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These da Vinci style drawings were likely created using the SketchUp models from sometime ago, which you can download from the page below to play with: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/…

If you would like to know more details about the physics case for FCC, there was an academic training recently at CERN: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1582427/

For those of you using CMake, have a look at the module below: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/master/cmake/XRootDVer... and also the genversion.sh script at the top of the r…

At CERN, software stacks are created centrally and software distribution for experiments is done with CVMFS ( https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs/ ), an HTTP-based read-only FUSE filesystem.…

For those interested, there's more information here: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web If you come to CERN, you can also see the NeXT machine that was the first web ser…

CERN is a heavy user of ceph, with about 100PB of data across cephfs, object stores (used as backend for S3), and block storage (mostly for storage for VMs). CVMFS ( https://cernvm…

I think this is good advice overall. I wrote a CMake script that does most of the heavy lifting for XRootD (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39657703 ). The CI is then a co…

Since you left this "optimize me" comment here: https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers/blob/755849fc2819d... See an optimized quaternion multiplication implementation in SSE by …

I was just taking a look and couldn't help but notice the switch statement for your operator[], which likely causes a lot of unnecessary bad speculation at runtime: https://github.…

Unfortunately this is no longer maintained, but it's interesting nonetheless: https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=curl

There is also a new format being developed for Run 4, RNTuple: - https://indico.fnal.gov/event/23628/contributions/240607/ - https://indico.cern.ch/event/1338689/contributions/6077…

Robin Green has some excellent material on the subject, which I am linking below. Faster Math Functions: https://basesandframes.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/fast-math... https://bas…

See also: - Gentoo Prefix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix - European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) https://www.eessi-hpc.com/ - REANA (Reusa…

It was a nice guest post on the website about eclipse, but most people just use gdb. It is now possible to step through ROOT macros with gdb by exporting CLING_DEBUG=1. See https:/…

ROOT 7 is coming. Things are being discussed this year about it, the target is for HL-LHC. See link below. https://indico.cern.ch/event/1369601/contributions/5867782/a...

I take issue with this part of the article: > In general, managed tools will give you stronger governance and access controls compared to open source solutions. For businesses deal…

Nice to see cliutils trending. Henry really understands CMake, so advice by him is always good to follow. I'm not a big fan of CMake, but after years of suffering, I mean, experien…

This is not quite a project, but I think this is useful enough to be posted here. It's a simple CMake script you can drop at the top level of your own CMake-based project to perfor…

For me, one of the biggest leaps in how I think about performance was when I learned about the Top-Down Micro-Architecture Analysis Method, by Ahmad Yasin from Intel. You can learn…

I usually just set the working directory to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}¹ for tests that only read files, and use configure_file()² for files that could be modified or contain varia…