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Mashup Score: 1553CERN working with WHO to improve understanding of COVID-19 airborne transmission risk in indoor spaces - 1 month(s) ago
As the response to the pandemic evolves and people step back into the office, it is necessary to monitor continuously the risk of disease transmission and be prepared to make quick, evidence-based decisions to ensure that everyone can work safely. CERN has developed the COVID Airborne Risk Assessment tool (CARA) to help personnel return to work safely by assessing the risk of COVID-19 infection in enclosed spaces like offices or meeting rooms. In accordance with CERN’s knowledge-transfer strategy, CERN has made the CARA software open-source, and the tool is freely available to all on GitLab. The tool has attracted the attention of many international organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). In June 2021, CERN shared its approach to risk assessment of occupational hazards, presenting CARA to WHO’s COVID Expert Panel. As a result, WHO has now invited CERN to become a member of a multidisciplinary working group of interna
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Mashup Score: 1An exabyte of disk storage at CERN - 7 month(s) ago
CERN’s data store has now crossed the remarkable capacity threshold of one exabyte, meaning that CERN has one million terabytes of disk space ready for data! CERN’s data store not only serves LHC physics data, but also the whole spectrum of experiments and services needing online data management. This data capacity is provided using 111 000 devices, predominantly hard disks along with an increasing fraction of flash drives. Having such a large number of commodity devices means that component failures are common, so the store is built to be resilient, using different data replication methods. These disks, most of which are used to store physics data, are orchestrated by CERN’s open-source software solution, EOS, which was created to meet the LHC’s extreme computing requirements. “We reached this new all-time record for CERN’s storage infrastructure after capacity extensions for the upcoming LHC heavy-ion run,” explains Andreas Peters, EOS project leader. “It is not just a celebration of
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For the last few years, @WHO and @CERN have been developing a risk assessment tool to estimate indoor airborne transmission of #SARSCoV2 to better advise on risk mitigation measures for #COVID19.🧵 https://t.co/opyn5N6Sin