SFT Group Meeting April 28th , 2006 SFT Group News John Harvey Inside-outside story about grid middleware Predrag Buncic Report from HEPIX meeting Rome, 3-7 April Rene Brun  AOB

Staff Movements Predrag Buncic started April 1st Leandro Franco started April 1st 2006 Marie-Curie EST fellow working on PROOF Torbjorn Sjostrand rejoined SFT April 1st to resume work on Pythia 8

CHEP06 Papers Posters Please have them proof-read by someone else I assume that authorship has been agreed with project leaders Posters Can be reused to replace those in Bat 32 and Bat 2 See Nathalie for assistance

MAPS SFT has completed the 2006 MAPS exercise on time Many thanks to everyone involved Feedback from PH to HR - ‘Schedule should allow more time’ Please come and discuss with me if you have comments or questions concerning any aspect of the process

Hardware Purchases New printer : HP Business Inkjet 2300 - B32-RB20-COL draft quality ppm : 22(colour) - 26 (b/w) best quality (4800 x 1200 dpi ) ppm : 2 (colour) - 4 (b/w) Reminder: Please remember to set a banner page when using B32-RB20-HP 2 X 500 GB disks purchased for Xserve G5 intended to implement a backup service for those with Macs New Mac Mini : 1.5 GHz Intel Core Solo To be installed in 32/1-A24 - for making presentations Lighting to be updated in 32/1-A24 Room will be unavailable for ~1 week

New SFT Home Webpage Current page designed for internal use (mainly links) New page designed to explain to others what we do

Future Events CERN School of Computing 21 Aug - 1st September, Helsinki Deadline for applications is May 15th Tracks : Grid, Software, Physics Computing Please see me ASAP if you wish to attend Please let me know well in advance if you wish to attend a conference

Summer Students Name Firstname DOB Nat. Supervisor Contract start Contract end DEMARET Matthieu 12/6/1983 FR COUET 06.06.2006 01.09.2006 DIERCKX Hans 8/27/1983 BE GRICHINE 11.07.2006 15.09.2006 GONZALEZ David 2/24/1982 ES ANTCHEVA 06.06.2006 01.09.2006 HAERTL Daniel 12/11/1982 DE MONETA 18.07.2006 15.09.2006 HAHTO Antti 3/18/1982 FI ROISER 06.06.2006 11.08.2006 KRUSE Daniele 6/21/1981 IT POKORSKI 06.06.2006 01.09.2006 REID Giles 3/31/1985 NZ FOLGER 20.06.2006 08.09.2006 Please check now to assign a desk and make sure there is a computer available NB Four students start on June 6th

Noise Problem …. …has (hopefully) been solved. Problem caused by work outside Bat 100 workshops This has been finished. Thanks to Claude Detraz (PH/DSO) for intervening on our behalf

Firewall Closure Plan In order to better protect devices connected to the CERN network from the regular attacks initiated from off-site, direct connections to TCP and UDP ports of all devices will be blocked in the CERN firewall by default. Specific exceptions will need to be approved before server ports can be directly exposed to the Internet.

Firewall Port Closures April Decnet/IP, Gopher, PAW, CVS, OracleTNSlistener, … Possibly restrictions on outgoing DNS May 8th TCP and UDP ports 800-1023 May 16 re-structure SSH server entries no functionality change removes the IP address range requirement May 23 CVS (except known/registered CVS servers), OracleTNSlistener

Firewall Port Closures June 6 close IMAP and POP (insecure)- see my mail of April 27th Use (secure) IMAPS and POPS protocol instead June-November close remaining ports (not yet fully defined) assumes availability of registration tools high risk ports first, GridFTP, MySQL, VNC, web(TCP/8080) others by port ranges More details (incl. port numbers) on the schedule is available at: http://cern.ch/security/firewall