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Physics/mathematics analysis/simulation / Event Management

  • GeoModel: GeoModel - A Detector Description Toolkit for HEP experiments.
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Engineering

  • EAM Light: light-weight web application for HxGN EAM.

Open Science / Digital repositories

  • REANA: a reproducible research data analysis platform.
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Open Science / Digital repositories

  • InvenioILS: a modern and user-friendly integrated library system, written in Python and React.
  • Open Data Portal: highly curated repository of high energy physics (UI and server), written in Python.
  • Zenodo (⭐220): Research. Shared. An open dependable home for the long-tail of science.

Open Science / Event Management

  • Indico: feature-rich general event management system written in Python.
  • newdle (⭐114): a lightweight collaborative enterprise meeting scheduling tool

Physics/mathematics analysis/simulation / Event Management

  • ACTS (⭐119): Experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in high energy an nuclear physics experiments
  • BioDynaMo: create, run, and visualise multidimensional agent-based simulations in various domains.
  • CAiMIRA (⭐25): CERN Airborne Model for Indoor Risk Assessment, a tool developed to assess and model the concentration of airborne viruses in enclosed spaces, specifically focusing on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Documentation available here.
  • Geant4: Toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter.
  • ROOT: an open-source data analysis framework used by high energy physics and others.
  • Xsuite: A collection of Python packages for simulating beam dynamics in particle accelerators with support of different computing platforms, such as OpenMP and various GPU frameworks.

Security / Event Management

  • pam_2fa (⭐39): PAM 2FA module provides a second factor authentication, to be combined with the standard PAM-based password.

Storage and Data / Data management

  • FTS: software written in C++/Python to orchestrate reliable and large-scale data transfers.
  • Rucio: software written in Python to manage large volumes of data spread across data centres.
  • Davix: toolkit for file operations over HTTP and Cloud protocols (written in C++).

Storage and Data / Storage systems

  • EOS: distributed storage system written in C++ for the exabyte era (biggest installation 1.1 Exabytes).
  • CTA: distributed storage system written in C++ for archival of data on tape media (biggest installation 1 exabyte).
  • CVMFS: a scalable, reliable and low-maintenance software distribution service.
  • QuarkDB: high-performance C++ key-value datastore built with: RocksDB + Raft + Redis wire protocol (RESP2).
  • Reva (⭐212): WebDAV/gRPC server to connect end-users to storage system (EOS, CephFS). Written in Go.

Libraries / Flask

Libraries / UI

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