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ROOT 10th workshop: Fun with Data

ROOT 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…

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CERN – HEP Software Foundation participates in Google's Summer of Code 2018

Google 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…

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ROOT Users Workshop 2018

ROOT 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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CernVM turns ten!

The 3rd CernVM users workshop took place at CERN from 30 January to 1 February 2018. The workshop aims to bring together users, developers and industry speakers to discuss the current status of the CernVM ecosystem and the future directions, with a…

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End of year news from EP-SFT

The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. It is a very busy time with everyone working energetically to meet various deadlines. All last minute changes and fixes need to be integrated and…

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A new CERN service for web-based data analysis in the cloud: SWAN

In the last few years, a clear trend has emerged in the data science industry: the increase of service offerings for data analysis in the cloud, accessible via a web interface. It is precisely this phenomenon that led us, the SFT and IT-ST groups,…

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The CERN School of Computing 2016

The CERN School of Computing (CSC) fosters the dissemination of knowledge and learning in the field of scientific computing. Its mission is to create a common culture in scientific computing among young scientists and engineers involved in particle…

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End of year activities in SFT group

The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. It is a very busy time with everyone working energetically to meet various deadlines. All last minute changes and fixes need to be integrated and…

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SFT participates for fifth year in Google's Summer of Code programme

The CERN PH/SFT group has participated for the fifth consecutive year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. 14 students have been funded by Google to work for 3 months during the summer on CERN open source software projects. The projects…

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CERN participates in the 2015 Google Summer of Code

The CERN PH/SFT group is participating for the fifth year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. The Google Summer of Code is a global programme funded by Google that offers post-secondary student developers a three month stipend to write code…

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