1. SFT Group Meeting July 3rd 2009 1. Group NewsPere Mato 2. Proposal for the new group web infrastructure Yves Perrin 3. Parallelizing Gaudi applications Eoin Smith 4. Improvements to the CernVM File System Jacob Blomer 5. 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  Vladimir Uzhinskiy has rejoined the group as PJAS in June 15th  Andrea Dotti has joined as Fellow in July. He will be working in Geant4 with John A.  Bartolomeu Rabacal joined as Trainee on July 1 st. He will be working on ROOT/Math with Lorenzo  5 out of 7 Summer Students have already arrived Next arrivals  Juha Hollanti will join in July 15th as Stagaire to work with Yves  Astrid Muennich will join us in September to work for LC Detector studies

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 Summer Students NameNat.StartEndNbWeeksSupervisor ATACHIANTS RomanBE30-Jun-0928-Aug-099KOSOV Mikhail BOYADZHIEV IvayloBG30-Jun-0921-Aug-098APOSTOLAKIS John DUPERTUIS FredericCH7-Jul-094-Sep-099IVANTCHENKO Vladimir FLEKOVA LucieCZ30-Jun-094-Sep-0910BELLENOT Bertrand GILL Mary-LouiseGB14-Jul-0918-Sep-0910NAUMANN Axel HIDLE ErikNO9-Jun-0931-Jul-098BUNCIC Predrag ROSKA RadimCZ16-Jun-097-Aug-098ROISER Stefan

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 Offices (*) Cosmo Kolet Aguado Gonzalez Perrin Nikitina Tsagri Rabacal Free Folger (*) Only indicating people with long-term occupancy SmithGaspa r Diez Blomer Camellini Kruse

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 Uzhinskiy Ribon Genser visitors Free Dotti Kosov

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 Group summary expenses – 2009 Allocations 2009 : SFT: 420 kCHF WP8, WP9: 50, 80 kCHF

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 MARS 2009 Summary in PH Band changes from Ga to Gb: 2 (CERN =3) Career path changes from Fc to Ga: 1 (C=6) Band changes from Fb to Fc: 4 (C= 9) Promotion into ECE to Fe 1 (C=3) Career path changes from E to F: 8 (C=29) Other CP changes A to D : 7 (C=39) Band changes b→c: 9 (C=81)

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 MARS 2009 Summary in PH (2) Steps (normalized to eligible staff) StepsPH (%)CERN (%) 123.825.0 245.745.3 327.425.7 43.13.5 500.4

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 Forthcoming Events Cern School of Computing, 17-28 August 2009, Göttingen, Germany  Axel, Bertrand, Predrag and Pere will be teaching  Ana, Victor, Danielle, Gabriele, Carlos have applied NEC'2009, 7-14 September 2009, Varna, Bulgaria  Rene will participate IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 25-31 October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA  1 paper submitted

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 MTP strategy (1) LHC  Exploitation of LHC in its nominal luminosity Increased allocation to accelerators of 15 MCHF p.a.  Preparation for long operational lifetime Consolidation Program of up to 200 MCHF, so far 25 MCHF p.a.  First stage Luminosity Upgrade planned for 2014 Linac4, New Inner triplets, CERN part of detectors  R&D/studies for second stage upgrade (PS2, SPL and detectors)  Increase of Tier0 computing centre Either new building in Prevessin or increased capacity in Meyrin  Analysis Center Tier 2.5/3 at CERN Increased interactions with Theory (inside and outside CERN)

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 MTP strategy(2) Preparation for long term future and continuation of diversity at CERN  CLIC accelerator  Linear Collider Detector R&D at CERN Initiative run by Lucie Linssen, LCD group in PH Working together with the ILC detector concepts and with the linear collider detector technology collaborations to study modifications to the ILC concepts for CLIC energies and beam conditions  Financing of CERN contribution to approved FT experiments (CLOUD, AEGIS, NA62)

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 MTP strategy(3) Consolidation of general infrastructure  Buildings: cooling/roofs/windows/sanitaries…  Restaurant 3 improvement, Restaurant 1 extension  New amphi-theater (if external funds) Amortization of accrued staff benefit  17 MCHF p.a. to compensate for (old scheme) saved leaves and compensation

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 SFT group activities review The Director for Research and Computing would like to have a review of the SFT group The review board will be composed by representatives from the experiments A soon as possible (preferably in July or August)

14. 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 Other News New HR Advisor for PH, Marie-Luce Falipou, working with Cecile Granier.  She will be taking care of the support groups, in particular the SFT group Projector 32/1-A24  New projector has been purchased and installed  It should ‘fix’ the problems with colors