Hard to tell.. but if you see this pretty cool 6min movie: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1430 you'll see that they mention a collider. This thing sends out lots of data from each collision. I administrate a system that gets a little bit (very little) of that …

What day it is can be told by all the suitcases around the room. Version Control An overview of the version control used in CERN. Quite cool, they're not using Git yet but they are moving away from CVS to SVN (subversion) which is not updated anymore. Apparently hard to …

Day 3 woop! An evaluation of gluster: uses distributed metadata, so no bottleneck that comes with a metadata server, can or will do do some replication/snapshot. Virtualization of mass storage (tapes). Using IBM's TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and ERMM. Where ERMM manages the libraries, so that TSM only sees …

Morning. Got in last night at around 2140 local time. I should've done a little more exact research for how to find my hotel. Had to walk some 30 minutes (parts of it the wrong way) to get to it. But at least I made it to see some ice …

I'm heading to Hepix this whole week! Looks like there's some really interesting topics like: Lustre, glustre, ipv6, stuff about the CERN it facilities, Scientific Linux report, cloud/grid virtualization, Oracle Linux. I'll sure be doing a bit of blogging about what's going down.