CERN School of Computing 2010

Andres Abad Rodriguez

What is it?It is a 2 weeks summer computing school open to post

graduate students and research workers organized by CERN

It is organized every year in a different member state

This year the school was in Brunel University in Uxbridge (London)

More information: https://csc.web.cern.ch/CSC/

Who was there?52 students. 21 different nationalities17 out of 52 students were coming from

CERN (32%)From our group, 5 people:

Alberto Resco PerezTomasz WolakPablo Guerrero RoselMassimo PaladinAndres Abad Rodriguez

Contents (I)All topics split in theory and practical coursesThree groups of knowledge:

Base technologiesData technologiesPhysics computing

Contents (II): Base technologies Virtualization

Secure software

Networking QoS and Performance

Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Contents (III): Data technologiesStorage technologies

Architecture of storage systems

Computer security and authentication

Models and management

Performance

Contents (IV): Physics computingGeneral Introduction to Physics Computing

Tools and Techniques for Physics Computing

ROOT Technologies

Data Analysis

Social activitiesComplete sport program: basketball,

volleyball, squash, tennis, football, fitness and climbing

Special sports day with different activities

Excursions (Oxford, Bletchley Park, Windsor, London)

Contests and resultsDuring the practical courses there were some

contests

People from section were always among the first positions

All of us passed the final examination

Pablo Guerrero got the third best result!!!

PresentationsThere was a day for 5 minutes presentations

from the students.

Two people from the group submitted and were invited to do the their presentations:Alberto Resco Perez: Image segmentation in

a Volunteer Computing Framework (BOINC)Andres Abad Rodriguez: Metrics definition

inside software assurance process

Team member comments (I)Positive aspects:

Program gives very good overview of what actually happens with data coming from experiments

Good balance between lectures/exercisesChallenging lab exercisesGreat opportunity for networking!Excellent organization Really good lecturers

Team member comments (II)Negative aspects:

Time is spent dealing with things unrelated to the exercise, mainly with ROOT

Topics not presented in-depth but actually cannot do more in such short time.

Few information about GRID. As GRID Technologies group, we should try to have more presence in the School

Questions?