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SFT Group Meeting Highlights and Staff Movements

This update highlights the recent SFT Group meeting, including staff movements and the arrival of new technical students. It also mentions upcoming events, such as the CERN School of Computing and the Geant4 Collaboration Workshop. Additionally, it provides information on PH MARS results, SPC/Council discussions, and SFT proposals for R&D.

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SFT Group Meeting Highlights and Staff Movements

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  1. SFT Group MeetingJuly 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

  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 20-31 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 10-17 in Varna, Bulgaria • Participation: Pere Mato • Geant4 Collaboration Workshop, 13-19 September 2007 in Hebden Bridge (UK) • Participation of the complete Geant4 team

  6. Group summary expenses – Quarter 2 (*) 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 2008-2011” 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 10.5 MCHF (4 years) • R&D : Manpower 33 FTE-Years • Material 13.5 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 http://cernalerts.web.cern.ch/cernalerts/alerts.aspx • IT documentation available at https://cern.ch/winservices/Help/?kbid=060810

  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. 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 (https://cern.ch/WinServices/Services/UserAccounts/AccountStatus.aspx - click “Reorganize”) Soon new users will have this layout End of summer all users will be moved Needed for use with Vista!! DFS home folder reorganisation

  15. A.O.B • Registering Official Trips in EDH • 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

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