C.S.I.R. Meraka Institute brucellino@gmail.com Building 43, C.S.I.R. Campus bbecker@csir.co.za 1 Meiring Naude Road + 39 392 622 9279 Pretoria 0001 Twitter: @brusisceddu
Current Position Senior Researcher, SANREN Competency Area, CSIR Meraka Institute
Date of Birth : 9 October 1977 Highest Degree : Ph.D. (2007, University of Cape Town) Nationality : South African Residence : South Africa Languages : English (home language), Italian (second home language), French (read, write speak) Afrikaans (read, write, speak)
Bruce Becker completed his studies in 2007 with a Ph.D in physics from the University of Cape Town, working on the High-Level Trigger of the ALICE Dimuon Spectrometer at the CERN LHC. He completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the CEA (Saclay, France) and INFN (Cagliari, Italy), extending his work on ALICE and moving into the area of HPC and grid computing. With a strong analytical and technical background, his work consisted mainly of the development and optimisation of algorithms and integration of online and offline workflows. Gaining experience through working in teams and large collaborations, he developed the management, communication, planning and organisational skills to undertake research and development projects at national scale.
In 2008 he kickstarted the South African National Grid (SAGrid) – a federation of compute resources providers from research groups, universities and national research laboratories in South Africa. In collaboration with several European projects, he coordinated the deployment of HPC and data resources, including the training of users and technical staff, as well as the identification and porting of several scientific applications. The culmination of this phase resulted in the harmonisation of the initiative with other South African e-Infrastructure initiatives, such as the National Research Network (SANREN) and the formation of the Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre (AAROC).
A strong believer in the Open Access and Open Science movement, his current research interests are fall into e-Infrastructure and scientific research domains. His current responsibilities involve ensuring the availability and development of a pan-African platform for scientific collaboration, as well as maintaining interoperability with other regional infrastructures such as EGI. He remains active in education and training, developing tools and techniques for 21st century research and collaboration. Personal interests include music, neuroscience, impact of climate change, travel, history, the solar system, outdoor activities and languages.
Research outputs including peer reviewed articles, presentations, conference proceedings, source code, etc are summarised at:
ORCID : orcid.org/0000-0002-6607-7145
Github : https://github.com/brucellino
Google Scholar : http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=IjK816QAAAAJ&hl=en
- Technical Coordinator of the Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- Coordination of WLCG activities in South Africa (ATLAS and ALICE offline computing at South African sites), including resolution of data transport, planning and operational issues.
- Responsible for South African participation in the Sci-GaIA EU Horizon-2020 funded project
- Development of data infrastructure and services for African research institutes
- Development of SAGrid Strategic Plan, including sustainability, research and development, human capital and international cooperation.
- Development of advanced services for SAGrid application developers and site operations team – executable infrastructure and continuous integration platforms.
- Making the web work for science - tools and services for todays's scientists (web portals, science gateways, collaboration platforms, dissemination, etc.)
- Application development and integration - exploiting distributed computing systems
- Large-scale scientific workflows - application to Climate, Bioinformatics, Astronomy, Agriculture and other scientific domains.
- Monte-Carlo simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions
- Image processing, including machine-learning aspects
- Experimental relativistic heavy-ion physics, data analysis
- Grid, distributed and cluster computing, including HPC
- Scholarly communication in the 21st century
2015 : Development of initial design and service offering of Data Intensive Research Infrastructure for South Africa (DIRISA)
2014 : Research support to Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project (H3Africa) - consultancy, service development and high-performance data transfer support
2013 : Contribution of the SAGrid component of the National Initiative for Cyberinfrastructure Report (NICI) in South Africa, a document prepared for national government regarding harmonisation of e-Infrastructure : Collaboration with SKA Africa project and other astronomy user groups - providing technical support, consultancy and training on distributed computing services of the national grid and NREN.
2010 - 2012 : Development of Advanced Services for the Network, including data transfer gateways and investigation of videoconferencing systems.
Title : Sci-GaIA - Energising Scientific Endeavour through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa
Duration : 2015-2017
Coordinator : Brunel University
Responsibilities : Creation of an online discussion forum in the area of e-Infrastructures. Support the creation of an African Policy Management Authority and the establishment of Identity Federations to be connected to eduGAIN. Creation of educational and training content for the Sci-GaIA online learning platform (OpenEdX-based). Ensure the interoperability and interoperation between the African, the EU and the global e-Infrastructures
Title : CHAIN-REDS - Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Educational Data Sharing
Duration : 2013-2015
Coordinator : INFN Roma III (Italy)
Responsibilities : Creation of Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre and signature of MoU with EGI.eu for the region. Identification and support of regional use cases for distributed data infrastructure (public health, astronomy, bioinformatics, climate) Interoperability of African and Arabian data and compute infrastructures with regional counterparts in other parts of the world, particularly Europe. Training and education of researchers and technical staff in the region.
Title : ei4Africa - e-Infrastructures for Africa
Duration : 2013-2014
Coordinator : Sigma Orionis (France)
Responsibilities : Development of software for federated identity infrastructure and services in the region (identity providers and certificate authorities) Development of science gateways and application portlets for researchers in human lanaguages, astronomy and other fields. Training and education of researchers and technicians in the region.
Title : CHAIN - Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures
Duration : 2011-2012
Coordinator : INFN Roma III (Italy)
Responsibilities : Representation of Sub-Saharan African institutions in project deliverables and description of state of the art Coordination of continental scientific collaborations, support in using the services provided by global e-Infrastructure Producing reccomendations to policy-makers regarding the development of e-Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. Training and education of researchers and technical staff in the region.
Title : EPIKH - Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How.
Coordinator : Consorzio COMETA (Italy)
Duration : 2008 - 2012
Role : Co-Author of the project, country coordinator for South Africa. During the four years of the project, a total of 8 schools were held in South Africa (organised by Bruce and collaborators) and several staff and students were exchanged between South Africa and EPIKH project partners.
Title : HP-UNESCO Brain Gain Initiative
Duration : 2007-2012
Coordinator : UNESCO
Role : Responsible for the training activities of more than 20 researchers from around the African continent and middle East. Organised training and development sessions in Pretoria and Johannesburg, in collaboration with HP. Deployment and integration of first grid sites in Africa. Development of scientific applications in fields such as environmental studies, ecology, high-energy physics, chemistry, network simulations, agriculture and urban planning.
June 2006 – August 2006 : Postdoctoral Fellow at INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Gruppo III.
Activities : Work involved
* Monte-Carlo studies of Upsilon suppression in predicted conditions of the Quark-Gluon Plasma generated by the LHC, measured by the ALICE experiment.
* Development of offline alignment algorithm
* Site operations of CyberSAR and ALICE Tier 2 grid node.
* shifts at ALICE HLT, dimiuon spectrometer and other instrument commissioning
Feb. 2005 - Feb. 2006 : Postdoctoral study (Ph.D. pending) at the Departement d'Astrophysique, Physique Nucleaire et d'Instrumentation Associee (DAPNIA) of the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France.
Activities : This work involved the implementation of a detector alignment algorithm into the ALICE offline code.
* Analysis of simulated heavy-ion collisions and dimuon spectrometer performance
* Testing of the dimuon High-Level Trigger for ALICE, including algorithm testing and debugging and online monitoring.
* Shifts at the ALICE experiment dipole commissioning
Bruce has acted as a tutor, lecturer and teacher in various positions, from high-school to postgraduate level, since 1996.
October 2015 : Designed and ran 3-day "Ansible Bootcamp - DevOps for Identity Federations" (Catania, Italy). The course was conducted in English
June 2014 : Tutor for two-week RECAS/CASAP Summer School on Science Gateways (Catania, Italy). The course was conducted in English and Italian. : Tutor and co-organiser of "Software Carpentry Bootcamp" at e-Research Africa conference, Cape Town.
March 2012 : Visiting Lecturer at Ecole Nationale Superieur Informatique (ENSI) in Tunis, Tunisia. Conducted a week long course on grid computing for informatics applications as well as a two-day conference. The course was conducted in English and French.
June 2010 : Lecturer in the African School of Physics (ASP2010), held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Organised by CERN and other leading HEP laboratories, this two-week school attracted several of the brightest students from across the continent. Bruce was responsible for the grid computing module of the school. The course was conducted in English.
2009 - 2013 : Trainer in various EPIKH FP7 project grid computing schools. As part of the FP7 EPIKH project, Bruce was required to organise and deliver training in scientific and grid computing to various members of the higher-education and scientific communities in the partner countries. The courses were two weeks in duration and delivered in English.
2002 - 2005 : Undergraduate physics tutor (1st - 3rd year physics), University of Cape Town. During this period, Bruce acted as an undergraduate tutor to the students enrolled in undergraduate physics courses. This required the assessment of (English) oral and written communication skills required by students at the University.
1996 - 2004 : High-School tutor (English, Mathematics, Physics), private. Bruce was engaged by several High-Schools and private individuals in the Cape Town region, in his personal capacity, to impart lessons of English, Mathematics and Physics to final-year schoolgoers. In particular, he worked with the large Angolan and Congolese immigrant community. Speaking Portuguese and French as a first language, these students did not have English as a first language, but were required to pass the first language requirements of South African high schools. He had a 100 % pass rate.
Ph.D (Physics) : University of Cape Town
Graduated : 2007
Thesis title : Design, implementation and physics performance of the ALICE dimuon spectrometer High-Level Trigger (dHLT).
Short description : The dimuon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at the LHC aims to investigate the properties of the system created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion nuclear collisions, by using heavy quarkonia (J/$\psi$ and Upsilon families) as a probe. These mesons are predicted to be produced in abundance at the LHC, but have a small cross-section for decay into dimuon pairs. In order to extract a significant signal from the large muon background sources, a High-Level Trigger (dHLT) has been developed to extend the capabilities of the detector. My thesis details the development and implementation of the dHLT and investigates the improvement in the measurement of the heavy quarkonia signals with this dHLT in place, with the use of Monte-Carlo simulations of heavy-ion collisions and a simulation of the detector response.
M.Sc (Physics) : University of Cape Town
Graduated : December 2002
Thesis Title : Reaction mechanisms of low-energy heavy-ion nuclear physics.
Short Description of project : The project involved the analysis of data taken at iThemba LABS, near Cape Town, over a period of 2 years from 2000 – 2002. The work involved data-taking shifts at the laboratory and various analyses, including detector calibration and discussion of the results with collaborators at the University of Milan. Two presentations of the work were made to the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP, 2000 and 2001) and a prize for best presentation by a M.Sc. student was won in 2001. Preliminary results were presented at the 2nd International Balkan School on Nuclear Physics, in Bodrum, Turkey in 2000. Results from the thesis helped to construct a comprehensive theory of reaction mechanisms in heavy-ion collisions in the energy range of 100 - 400 MeV.
B.Sc(Hons) : University of Cape Town
Graduated : December 1999
Major : Large-scale structure of the universe.
Subjects taken : quantum-, classical- and statistical mechanics, classical electrodynamics, particle physics, computational physics, general relativity, relativistic quantum mechanics.
B.Sc (Physics, Astronomy) : University of Cape Town
Graduated : December 1998
Subjects taken : optical physics, solid-state physics, thermal physics, nuclear physics, laboratory course, stellar structure and evolution, stellar atmospheres, galactic structure and evolution, applied mathematics.
Prizes/scholarships won : Yvonne Parfitt Memorial Scholarship for tertiary study (one of 5 awarded annually in the Western Cape, 4 year duration : 1996 – 2000.) Dean's Merit list, 1997
January 2015 - present : CODE-RADE (Continuous Delivery of Research Applciations in a Distributed Environment)
March 2014 : Consultant to OpenUCT for the "Discoverability of African Scholarship" workshop, funded by Carnegie foundation, held in Nairobi.
June 2010 : Lecturer in the African School of Physics (ASP2010), held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Organised by CERN and other leadering HEP laboratories, this two-week school attracted several of the brightest students from across the continent. Bruce was responsible for the grid computing module of the school.
March 2008 - December 2009 : Physics and co-ordination consultant, UCT-CERN CHPC Consortium Project (for 2008-2010)
February 2008 – December 2009 : Research support for M.Sc. student (Mr. Seforo Mohlalisi) in UCT-CERN Research Centre, working on ALICE dHLT (with Artur Szostak and Zeblon Vilakazi)
May 2006 – December 2007 : Installation and configuration of the UCT-CERN node of the ALICE grid, co-ordination with the relevant administrators at UCT and CERN.
September 2005 – October 2005 : Installed and configured Linux cluster (Sandiego) as extension to existing computing facilities for dHLT and physics simulation software. This cluster has been used for a variety of research, including the second ALICE dHLT integration test (October 2005), Monte-Carlo heavy-ion simulations (September 2005 – November 2005)
November 2004 : Organised and executed first Scientific Clustering Applications Workshop in collaboration with IBM in Cape Town, South Africa. This was a meeting of a representative group of about 50 South African scientists using or planning to use high-performance computing (HPC) in their field of science. Invited speakers fro m the several universities in South Africa, representatives from HP, IBM and local HPC vendors were present.
May 2002 – October 2002 : Built, configured and administered a Linux cluster to serve as the group's computational facility (CARMEN). The cluster has been used for a variety of physics-related research on data from various experiments, including the ALICE EmCal, the ALICE dHLT, the PHOBOS forward proton calorimeter and the Low-Dosage X-Ray (LODOX) machine simulations.
October 2002 – December 2002 : worked with Dr. Peter Steinberg (UCT-CERN Research Center and BNL) on a simulation of single electron yields from open charm decay at RHIC, in order to determine if the signal could be detected by the PHOBOS detector.
January 2003 – March 2003 : visiting student at the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC.
March 2003 – September 2003 : worked on calibration of the forward proton calorimeter (pCAL) of the PHOBOS experiment. A presentation of the work was given at the South African Institute of Physics in June 2003.
Given the responsibilities of his career, Bruce has had to quickly learn and adopt new computer languages, technologies, methodologies and toolkits to address a wide range of scientific and technical problems. He enjoys learning new technology and considers it a stimulating challenge. He believes in sustainable development of quality software, and applies Agile methodology to his projects, through the use of distributed version control and continuous integration platforms such Jenkins, Travis and Github.
Scientific Applications : HepMC, CLHEP, Pythia, GEANT3/4, ROOT, GADGET, HTK
Languages and Tools : C/C++, python, FORTRAN, JavaScript, YAML, R, git, svn.
Operating Systems : CentOS and Debian-based systems
Grid, HPC : Globus Toolkit, gLite, GridWay, Swift, SAGA, OpenMPI, TORQUE/MAUI, CREAM
Cloud : Docker, OpenNebula, kvm, OCCI
Web : HTML4, Markdown, JSR168/286 (Portlet Specification)
Automation : Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Nagios, Travis
- Andronico, G., Balaž, A., Banda, T. M., Barbera, R., Becker, B., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, G., Ciuffo, L. N., Dhekne, P. S., Gavillet, P., Jalife, S., Kondoro, J. W., Lin, S. C., Marechal, B. M., Masoni, A., Matyska, L., Merrouch, R., Mitsos, Y., Nan, K., Napis, S., Nassar, S., Paganoni, M., Prnjat, O., Qian, D., Qjan, S., Reale, M., Ruggieri, F., Şener, C., Singh, D., Torman, Y., Voss, A., West, D., & Wright, C. (2014). E-Infrastructures for International Cooperation. In Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 380-430). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5942-1.ch022
- Gorbunov, Rohr, Aamodt, Alt, Appelshauser, Arend, Bach, Becker, Bottger, Breitner, others (2011). ALICE HLT High Speed Tracking on GPU. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Andronico, Ardizzone, Barbera, Becker, Bruno, Calanducci, Carvalho, Ciuffo, Fargetta, Giorgio, Rocca, Masoni, Paganoni, Ruggieri, Scardaci (2011). e-Infrastructures for e-Science: A Global View. J Grid Computing
- Richter, Aamodt, Alt, Appelshauser, Arend, Becker, Bottger, Breitner, Busching, Cicalo, others (2011). Event Reconstruction Performance of the ALICE High Level Trigger for ALICE. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
- Aamodt, Abel, Abeysekara, Quintana, Abramyan, Adamova, Aggarwal, Rinella, Agocs, Salazar, others (2010). Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton--proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ALICE at LHC. The European Physical Journal C
- Aamodt, Abel, Abeysekara, Quintana, Acero, Adamova, Aggarwal, Rinella, Agocs, Salazar, others (2010). First proton--proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density at sqrt(s)=900 GeV. The European Physical Journal C
- Aamodt, Abel, Abeysekara, Abrahantes Quintana, Abramyan, Adamová, Aggarwal, Aglieri Rinella, Agocs, Aguilar Salazar, others (2010). Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio in pp Collisons at sqrt(s)= 0.9 and 7 TeV Measured by the ALICE Experiment. Physical review letters
- Aamodt, Abel, Abeysekara, Abrahantes Quintana, Abramyan, Adamová, Aggarwal, Aglieri Rinella, Agocs, Aguilar Salazar, others (2010). Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in proton--proton collisions at with ALICE at the LHC. Physics Letters B
- Gorbunov, Aamodt, Alt, Appelshauser, Arend, Becker, Bottger, Breitner, Busching, Chattopadhyay, others (2010). ALICE HLT high speed tracking and vertexing.
- Bablok, Djuvsland, Kanaki, Nystrand, Richter, Röhrich, Skjerdal, Ullaland, Øvrebekk, Larsen, Alme, Alt, Lindenstruth, Steinbeck, Thäder, Kebschull, Böttger, Kalcher, Lara, Panse, Appelshäuser, Ploskon, Helstrup, Hetland, Haaland, Roed, Thingnæs, Aamodt, Hille, Lovhoiden, Skaali, Tveter, Das, Chattopadhyay, Becker, Cicalo, Marras, Siddhanta, Cleymans, Szostak, Fearick, Vaux, Vilakazi (2008). High level trigger online calibration framework in ALICE. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.
- Becker, Chattopadhyay, Cicalo, Marras, Sanyal, Siddhanta, Szostak, Usai (2008). Implementation of a hit reconstruction algorithm for the ALICE Dimuon High-Level-Trigger.
- Gorbunov, Rohr, Aamodt, Alt, Appelshauser, Arend, Bach, Becker, Bottger, Breitner, others (2011). ALICE HLT High Speed Tracking on GPU. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
- Benchmarks and implementation of the ALICE high level trigger. By ALICE Collaboration (T. Alt et al.) 2006, 5pp. IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.53:854-858,2006.
- Real Time Global Tests of the ALICE High Level Trigger Data Transport Framework. By ALICE Dimuon Spectrometer Collaboration (B. Becker et al.) Jan 2008. 8pp. Published in IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.55:703-709, 2008.
- Pseudorapidity Distiribution of Charged Particles in d + Au Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. By PHOBOS Collaboration (B.B. Back et al.). Nov 2003. 4pp. Phys.Rev.Lett.93:082301 (2004)
- Centrality Dependance Of Charged Hadron Transverse Momentum Spectra In d + Au Collisions At sqrt(s)= 200 GeV. By PHOBOS Collaboration (B.B. Back et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072302 (2003)
- Centrality Dependence of Charged Anti-Particle to Particle Ratios Near Mid-Rapdity in d + Au Collsions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. By PHOBOS Collaboration (B.B. Back et al.). Nov. 2003. 4pp. Phys. Rev. C70 , 011901 (2004)
- Emission of Li,9,7Be and B fragments in the interaction of 12C with 93Nb between 200 and 400 MeV. By B. Becker, F. Albertini, E. Gadioli, G.F. Steyn, M. Cavinato, S.H. Connell, A.A. Cowley, E. Fabrici, S.V. Förtsch, E. Gadioli Erba, J.J. Lawrie and E. Sideras Haddad. Eur. Phys. J. A 18(4), pp 639 – 644 (2003)
- Prnjat, O.; Becker, B. ; Barbera, R. ; Kanellopoulos, C. ; Koumantaros, K. ; Mayo-Garcia, R. ; Ruggieri, F., "Enabling intercontinental e-Infrastructures - a case for Africa", IST-Africa 2015 (2015), (Lilongwe, Malawi) DOI:10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190535
- Prnjat, O. ; Rodriguez Pascual, M. ; Becker, B. ; Barbera, R., "Surveying clouds in a global environment", IST-Africa 2015 (2015), (Lilongwe, Malawi) DOI:10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190536
- B. Becker, F. Riekerts, "Breaking Down Barriers to Developing Applications of e-Infrastructures - The SAGrid-2.0 case.", UbuntunetConnect 2014 (2014). (Lusaka, Zambia)
- R. Barbera, B. Becker, S. Villalónd, R. Mayo-García, C. Kanellopoulos, L. A. Núñez, A. Rubio-Montero, C. Carrubba, O. Prnjat, G. Inserra, K. Koumantaros, R. Ricceri, F. Ruggieri (On behalf of the CHAIN-REDS project) - "The CHAIN-REDS DART Challenge", IV Conferência BIREDIAL-Istec, 2014 (Porto-Allegre, Brasil)
- B. Becker, "SAGrid-2.0", e-Research Africa Conference 2013 (2013). (Cape Town, South Africa)
- B. Becker (for the CHAIN project), "Overview of e-Infrastructure and applications in Europe and Africa", Joint CHAIN-REDS/ei4Africa workshop at Ubuntunet Connect 2013 (Kigali, Rwanda)
- B. Becker, "Prospects for Extending Distributed Computing Infrastructure in Africa", IST-Africa 2013 (Nairobi, Kenya)
- B. Becker, "Connectivité Multigigabits entre l’Afrique du Sud et GEANT: perspectives pour la Radioastronomie Avancée", Conference 'Partager le Savoir' 2012 (La Marsa, Tunisie)
- B. Becker, "CHAIN - the NGI Value Proposition in South Africa", Ubuntunet Connect 2011. (Nairobi, Kenya)
- B. Becker, "Sub-Saharan E-Science Infrastructures : The South African National Grid", Conference 'Partager le Savoir', (Kalkara, Malta), 2011
- B. Becker, "The South African National Grid: Blueprint, Impact and Perspectives for African Research", IST-Africa 2011 (Gaborone, Botswana)
- B. Becker and T. Banda, "Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures (CHAIN)", Ubuntunet Connect 2010. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- B. Becker, Workshop organiser - "Emerging e-Infrastructures for Science in Sub-Saharan Africa"; B. Becker, "Development and Status of the South African National Grid", IST-Africa 2010 (Durban, South Africa)
- B. Becker, "The South African National Compute Grid", IST-Africa 2009 (Kampala, Uganda) Published in: IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3
- The ALICE Dimuon Spectrometer High Level Trigger, A. Szostak et. al. IEEE NSS Conference, Dresden, 2008)
- "The South African National Compute Grid", South African Institute of Physics, Polokwane, 2008. Sean Murray, Bruce Becker
- Grid infrastructure in High Energy Physics for the ALICE experiment at CERN, Bruce Becker, National Conference on E-Science, Napoli, June 2008
- "High-performance computing in the ALICE Experiment at CERN", CHPC National Conference, Cape Town, 2007.
- Physics Performance of the ALICE dimuon High-Level Trigger, Bruce Becker, Artur Szostak, 3rd National Conference on ALICE Physics, Frascati, September 2007
- CARMEN : A General-Purpose Cluster for Scientific Computing using OSCAR By Bruce Becker and Mark N.J. Horner, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual OSCAR Symposium, Winnipeg, Canada (May 2004)
- South African Institute of Physics 2003 : “A forward proton calorimeter for the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC”. B. Becker, P. A. Steinberg
- "Experiences with the ALICE Data Grid and South African Grid Prototype", Scientific Clustering Applications Workshop, Cape Town 2007.
- "Physics Performance of the dHLT", to the international dHLT Review, Cape Town, November 2006
- Bruce Becker et al. (2015). CODE-RADE: Continuous Delivery of Research Applications in a Distributed Environment (Infrastruture Foundation Release). ZENODO pending. https://github.com/AAROC/CODE-RADE/releases/tag/v0.0.1
- Bruce Becker et al. (2014). DevOps: Ansible LDAP/Shibboleth Role Release. ZENODO. 10.5281/zenodo.12359
- Bruce Becker. (2014). SAGrid Supported Software Functional Tests. ZENODO. 10.5281/zenodo.10234
- Bruce Becker et al. (2014). IDPPublic. ZENODO. 10.5281/zenodo.12177
- Bruce Becker et al. (2014). AAROC DevOps Ansible. ZENODO. 10.5281/zenodo.10232
- ALICE-INT-2008-013 : Implementation of a hit reconstruction algorithm for the ALICE Dimuon High-Level Trigger (2008)
- ALICE-INT-2007-022 : ALICE Dimuon High-Level Trigger: Project Review