Rob Gardner

high energy physicist, scalable platforms for scientific computation, sort of a research entrepreneur.. and runner

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

@clevrockczar @TriciaOhio sounds like J6 so they'll receive pardons, right?

[CERN @CERN]

Today, the LHC receives the first stable beams of 2024 – a few short weeks after the first #BeamTime of the year and after several weeks of getting the #LHC ready for chapter three of #LHCRun3.

While we appreciate the excitement for the solar eclipse next Monday, CERN’s accelerator complex moves on a different schedule than the geometry of the Universe.😉

Find out more: https://t.co/eYp8kNDyNR

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

every fall, video by @chicago https://t.co/A8RTZbjcW5

[XENONexperiment @XENONexperiment]

Our new paper presents a public approximate likelihood for the #XENON1T nuclear recoil search. With the public code you can recast the XENON1T limit for the recoil spectrum of your choice!
paper: https://t.co/wnKHeXyX9i
code: https://t.co/M65YNbrDSJ

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

40k cores @ MWT2 for @ATLASexperiment (greener=higher efficiency) - about half the size of the HLT farm but obviously doing very different things

[Alberto Foncerrada @afoncerrada]

Chitown 🎩

[Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina_]

A Russian soldier surrendered. Ukrainians gave him tea, food, and let him call his mother on video. I want to cry from how much I love my country.

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

and make it x10 for 20y

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

ON THE ROAD: 4,000 public high school students got the surprise of a lifetime this week thanks to an initiative called Hope Chicago. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road with this inspiring program that plans to invest a billion dollars into the next generation.

[Ian Foster @ianfoster]

When we launchd the @globus service, I asked for a ticker tracking MBs transferred. I remember the excitement when we got to 10PB. Today, I see close to 1.5 EB and a steady 15 GB/s (1 TB/minute, 1.4 PB/day). That's a lot of research data, hopefully going somewhere useful.

[Zach Marshall @zlmarshall]

Our Israeli colleagues jumping in to welcome and wish good luck to the first Palestinian ATLAS group was just what I needed. You all made me hopeful and proud to be a scientist today. Thank you.

[Freya Blekman @freyablekman]

The CMS collaboration just completed the vote for the new spokesperson, starting in fall 2022.

And the winner is... Patricia McBride from @fermilab!

I'm really happy as Patty is a great leader.

It's the first time @CMSExperiment has elected a woman as spokesperson btw 🥰👩‍🔬

[Ricardo Rocha @ahcorporto]

We're preparing a new set of topics for the CERN container webinars, (re)starting soon.
Recordings available from last year's sessions covering auto scaling, HA, @HelmPack and #gitops, best practices and some examples of moving to #kubernetes:
https://t.co/WdttdImOrm

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

@MarkSNeubauer Will forever cheer Eagles, Phillies, Steelers, .... Thank you PA!!!

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/lH6CbVKAjQ

[i am on bluesky @kratsg]

"There's always money in the banana stand..." (but not for centralized accessibility).

[Archived: Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot @mayorlightfoot]

What we experienced this morning is not who we are.

We cannot let the actions of some destroy the fabric of our city and who we are as proud Chicagoans.

[Matthew Feickert @HEPfeickert]

Here's a nice memorial piece on Jim that was written by his friends and @PhysicsIllinois colleagues including @GeorgeGollin, @topquark1, and @rwg: https://t.co/KOQVYsr11m

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

When you’ve double booked @PEARC_20 #PEARC20

[Rob Gardner @rwg]

I'm excited to attend How to Extend the Productive Lifetime of Scientific Computing Equipment at PEARC20 https://t.co/lGEfvcr8Vg @PEARC_20 #PEARC20 @sched

[Matthew Feickert @HEPfeickert]

Definitely hitting the "I owe too many people work for things that I put off to finish other things that had deadlines but now those put off things are needed and I'm bad at this" hard this Monday. Apologies to everyone who has to work with me at the moment.