics Computing L2

Speaker: Arnulf Quadt (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

09:45 → 10:45 Base Technologies

09:45 Computer Architecture & Performance Tuning L1

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

11:30 Computer Architecture & Performance Tuning L2

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 Physics Computing

13:45 E4

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

14:45 E5

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 17:15 Physics Computing

Convener: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

16:15 E6

Speaker: Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

17:15 → 17:30 Bus

17:30 → 20:00 Study Time and/or Daily Sports Program

20:00 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Wednesday 16 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Base Technologies

Convener: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

08:45 Secure Software L1

Speaker: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

09:45 Secure Software L2

Speaker: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

Convener: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

11:30 Computer Architechture & Performance Tuning E1

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 Base Technologies

Convener: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

13:45 Secure Software E1

Speakers: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN), Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

14:45 Secure Software E2

Speakers: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN), Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 17:15 Base Technologies

Convener: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

16:15 Secure Software E3

Speaker: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

17:15 → 17:30 Bus

17:30 → 20:00 Study Time and/or Daily Sports program

20:00 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Thursday 17 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Base Technologies

08:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era L1

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

09:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era L2

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

11:30 Secure Software L3

Speaker: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

12:30 → 13:15 Bus to Toxotes

13:15 → 13:45 Light lunch

13:45 → 19:00 Sports afternoon

19:00 → 19:40 Bus to Kavala

19:40 → 22:00 Special outside Dinner

22:00 → 22:30 Bus to Hotel Lucy

Friday 18 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Base Technologies

08:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era L3

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

09:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era L4

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

11:30 Software Design in Many-Cores era E1

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:45 Base Technologies

13:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era E2

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

14:45 Computer Architecture & Performance Tuning E2

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 17:15 Base Technologies

Convener: Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

16:15 Computer Architecture & Performance Tuning E3

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

17:15 → 17:30 Bus

17:30 → 20:00 Study Time and/or Daily Sports Program

20:00 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Saturday 19 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Physics Computing

08:45 Data Analysis L1

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

Data_Analysis_L1

09:45 Data Analysis L2

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Physics Computing

11:30 Data Analysis L3

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:45 Bus to Lucy Hotel

13:45 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Sunday 20 September

09:00 → 20:00 Full Day Excursion - Bus departure at 09h00

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner

Monday 21 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

08:45 Data Technologies L1

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

09:45 Data Technologies L2

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

Convener: Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

11:30 Networking Performance L1

Speaker: Mr Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:45 Base Technologies

13:45 Software Design in Many-Cores era E3

Speakers: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Danilo Piparo (CERN)

14:45 → 15:45 Physics Computing

Conveners: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc), Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

14:45 Data Analysis E1

Speakers: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Purdue University (US)), Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 17:15 Physics Computing

Conveners: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc), Robert Jacobsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

16:15 Data Analysis L4

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

17:15 → 17:30 Bus

17:30 → 19:00 Study time and/or Daily Sports Program

19:00 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Tuesday 22 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

08:45 Data Technologies L3

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

09:45 Data Technologies L4

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Base Technologies

Convener: Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

11:30 Networking Performance L2

Speaker: Mr Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:45 Physics Computing

13:45 Data Analysis E2

Speakers: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Purdue University (US)), Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

14:45 → 15:45 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

14:45 Data Technologies E1

Speakers: Alberto Pace (CERN), Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

15:45 → 16:15 Drinks and fruits

16:15 → 17:15 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

16:15 Data Technologies E2

Speakers: Alberto Pace (CERN), Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

17:15 → 17:30 Bus

17:30 → 19:00 Study Time and/or Daily Sports Program

19:00 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Wednesday 23 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Physics Computing

08:45 Data Analysis L5

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

09:45 Multivariate Visualisation L1

Speaker: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Purdue University (US))

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

11:30 Data Technologies L5

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Physics Computing

13:30 Data Analysis E3

Speaker: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

14:30 → 20:30 Study Time/Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Thursday 24 September

08:15 → 08:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

08:45 → 10:45 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

08:45 Data Technologies E3

Speakers: Alberto Pace (CERN), Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

09:45 Data Technologies E4

Speakers: Alberto Pace (CERN), Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Data Technologies

Convener: Alberto Pace (CERN)

11:30 Data Technologies E5

Speakers: Alberto Pace (CERN), Mr Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Physics Computing

Convener: Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

13:30 Data Analysis E4

Speakers: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Purdue University (US)), Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

14:30 Data Analysis E5

Speakers: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Purdue University (US)), Ivica Puljak (University of Split. Fac.of Elect. Eng., Mech. Eng. and Nav.Arc)

15:30 → 16:00 Drinks and fruits

16:00 → 17:15 Examination

17:15 → 17:30 Bus to Lucy hotel

18:00 → 18:15 Bus to the football stadium

18:15 → 20:00 Traditional CSC Football match

20:00 → 20:15 Bus to Lucy Hotel

20:15 → 20:30 Free time

20:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Hotel

Friday 25 September

09:30 → 09:45 Bus to ΤΕΙ ΑΜΘ

09:45 → 10:45 Presentations by students

09:45 Blindstore, a Private Information Retrieval database

Blindstore is a database that ensures confidentiality of information retrieval. I'll cover what Private Information Retrieval is, how it is different from current privacy schemes and how the magic happens.

Speaker: Alejandro Aviles del Moral

10:00 Towards the 2nd Generation Accelerator Transient Data Analysis Framework

During the last two years, CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and most of its equipment systems were upgraded to collide particles at an energy level twice higher compared to previous operational limits. System upgrades and the increased machine energy pose new challenges for the analysis of transient data recordings, which have to be both dependable and fast. With the LHC having operated for many years already, statistical and trend analysis across the collected data sets is a growing requirement, highlighting several constraints and limitations imposed by the current software and data storage ecosystem. Based on several analysis use-cases, this paper highlights the most important aspects and ideas towards an improved, 2nd generation data analysis framework to serve a large variety of equipment experts and operation crews in their daily work.

Speaker: Serhiy Boychenko (Universidade de Coimbra (PT))

10:15 Achieving dependable software through Continuous Delivery and Quality Monitoring

During the short presentation i would like to highlight the importance of Continuous Delivery processes which facilitate software development. As i have only 5-10 minutes, it will have a form of a simple story from software developer life. Official abstract for "1st developers @ CERN": The TE-MPE-MS Software team is a small group of people responsible for developing software for machine protection. Main projects include mostly software for the equipment supervision and testing. The usage of the Scrum methodology involves getting clients’ feedback as soon as possible which pushed the requirement to integrate all the time and deliver software in small chunks. To meet these requirements the team successfully implemented Continuous Integration and Delivery processes using multiple open source and proprietary products including: Gradle, Flyway, JUnit+Mockito, SonarQube and Bamboo. The idea for the presentation is to present our implementation of the CI/CD paradigms and explain on real live examples advantages and drawbacks of the current solution. During the presentation we will try to cover all the required steps which should automatically triggered by a developer’s commit. The presentation should give users a good hands-on experience on basic CI/CD principles and allow them to design and implement simple software delivery platform.

Speaker: Kamil Henryk Krol (CERN)

10:30 Density-based Outlier Detection

Often we have a dataset where most of the data is produced by a known mechanism (or several mechanisms) which we understand, but some data is produced by a different process. In such cases we can consider the known processes as background to detect the signal. However, what about the case where we do not have knowledge about the underlying processes, but want to detect which part of our dataset is unusual or anomalous? One method that can be used in this case is density-based outlier detection, where each data point is considered in relation to its local neighbourhood.

Speaker: Michael Davis (CERN)

10:45 → 11:00 Updates

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Presentations by students

11:30 Socket Programming

Overview of issues, debugging, performance and tuning in applications using sockets.

Speaker: Adam Tadeusz Wegrzynek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

11:40 Searches for charged Higgs bosons in the CMS experiment

The search methods, latest results and future prospects in the search for electrically charged Higgs bosons in the CMS Experiment are shortly presented.

Speaker: Santeri Henrikki Laurila (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

11:50 Applications of Timepix detectors

Timepix is a hybrid pixel semiconductor detector of the Medipix family, derived from the pixel detector developments at CERN and originally designed for X-ray imaging. This presentation makes an illustrative look at the current applications of these detector from medicine to outer space, and back to particle physics' experiments.

Speaker: Ivan Dario Caicedo Sierra (Czech Technical University (CZ))

12:00 A proposal for a C++ framework for writing highly-readable code with automatic multi-level paralelism

Using C++ template metaprogramming and assumptions about typical workloads in plasma physics computing, a framework if proposed to facilitate writing massively parallel programs in C++ in such a way, that the code written by the user closely resembles wahtever would be seen in a paper, while the framework effectively hides the implementation details of the parallelization structures. The ideas are demonstraed on a proof-of-concept Particle-in-Cell code used for simulations of interactions of hig power ultrashort laser pulses with plasmas.

Speaker: Jiří Vyskočil (Czech Technical University in Prague)

12:10 From Community Detection to Emergence

We are going to have a small trip through the simple ideas of finding patterns in graphs, what a community means, define complex systems and then wonder ourselves on what emergence means for us.

Speaker: Anastasios Andronidis (University of Ioannina (GR))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:15 Closing session

13:30 Introduction

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

13:35 Collider Physics from the LHC upgrades to Future Collider: Physics, Technology and Computing

Speaker: Mr Battaglia

14:20 Linear Accelerators, Principle of Operation

Speaker: Evangelos Gazis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

14:45 What is EconoPhysics

Speaker: Prof. Lykourgos Magafas (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology)

15:10 Drinks and fruits

15:40 Graduation ceremony

16:30 Closing

17:15 → 17:30 Bus to Lucy Hotel

17:30 → 20:00 Free time

20:00 → 20:15 Bus to Batis Club

20:15 → 22:00 Closing reception and Dinner

22:00 → 23:59 After dinner party

Saturday 26 September

08:15 → 11:30 Departure of participants