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CERN openlab undertakes significant outreach activities in support of its technical work, with project results presented at a wide range of major international conferences. Below you can find annual reports, technical documents, presentations, member case studies, press coverage, and videos.

 

Annual Reports

Find out about our current work in the 'research' section of the website. Find out about previous projects in our annual reports from our previous phases:

More annual reports available on Zenodo.

Technical documents

Find a selection of recent and featured technical documents published by members of our collaboration below.

Document Date

Forecasting the LINAC3 Ion Beam Current

In the last decade or so, the main attraction at CERN has been the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was indispensable to the discovery of the Higgs boson, as well as that of many other particles.[1] The LINAC3 is an integral part of the CERN accelerator complex, as it provides the initial ion b

11 Feb 22

Grafana for WinCC-OA based SCADA systems at CERN

WinCC-Open Architecture is a toolkit for creating Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications. There are about 650 instances of WinCC OA deployed across the accelerator control systems and experiments at CERN.

1 Oct 21

The ATLAS Detector as a Muon Fixed-Target Experiment: Using Generative Models to Simulate Muonic Force Carriers

Greater luminosities of future Large Hadron Collider runs will demand an unprecedented number of event simulations. Computationally that would be an extremely demanding task. Hence new approaches for such undertakes are required.

1 Oct 21

Automated Benchmarking of Algorithms for Quantum Systems

We have developed a software platform, ABAQUS (Automated Benchmarking of Algorithms for Quantum Systems), that can be used to benchmark the performance of both software frameworks and hardware devices used in the simulation of quantum computers.

1 Oct 21

Performance Visualization of ROOT/IO on HPC Storage Systems

HPC systems are becoming ever more important as a data processing resource for the LHC experiments. HPC sites typically use storage systems different from the well-understood HEP storage systems.

1 Oct 21

- More technical documents available on Zenodo or through CERN openlab. -

Presentations

Find a selection of recent and featured latest presentations by members of our collaboration below.

Presentation Location Date
EOS Open Storage for Science Expo 2020 Dubai 7 Dec 21
CERN QTI: An Overview Expo 2020 Dubai 7 Dec 21
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative: preliminary results of first pilot projects Snowmass Workshop 2021 2 Dec 21
Quantum Machine Learning for HEP Detectors Simulations Snowmass Workshop 2021 2 Dec 21
Hyperparameter Optimization of Data-Driven AI Models on HPC Systems ACAT 2021 1 Dec 21
Parallelised Optimization with BioDynaMo Byodynamo workshop 2021 19 Nov 21
A Social-Technological Platform for Making Sense of (Medical) Data 4th IML Machine Learning Workshop 21 Oct 20
Parameters selection for Blurred Image Matching ICRV 2020 Aug 20
Smart Data Analytics Platform for Science ECRMA Short Talks 12 Feb 20
Building Secure Rest Architectures With ORDS Tech17 04 Dec 17

Member case studies

Find a selection of recent and featured latest announcements, press releases, blog posts, and videos from our collaborators below.

Description Date

International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Two interviews with Kathy Christoforou and Maria Girone

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The goal is to achieve full and equal access to and participation of women and girls in science and to further advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

11 Feb 22

International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Two interviews with Kathy Christoforou and Maria Girone.

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The goal is to achieve full and equal access to and participation of women and girls in science and to further advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

11 Feb 22

COMTRADE 360 COLLABORATION WITH CERN PRESENTED AT EXPO 2020

Comtrade 360, under the Slovenian Pavilion, recently presented areas of its core business and advancements in AI at the ongoing EXPO 2020 in Dubai. One of these presentations was made in collaboration with representatives from CERN.

27 Jan 22

New computational platform to study biological processes

Scientists have launched a unique software that is able to perform highly complex simulations of a variety of biological processes. 

20 Sep 21

IBM welcomes CERN as a new hub in the IBM Quantum Network

Particle physics is at the core of our understanding of the fundamental laws governing Nature. To shed light on the sub-atomic scale, humans engineered powerful particle accelerators that can disclose the fundamental laws governing the universe.

22 Jul 21
CERN accelerates Simulation workloads with AI  
In seeking to accelerate simulation workloads, researchers made good use of techniques that are likely to have wide applicability for accelerating Monte Carlo-based simulations and deep learning inferencing in general. Their results helped highlight the effectiveness of the AI acceleration capabilities present in Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. 01 Jan 22
CERN Case Study  
CERN is a laboratory for particle physics, but its discoveries have had a powerful impact on many areas of everyday life as we know it. From transformation in medical scanning technology and advancements in the aerospace industry to art restoration, CERN has pioneered a host of modern day achievements.  01 Jan  22

Oracle Cloud helps CERN explore our universe
 
CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, uses Oracle Autonomous Database to support the control systems for the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. 01 Jan 22
SKAO signs HPC agreement with CERN, GÉANT, PRACE 01 Jan 22
SKA Global HQ, Wednesday 22 July – SKAO has signed a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research; GÉANT, the pan-European network and services provider for research and education; and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe; to overcome challenges related to the use of high-performance computing (HPC) to support large, data-intensive science projects. 01 Jan 22
The quest to understand what sews the universe together  
CERN has grown increasingly interested in the potential of quantum computing. Quantum offers a new paradigm of calculation – it’s a method expressly suited for conquering complexity. 01 Jan 22