IT Lightning Talks: session #7

Friday 2 Oct 2015, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

Alberto Di Meglio (CERN), Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

IT Lightning Talks (ITLT) are short presentations on any topic related to computing technology or to the IT department. See more here: https://twiki.cern.ch/IT/LightningTalks/

10:00 → 10:03 Welcome

Speakers: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN), Sebastian Lopienski (CERN)

ITLT-7 welcome

ITLT-7 welcome

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10:03 → 10:11 CERN-made MOOCs - we can & we should

MOOCs' popularity expands world-wide. No reason for CERN to be left behind. They can become a starting point of inter-disciplinary collaborations, material for quality outreach programmes, a solution for high-level training under restricted budget conditions, a source of inspiration and a method for reaching in-depth understanding across experiments and departments within CERN. Let's see how in 5'.

Speaker: Maria Dimou (CERN)

A radio programme on MOOCs to listen or download

EPFL MOOC factory

EPFL MOOC Report 2012-2014

#MOOC

MOOCs_20151002.pdf

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#training

10:11 → 10:19 Extend your toolbox with R

R seems to be ideal tool for visualising your data as well as practically all other data-related tasks. Learn how to start with R as it is worth to be included not only in statistician's or data scientist's toolboxes.

Speaker: Szymon Skorupinski (CERN)

Dataset from UBS

ExtendYourToolboxWithR.pdf

ExtendYourToolboxWithR.pptx

Online R tutorial

#R

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R programming MOOC

10:19 → 10:27 Getting started with Go

No, not the Chinese boardgame, the programming language that ironically Google made difficult to google for. You may have heard of Golang, and are wondering whether you should learn it. The answer is that of course you should, and this talk should explain why and point you at the best resources to get started.

Speaker: Ben Jones (CERN)

A tour of Go

#golang

lightning_go.pdf

lightning_go.pptx

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10:27 → 10:35 Get more control over your C/C++ service

Are you looking for a way to better diagnose or monitor your C/C++ programs? Find out more about CMX - a neat, lightweight library (<32Kb) which targets this need. It allows to expose information from inside a process through a simple API, enabling pre-failure detection in combination with your favourite monitoring system.

Speaker: Felix Nikolaus Ehm (CERN)

#CMX

CMX_IT_Lightingtalks.pdf

CMX_IT_Lightingtalks.pptx

CMX library

More information

More information

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10:35 → 10:43 Porting a Java-based Brain Simulation Software to C++

A currently available software solution to simulate neural development is Cx3D. However, this software is Java-based, and not ideal for high performance computing. This talk presents our step-by-step porting approach, that uses SWIG as a tool to interface C++ code from Java.

Speaker: Lukas Johannes Breitwieser (openlab)

#brainsimulation

C++ port

#Cx3D

Cx3D

lightning_talk_breitwieser.pdf

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10:43 → 10:51 Do you want to get 40 Tbps?

Learn how big companies like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe etc. deliver their content to the customers. Discover how CERN is delivering the big physics discoveries via the live webcast to the world.

Speaker: Marek Domaracky (CERN)

#CDN

lightning talk.pdf

lightning talk.pptx

More information

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#streaming

10:51 → 10:59 Entrepreneurship meet-up at CERN

Are you interested in innovation and entrepreneurship? Do you think about starting a company, or do just want to be inspired? Then maybe you would be interested in coming to the CERN entrepreneurship meet-up. The meet-up is an informal after work gathering every other week. Often with external guest speakers sharing their knowledge. Learn more at cern.ch/kt/meet-up

Speaker: Vetle Nilsen (CERN)

#entrepreneurship

EntrepreneurshipMeetUp.pdf

More information

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10:59 → 11:00 Open mic / Announcements

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Teaser slide.pdf

Teaser slide.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee