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.