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Our Mission

The IT Department's mission is to provide the information technology required for the fulfillment of the laboratory’s mission in an efficient and effective manner through building world-class competencies in the technical analysis, design, procurement, implementation, operation and support of computing infrastructure and services.

The Work We Do

The CERN IT Department is a highly demanding computing environment, maintaining extensive networks on both local and global scales, pushing new technologies to their limits and providing a neutral ground for carrying out advanced R&D with various partners.

Our main service areas are:

  • Internet Exchange - CIXP   (CERN and Industry usage)  
  • Telecom facilities for CERN users (phone and mobile teleconferencing )    
  • Internal Network for all of CERN    
  • Large scale computing, data storage and archival services
  • Development of highly scalable data management systems (Castor)    
  • Database services based on Oracle  
  • Fabric management and monitoring tools  for  very large infrastructures ( Leaf, Lemon and Quator)  
  • Support for Operation Systems  
  • It user support ( Service Desk)    
  • EC projects on grid computing (Operations, Coordination, development, resource provisioning )  
  • WLCG  
  • Openlab
  • Computer Security ( Proactive, Reactive and education)  
  • CERN School of Computing

 

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