A successful publicprivate partnership Maria Girone CERN openlab

A successful publicprivate partnership Maria Girone CERN openlab CTO

CERN: A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT TO PUSH TECHNOLOGIES TO THEIR LIMITS Maria Girone, CERN openlab 2

CERN openlab in a nutshell A science – industry partnership to drive R&D and innovation with over a decade of success • Evaluate state-of-the-art technologies in a challenging environment and improve them • Test in a research environment today what will be used in many business sectors tomorrow • Train next generation of engineers/employees • Disseminate results and outreach to new audiences Maria Girone, CERN openlab 3

15 Years of Successful Collaboration III 2009 IV 2012 V 2015 15 Years Anniversary 2016 II 2006 Setup 2001 I 2003 CERN openlab Collaboration Board 2016 Maria Girone, CERN openlab 4

Partners Contributors Associates Research Maria Girone, CERN openlab 5

How do we manage it? Collaboration Board (all members represented) Members and Communities Reps Mgmt team (Head, CTO, CRO, Comms, Admin) CERN/IT Mgmt. (DHO, IT-EC Project Office, etc. ), Legal, KT Project 1 Project 2 Project N (Project leader) Maria Girone, CERN openlab

CERN Openlab and the LHC § CERN openlab has been created to support the computing and data management goals set by the LHC • 15 years of innovative projects between CERN and leading IT companies § In its phase V, CERN openlab is working to solve some of the key technical challenges facing the LHC in Run 3 and Run 4 • Mutual benefit for industry and research communities § Ever-increasing interest in CERN openlab • well established mechanism of partnership between industry and research • communities a path to common developments for future challenges Maria Girone, CERN openlab 7

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Maria Girone, CERN openlab 8

LHC Schedule 50 times more data than today in the next 10 years 50 PB/s out of the detectors 5 PB/day to be stored Maria Girone – CERN openlab CTO – Big Data Analytics Europe 9

Information Technology Research Areas Data acquisition and filtering Collecting data Networks and connectivity Connecting resources Data storage architectures Storing and serving data Compute management and provisioning (cloud) Managing resources for processing Computing platforms, data analysis, simulation Improving processing and code efficiency Data analytics Extracting information Medical applications Maria Girone – CERN openlab CTO 11

Who we talk to New partners Maria Girone, CERN openlab 12

New educational requirements Multicore CPU programming, graphical processors (GPU), multithreaded software Data analysis technologies, tools, data visualization, monitoring, security, etc. Software & Computing Engineers Data Scientists Maria Girone, CERN openlab Applications of physics to medical research (hadron therapy, etc. ), simulation software Multidisciplinary applications 13

The Educational Programme Maria Girone, CERN openlab 14

Summer Student Programme 40 Maria Girone, CERN openlab In 2015 § 1540+ applicants § 40 selected students § 14 lectures § Visits to external labs and companies § Lightning talks session § 40 Technical reports In 2016 § 1480 applicants § 35 proposed projects 15

Communication § § Project activities and results are disseminated to a wide audience Subject to agreement between all the participating members that it does not compromise legitimate academic or commercial interests Press releases (must not imply endorsement of products by research labs etc. ) Visibility and presence of member companies on the website is proportional to membership level Maria Girone, CERN openlab 16

Membership Benefits § § § Work in close collaboration with CERN experts on large-scale applications of technologies and products Visibility in CERN openlab activities proportional to the membership status Participation of openlab personnel at conferences and events to promote the technologies and results of the collaboration Support for organizing visits to CERN installations, technical presentations and seminars about technologies and products Activities of all Partner Members featured prominently in the openlab Annual Report Summer students assigned to work on openlab Industrial Members Projects 18

EXECUTIVE CONTACT Alberto Di Meglio, CERN openlab Head alberto. di. meglio@cern. ch TECHNICAL CONTACTS Maria Girone, CERN openlab CTO maria. girone@cern. ch Fons Rademakers, CERN openlab CRO fons. rademakers@cern. ch COMMUNICATION CONTACTS Andrew Purcell, CERN openlab Communication Officer andrew. purcell@cern. ch Mélissa Gaillard, IT Dep. Communication Officer melissa. gaillard@cern. ch ADMIN/FINANCE CONTACT Kristina Gunne, CERN openlab Administration Officer kristina. gunne@cern. ch Maria Girone, CERN openlab 19