1. Project: Accelerators IT Infrastructure Support and Installation
By Ruurd Kuipers and Maria Føyen
Maria

2. The Cern Control Centre
Location: Prévessin, France. Built in 2008.
Objective: To centralize the Accelerator controls.
Shape?
Structure:
PS and Booster Island
SPS Island
LHC Island
Technical infrastructure Island (Our workplace)
Focus beam
Maria

3. What did we do? Day 1: Introduction and carton recycling (Important!)
Day 4: Repair Enzo’s airplane engine.
Day 7: Configuration of CCC servers (BIOS)
Started off with no qualifications:
How to install computers and adaptors
How to configure servers through BIOS
The basics of Accelerator System and Infrastructures
Ruurd

4. What did we do? Introduced to: Optical fibre cable maintenance
The drone club
Ping pong
Other tasks:
Install USB adaptors and operating systems,
Connect and configure new CCC servers,
Beat Enzo in chess!!!
Maria

5. Our challenges In general: Enzo: Taught the hard way
We had little experience (Relatable?)
Specifically:
Identifying problems (f.ex PC installation & fixing model plane)
Playing ping pong against physicists...
Ruurd

6. Looking at the future of CERN
Dependent on global support, politically and economically,
Important to stay ambitious,
Important to stay ahead technologically,
Would come back in the future!
Maria

7. Advice to future HSSIP students:
Do not raise your expectations, be open minded!
Learn fast!
Enjoy :)
Ruurd

8. References: We would like to thank: Enzo Mikael To you for listening!!
Maria og Ruurd