1. SFT Group Meeting March 30 th, 2007 1. SFT Group News Pere Mato 2. Highlights from the ROOT workshopRene Brun 3. From Applications to Appliances Predrag Buncic 4. AOB

2. 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  Stefan Gieseke started mid February for a period of 8 months PDAS to work on Herwig++ Monte Carlo Event Generator program  Danilo Piparo started on February 1st Technical student working on CMS (Vincenzo)  Diego Marcos Segura started beginning January Technical student working on ROOT (Rene)  Visitors Geant4 : Gene David Cooperman from Feb 9th until May 31st Vladimir Uzhinskiy from April 13th until June 2nd ROOT : Valeri Onuchin from April 17th until May 8th Genser Visitors  New fellow arriving April 1st : Piotr Kolet to work on SPI

3. 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 (2) Moves  Andrea Dell’Acqua joined PH-ATO from March 1st  Manuel Gallas joined PH-ATO from March 1st  Hubert Degaudenzi will join LHCb May 1st Departures  Ben Lloyd leaving SFT on April 30th

4. 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 2007 Arrival date Dep. dateNatBirth dateStudentSupervisor Jun 12Aug 31NL12.11.82Roel AijIlka Jul 3Sep 14DE04.03.84Jakob BlomerPredrag Jun 5Aug 17DE17.04.86Bastien Dalla PiazzaOlivier Jul 3Sep 14IT06.07.85Luca D’AvinoAxel Jul 3Sep 28IT12.05.85Andrea MassironiVincenzo Jul 3Sep 21ES25.07.85Marc MontullWitold Jul 3Sep 28HU08.12.83Long Tran ThanhFons

5. 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 Offices Cosmo Kolet

6. 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 Travel The PH department has produced a new duty travel guidelines in order to harmonize the treatment and to reduce expenditure The voluntary rule of travel claims on a lump sum basis should be used as much as possible  For individual trips, the subsistence is defined in a table for the different destinations (Hotel *** + 2 meals)  Encouraging to claim real costs whenever they are less than the subsistence

7. 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 CHEP07 September 2-7 in Victoria, Canada Important dates:  1 March - registration opens  1 April - deadline for abstract submission  16 April - provide complete list of names of candidates  1 May - registration with low conference fee  1 May - deadline for Hotel booking  31 May - last date for informing authors of the abstract submission decisions

8. 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 April 16-20 : Geant4 Review April 23-27 : ACAT 2007 in Amsterdam  Will attend Ilka, Fons, Jan, Lorenzo, Mikhail July 9-11 : EuroPython 2007 in Vilnius, Lithuania  Deadline for talk for proposals : May 18th  Deadline for registration with early bird prices : May 31st Aug 20-31 : CERN School of Computing in Dubrovnik, Croatia  Deadline for CERN to receive full applications (web application, letter of reference and certification form) : May 15th

9. 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 – Quarter 1 CategoriesBudget 2007 Q1% Investment & equipment501020 Consumables100.44 Other operating expenses51.938 Contracts with suppliers50.816 Subsistence24561.725 Travel956.77 Communication51.326 Total415(*)82.820 (*) 430 (fresh money) - 16 (last year overspend)

10. 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 exercise The exercise is progressing smoothly All interviews has been done (to my knowledge)

11. 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 FP7 ITN Initial Training - Marie Curie Networks Call identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN Indicative budget: 240 million E in 2007 Deadline: May 07 at 17:00 Brussels local time Two-stage evaluation procedure with two-stage submission Initial training of early-stage researchers, typically directed at the first four years of researchers careers. Multi-partner Consortia (>=3), but single research organisations can also be considered Industrial involvement is strongly encouraged  Full network partner  Provider of research/training opportunities  Members of the supervisory board of the network

12. 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 PH proposals Particle Detectors [Christian Joram]  Multi-site network proposal to provide training opportunities for young researchers in the field of particle and photon detectors.  Detector simulation also included (G. Cosmo, J. Apostolakis) Scientific Computing [Martti Pimia, Pere Mato]  Single-site proposal around two research topics: Parallelization of software frameworks to exploit multi-core processors Portable analysis environment for the experiments using virtualization technology  Requested 8x3 person-years distributed to the experiments and SFT

13. 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 SFT group visiting CMS - two dates proposed :  Monday 23 rd April at 11.00 am or Monday 30 th April at 11.00 am : select one single date and confirm your participation to Nathalie