Controlling CERN's Accelerators with Debian

Speakers: Federico Vaga & Nikos Tsipinakis

Track: Main Track

Type: Long Talk

Room: Campo Foyez (Main Track)

Time: Aug 30 (Sun): 11:00

Duration: 1:00

CERN is the home of the LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world, accelerating protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light (that’s ~300.000 km/s). To achieve smooth operation of the complex, CERN has a wide variety of hardware, from desktop machines to servers to industrial PCs. Debian has been chosen as the next generation operating system for all industrial computers in charge of controlling the electronics across the accelerator complex. This talk will explore the reasoning behind choosing Debian as our next operating system and the experience integrating it with an extensive legacy CentOS infrastructure.