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Does it Compute? 2025

30 October 2025
Feringa Building
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

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In Practice

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30 Oct 2025, 13:00
FBG 5616.0136 (Feringa Building)

FBG 5616.0136

Feringa Building

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In Practice: Afternoon Sessions

  • Steven Woudstra (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Description

Deep dive into what it means to run compute facilities in practice.
Expect technical talks from experts in the field.

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  1. 17. Track Opening - In Practice (in-practice-2-17)
    Steven Woudstra (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
    30/10/2025, 13:00
    In Practice
  2. 2. From Complexity to Simplicity: Our Cloud Infrastructure Redesign (in-practice-2-2)
    David Visscher (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Max Roeleveld
    30/10/2025, 13:15
    In Practice

    The University of Groningen recently celebrated 60 years of computing at the university. A lot has changed in that time, but a constant factor is running calculations and analysis on our own hardware. Currently, this involves two clusters in two data centers and several petabytes of storage, built entirely with open source technologies. With this, we provide 2300+ researchers with computing...

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  3. 6. I Can't Believe It's Not a VM! systemd-nspawn Containers Demystified (in-practice-2-6)
    Onno Ebbinge (ODC-Noord)
    30/10/2025, 14:15
    In Practice

    What if you could launch a full OS environment—with systemd, networking, persistent storage—in and full package management in milliseconds, not minutes? systemd-nspawn containers blur the line between containers and VMs, offering a drop-in, near-native performance without hypervisors.

    In this talk, I’ll show you how to:
    - Howto build and deploy VM-like nspawn containers
    - Replace...

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  4. 3. CTA: CERN’s Open-Source Tape Software for Archiving at Scale (in-practice-2-3)
    Niels Bügel (CERN)
    30/10/2025, 15:15
    In Practice

    CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is home to the world's largest particle accelerator (Large Hadron Collider, LHC) that produces massive amounts of data each year. CERN's Storage and Data Management Group is responsible for enabling data storage and access for the CERN laboratory, in particular the long-term archival, preservation and distribution of LHC data to a worldwide...

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