A study of the behaviour of pseudorandom number generators sheds new light on the conditions and properties of the computer algorithms currently used in high-energy physics but not only.
The meeting offered the opportunity to share use experiences and better understand how the service is used and how it could evolve to suit the community needs.
From 3 to 5 June, the 2019 CernVM Workshop took place at CERN bringing together software developers, computing experts and experts from the IT industry.
Following previous year's successful participation, CERN participated again in GSoC, helping the community of developers working for HEP to find new contributors and to produce even more code.
HL-LHC and future colliders call for more sophisticated experimental technologies. CERN has launched a process to define its R&D programme on new experimental technologies from 2020 onwards.
The 3rd CernVM users workshop brought together users, developers and industry speakers to discuss the current status of the CernVM ecosystem and future directions
The High Luminosity LHC programme not only pushes the frontiers of accelerator and detector technology, but it also brings enormous challenges to the software and computing that is used to turn high luminosity data into physics.