1. 1 PH/SFT Group Meeting John Harvey September 8 th, 2004

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 2 Agenda PH/SFT News (JH)  PH/SFT staff movements  Students, Fellows, Associates Committee Dates  Skills and talents inventory (STI)  Status of CHEP04  Next Meeting News from PH and LCG management bodies (JJB) Summer Student Reports  Hans Moritz GUENTHER (15') ( transparencies )transparencies  Anna CIMMINO (15')  Umberto DI MEGLIO (15')  Jacob GROTH-JENSEN (15')  Carsten HOF (15')  David LAMBERT (15')  Ernesto RIVERA CAMACHO (15')

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 3 PH/SFT Staff Movements Leaving  7/04 Eddy Offerman  9/04 Marte Hatlo  9/04 Frank Harris  9/04 Fabiola Gianotti Starting  06/04 Anna Kreshuk (ROOT - visitor)  08/04 Johanne Benard (SPI – EGEE/CNRS)  08/04 Andras Zsenei (Mathlib – CERN Fellow)  09/04 Torbjorn Sjostrand (Simulation - CERN PDSA)  10/04 Richard Maunder (ROOT – CERN PJAS)

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 4 Dates of Students, Fellows, Associates Committees CommitteeApplication DeadlineCommittee Meeting Fellows2 September 2004 3 March 2005 5 September 2005 23 November 2004 31 May 2005 22 November 2005 Associates13 September 2004 11 March 2005 19 September 2005 23 November 2004 31 May 2005 22 November 2005 TS/DS # 16 July 2004 14 October 2004 18 February 2005 15 July 2005 14 October 2005 14 September 2004 7 December 2004 19 April 2005 13 September 2005 6 December 2005 # ongoing discussion to give more flexibility to groups to take more students

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 5 Skills and Talents Inventory (STI) The STI project was described in letter from DG and also in the Weekly Bulletin (No. 33/2004)  http://ais.cern.ch./apps/sti http://ais.cern.ch./apps/sti Three information sessions were held during the summer  ~ 700 staff attended Last information session will be held next week 16 September 2004 - TH amphitheatre (4-3-006), 10h30 – 12h00 N.B. likely that room will be changed to main auditorium The database has been in production for about 1 month 19% of CERN staff have submitted an entry so far Every staff member is asked to make their entry by end Sept 2004 Automatic reminders will be sent by email Please make your entry as soon as possible

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 6 STI – Experience so far Select skills from the ‘Competency Model’  Domain (12), Skill, Specialization For example : Domain 7 – Information Technology  Skill 1 – Application development Specialization 4 : Modeling and simulation (e.g. GEANT, …)  …..  Skill 9 – Software development technologies Specialization 1 : object oriented languages (e.g. C++, Java,..)  Skill 10 – System Management Specialization 12 – web server management Competency model is being used correctly  only 7% ‘other’

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 7 STI – Experience so far "Expert" level is being over-used.  About 24% of the 1310 specializations validated so far are given the "Expert" level.  The ‘Expert’ level is reserved for people who are ‘able to innovate or to make forward moves in a domain’.  “Experts” develop concepts or theories. They teach the subject.  Do you fulfil the definition given on : ask themselves honestly if  do you fulfill the definition given on : http://ais.cern.ch/apps/sti/faq_e.html#2.7 http://ais.cern.ch/apps/sti/faq_e.html#2.7

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 8 Status of CHEP04 – Kursaal, Interlaken 27th September - 1st October, 2004CHEP04

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 9 CHEP04 status Full programme is available on the CHEP04 web site  http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=0 http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=0  … and is currently at the print shop Registered delegates 453 (expect ~470) Abstracts submitted 533 Plenary talks 32 (5 mornings) Parallel tracks 7 (3 afternoons)  Parallel talks 222 Poster sessions 3 (3 mornings 1 hour each)  posters 187 1 BOF session – ‘Semantic web applications in HEP’

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 10 SFT Oral Presentations ANTCHEVA Ilka - Guidelines for Developing a Good GUI [id. 169]Guidelines for Developing a Good GUI APOSTOLAKIS John - Geant4: status and recent developments [314]Geant4: status and recent developments GALLAS Manuel - Quality Assurance and Testing in LCG [361]Quality Assurance and Testing in LCG GANIS Gerardo - Authentication/Security services in the ROOT framework [104]Authentication/Security services in the ROOT framework GIANOTTI Fabiola Physics Validation of the LHC Software [510]Physics Validation of the LHC Software MONETA Lorenzo - Developments of Mathematical Software Libraries for the LHC experiments [268]Developments of Mathematical Software Libraries for the LHC experiments PFEIFFER Andreas - Software management infrastructure in the LCG Application Area [241]Software management infrastructure in the LCG Application Area RADEMAKERS Fons - Global Distributed Parallel Analysis using PROOF and AliEn [430]Global Distributed Parallel Analysis using PROOF and AliEn RIBON Alberto - Physics validation of the simulation packages in a LHC-wide effort [493]Physics validation of the simulation packages in a LHC-wide effort ROISER Stefan - The SEAL C++ Reflection System [222]The SEAL C++ Reflection System SCHMUECKER Helmut - Optimizing Selection Performance on Scientific Data by utilizing Bitmap Indices [160]Optimizing Selection Performance on Scientific Data by utilizing Bitmap Indices Presentations to be uploaded before start of conference

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 11 SFT Poster Presentations ANTCHEVA Ilka - The User Interface Design in ROOT [170]The User Interface Design in ROOT BRUN Rene - The ROOT Linear Algebra Package [303]The ROOT Linear Algebra Package FOLGER Gunter - The Binary Cascade [256]The Binary Cascade PERRIN Yves - The LCG Savannah software development portal [384]The LCG Savannah software development portal PFEIFFER Andreas - Status and Plans of the LCG PI Project [240]Status and Plans of the LCG PI Project POINSIGNON Eric - Managing third-party software for the LCG Application Area project [277]Managing third-party software for the LCG Application Area project Posters can be prepared with help of CERN print shop (Building 510)  please contact Nathalie who will coordinate with print shop Posters to be handed it at the registration desk Papers (oral/poster) to be uploaded before the end of the conference

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 Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 12 Next SFT Group Meeting Friday Oct 15 th 10h00 -12h00 Wolfgang von Rueden invited He will inform us of new and on-going activities in IT  Openlab  Security  …. Plus opportunity for discussion Suggestions for additional topics are welcome