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This open access book provides an overview of the work developed within the SODALITE project, which aims at facilitating the deployment and operation of distributed software on top of heterogeneous infrastructures, including cloud, HPC and edge resources. The experts participating in the project describe how SODALITE works and how it can be exploited by end users. While multiple languages and tools are available in the literature to support DevOps teams in the automation of deployment and operation steps, still these activities require specific know-how and skills that cannot be found in average teams. The SODALITE framework tackles this problem by offering modelling and smart editing features to allow those we call Application Ops Experts to work without knowing low level details about the adopted, potentially heterogeneous, infrastructures. The framework offers also mechanisms to verify the quality of the defined models, generate the corresponding executable infrastructural code, automatically wrap application components within proper execution containers, orchestrate all activities concerned with deployment and operation of all system components, and support on-the-fly self-adaptation and refactoring.

WOS: 000372866900001 ; The NEutron Detector Array (NEDA) project aims at the construction of a new high-efficiency compact neutron detector array to be coupled with large gamma-ray arrays such as AGATA. The application of NEDA ranges from its use as selective neutron multiplicity filter for fusion-evaporation reaction to a large solid angle neutron tagging device. In the present work, possible configurations for the NEDA coupled with the Neutron Wall for the early implementation with AGATA has been simulated, using Monte Carlo techniques, in order to evaluate their performance figures. The goal of this early NEDA implementation is to improve, with respect to previous instruments, efficiency and capability to select multiplicity for fusion-evaporation reaction channels in which 1, 2 or 3 neutrons are emitted. Each NEDA detector unit has the shape of a regular hexagonal prism with a volume of about 3.23 l and it is filled with the EJ301 liquid scintillator, that presents good neutron-gamma discrimination properties. The simulations have been performed using a fusion-evaporation event generator that has been validated with a set of experimental data obtained in the Ni-58 + Fe-56 reaction measured with the Neutron Wall detector array. ; MINECO, Spain [FPA2011-29854-C04, FPA2012-33650, FPA2014-57196-C5]; Generalitat Valenciana, Spain [PROMETEO/2010/101, PROMETEOII/2014/019]; European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of European Commission; Swedish Research Council; Polish National Science Centre [801/N-COPIN/2010/0, UM0-2014/14/M/ST2/00738, UM0-2013/08/M/ST2/0025]; Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey [106T055, 114F473]; UK STFC [ST/L005727/1]; Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L005727/1, ST/L005735/1] ; This work was partially supported by MINECO, Spain, under the grants FPA2011-29854-C04, FPA2012-33650 and FPA2014-57196-C5, and Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, under the grants PROMETEO/2010/101 and PROMETEOII/2014/019, The European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of European Commission, the Swedish Research Council, the Polish National Science Centre under contracts: 801/N-COPIN/2010/0 (COPIN/IN2P3 collaboration), UM0-2014/14/M/ST2/00738 (COPIN-INFN collaboration), UM0-2013/08/M/ST2/0025 (LEA-COPIGAL collaboration), the Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey (Proj. no. 106T055 and 114F473), and the UK STFC (ST/L005727/1).

WOS: 000301813500009 ; A study of the dimensions and performance of a single detector of the future neutron detector array NEDA was performed by means of Monte Carlo simulations, using GEANT4. Two different liquid scintillators were evaluated: the hydrogen based BC501A and the deuterated BC537. The efficiency and the probability that one neutron will trigger a signal in more than one detector were investigated as a function of the detector size. The simulations were validated comparing the results to experimental measurements performed with two existing neutron detectors, with different geometries, based on the liquid scintillator BC501. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N N202 073935]; Swedish Research Council; European Union [212692]; LEA COPIGAL; COPIN-IN2P3; Warsaw University of Technology; MICINN, Spain [AIC10-D-000568]; INFN, Italy [AIC10-D-000568]; MICINN; Generalitat Valenciana, Spain [FPA2008-06419, PROMETEO/2010/101] ; This work was partly supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, grant no. N N202 073935, by the Swedish Research Council, by the European Union within the Spiral2 Preparatory Phase project (7t Framework Programme, project no. 212692), by the LEA COPIGAL and COPIN-IN2P3 collaborations, and within the framework of the European Social Fund through the Warsaw University of Technology Development Programme, realised by the Center for Advanced Studies. A. Gadea and E. Farnea acknowledge the support of MICINN, Spain, and INFN, Italy, through the AIC10-D-000568 bilateral action. A. Gadea and T. Huyuk have been partially supported by the MICINN and Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, under grants FPA2008-06419 and PROMETEO/2010/101. We acknowledge help of colleagues from the National Centre for Nuclear Research at Swierk, Poland, in particular of L. Swiderski, and thank them for providing one of the detectors and electronics. Valuable discussions with J.L. Tain, D. Cano-Ott and A. Algora are also acknowledged.