Tag: SFT
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First public release of the Virtual Atom Smasher
First public release of the Virtual Atom Smasher In May 2015, the first public release was made of Virtual Atom Smasher, an educational game platform that was developed by a partnership between CERN and Citizen Cyberlab. During the Challenge, more than 19 billion particle collisions in the LHC and other CERN accelerators were simulated by
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CERN participates in the 2015 Google Summer of Code
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 for open source software
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CHEP 2015: Discussing future challenges in HEP computing
CHEP 2015: Discussing future challenges in HEP computing The HEP software and computing communities organise a conference every 18 months with the location rotating between the US, Europe and Asia. This year's conference, CHEP2015, took place from 13-17 April and was organised by our Japanese colleagues on the pacific island of Okinawa, at the Okinawa
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CERN 60: Public Computing Challenge
CERN 60: Public Computing Challenge On Monday 8 December, the CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge began. Volunteers from all over the world are helping the CERN scientists simulate particle collisions in accelerators that have been used over the 60 years of the Organization's existence, including the LHC. They are required to install a simple program
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SFT Activities during 2014
SFT Activities during 2014 LS1 was an opportunity not only to upgrade detectors and accelerators but also the software used for analysis and data processing. The SFT team has worked closely throughout the year with software experts in the four LHC collaborations to prepare the software releases that will be used when data-taking resumes in
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2014 Google Summer of Code students present their projects
2014 Google Summer of Code students present their projects BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/2014-google-summer-code-students-present-their-projects) From 23 to 26 October, the delegates from each successful participating organization in 2014 Google Summer of Code were invited to Google for a reunion, to greet, collaborate, and code. The CERN PH/SFT group was there as well,
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HEP community discusses creation of a Software Foundation
HEP community discusses creation of a Software Foundation A two-day workshop was held at CERN on April 3rd and 4th to discuss a new initiative for establishing a collaboration that would foster the further development of scientific software packages for use in HEP experimental programmes world-wide. The response to the call for participation in this
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First beta release of ROOT 6
First beta release of ROOT 6 The ROOT team is proud to announce the first beta release of ROOT 6. This beta release is targeted at the LHC experiments' ongoing migration to ROOT 6. ROOT 6 is going to be a major update of the ROOT system. Notably the "good old" CINT C++ interpreter will
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The new Geant4 release 10.0
The new Geant4 release 10.0 The new 2013 release of Geant4 is the first major release of the simulation toolkit since 2007. Release 10.0 incorporates many changes in almost all areas, including an evolved API for allowing efficient execution of simulation programs on modern parallel architectures, exploiting multi-threading with parallelisation at the event level. The
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Geant4: A powerful tool for Medical Applications
Geant4: A powerful tool for Medical Applications There have been rapid developments in recent years in using tools based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulation for medical physics applications. The challenges of more accurate estimations have led to the need for customised simulation tools and the use of larger computers. MC simulations are essential for characterizing