A US Department of Energy National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory uses its particle accelerators to operate the world's largest, most powerful X-ray laser. In addition, SLAC built the world's largest digital camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Its images will soon be the largest-ever astronomy dataset.
This talk is an infrastructure-focused introduction to Scientific Computing. Most of the computing infrastructure needed to operate our large-scale experimental equipment, and collect, store, and process the huge amounts of data generated, is powered by open source software.
