CERN Courses and Certifications

Devoxx

Handling 400k+ Visitors at the World's Largest Physics Lab (CERN)

Discover how CERN manages 400k+ visitors at its Science Gateway exhibition center, using Drools technology to optimize booking experiences and handle capacity challenges at the world's largest physics lab.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Drupal Association

Managing a Fleet of Custom Drupal Sites Centrally at CERN

Explore CERN's custom Drupal distribution, its components, and automated pipeline for managing multiple sites. Learn about challenges, solutions, and best practices for centralized Drupal management.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Orchestrating Quasi-Real Time Data Processing in the Computing Farm of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN

Discover how CERN's ATLAS experiment leverages Kubernetes to orchestrate massive data processing, managing 25,000 pods across 2,500 nodes for real-time physics event filtering at 5 TB/s.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Multicluster Batch Jobs Dispatching with Kueue at CERN

Discover how to efficiently manage multicluster batch jobs using Kueue, exploring automatic capacity finding, job dispatching, and monitoring across various environments including on-prem, cloud, and hybrid setups.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

APS Physics

CERN - Seven Decades of Scientific Achievements and Innovation

Explore CERN's 70-year journey through groundbreaking particle physics discoveries, technological innovations, and societal contributions, from the Higgs particle to advances in medical diagnostics and environmental protection.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Training and Optimisation of Large Transformer Models - An ATLAS and CERN Use Case

Explore CERN's implementation of transformer models for Jet Flavour Tagging, utilizing Kubeflow for machine learning and Katib for hyperparameter optimization in large-scale particle physics data analysis.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Scalable Platform for Training and Inference Using Kubeflow at CERN

Explore CERN's Kubeflow-based machine learning platform for data preparation, analysis, training, and inference in physics research, with insights from the ATLAS experiment.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

AI, CERN, and the Quest for GPU Custody: How CERN Leverages DRA for Efficient GPU Sharing

Explore how CERN utilizes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) for efficient GPU sharing in Kubernetes clusters, with insights on time-slicing, MPS, MIG, and performance benchmarking for machine learning workloads.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Streamlining Competitive Data Science at CERN: Running ML Challenges With Kubeflow

Discover how CERN uses Kubeflow on Kubernetes to orchestrate machine learning challenges, enabling scalable model training and efficient workload management for particle physics research.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Devoxx

CERN, from an IT Perspective

Explore CERN's IT innovations, from the birth of the World Wide Web to cutting-edge particle physics research. Gain insights into the technology powering groundbreaking scientific discoveries at this unique European organization.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

CERN, from an IT Perspective

Explore CERN's IT infrastructure supporting particle research, including the Large Hadron Collider's computing backbone, control systems, and data analysis capabilities.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with GitOps at CERN

Explore CERN's multi-cluster, multi-cloud infrastructure using GitOps. Learn about efficient management of distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and standardized deployments across on-premises and public cloud environments.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

CppNow

Interactive, Introspected C++ at CERN

Explore CERN's interactive C++ interpreter Cling, built on LLVM/Clang. Learn about its role in ROOT Framework, challenges in implementation, and impact on data analysis and C++ learning.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Reducing the Distance Between the Swampland and the Bootstrap - Irene Valenzuela (CERN)

Explore connections between the Swampland program in quantum gravity and the conformal bootstrap, examining consistency conditions and their implications for effective field theories.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Non-Holographic Holography - Shota Komatsu (CERN)

Explore non-holographic holography in conformal field theory and its implications for quantum gravity. Gain insights into modern field theory methods and their applications in theoretical physics.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video