Our collaborators

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Our collaborators

 

CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership that works to accelerate the development of cutting-edge computing solutions for the worldwide LHC community and wider scientific research.

Through CERN openlab, CERN collaborates with leading technology companies and research institutes. Within this framework, CERN provides access to its complex ICT infrastructure and its engineering experience - in some cases even extended to collaborating institutes worldwide.

Testing in CERN’s demanding environment provides the ICT industry collaborators with valuable feedback on their products, while enabling CERN to assess the merits of new technologies in their early stages of development for possible future use. This framework also offers a neutral ground for carrying out advanced research-and-development activities with more than one company.

We are proud to introduce you to the leading technology companies and research organisations with whom we are collaborating today. Read our brochure to find out more about how you can work with us.

Intel

Partner

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

Oracle

Partner

Since 1983, Oracle and CERN have partnered to drive scientific and technological innovation. CERN requires information technologies that are efficient, robust, and enable wide collaboration, and Oracle — a founding partner of CERN openlab — provides solutions that store, manage, and distribute information at the required scale and cost. Oracle is a global provider of enterprise cloud computing and data management, empowering businesses on their journey of digital transformation. Oracle supports 430,000 customers in 175 countries develop strategic roadmaps to advance their journey to cloud. www.oracle.com

 

Siemens

Partner

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. The company has around 430,000 employees (in continuing operations) working to develop and manufacture products, design and install complex systems and projects, and tailor a wide range of solutions for individual requirements. For over 160 years, Siemens has stood for technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality. www.siemens.com.

Micron

Partner

Micron Technology is a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems. For 40 years, Micron has been instrumental to the world’s most significant technology advancements. Micron’s broad portfolio of high-performance memory technologies is transforming how the world uses information to enrich life. To learn more about Micron Technology, visit www.micron.com

Google

Partner

Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Google Cloud is built on its private network and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence and open source software. Google Cloud offers a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring people, insights and ideas together. Customers across more than 150 countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment for today’s digital world.

https://cloud.google.com/

BE YS

Contributor

be-ys Research is the research and innovation business unit within the be-ys group. It coordinates, structures and supervises research work with the rest of the business units, as well as with the outside partners of the group. To succeed in such a challenging task, be-ys Research has developed an innovative research platform (RedLab) and an economic intelligence cell for AI and big data.

IBM

Contributor

IBM is a leader in solving global challenges with advanced technology built and applied responsibly. The company’s industry-first initiative to build commercial universal quantum computing systems, IBM Q, is available to businesses, researchers and developers for exploring practical business and science applications. IBM Q quantum devices are accessed using Qiskit, a modular, open-source programming framework for leveraging today's quantum processors.

E4

Contributor

Since 2002, E4 Computer Engineering has been innovating and actively encouraging the adoption of new computing and storage technologies. Because new ideas are so important, the company invests heavily in research and hence in the future. E4 Computer Engineering offers its customers complete solutions for their most demanding workloads on: HPC, big data, AI, deep learning, data analytics, cognitive computing and for any challenging storage and computing requirements. Additional information about E4 Computer Engineering is available at www.e4company.com.

CQC

Associate

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is a world-leading quantum computing software company with over 62 scientists including 37 PhD’s across offices in Cambridge (UK), San Francisco, London and Tokyo. CQC builds tools for the commercialisation of quantum technologies that will have a profound global impact. CQC combines expertise in quantum software, specifically a quantum development platform (t|ket⟩™), enterprise applications in the areas of quantum chemistry (EUMEN), quantum machine learning (QML), and quantum augmented cybersecurity (IronBridge™). For more information about CQC, visit www.cambridgequantum.com

Comtrade

Associate

Comtrade 360, a member of Comtrade Group BV, is one of the most experienced technology solutions provider in Southeast Europe. For over 25 years, Comtrade 360 has provided full stack product development solutions including data management, monitoring & analytics and cloud/hybrid cloud development solutions to leading infrastructure & systems software vendors worldwide. Since 2015, Comtrade 360 has collaborated in the development of CERN data storage systems. For more information, visit www.comtrade360.com

Open Systems

Associate

Open Systems is one of the leading providers of ‘security as a service’. Founded in 1990 in Switzerland, the company operates, secures, and monitors IT networks, infrastructures, and business-critical applications of global enterprises, NGOs, and institutions — 24/7 in more than 180 countries worldwide. https://open-systems.com/

SCimPULSE

Research member

The SCimPULSE foundation is a non-profit, public benefit organization based on research, innovation and education. The foundation connects people, institutions, schools and corporations, hosting an open network where potential ideas become feasible initiatives, to support targeted solutions until they achieve escape velocity or scale up to global impact. Learn more about at www.scimpulse.org

Samara

Research member

Samara National Research University is one of Russia’s top academic institution and one of world’s leading aerospace centers. The university has participated in the elaboration and the construction of Russian’s space program since 1957, the successes of the “Vostok” and the “Soyuz” (and nowadays with the engineering of the “Soyuz-5”). While developing these technologies, the university has also advanced in related spheres, in particular in the fields of geoinformatics, big data processing, nanophotonics and gas-turbine engines. The university now counts more than 22,000 students divided into 16 faculties.

King's College London

Research member

The SCimPULSE foundation is a non-profit, public benefit organization based on research, innovation and education. The foundation connects people, institutions, schools and corporations, hosting an open network where potential ideas become feasible initiatives, to support targeted solutions until they achieve escape velocity or scale up to global impact. Learn more about at www.scimpulse.org

Gluonnet

Research member

gluoNNet is a software solution provider — created in 2018 by an interdisciplinary team drawn from finance, economics and particle physics — that applies deep expertise in scientific data analysis to the complex issues faced by NGOs and commercial industries. gluoNNet’s core mission is to provide transparent and evidence-based analyses, using cutting-edge technology developed at CERN and beyond, to target NGOs and industry for social applications. Based on experience in developing software to track subatomic particles, gluoNNet has built a big-data software platform focused on high-speed ingestion and analysis of data, with tailored visualisation tooling.

Fermlilab

Research member

Fermilab is America’s premier national laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research. A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, Fermilab is located near Chicago, Illinois, and operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance LLC, a joint partnership between the University of Chicago and the Universities Research Association, Inc. Visit Fermilab’s website at www.fnal.gov and follow us on Twitter at @Fermilab.

TUe

Research member

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a research university specializing in engineering, science, and technology. Its education, research, and knowledge valorisation contribute to: • Science for society: solving the major societal issues and boosting prosperity and welfare by focusing on the strategic areas of energy, health, and smart mobility. • Science for science: progress in engineering sciences through excellence in key research areas and innovation in education. • Science for industry: the development of technological innovation in cooperation with industry. TU/e offers a two-year salaried postgraduate PDEng software technology programme, which contributes to the latter. By combining theory with assignments coming straight from practice, trainees are prepared for future elite careers in industry.

SNUH

Research member

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) is one of the leading national hospitals that represents Korea. It was the first digital hospital to successfully develop an electronic medical records system, and has led the development of medical IT technology around the world. Also, it has established a ‘Healthcare Innovation Park’ in 2016, hospital-led convergence research complex, for collaboration between the healthcare business industry and SNUBH. Such collaboration is essential for the future growth of the global health care industry as well as in Korea. Through the world’s best education, research, and patient care, SNUBH is dedicated to promoting a healthier and fulfilling quality of life for the people. For more information visit: https://www.snubh.org/dh/en/.

METU

Research member

METU is a well-established, non-profit, public university, founded in 1956 in Ankara, Turkey with a 4500 hectares of the campus area. METU currently holds 19.323 undergraduate and 7.315 graduate students. There are over 2000 international students over 85 different countries. METU has 2601 academic staff. A broad spectrum of international COST, EUREKA, MEDA, NATO, NSF, UN, World Bank, Jean Monnet projects have also been conducted by METU researchers. Today, METU pursues a much broader fundamental and applied cutting-edge research. The Research and Application Center for Space and Accelerator Technologies (IVMER) is one of the newest research centers with outstanding accomplishments.

INFN

Research member

The National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) is the Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the laws that govern them, under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). It conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics. home.infn.it/en.