Tag: SFT
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Geant4: a modern and versatile toolkit for detector simulations
Geant4: a modern and versatile toolkit for detector simulations 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 physics analyses, until several years after the experiment's
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The FELIX Project
The FELIX Project If 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 the 1919’s cat of the cartoon nor the
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Data handling and processing for the FCC-ee
Data handling and processing for the FCC-ee Data 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 highest possible instantaneous luminosities ever achieved with the goal of
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Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects
Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects Google 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 software the EP-SFT group
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Tips for a better virtual experience
Tips for a better virtual experience A 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 things became more
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Random Number Generators for Precision Monte Carlos
Random Number Generators for Precision Monte Carlos The 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 and hence on the random numbers they use.
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First SWAN workshop at CERN
First SWAN workshop at CERN The first SWAN (Service for Wab based ANalysis) and Jupyter Notebooks Users’ Workshop was held last October at CERN. One of the main goals of the meeting was to offer a space where users could openly share their experience and gather feedback for develpments that could improve the service to
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CernVM 2019 Workshop
CernVM 2019 Workshop From 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 from the IT industry. More than 40 participants discussed the state and future directions
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HL-LHC computational challenge for ATLAS and CMS experiments
HL-LHC computational challenge for ATLAS and CMS experiments The two general purpose LHC Experiments, ATLAS [1] and CMS [2], are going to be confronted with challenging experimental conditions at the High Luminosity LHC Run (HL-LHC), starting in 2026. In particular, computing systems will have to cope with greatly increased data samples and data acquisition and
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ROOT 10th workshop: Fun with Data
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 Terabytes!) of data stored on disks and tapes in