Our resources
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 our latest annual reports, technical documents, presentations, member case studies, press coverage, and videos. You can also find our 2017 whitepaper on future ICT challenges in scientific research here.
Annual reports
Find out more about CERN openlab in our latest annual reports.
Technical documents
Find the latest technical documents published by members of our collaboration below.
| Title | Date | File |
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| A New Platform for Large-Scale Biological Simulation
Computer simulations have become a very powerful tool for scientific research. In order to facilitate research in computational biology, the BioDynaMo project aims at a general platform for biological computer simulations, which should be executable on hybrid cloud computing systems. |
28-11-16 | |
| From Physics to industry: EOS outside HEP
In the competitive market for large-scale storage solutions the current main disk storage system at CERN EOS has been showing its excellence in the multi-Petabyte high-concurrency regime. |
01-09-17 | |
| Exploring RapidIO Technology within a DAQ System Event Building Network
Exploring RapidIO RapidIO (http://rapidio.org/) technology is a packet-switched high-performance fabric, which has been under active development since 1997. The technology is used in all 4G/LTE basestations worldwide. |
10-05-17 | |
| RapidIO as a multi-purpose interconnect
RapidIO (http://rapidio.org/) technology is a packet-switched high-performance fabric, which has been under active development since 1997. Originally meant to be a front side bus, it developed into a system level interconnect which is today used in all 4G/LTE base stations world wide. |
20-06-17 | |
| A Deep Learning tool for fast detector simulation
Machine Learning techniques have been used in different applications by the HEP community: in this talk, we discuss the case of detector simulation. |
27-06-18 |
Presentations
Find the latest presentations by members of our collaboration below.
| Presentation title | Relevant event | Date | File |
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| BioDynaMo: Biological simulation in the cloud | CERN IT Technical Forum | 10-08-18 | |
| Containers on Baremetal And Preemptible Servers at CERN and SKA | OpenStack summit | 10-07-18 | |
| Moving from CellsV1 to CellsV2 at CERN | OpenStack summit in Vancouver | 10-07-18 | |
| Maria Girone ISC keynote | ISC 2018 | 25-06-18 | |
| Multi-Cloud Federated Kubernetes at CERN | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | 04-05-18 |
Member case studies
Find all the latest announcements, press releases, blog posts, and videos from our collaborators below.
| Title | Member | Date | File |
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| ExxonMobil and World's Leading Research Labs Collaborate with IBM to Accelerate Joint Research in Quantum Computing ExxonMobil, CERN, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Join the IBM Q Network. |
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08-01-19 | |
| Micron’s Technology Helping CERN Unlock the Secrets of the Universe Roughly 14 billion years ago, the Big Bang created the universe, the existence of time, solar systems like Earth’s, and, eventually, life itself. |
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19-12-18 | |
| Scientists Tap Cloud-Based Supercomputers in Search of Physics, Medical Breakthroughs CERN is investigating the use of Oracle cloud services to monitor data from the massive collider, which in 2012 helped physicists discover the elusive Higgs boson, a completely new particle related to a field that imbues other subatomic |
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29-11-18 | |
| Micron Engineers Collaborate to Enable Science Researchers to Turn Data Into Insight. Curiosity and a hunger for knowledge are arguably the primary human characteristics that define us as a species and have driven us from prehistoric cave-dwellers to space-travelers. |
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10-12-18 | |
| Subatomic particles and big data: Google joins CERN openlab Today we are excited to announce that Google has signed an agreement to join CERN openlab. Together, we will be working to explore possibilities for joint research and development projects in cloud computing, machine learning, and quantum computing. |
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15-11-18 |
Press coverage
Find all the latest CERN openlab press cuttings below.
| Title | Outlet | Date | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| «Мне нравится менять мир»: Успехи азербайджанской молодежи за рубежом - ФОТО | 1news.az | 13-02-19 | |
| How Two Organizations Put New Autonomous Database Technology to Work | Dominic Collard | 11-02-19 | |
| Exxon et le CERN rejoignent le « comité quantique » d'IBM | LeMagIT | 08-02-19 | |
| Meet IBM's bleeding edge of quantum computing | CNET | 30-01-19 | |
| Fast Simulation with Generative Adversarial Networks | Inside HPC | 25-01-19 |
Videos
Find out more about CERN opnelab in our latest videos.