Like a good, lifelong friend who is accompanying you through all phases of life, the Geant4 detector simulation toolkit is widely used in particle physics experiments from their conception to their design, during construction and data taking, for…
Read moreIf you are working on one of the ATLAS, DUNE or NA62 experiments you have surely participated to meetings in which people referred to “FELIX”, as if it were a widely-known brand. You probably guessed, after some time, that they were not referring to…
Read moreData handling and processing for the FCC-ee Introduction The integrated Future Circular Collider study will bring about giant steps forward in many technical and engineering fields. The operation at the Z-pole of the FCC-ee machine will deliver the…
Read moreGoogle Summer of Code is a programme that brings together students wanting to code for Open Source software projects and mentors who can introduce them to exciting projects and the full software development cycle. As a major supporter of Open Source…
Read moreA year ago, as the first reports of COVID-19 infections started to reach us from China, it was almost certain that none of us really foresaw the impact that the pandemic would have on our lives and on high-energy physics as a field in 2020. As…
Read moreThe Monte Carlo method is used primarily for calculations that are too difficult or even impossible to perform analytically, so that as our experiments and theories become more accurate, we become more dependent on the quality of our MC calculations…
Read moreFrom 3rd June to 5th June, the 2019 CernVM Workshop took place. As about every 18 months, the CernVM workshop brings together software developers from EP-SFT, computing experts from the LHC experiments, WLCG system operators, and invited speakers…
Read moreROOT is a modular software toolkit mainly developed in the SFT group and is made for processing, analysing and visualising scientific data. It also allows to read and write data: presently, LHC experiments alone produced about 1 Exabyte (one million…
Read moreGoogle Summer of Code (GSoC) allows students to contribute to development of open-source projects, mentored by participating organizations. CERN-SFT participates in GSoC since 2011. In 2017, the programme expanded to involve the whole high-energy…
Read moreROOT Users Workshop 2018 10th of September 2018 to 13th of September 2018 To discuss and shape the future of ROOT, the ROOT team would like to invite you to the 11th ROOT Users' Workshop. This time we will meet in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia…
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