Submitted projects

Title Published Description Duration Contact Status
Deploy subtitles as a service for CERN videos
2021 version of the proposal After the Tender selection process completes for a live and offline transcription and translation product, help to post-process and automate the enhancement of the lectures' ...
12-14 months Maria Dimou Submitted
Documentation Project - Migration of static web sites to Markdown

The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department initiated a Documentation Project for moving static service documentation web sites containing service documentation to Markdown. For this purpose ...

6 months Maria Dimou Submitted
Analysis of the I/O performance of LHC computing jobs at the CERN computing centre

The LHC experiments execute a significant fraction of their data reconstruction, simulation and analysis on the CERN computing batch resources. One of the most important features of these data processing ...

3 to 6 months Andrea.Sciaba@cern.ch Submitted
e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - document with the user in mind
This proposal was materialised via the Jekyll project The CERN IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications (CDA) group in general and the Integrated Collaboration (IC) section host services used widely at ...
6 months 2 days/week, often from home Maria Dimou Submitted
Optimisation of experiment workflows in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
The LHC experiments perform the vast majority of the data processing and analysis on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which provides a globally distributed infrastructure with more than 500k ...
3 to 6 months Andrea.Sciaba@cern.ch Submitted
Advanced Notifications for WAN Incidents
One of the main challenges in WLCG WAN networking is the network diagnostics and advanced notifications on the issues seen in the network. LHCOPN/LHCONE as the core global networks in ...
12 months Marian.Babik@cern.ch Submitted
Dynamic storage federations

The group runs a project whose goal is the dynamic federation of HTTP based storage systems, allowing a set of globally distributed resources to be integrated and appear via a ...

From 3 to 9 months depending on a selected task oliver.keeble@cern.ch Submitted
Distributed storage systems for big data

The group maintains a framework called dmlite which is used to integrate various types of storage with different protocol frontends. It is the basis of a number of the group’s ...

3 to 9 months depending on the selected task oliver.keeble@cern.ch Submitted
File Transfer Service (FTS) extensions

The File Transfer Service (FTS) manages the global distribution of LHC data, moving multiple petabytes per month during a run and underpinning the whole data lifecycle. Join the FTS team ...

From 3 months, depending on task selected oliver.keeble@cern.ch Submitted
Performance optimization in a High Throughput Computing environment

Profiling of computing resources respect to WLCG experiment workloads is a crucial factor to select the most effective resources and to be able to optimise their usage. There is a ...

6 to 12 months julia.andreeva@cern.ch Submitted
QA in distributed cloud architecture: evolution of smashbox framework

Cloud synchronization and sharing is an area in evolution with innovative services being built on top of different platforms. CERNBOX is a service ran at CERN to provide at the ...

3-12 months depending on the agreed scope massimo.lamanna@cern.ch Submitted
Cloud data analysis

Cloud synchronization and sharing is a promising area for the preparation of powerful transformative data services. The goal of this project is to prepare CERNBOX to be used in connection ...

6-12 months massimo.lamanna@cern.ch Submitted
QA in distributed cloud architecture: injection-fault testing
Clients of the sync&share system (CERNBOX) are particularly exposed to "operational failures" due to heterogeneity of hardware, OS and network environments. Sync&share system operates in very heterogenous network environment: from ...
6 months massimo.lamanna@cern.ch Submitted