Laura Promberger and Jakob Blomer, key players in CERN's VM/VMFS project, discuss revolutionary advancements in data management for scientific research. They unveil how CVMFS is crucial for handling vast amounts of data from the LHC and beyond. The conversation highlights innovations like parallel decompression and data deduplication, ensuring efficient access to software in high-performance computing. They also explore secure external access challenges and the evolving collaboration within the global HPC community.

Send us a textL'édition française: Ça y est - le premier épisode de Code for Thought en français. Comment reproduire et évaluer l'apprentissage automatique? Publier les résultats de recherche avec les données et le code source? Avec Pascal Monasse, chercheur chez IMAGINE (Laboratoire d'informatique Gaspard Monge) et éditeur de journal IPOL - Image Processing On Line. Animé par: Ghislain Vaillant. Réalisé par: Peter SchmidtLiens:https://imagine-lab.enpc.fr Laboratoire IMAGINEhttps://imagine-lab.enpc.fr/staff-members/pascal-monasse/http://www.ipol.im IPOL - Image Processing Online journalSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Dr. Hamid Khan leads a transformative project at Imperial College focused on promoting open research, while Prof. Julie McCann is the Faculty of Engineering’s Vice-Dean. They delve into how workshops enhance data transparency and research quality, stressing the importance of ethical considerations in datasets. The conversation explores shifting assessment metrics from quantity to quality, reimagining university rankings, and the need for better collaboration across faculties. Their insights promise to reshape the academic landscape for more open and impactful research.

Send us a textENGLISH EDITION: Welcome back to Season 8 of Code for Thought. Just before we dive into the new season, this trailer will tell you what lies ahead between September and December 2024. Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textIn May 2024, I attended a workshop/training course on Software Management Plans (SMP), held at the University Gustave Eiffel east of Paris, France.In this episode I talk to the organisers and participants about why SMPs might be useful and under what circumstances. Teresa Gomez-Diaz, Geneviève Romier, (2018). Research Software Management Plan template. PRESOFT project: Preservation for REsearch SOFTware (V3.2). Zenodo Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1405614 template by Teresa Gomez-Diaz and Geneviève Romierhttp://igm.univ-mlv.fr/~teresa/presoft/2024FormationPlansGestionLogicielsRecherche/ The event schedule, presentation info etc (in French)https://www.software.ac.uk/news/software-management-plans The SMP post by the Software Sustainability Institute in the UKhttps://siteigm.univ-mlv.fr/home/ The Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge https://www.cnrs.fr/fr the French national research centre CNRShttps://www.inria.fr/fr the French national centre for digital research and technologySupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textMy guest for this episode is Dr AJ Lauer. AJ has been working hard to make the HPC workplace a more open and welcoming environment. She was inclusivity chair at SC21 in St Louis, US and worked with other groups such as Women in HPC. Lately, in 2023, she created her organisation 'Thriving Ibis' to work with senior managers and leaders in the field. https://www.thrivingibis.com Thriving Ibis home pagehttps://subscribepage.io/TC6R2f Subscribe to the Thriving Ibis newsletterhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/ajlauer contact AJ on LinkedInhttps://sc21.supercomputing.org/attend/inclusivity/demographics/ A demographics overview of the attendees of the annual supercomputing conference in St Louis, Missouri, US in 2021https://womeninhpc.org Women in HPC home pageAnd some fun facts about the word 'Ibis':https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ibis#Etymology_2_2 its meaning in Latin - as a verbhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis the speciesSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textThe Digital Research Academy - DRA - was created in 2023 to meet the increasing demand for training in open science and research. In this episode I talk to the two founders, Heidi Seibold and Joyce Kao, as well as members like Yeganeh Khazaei (Yegi) and Danny Garside. https://digital-research.academy the home page of the DRAhttps://digital-research.academy/train-the-trainer/ Train the Trainer programme https://events.digital-research.academy/event/41/ the next Train the Trainer program in summer 2024, Delft NLhttps://openscienceretreat.eu Open Science Retreathttps://mastodon.social/@digiresacademy/ Mastodonmailto:hello@digiresacademy.org the email addresshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-research-academy/ on LinkedInhttps://gitlab.com/digital-research-academy on GitLabSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textIn the second part episode on the Turing Way, I meet with contributors like Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson - who were part of the original team - as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Steele who joined later.Through these conversations I hope to show how the Turing Way transitioned from being an online guide for reproducibility and open science to a thriving community with members across the globe. https://book.the-turing-way.org/index.html the home page of the Turing Wayhttps://edsbook.org/welcome.html The environmental data science book https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/ NASA's Transform to Open Science project home pagehttps://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/ Emergent Strategy a book by Adrienne Brownhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhdf6 Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Jo Freeman's article on Tyranny of Structurelessnesshttps://mybinder.org Binder project homepagehttps://jupyter.org Jupyter project homepagehttps://2i2c.org 2i2c homepageI would like to thank the Turing Way and the Alan Turing Institute in the UK for their patience, time and kind support. Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textCERN, the European Nuclear Research Centre, is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2024 and I want to give you a glimpse of the kind of work that happens there. Meet Spyridon Trigazis, who will take us through CERN's infrastructure and how they use OpenStack and Kubernetes to "keep the lights" on. https://home.cern/ CERN homepage https://www.openstack.org OpenStackhttps://kubernetes.io Kuberneteshttps://inspirehep.net/authors/1907786 A selection of the work Spyridon has been involved withhttps://alumni.cern The CERN alumni networkhttps://home.cern/summer-student-programme the summer student programme. Applications for 2024 are closed now, but I am sure there will be another on in '25Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Send us a textIn this last ByteSized RSE episode of this season, we talk about an important subject for Python engineers: Packaging. With my guests Liam Pattinson from York University (UK) and Laszlo Sranger from Hypergolic, we go through the standard Python tools as well as  package managers such as Poetry.Links:https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ Python packaging guidehttps://pypi.org The PyPI Indexhttps://test.pypi.org Test PyPI - publish your package there first https://peps.python.org The site for Python Enhancement Proposals (PEP)https://python-poetry.org Poetry managerhttps://www.anaconda.com The home page for Anaconda https://toml.io/en/ What is a TOML filehttps://the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html a bit of packaging historyhttps://www.cpan.orgThanks to the Universe-HPC program for supporting the ByteSized RSE series.Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/