1. SFT News 24 th June 2013

2. Summer Students 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 2 Last nameFirst nameSupervisorStart dateEnd Date# weeksoffice BartekFilipDANILO 1-Jul-136-Sep-13 10visitor room BeclinJeromeVASIL 10-Jun-136-Sep-13 1332/r-c22 Garcia FealOrlandoBENEDIKT 1-Jul-1323-Aug-13 8visitor room GheorghiuAlexandruGERRI 9-Jul-1330-Aug-13 832/r-c07 NicolaouVasilisJAKOB 17-Jun-136-Sep-13 12visitor room SchwarzSachaVLADIMIR 1-Jul-1327-Sep-13 13visitor room Valles MartinJuanFEDERICO 1-Jul-1327-Sep-13 132/r-021 WindDavid KofoedAXEL 10-Jun-136-Sep-13 1332/r-c17 KIMGainFEDERICO1-Jul-201323-Aug-201382/r-021 MOHANTYSharadaFONS17-Jun-20139-Aug-2013832/r-b06 SIEGELZacharyJOHN24/6/201316/8/2013 832/r-b07

3. More visitors Last nameFirst nameSupervisorStart dateEnd Date# weeksoffice EIEAndersAxel10/6/201310/8/2013 32/r-c17 DELAMAREArnaudFederico8/7/20132/8/2013 2/r-021 CANALPhilippeAxel2/6/201322/6/2013 32/r-c22 OFFERMANJanFonsjuly 232/r-c24 EGLIBeatJohn A.6/7/201312/7/2013 visitor room CristescuCristinaAxel1/7/2013 TS 32-R-C19 KousiNefeliDanilo1/7/2013 TS 32/r-c16 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 3

4. EPLANET  SFT contributes (leads) WP8 on Scientific Computing  SFT committed to making 8 ER visits (0 ESR visits in plan)  Term of project is 4 years, we are in year 3  Activities include, teaching, exercises, mentoring, software deployment  3 visits made so far  Artem to UERJ in RIO (March 2012): hands-on CernVM  Benedikt to USP in Sao Paolo (Sept 2012): teaching development practices and basics of concurrency, mentoring  Danilo to UTFSM in Valparaiso (Sept 2012):teaching development practices and basics of concurrency, mentoring  5 visits still on “to-do” list  3 more to UERJ, 1 to UNLP (La Plata, AR), 1 to CBPF (Rio) 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 4

5. EPLANET – plans for next 2 visits  Jakob will visit UERJ (Rio) on October 23 rd for 2 weeks  Contact Alberto Santoro  Theme is “HEP data processing in the Cloud”  Covers lectures, exercises, hands-on Stratum-0 service, volunteer platform  Course outline : http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/eplanet  A 3 rd visit could be on GPU programming (Felice is interested)  Next planned visit is to UNLP (La Plata, AR)  team works on analysis in ATLAS (Higgs, SUSY searches, …)  topics requested to be covered are "how to analyse data with ROOT" (oriented to general audience of PhD students from different fields) and the installation of PROOF, including the tutorial on how to use it.”  I have asked Lorenzo and Gerri to prepare a detailed proposal 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 5

6. EPlanet Subsistence  European Commission provides, under the Marie Curie Programme, IRSES, a subsistence of 1750 euro/month to people detached in Latin America. This subsistence is handled through a CERN budget code (34502)  The group can complete the subsistence to cover all the expenses.  Things to remember:  Flights to be booked well in advance  The participant takes care of accommodation  On place: fill in a time-sheet, make it sign by your responsible  Prepare a report; “diary” of your activities on place (contacts, interactions, lectures…) needed for the end-of-year report  Keep all the receipts, especially the BOARDING PASSES!!! 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 6

7. EPlanet : Further Information  Web sites  Europe: http://www.roma1.infn.it/exp/eplanethttp://www.roma1.infn.it/exp/eplanet  LA: http://vega.fis.cinvestav.mx/eplanethttp://vega.fis.cinvestav.mx/eplanet  CERN share point space: https://espace.cern.ch/eplanethttps://espace.cern.ch/eplanet 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 7

8. New machine purchased  The new generation intel chips are just out for workstations  Haswell chip with new AVX2 (including FMA)  Vincenzo has ordered a small W/S to sit in his office  Intel DH87RL mainboard, H87 chipset  Intel CPU i7-4770K, 3.5GHz Quadcore  16 GB DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 4GB) quad channelL4  256GB SSD Pro drive, SATA  Vincenzo will report performance figures as soon as they are ready  Open for other group members to make tests – contact V. 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 8

9. Water Fountain  The water fountain had to be repaired  the filter was full of tape protecting the hole on top  When changing the bottle  PLEASE remove the protection  Place the bottle vertically  Place it on gently 1/27/2016 SFT Group Meeting 24th June 9