All Projects
| Title | Published | Description | Duration | Contact | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERN IT Education & Outreach materials' catalogue - Prototyping | 25 Oct 2022 | The Web was born at CERN. The very first site of the planet was created at CERN. Such a long tradition, governed by a very liberal content policy, leads, for ... |
Six months | Maria Dimou | Submitted |
| A catalogue of existing Education & Outreach material in the CERN IT department-Step 1 | 02 Aug 2022 | The Web was born at CERN. The very first site of the planet was created at CERN. Such a long tradition might lead, for the newcomer and general public, to ... |
10 days | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| CERN-Solid apps deployment | 25 Feb 2022 | Solid is the project initiated and chaired by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. It aims at developing tools that give the users sovereignty over their own data ... |
1-2 years | Maria Dimou | Cancelled |
| CERN Academic Training subtitles' post-processing with MLLP | 24 Jan 2022 | There are thousands of videos recorded at CERN via the IT recording and transcoding infrastructure. We have colleagues who can’t hear. Elementary diversity awareness requires that we equip all CERN-made ... |
2-3 months | Maria Dimou | Cancelled |
| CERN-Solid server hosting | 20 Sep 2021 | In the CERN IT/CDA group a lot of work was done in 2020-2021 to understand the Solid project ecosystem. Solid is here to stay and develop tools that give the ... |
3.5 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Malt-related project: Usability study of the mail documentation | 26 May 2021 | The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user. For a complete list of services ... |
1-2 months at 50% working time (20 hrs per week 755 CHF per month) | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - Malt - videos for Thunderbird | 18 May 2021 | The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user, under-going continuous development,while ensuring top quality ... |
1 month at 50% | Maria Dimou | Cancelled |
| CERN-Solid and the Slides' app | 13 Jan 2021 | In the CERN IT/CDA group a lot of work was done in 2020 to understand the Solid project ecosystem. Solid is here to stay and develop tools that give the ... |
1 year | Maria Dimou | Cancelled |
| New account portal Usability test | 03 Nov 2020 | The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user, under-going continuous development,while ensuring top quality ... |
1 month | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| CERN Academic Training web site | 05 Oct 2020 | The CERN Academic Training lectures contain brilliant material of leading-edge technology as well as great historical value. The lectures are open to all members of CERN personnel (in particular staff ... |
one year | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Correct automatically transcribed videos for input to MLLP | 05 Oct 2020 | The CERN IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications group and in particular sections Digital Repositories (IT CDA/DR) and Integrated Collaboration (IT CDA/IC), run many highly visible and popular services, which enable ... |
1-3 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| CERN-Solid code investigation | 22 Sep 2020 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web at CERN in 1989, as a free, open, networked Internet application. The Web produced an uprecedented change to human civilisation. Yet, commercial and political ... |
6-9 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Deploy subtitles as a service for CERN videos | 05 Feb 2020 | 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 |
| e-learning - Malt related - promotional short videos from recent CDA developments | 14 Jan 2020 | The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user, under-going continuous development,while ensuring top quality ... |
1 month | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - Indico Paper Review & Edit Usability study | 25 Sep 2019 | The CERN IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications group (IT-CDA) hosts many highly visible and popular cross-platform services. Indico is an Open Source web application for event organisation, archival and collaboration ... |
3 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - Digital Repositories Usability study -1 | 23 Sep 2019 | The CERN IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications group and the Digital Repositories' section (IT CDA/DR) in particular, run many highly visible and popular services, which enable researchers/institutions to share and ... |
1 to 3 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Documentation Project - Fetch SNOW info into Markdown sites via the API | 14 Aug 2019 | This project is cancelled. Reasons discussed and agreed in the Documentation Project meeting of 2020/01/20. Extract here: Maria proposed, and everyone agreed, to close the student project on SNOW KB ... |
3 months | Maria Dimou | Cancelled |
| Documentation Project - Migration of static web sites to Markdown | 22 May 2019 | 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 |
| Malt-related project: CDA Jekyll site finalisation | 12 Feb 2019 | Prélude project 1-13 July 2019: The new telephony project replaces analog telephones and the Microsoft Skype for business. The task is to: Test the new fixed and mobile telephony client ... |
8 weeks | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Malt-related project: New documentation testing for up-to-dateness and functionality | 26 Oct 2018 | The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user. For a complete list of services ... |
up to 6 months at 50% working time (20hrs per week) | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Malt-related project: Standard documentation workflow and conversion tools for documentation, slides etc | 20 Sep 2018 | Prélude project 1 August - 30 September 2019: Develop a new search engine for Indico. Details here. Supervision by Pedro Ferreira <pedro.ferreira@cern.ch>. Main project In order to standardise the way ... |
1 year | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - Insert subtitles in video tutorials | 04 Jun 2018 | Use a free tool to convert existing plaintext files, containing the exact script of our short online e-learning videos, into .vtt files, in view of introducing subtitles. Method: Click on ... |
1 month | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - ffmpeg | 30 Nov 2017 | This project is accomplished (summer 2018). Documentation HERE. The CERN Document Server (CDS) is the institutional repository of CERN publications, photos and videos, organised in Collections. Specifically videos of CERN ... |
2 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications - Indico Usability study | 20 Nov 2017 | Indico is an open source web application for event organization, archival and collaboration. It is developed at CERN and evolves in the IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications (IT/CDA) group The ... |
6 months at 50% Full Time Equivalent | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Analysis of the I/O performance of LHC computing jobs at the CERN computing centre | 24 Feb 2017 | 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 | 15 Dec 2016 | The CERN IT Collaboration, Devices & Applications (CDA) group in general and the Integrated Collaboration (IC) section host services used widely at CERN and beyond. Examples from IC: Conference room ... |
6 months 2 days/week, often from home | Maria Dimou | Ongoing |
| Optimisation of experiment workflows in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid | 12 Dec 2016 | 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 |
| Docker and containers for volunteer computing | 06 Dec 2016 | Study the LHC@home volunteer cloud computing platform and investigate whether applications currently running on Linux virtual machines on volunteer hosts could run in a Docker environment. Evaluate the Boinc2docker environment ... |
3 months | Nils Høimyr | Accomplished |
| e-learning - video production and Academic Training video archive promotion | 07 Nov 2016 | This project is accomplished in the summer of 2018. See here the tool and the YouTube channel and playlists. The Academic Training (AT) video archive in CDS contains a wealth ... |
6 months | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| e-learning - short online tutorials - help to content owners | 26 Oct 2016 | The first 6 months of the CERN IT rapid e-learning project identified tools for recording short online videos that promote a tool, a site or a service. In this phase ... |
The full month in October 2016 - unpaid internship | Maria Dimou | Accomplished |
| Advanced Notifications for WAN Incidents | 29 Mar 2016 | 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 |
| Network Cost Matrix | 29 Mar 2016 | One of the common use cases reported by the experiments is enabling network-aware tools, this is mainly driven by the need to optimize transfers and/or experiment workflows. This involves providing ... |
12 months | Marian.Babik@cern.ch | Ongoing |
| Dynamic storage federations | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 | 15 Jan 2016 | 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 |
| Creation and implementation of a generic authorization schema for web based Site Status Board application | 15 Jan 2016 | The Experiment Dashboard provides a wide range of applications for monitoring of the LHC computing activities on the WLCG infrastructure. Certain policies define privileges for data access, recording and modifications ... |
4 months | pablo.saiz@cern.ch | Accomplished |
| Cyber security for the Experiment Dashboard Framework | 15 Jan 2016 | The Experiment Dashboard provides a wide range of applications for monitoring of the LHC computing activities on the WLCG infrastructure. Certain policies define privileges for data access, recording and modifications ... |
4 months | pablo.saiz@cern.ch | Accomplished |
| Monitoring data transfers and access activities in WLCG with Hadoop, Spark and the Lambda architecture. | 15 Jan 2016 | Monitoring the WLCG infrastructure requires to gather and to analyze high volume of heterogeneous data (e.g. data transfers, job monitoring, site tests) coming from different services and experiment-specific frameworks to ... |
1.5 years | luca.magnoni@cern.ch | Accomplished |
| e-learning-modules | 13 Jan 2016 | This project aims to help IT service managers and experiment experts to record mini-videos explaining their services to the users. To do this, a desktop camera and/or the CERN IT ... |
6 months - March-August 2016 | maria.dimou@cern.ch | Accomplished |