Autumn is here, the temperatures are dropping, and it seems like a good time to look back at our summer students … before we completely forget just how hot this summer was. Especially in an office with no air conditioning. This…
The 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026) was held May 25 – 29, 2026 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The CHEP conference series has historically addressed computing, networking, and software challenges for the experiments which…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
The recent Large Language Model Hackathon at the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab brought together physicists and computer scientists from across the CMS experiment to hack away at building agents for use in the Collaboration. Ideas are abundant as…
Returning to Hamburg, the city where I did my PhD from 2019–2022 at DESY, felt like visiting an old friend. To my surprise, the weather was sunny, despite Hamburg’s usual reputation for rain, the workshop even included an umbrella in…
Nowadays, physics research relies heavily on advanced computing resources to perform large-scale simulations, data processing, and complex analyses. As computing technologies evolve, physicists continuously adapt their workflows to take full advantage of the improvements. The Throughput Computing 2025 (HTC2025) conference,…
We’re excited to announce that our latest paper, SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT, is now available on arXiv and published in EPJ Research Infrastructures ! This work presents SubMIT, a coherent and flexible Analysis Facility demonstrator developed at MIT to…
Today, April 8 at 12:09pm the issue with the number 5000 has been created in our project management tool called Cleo (Clever Organizer), a local redmine installation. The issue No. 5000 is a fairly standard ticket a new user asking…
In 2024, CMS collected around 50 PB of raw data and generated more than 75 PB of simulated data. Together with prompt processing, this amounts to more than 150 PB of new data. Using such an enormous amount of data…
David is our new SubMIT project leader after Josh Bendavid’s departure on to his permanent CERN position and today he has passed the first very important challenge: he installed his first ever Linux server and his main helper was Pietro,…
