Our guest today is Dr. Mario Lassnig, a software engineer working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Melanie and Mark put on their physics hats as they learn all about what it takes to manage the petabytes of data involved in such a large research project.



Dr. Mario Lassnig

Dr. Mario Lassnig has been working as a Software Engineer at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) since 2006. Within the ATLAS Experiment, he is responsible for all aspects of its large-scale distributed data, including management, storage, network, and access. He is also one of the principal developers of the Rucio system for scientific data management. In his previous life, he developed mobile navigation software for multi-modal transportation in Vienna at Seibersdorf Research, as well as cryptographic smart-card applications for access control at the University of Klagenfurt. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Klagenfurt, and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck.

Cool things of the week


The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience blog


Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project blog

Improving job searches for veterans with Google Cloud’s Talent Solution blog
Unity For Beginners… From a Beginner blog


GCP Podcast Episode 134: Connected Games with Unity and Google Cloud with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker podcast

Neural Information Processing Systems Conference site


Interview


Rucio - Scientific Data Management site
CERN site
ATLAS site
Google Cloud Storage site
Google Compute Engine site
G Suite site
GKE On-Prem site
Rucio on GitHub site
University of Oslo site
University of Innsbruck site
Brookhaven National Laboratory site
University of Texas at Arlington site
Square Kilometer Array site
DUNE site
LIGO Lab site
Scientific Computing with Google Cloud Platform: Experiences from the Trenches in Particle Physics and Earth Sciences video
GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast
Rucio Workshop site
ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2018 site


Question of the week

I am not familiar with Docker or Kubernetes - where can I get started?


Docker


Docker’s official “Getting Started” guide
Katacoda’s free, interactive Docker course


Kubernetes


You should totally read this comic and interactive tutorial
Katacoda’s free, interactive Kubernetes course



Where can you find us next?

Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba.

Mark will be at Tokyo NEXT.

We’ll both be at Strange Loop.