1. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden1 IT Divisional Meeting u IT Reorganization u IT Internal Mobility and Open Positions u LCG Priorities for 2003 (Les Robertson) u Service Priorities for 2003 (Frédéric Hemmer) u Questions and Answers 28 February 2003

2. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden2 IT reorganization u Reasons: u LCG established in 2002, adjustments needed u Successful creation of EP-SFT group, impact on IT-API u Goals: u Optimize services related to CERN’s Tier 0 and Tier 1 role u Establish global services to support LCG world-wide u Streamline EDG – LCG u Prepare for EGEE proposal and transition u Sort out a few “loose ends” u Only major changes are reported today

3. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden3 IT Divisional Management u Division Leader’s Office (DLO): u Division Leader: Wolfgang von Rüden u Deputy Division Leader: Frédéric Hemmer u Divisional Planning Officer: Judy Richards u LCG Project Leader: Les Robertson u Special Tasks: u EDG & EGEE Project Leader:Fabrizio Gagliardi u HR Coordinator:Ricarda Betzing (HR) u Ombudsman:David Underhill u Safety Officer:Tony Cass u Technology Transfer Officer:François Fluckiger u Training Officer:François Fluckiger

4. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden4 API moves to EP u Motivation was to have all applications people working in one team and geographically together u Apart from a few exceptions, all API people will move to EP-SFT and building 32 u Most resources move as well, some stay with the LCG project management u Existing obligations, including to non-LHC experiments, move with the people u Effective date is 1 st March u Thanks to J. Knobloch and J. Harvey for the detailed preparation and for the smooth transition

5. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden5 API moves to EP - exceptions u J. Knobloch joins the LCG management team u L. Besson stays in IT working on licencing u M. Goossens, now major role in Staff Association u M. Lamanna joins the LCG Grid Technology Area u E. McIntosh moves to PS group (accelerator physics support) u I. Papadopoulos moves to DB group (Pool) u B. Rousseau moves to EST Division (EDMS) Big thanks to all API group members for the excellent work done in the previous years and the acceptance to change Division. All the best for the coming years.

6. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden6 Local Physics Services u Concerns all services related to the running of the farms (lxplus, lxbatch, lxshare, disk servers, HSM services, …) u Ideally in one group, but would be too big (>50 people) u Two groups: ADC and FIO u DS group is split between them u AFS and Castor development now in ADC u Data Services now in FIO u Monitoring (incl. EDG WP4) in FIO u O. Bärring takes over from J.-P. Baud as Castor project leader Thanks to DS team for the reliable running of vital IT services and the innovations. Special thanks to Jean-Philippe Baud for the outstanding work done for Castor.

7. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden7 Architecture and Data Challenges Group (ADC) u Group Leader: Bernd Panzer-Steindel u Deputy: Jan Iven u Sections: u Linux Expertise (LE): Jan Iven (10) u Castor and AFS (CA): Rainer Többicke (7) u Openlab (OL): Sverre Jarp (3 + ?)

8. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden8 Fabric Infrastructure and Operations (FIO) u Group Leader: Tony Cass u Deputy: Tim Smith u Sections: u Data Services (DS): Harry Renshall (5) u Fabric Services (FS): Tim Smith (10) u Supervision & Monitoring (SM): Helge Meinhard (8) u Sys Admin & Operations (SAO): Vincent Doré (6 + n) u Insourcing of System Management is under way, replacing the SERCo contract, initially 6 positions, funded via M->P.

9. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden9 Global Physics Services (LCG) u Grid Deployment (GD) group created u Group Leader: Ian Bird u Deputy: Zdenek Sekera u Sections: u Certification and Testing (CT): Zdenek Sekera (7+3) u Grid Infrastructure Support (GIS): Markus Schulz (3+4) u Experiment Integration and Support (EIS): Flavia Donno (acting) (2+3) u Coordination of external grid deployment groups and collaborative projects

10. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden10 Additional Personnel Changes u Per Hagen transfers to AT Division u Giulio Morpurgo moves from AT Division to IT-CO group u Several IT internal changes, see DMM web page for details on personnel move, updated regularly by our DAO u A few more cases are pending

11. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden11 IT Internal Mobility (1) u Definition: Internal Mobility means moving from a funded position into an open and funded position within the Division. u The group left with a “hole” either gets another “free electron” or hires a new person u Transitions are done in a coordinated fashion, paying attention to the continuation of services u It is NOT a “free lunch”. The new GL pays and has therefore a saying. (the same rules also apply to inter-Divisional moves, unless the task moves with the person)

12. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden12 IT Internal Mobility (2) u IT group leaders have made their personnel requests to the Division Leader’s Office to u Replace departing colleagues, either retirement or end of contract u Fulfill new tasks u Close gaps created by reallocation of people to other groups u Total of about 40 requests (not FTEs), but still more than we can afford; several already satisfied by re-arrangements u Rather than filling all positions with new hires, good occasion for IT internal mobility

13. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden13 IT Internal Mobility (3) u Allocation of positions will be in 3 phases: u Phase 1 (now): Allocate priority 1 slots (~12) u Phase 2 (1 month): Allocate priority 2 slots (~3-6) u Phase 3:Long-term priorities u Following the LD review of last year and as announced already last December, IT opens two, possibly three, FT positions u One in DB group (now) u One in DI for LCG, Grid Technology Area (now) u A third position is under discussion (external networking)

14. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden14 Open Positions (12) u 3 FT positions already mentioned u Castor development (ADC) u Network technician (CS) u DB applications development (DB) u Service Manager (FIO) u Mass Storage Expert (FIO) u Problem tracking (FIO) u Windows services (IS) u Web services (IS) u Administration/Human Resources (DI) Short job descriptions are on our IT web pages under “Job Opportunities” http://cern.ch/it-div/jobs/

15. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden15 Physics Services

16. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden16 Physics Services: maintaining the current service, while migrating to the LHC Grid Cluster Operation Linux Expertise WAN LAN Database Services data storage services CASTOR AFS LXPLUS LXBATCH LHC experiments fixed target experiments

17. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden17 LCG Priorities for 2003 u Establish the LHC Grid as an operational service u Establish a plan for the middleware required for Phase 2 u base functionality & performance u identify suppliers and maintainers u Initial object persistency release u POOL and ROOT I/O u Distributed production environment u integrating experiment specific code with common applications services u portal services for grid middleware services u Integration of the simulation activities u validation activity  development priorities for LHC u GEANT4 - FLUKA - MC generators LCG

18. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden18 LCG service development timeline u 1H03 – development of the basic service u uses tools from VDT (US) and EDG u service definition u establish certification, distribution & support processes u 2H03 - LCG-1 service ramp-up u batch service – used for simulated event productions u basic data management u work on reliability, availability, operability u develop operations centre, call centre u improve scaling, data movement performance u 2004 - LCG-2 the principal service for data challenges  computing model TDRs due end 2004 u 2005 – LCG-3 the full LCG Pilot u fulfill basic requirements u initial experience with interactive analysis  Technical Design Report for Phase 2 – mid-2005 Pilot service progressively takes over from the EDG testbed. Integration of mass storage services. LXBATCH integrated into the LHC Grid service e.g. the analysis phase of CMS DC04 LCG

19. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden19 Grid Middleware for Phase 2 (2006-08) We need solid implementations of middleware adapted to the LHC grid model of data-intensive utility computing NOT HEP-specific, evolving towards standards, open to industrial components Medium term – looking to publicly funded middleware u EGEE and ITR proposals - complementary projects u EGEE - European 6 th Framework call for grid infrastructure for science - Solid (hardened, re-engineered) middleware - Operation of a core grid infrastructure in Europe u ATLAS/CMS/ALICE proposal for NSF/ITR grid funding - Collaborative tools for analysis groups - knowledge management, human interfaces u proposals to be completed by May u Working assumption u EGEE will provide the follow-on functionality that we are using from the EDG toolkit u The EGEE infrastructure will grow out of the LCG-1 infrastructure LCG

20. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden20 From EDG to LCG EDG applications testbed LCG Pilot Service LCG-1 ServiceLCG-2 Service 200320042005 LCG-3 Service EGEE middleware development LCG-1 will take over the role of applications testbed when it comes on line We hope that EGEE will continue the work of middleware development started by EDG EDG middleware development LCG

21. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden21 Object Persistency Services 2003 is a critical year u In the first four releases POOL has delivered the expected functionality on time. u Internal project structure is working well and release cycles are getting smoother with each release u POOL is tightly integrated with (and dependent on) other LCG projects – SEAL, SPI, ROOT – and with EDG Data Management services u Next releases: V1.0-functionality (April) and V1.1-reliability & performance (June) will be crucial for POOL acceptance by the experiments as part of the LCG-1 service u We must develop this year the storage services that underlie the POOL software LCG

22. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden22 Service Priorities

23. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden23 Service Priorities for 2003 (1) u Continue to run existing services, we highlight major service changes today: u Security u Portable computer registration; close insecure protocols; virus scans; home computer protection; trivial passwords; take into account LCG needs u “Helpdesk” u Continue to regain credibility from our users u Accurate FAQ’s, consistent workflow for the whole Division; searching, IT Web u Requires inter-group collaboration u Understand local support issues u Understand the impact of LCG u Wrap-up on NICE 95/NT u Project is now 32 months old

24. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden24 Service Priorities for 2003 (2) u Migration to new “Mail” services - MMM u Security; Collaboration; World-wide access u Get away of home built solutions u Reduce costs u “CCDB” u Need to progress on this u Take into account LCG needs u LHC communication infrastructure u GSM in LHC, re-tendering, understand and reduce the costs u Network basic services installation u Desktop Support contract re-tendering u Impact in case of contractor change u Many other planned changes, usually well understood u E.g.: RH7 migration, EDMS, Technical network, Euclid, Backups, PABX upgrade, etc.

25. IT Divisional MeetingF. Hemmer, L. Robertson, W. von Rüden25 Thank you ! Questions & Answers