Electronic Systems Support EPTAB 7 Electronics Pool Status Report 6 December 2004 Chris Parkman Catherine Moine

1 December cp EPTAB7 2 Personnel changes Retirements Gilbert Dumont – end May Power supplies, crates, measurement instruments, etc., etc. Albert Zimmer – end June Pool reception Recruitment Ex-industrial support Bertrand Smaniotto – Pool administration Alain Guy – Instruments New Clement Richard – Pool reception, maintenance Ex-CERN apprentice, 3 year LD, LS contract Started 1 December 2004 Paid from Pool funds Guy & Richard

1 December cp EPTAB7 3 Reduced opening hours 10: :00, 14: :00 In any case these were the most popular times Help given out of these hours on request.

1 December cp EPTAB7 4 New financial conditions Approved by Cashmore November 2003 Simplified conditions for Rental Calculated from the real cost Purchase + maintenance (verification & repair) Adjusted annually Compensation 100% of purchase price for first year -10%/year to minimum of 10% Resales Market value See “Electronics Pool User’s Guide”

1 December cp EPTAB7 5 Pool rental “freeze” For experiments not wishing to dismantle during shut-down “Freeze” conditions 18% of normal rental (~overhead costs) No use, no movements, no support NA49, Cosmics, Dirac Offered to the LHC experiments

1 December cp EPTAB7 6 Financial status - end 2004 Income: 2.2 MCHF Maintenance: 250 kCHF Manpower: 80 k CHF Investment: 1 MCHF TOTAL: 870 kCHF Manpower for 2005 ~200 kCHF Investment carry-over ~670 kCHF

1 December cp EPTAB7 7 Investments JTAG hardware17’400 Agilent LCR Meter16’100 CAEN HV225’000 CAEN Front end120’000 Wiener CAMAC-PCI10’000 CAEN USB-VME bridge35’000 CAEN EASY (LV PS)82’000 Wiener PL500 (LV PS)140’000 Keithley Sourcemeter50’000 Gossen PS42’500 Delta PS ’000 Agilent Pulse generator70’000 Lecroy Scopes126’000 Total980’000

1 December cp EPTAB7 8 Migration to BAAN400 First stage complete Same instance as CERN Stores Water-tight from Stores accounting, etc. Improved monthly billing procedure, No further need for database support in ESS Group One full-time equivalent database engineer position redeployed into technical support role

1 December cp EPTAB7 9 Electronic reservation Work by IT/AIS Ensures that budget accounts are valid and provisioned EDH signature chain Allows off-line work by Pool reception Better preparation Requires a different approach by users Planning! “Self-service” still available Web site

Electronic Systems Support The Pool > 2004

1 December cp EPTAB7 11 Where to go Critical size With given resources, Pool can handle certain level of “business” We need to keep that level up to ensure best use of resources and survival of the service Laboratory instruments? Principal (sole?) supplier of instruments To PH, to CERN? Modular electronics Coherent product lines in NIM and VME Modules Housings What next? Power supplies HV LV

1 December cp EPTAB7 12 Purchases of ‘scopes CERNPool (kCHF) % 20001’ % % % % %

1 December cp EPTAB7 13 Income > 2005 Guesstimate - Best case? Assumes that some experiments will keep equipment in place at “overhead” rate of 18% Guess! Resumption of LHC test activity at 2004 levels, no fixed target and other users continuing at 2004 levels Overhead 13% Overhead 19% Overhead 20%

1 December cp EPTAB7 14 Electronics Pool Technical Advisory Board Mandate EPTAB advises the ESS Group Leader on the technical profile of the Electronics Pool (types and mix of equipment) and on the choice of individual items of equipment Future Given the demise of the EAB, Dieter Schlatter has asked me to proposed a broader mandate for a committee to cover the mandate of EPTAB and that part of the EAB mandate concerned with the Pool. Also to include representatives of the wider user community (CERN users)

1 December cp EPTAB7 15 EPTAB Members act Ad personum As representatives of the experiments As representatives of their groups Thank you for your help We will need more of your time to best define investments