EP SFT Group Meeting June 20 th 2003 SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

SFT staff movements  Visitor - Prof. Louis Lyons till Aug 7 th  PDSA – David Quarrie starts July 1 st  PJAS – Evgueni Tchernaiev stops June 30 th  PJAS - Mikhail Kosov starts July 1 st  Applied Fellows Giuseppe Daquino - Geant4 event biasing Oliver Link – Geant4/Analysis, starts July 1 st Stefan Roiser – SEAL, starts Oct 1 st  Summer students Summer students SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

SFT Web  Web – new information SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

SFT Library  Please submit books to Nathalie who will : 1.register them in database 2.put stickers on them 3.store them in a ‘public’ place when you have finished with them  Please consider registering and sharing the books you already have SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

Offices – Bat 32/R-B&C SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

Offices – Bat 2/ R- SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

Budget SFT News  staff movements  web, library  Offices  Budget General News Future Events AOB

CERN News – Restructuring  New DG is presenting his views on how to organise CERN to CERN Council today  Will impact on existing structure sectors, divisions etc.  News from Council will be given by EP DL at next Tuesday’s EP Senior Staff Meeting  DG :’details to be elaborated in discussion over next 6 months’ SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

Project News – Geant 4 CA Spokesperson Review Committees Oversight Board  resource providers  monitor progress  organise reviews Steering Board  WG leaders  Take scientific and technical decisions  Manage workplan Technical Forum  developers and users  open discussion on requirements, priorities, and implementation issues Working Group Users SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

Project News - EGEE  Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe  ‘..aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic grid efforts to create a seamless European grid infrastructure for the European Research area.’  Copy of proposal (270 p.) available SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

EGEE - Mission  to deliver production level grid services  to carry out a grid middleware re- engineering activity  outreach and training to new research communities SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

EGEE - partners SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

EGEE - CERN  Services (I. Bird)New posts Totals operations7 core infrastructure5 operatiuons management517  Middleware (F. Hemmer) data management5 integration team5 testing centre515  ‘Networking’ (EP-SFT) HEP applications4 4 SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

EGEE Schedule (2003)  May 6– submission date  July 1 – presentation in Brussels  July – Start preparation of contract  Jan project start  Small committee to oversee interactions of EGEE/LCG projects Ruden,Gagliardi,Robertson,Richards,Hemmer, JH LCG provides Operation PL to EGEE (Bird) EGEE provides M’ware (GTA) PL to LCG (Hemmer) SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

FOCUS - Forum On Computing: Users and Services  EP-SFT now represented on this committee by JH  Role is to look at the implementation, defining, running, and ultimately phasing out of IT services on the CERN site  Last meeting June 5thJune 5th  Next Meeting October 2ndOctober 2nd SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

FOCUS – Windows Terminal Service Windows Terminal Service SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

FOCUS- Pilot PC Rental Scheme Pilot PC Rental Scheme Package NameDescriptionContract FeeMonthly FeeMinimum Contract RP-PCStandard PC Desktop100 CHF30 CHF6 Months RP-PCENGStandard PC Engineering100 CHF52 CHF6 Months RP-PCLAPStandard PC Laptop100 CHF124 CHF1 Year RP-PC15LCD Standard PC Desktop & LCD 15" 100 CHF45 CHF6 Months RP-PCENG21CRT Standard PC Engineering & CRT 21" 100 CHF78 CHF6 Months SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

More News from FOCUS  Mac Support Support information issued at last Desktop Forum Support information Following serious break-ins the following actions are planned:  AFS password expiry enforced Passwords must be changed at least once per year Users informed by 30 days before expiry  Hardware address registration enforced for portables CERN users register at Visitors request temporary access via a web form Remember to register wireless card SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

Hardware address registration for portables using DHCP CERN Users  Register hardware address(es) for portables and select “Register Portable” Requires a NICE account and internal network access External Visitors  Fill out a web form to request visitor accessweb form Contact data, Hardware Address(es), Start date, Duration (1-4 weeks), CERN contact  CERN contact receives an Can accept/refuse responsibility for the visitor Signature requires a NICE account and internal network access Unsigned requests are cancelled after 5 days  Hardware address(es) accepted by DHCP servers Goal is approx 5 mins after request accepted by CERN contact SFT News General News  CERN  Projects  FOCUS Future Events AOB

Future Events  June 30 – July 4 : AIDA Workshop  July : Grid Computing School  July 7 - Aug 2 : Workshop on Monte Carlo tools for the LHC  Aug 24 – 6 Sep : CERN Computing School SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events  Sept LHCC review of manpower for computing in experiments 4 half-days LHC experiments 1 half day understanding LCG App Area (scope) 3 half days to prepare the conclusions  Membership LHCC : Tsemelis, Calvetti, Gomez, McBride, Panman, Ferroni CERN : IT/EP DLs or deputies, HFH, RC External : Wolbers, Gerhard, Geddes SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events  Sept 2-6 : Geant 4 collaboration meeting John Apostolakis Hans Peter Wellisch Gabriele Cosmo Gunter Folger Vladimir Ivantchenko Alberto Ribon Sergei Sadilov Mikhail Kosov - tbc SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events  Nov LCG Workshop, CERN no details yet  December 1-5 : ACAT Tsukuba IX International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events  September CHEP04 hosted by CERN– W von Rueden chair Local Organising Committee  chair A. Silverman  possible sites – Montreux, Interlaken, Davos Programme Committee  chair J.Harvey  with strong participation from EP-SFT International Advisory Committee SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events - SFT group meetings  Friday July 25 th a.m. - 32/1-A24  Friday August 29 th – 32/1-A24  Topics – suggestions welcome visit to Atlas pit visits to various detector assembly areas visit to computer centre presentations ? SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events  Summer Barbecue July 10 th – La Chenaille, starting 7 pmLa Chenaille ‘Entourage’ invited LCG Applications Area colleagues invited Please register with Nathalie Contributions welcome  10 Euros or 15 CHF per adult  children no charge SFT News General News Future Events AOB

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