1. SFT Group Meeting July 13th , 2007
SFT Group News Pere Mato
PHYSTAT-LHC Workshop Highlights Louis Lyons
AOB

2. Staff Movements Arrivals
Zoltan Torzsok has jointed the group at the beginning of July as Technical Student supervised by Witek
Summer Students
The group is hosting 12 students (7 funded by the CERN Summer Student program)
9 students have already arrived

3. Summer Students 2007 Arrival date Dep. date Student Supervisor Office
Jun 12
Aug 31
Roel Aaij
Ilka
32/R-B15
Jul 3
Sep 14
Jakob Blomer
Predrag
Jun 5
Aug 17
Bastien Dalla Piazza
Olivier
Luca D’Avino
Axel
32/R-C19
Sep 28
Andrea Massironi
Vincenzo
40/3-A28
Sep 21
Marc Montull
Witold
2/R-021
Long Tran Thanh
Fons/Gerry
32/R-C17
Jul 2
Sep 7
Luana Micallef
Stefan
32/R-C09
Jul 16
Magdalena Slawinska
Lorenzo
32/R-C24
Aug 6
Sep 30
Tony Poll
Pere
32/R-B03
Vladymyrov Mykhailo
Vladimir I.
Lukas Lindross
Gabriele

4. Summer Student Presentations
Special group meeting on Tuesday 11th September at 10:00 in 32/1-A24
Each student should prepare a small presentation (15 minutes maximum) with few slides (12 maximum) or demo with the work that she/he has been doing
If not possible due to early departure we will have to find other arrangements with the supervisor

5. Forthcoming events
CERN School of Computing, August in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Participation: Axel Naumann(teacher), Bertrand Bellenot(teacher), Diego Marcos
CHEP 07, September 2-7 in Victoria, Canada
Participation: Olivier Couet, Lorenzo Moneta, Fons Rademakers, Rene Brun, Vladimir Ivantchenko, Leandro Franco, John Harvey, Pere Mato
Talk rehearsals should be organized end of August
NEC’2007, September in Varna, Bulgaria
Participation: Pere Mato
Geant4 Collaboration Workshop, September 2007 in Hebden Bridge (UK)
Participation of the complete Geant4 team

6. Group summary expenses – Quarter 2
Categories
Budget 2007 Q1 Q2
Total %
Investment & equipment 50 10
7.7
17.7 35
Consumables
0.4
2.8
3.2 32
Other operating expenses 5
1.9
0.6
2.5
Contracts with suppliers
0.8
3.4
4.2 84
Subsistence
245
61.7
58.8
120.5 49
Travel 95
6.7 41
47.7
Communication
1.3 1
2.3 46
415(*)
82.8
115
198 48
(*) 430 (fresh money) - 16 (last year overspend)

7. PH MARS Results 2 band changes from Ga to Gb
7 band changes from Fb to Fc
8 career path changes from E to F
Awarded to Staff in Career path A to E:
17 career path changes
22 band changes
2 extensions into ECE
Steps granted to Senior & General Staff (including band and career path changes):
3 staff members received 6 steps (P+5)
15 staff members received 5 steps (P+4)
41 staff members received 4 steps (P+3)
114 staff members received 3 steps (P+2)
168 staff members received 2 steps (P+1)
138 staff members received 1 step (Periodical)

8. SPC/Council
The SPC/FC/Council document: “Scientific Activities of CERN and Budget Estimates for the Years ” was discussed by SPC/FC/Council in the June session
The plan and the corresponding resources requests were approved.
For PH it corresponds to:
LHC experiments 24 MCHF
Operation: Manpower 117 FTE-Years (3 years)
Material MCHF (4 years)
R&D : Manpower 33 FTE-Years
Material MCHF

9. SFT proposals for R&D (2008-2011)
P7 - Parallelization of Software Frameworks to exploit Multi-core Processors
Objective: Assessment of technology and adaptation of existing software frameworks in collaboration with LHC experiments
Deliverables: Existing software frameworks in the LHC experiments adapted and optimized to run in multi-core processors
Resources: 3 FTEy existing staff, 3 FTEy new staff, 6.5 FTEy fell/stud/PJAS, 450 kCHF
P8 - Portable Analysis Environment using Virtualization Technology
Objective: Assessment of virtualization technology and development of portable analysis environments for the LHC experiments
Deliverables: Development of "Virtual Appliances" to provide a complete data analysis environment specialized for each of the LHC experiments
Resources: 2.5 FTEy existing staff, 5 FTEy new staff, 7 FTEy fell/stud/PJAS, 560 kCHF

10. Summary of the DeskTop Forum
Slides provided by Stefan Roiser

11. Single Sign On Goal is to provide SSO for CERN web applications
Current pilot pages are IS service websites e.g. winservices, mmm, cmf,
In the future: ais, cds, indico, landb, …

12. New CERN Alerter New CERN Alerter is RSS based
Connect your RSS reader to
IT documentation available at

13. DFS home folder reorganisation
New Structure
Current Structure
Content of the Desktop will be moved to \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto\Desktop
Content of the Favorites will be moved to \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto\Favorites
Content of \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\r\rotto will be moved to Documents subfolder with two exceptions:
Public folder will stay at the root (implies better security on Documents)
www folder will stay at the root
Two Vista specific folders will be added
Links
Contacts

14. DFS home folder reorganisation
Current Situation
“Desktop”, “Favorites” and “My Documents” in 3 different locations
Benefits
“Per folder” quota management
Limit connections to DFS servers
Compliance with standards
Currently optional ( - click “Reorganize”)
Soon new users will have this layout
End of summer all users will be moved
Needed for use with Vista!!

15. A.O.B Registering Official Trips in EDH Backup of local files
I would like to remind that people must fill a “official trip leave” request and use the “comment” field to clearly indicate the conference, workshop, meeting, etc.
Backup of local files
User space in AFS/DFS are normally backup by the IT services
You personally need to ensure that valuable files in your local disks (desktop, laptop) are regularly copied or replicated to safe storage