Navigating Data Processing at CERN

ENGLISH EDITION: There are a lot of "large" things at CERN, including the amount of data produced and the software needed to manage and analyse them. In this episode I talk to Laura Promberger and Jakob Blomer from the CERN virtual machine/file system VM/VMFS project about how this set of tools is helping researchers. 
And not just physicists, as CERN VM/VMFS is also used in other areas of the high performance computing community.

Links:

• https://cernvm.cern.ch Home page for CERN VM/VMFS
• https://ep-rnd.web.cern.ch/index.php/person/jakob-blomer Jakob Blomer
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura-Promberger Laura Promberger publications
• https://www.eessi.io the EESSI library
• https://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html ZLIB compression library
• https://github.com/facebook/zstd Facebook's zstd compression library
• https://alliancecan.ca/en Digital Alliance of Canada (one of the CERN VM/VMFS users)
• https://home.cern/science/accelerators/high-luminosity-lhc "High-luminosity" LHC (large hadron collider)
• https://cern70.cern CERN 70th birthday home page

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