SFT Group Meeting July 13th , 2007 SFT Group News Pere Mato PHYSTAT-LHC Workshop Highlights Louis Lyons AOB

Staff Movements Arrivals Zoltan Torzsok has jointed the group at the beginning of July as Technical Student supervised by Witek Summer Students The group is hosting 12 students (7 funded by the CERN Summer Student program) 9 students have already arrived

Summer Students 2007 Arrival date Dep. date Student Supervisor Office Jun 12 Aug 31 Roel Aaij Ilka 32/R-B15 Jul 3 Sep 14 Jakob Blomer Predrag Jun 5 Aug 17 Bastien Dalla Piazza Olivier Luca D’Avino Axel 32/R-C19 Sep 28 Andrea Massironi Vincenzo 40/3-A28 Sep 21 Marc Montull Witold 2/R-021 Long Tran Thanh Fons/Gerry 32/R-C17 Jul 2 Sep 7 Luana Micallef Stefan 32/R-C09 Jul 16 Magdalena Slawinska Lorenzo 32/R-C24 Aug 6 Sep 30 Tony Poll Pere 32/R-B03 Vladymyrov Mykhailo Vladimir I. Lukas Lindross Gabriele

Summer Student Presentations Special group meeting on Tuesday 11th September at 10:00 in 32/1-A24 Each student should prepare a small presentation (15 minutes maximum) with few slides (12 maximum) or demo with the work that she/he has been doing If not possible due to early departure we will have to find other arrangements with the supervisor

Forthcoming events CERN School of Computing, August 20-31 in Dubrovnik, Croatia Participation: Axel Naumann(teacher), Bertrand Bellenot(teacher), Diego Marcos CHEP 07, September 2-7 in Victoria, Canada Participation: Olivier Couet, Lorenzo Moneta, Fons Rademakers, Rene Brun, Vladimir Ivantchenko, Leandro Franco, John Harvey, Pere Mato Talk rehearsals should be organized end of August NEC’2007, September 10-17 in Varna, Bulgaria Participation: Pere Mato Geant4 Collaboration Workshop, 13-19 September 2007 in Hebden Bridge (UK) Participation of the complete Geant4 team

Group summary expenses – Quarter 2 Categories Budget 2007 Q1 Q2 Total % Investment & equipment 50 10 7.7 17.7 35 Consumables 0.4 2.8 3.2 32 Other operating expenses 5 1.9 0.6 2.5 Contracts with suppliers 0.8 3.4 4.2 84 Subsistence 245 61.7 58.8 120.5 49 Travel 95 6.7 41 47.7 Communication 1.3 1 2.3 46 415(*) 82.8 115 198 48 (*) 430 (fresh money) - 16 (last year overspend)

PH MARS Results 2 band changes from Ga to Gb 7 band changes from Fb to Fc 8 career path changes from E to F Awarded to Staff in Career path A to E: 17 career path changes 22 band changes 2 extensions into ECE Steps granted to Senior & General Staff (including band and career path changes): 3 staff members received 6 steps (P+5) 15 staff members received 5 steps (P+4) 41 staff members received 4 steps (P+3) 114 staff members received 3 steps (P+2) 168 staff members received 2 steps (P+1) 138 staff members received 1 step (Periodical)

SPC/Council The SPC/FC/Council document: “Scientific Activities of CERN and Budget Estimates for the Years 2008-2011” was discussed by SPC/FC/Council in the June session The plan and the corresponding resources requests were approved. For PH it corresponds to: LHC experiments 24 MCHF Operation: Manpower 117 FTE-Years (3 years) Material 10.5 MCHF (4 years) R&D : Manpower 33 FTE-Years Material 13.5 MCHF

SFT proposals for R&D (2008-2011) P7 - Parallelization of Software Frameworks to exploit Multi-core Processors Objective: Assessment of technology and adaptation of existing software frameworks in collaboration with LHC experiments Deliverables: Existing software frameworks in the LHC experiments adapted and optimized to run in multi-core processors Resources: 3 FTEy existing staff, 3 FTEy new staff, 6.5 FTEy fell/stud/PJAS, 450 kCHF P8 - Portable Analysis Environment using Virtualization Technology Objective: Assessment of virtualization technology and development of portable analysis environments for the LHC experiments Deliverables: Development of "Virtual Appliances" to provide a complete data analysis environment specialized for each of the LHC experiments Resources: 2.5 FTEy existing staff, 5 FTEy new staff, 7 FTEy fell/stud/PJAS, 560 kCHF

Summary of the DeskTop Forum Slides provided by Stefan Roiser

Single Sign On Goal is to provide SSO for CERN web applications Current pilot pages are IS service websites e.g. winservices, mmm, cmf, In the future: ais, cds, indico, landb, …

New CERN Alerter New CERN Alerter is RSS based Connect your RSS reader to http://cernalerts.web.cern.ch/cernalerts/alerts.aspx IT documentation available at https://cern.ch/winservices/Help/?kbid=060810

DFS home folder reorganisation New Structure Current Structure Content of the Desktop will be moved to \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto\Desktop Content of the Favorites will be moved to \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto\Favorites Content of \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto will be moved to Documents subfolder with two exceptions: Public folder will stay at the root (implies better security on Documents) www folder will stay at the root Two Vista specific folders will be added Links Contacts

DFS home folder reorganisation Current Situation “Desktop”, “Favorites” and “My Documents” in 3 different locations Benefits “Per folder” quota management Limit connections to DFS servers Compliance with standards Currently optional (https://cern.ch/WinServices/Services/UserAccounts/AccountStatus.aspx - click “Reorganize”) Soon new users will have this layout End of summer all users will be moved Needed for use with Vista!!

A.O.B Registering Official Trips in EDH Backup of local files I would like to remind that people must fill a “official trip leave” request and use the “comment” field to clearly indicate the conference, workshop, meeting, etc. Backup of local files User space in AFS/DFS are normally backup by the IT services You personally need to ensure that valuable files in your local disks (desktop, laptop) are regularly copied or replicated to safe storage