SFT Group Meeting May 15th Group NewsPere Mato 2. The CernVM Infrastructure: Insights of a paradigmatic projectCarlos Aguado 3. The new Geant4 test system Victor Diez 4. AOB

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Staff Movements Arrivals Departures  Roberto Gracia left the group in March  Jan Iwaszkiewicz left the group in March

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Summer Students NameBirthDateNat.StartEndNbWeeksSupervisor ATACHIANTS Roman7-Jun-85BE30-Jun-0928-Aug-099KOSOV Mikhail BOYADZHIEV Ivaylo13-Feb-86BG30-Jun-0921-Aug-098APOSTOLAKIS John DUPERTUIS Frederic28-Feb-86CH7-Jul-094-Sep-099IVANTCHENKO Vladimir FLEKOVA Lucie20-Nov-86CZ30-Jun-094-Sep-0910BELLENOT Bertrand GILL Mary-Louise31-Dec-84GB14-Jul-0918-Sep-0910NAUMANN Axel HIDLE Erik9-Dec-85NO9-Jun-0931-Jul-098BUNCIC Predrag ROSKA Radim1-May-85CZ16-Jun-097-Aug-098ROISER Stefan Nathalie will start allocating office space for them Any preference should be communicated to her

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Group summary expenses – 2009 Allocations 2009 : SFT: 420 kCHF WP8, WP9: 50, 80 kCHF LCG (PJAS): Not yet decided (*) not yet completed

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s MARS 2009 Exercise It is completed from our side  Very smooth exercise although quite a lot of work mainly for the written documents  Thanks to everybody that participated ! Decisions to be communicated during July  Individual notification letters for all exceptional advancements  Official notification via pay-slip

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s CHEP Statistics March 2009 Prague, Czech Republic 14 People from the SFT participated (50%) 2 Plenary talks 8 Oral presentation in parallel sessions 8 Posters Overall a very important and influential contribution Thanks!

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Forthcoming Events Cern School of Computing, August 2009, Göttingen, Germany  Axel, Bertrand, Predrag and Pere will be teaching  Ana, Victor, Danielle, Gabriele, Carlos have applied NEC'2009, 7-14 September 2009, Varna, Bulgaria  Rene will participate IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA  ???

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s New Project Associates Rules The purpose of the new rules is to align with the rules of Paid Associates  From January 2010 maximum association period is 3 years (no more extensions up to 5 years related to LHC construction)  Two years gap after 3 years of PJAS contract (pro-rata)  Additional subsistence if spouse accompanies him/her regardless of other possible incomes

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Linear Collider Detector Studies New group in the PH department LCD (Lucie Linssen) Built-up a collaboration with other institutes to address the physics and detector options for a CLIC machine in the energy range from 500 GeV to 3 TeV. This activity is carried out in close collaboration with the world-wide linear collider physics community, which historically has focused on ILC. Participation in core software developments for the linear collider physics/detector studies by providing common interfaces and software tools (hosted in PH-SFT)  Discussions have been initiated with the ILC concepts on common solutions for the exchange of detector descriptions, event models, I/O formats and digitization packages.  These will be the subjects of a common software workshop to be held at CERN in May 2009  A Fellow has been requested for the May committee

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s Relay Race Better than last year!!  ‘Running Bugs’ 41/ ’ 22’’ ( /76 – 13’ 53’’)  ‘Running Exceptions’ 56/ ’ 45’’ Photo 

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s A.O.B Dr Dobbs magazine has stopped  It is now published as Dr Dobbs report (monthly) integrated in the Information Week magazine (weekly)  Cancelled subscription Workroom  Noticeable the increase of ‘foreigners’ using the resources (bulk printing, water)  We need to pay a bit of attention and ‘kindly’ remind people that the room is for the SFT group  We could try to lock the room over nights and weekends