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EP SFT Group Meeting

EP SFT Group Meeting. SFT News staff movements web, library Offices Budget General News CERN Projects FOCUS Future Events AOB. June 20 th 2003. SFT News staff movements web, library Offices Budget General News Future Events AOB. SFT staff movements.

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EP SFT Group Meeting

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  1. EP SFT Group Meeting • SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB June 20th 2003

  2. SFT News • staffmovements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB SFT staff movements • Visitor - Prof. Louis Lyons till Aug 7th • PDSA – David Quarrie starts July 1st • PJAS – Evgueni Tchernaiev stops June 30th • PJAS - Mikhail Kosov starts July 1st • Applied Fellows • Giuseppe Daquino - Geant4 event biasing • Oliver Link – Geant4/Analysis, starts July 1st • Stefan Roiser – SEAL, starts Oct 1st • Summer students

  3. SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB SFT Web • Web – new information • http://ep-sft.web.cern.ch/ep-sft/

  4. SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB SFT Library • Please submit books to Nathalie who will : • register them in database • put stickers on them • store them in a ‘public’ place when you have finished with them • Please consider registering and sharing the books you already have

  5. SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB Offices – Bat 32/R-B&C

  6. Offices – Bat 2/ R- • SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB

  7. SFT News • staff movements • web, library • Offices • Budget • General News • Future Events • AOB Budget

  8. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB CERN News – Restructuring • New DG is presenting his views on how to organise CERN to CERN Council today • Will impact on existing structure • sectors, divisions etc. • News from Council will be given by EP DL at next Tuesday’s EP Senior Staff Meeting • DG :’details to be elaborated in discussion over next 6 months’

  9. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB Project News - EGEE • Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe • http://egee-ei.web.cern.ch/egee-ei/2003/index.html • ‘..aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic grid efforts to create a seamless European grid infrastructure for the European Research area.’ • Copy of proposal (270 p.) available

  10. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB EGEE - Mission • to deliver production level grid services • to carry out a grid middleware re-engineering activity • outreach and training to new research communities

  11. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB EGEE - partners

  12. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB EGEE - CERN • Services (I. Bird) New posts Totals • operations 7 • core infrastructure 5 • operatiuons management 5 17 • Middleware (F. Hemmer) • data management 5 • integration team 5 • testing centre 5 15 • ‘Networking’ (EP-SFT) • HEP applications 4 4

  13. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB EGEE Schedule (2003) • May 6– submission date • July 1 – presentation in Brussels • July – Start preparation of contract • Jan 1 2004- project start • Small committee to oversee interactions of EGEE/LCG projects • Ruden,Gagliardi,Robertson,Richards,Hemmer, JH • LCG provides Operation PL to EGEE (Bird) • EGEE provides M’ware (GTA) PL to LCG (Hemmer)

  14. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB FOCUS - Forum On Computing: Users and Services • EP-SFT now represented on this committee by JH • Role is to look at the implementation, defining, running, and ultimately phasing out of IT services on the CERN site • Last meeting June 5th • Next Meeting October 2nd

  15. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB FOCUS – Windows Terminal Service

  16. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB FOCUS- Pilot PC Rental Scheme

  17. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB More News from FOCUS • Mac Support • Support information issued at last Desktop Forum Following serious break-ins the following actions are planned: • AFS password expiry enforced • Passwords must be changed at least once per year • Users informed by email 30 days before expiry • Hardware address registration enforced for portables • CERN users register at http://cern.ch/register • Visitors request temporary access via a web form • Remember to register wireless card

  18. SFT News • General News • CERN • Projects • FOCUS • Future Events • AOB Hardware address registration for portables using DHCP CERN Users • Register hardware address(es) for portables • http://cern.ch/register and select “Register Portable” • Requires a NICE account and internal network access External Visitors • Fill out a web form to request visitor access • Contact data, Hardware Address(es), Start date, Duration (1-4 weeks), CERN contact • CERN contact receives an email • Can accept/refuse responsibility for the visitor • Signature requires a NICE account and internal network access • Unsigned requests are cancelled after 5 days • Hardware address(es) accepted by DHCP servers • Goal is approx 5 mins after request accepted by CERN contact

  19. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • June 30 – July 4 : AIDA Workshop • http://aida.freehep.org/workshop-2003.thtml • July 13-25 : Grid Computing School • http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/SummerSchool/ • July 7 - Aug 2 : Workshop on Monte Carlo tools for the LHC • http://mlm.home.cern.ch/mlm/mcwshop03/mcwshop.html • Aug 24 – 6 Sep : CERN Computing School • http://www.cern.ch/CSC/

  20. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • Sept 2-5 - LHCC review of manpower for computing in experiments • 4 half-days LHC experiments • 1 half day understanding LCG App Area (scope) • 3 half days to prepare the conclusions • Membership • LHCC : Tsemelis, Calvetti, Gomez, McBride, Panman, Ferroni • CERN : IT/EP DLs or deputies, HFH, RC • External : Wolbers, Gerhard, Geddes

  21. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • Sept 2-6 : Geant 4 collaboration meeting • http://www.triumf.ca/geant4-03/ John Apostolakis Hans Peter Wellisch Gabriele Cosmo Gunter Folger Vladimir Ivantchenko Alberto Ribon Sergei Sadilov Mikhail Kosov - tbc

  22. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • Nov 17-21 LCG Workshop, CERN • no details yet • December 1-5 : ACAT Tsukuba • IX International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research • http://www-conf.kek.jp/acat03/

  23. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • September 2004 - CHEP04 • hosted by CERN– W von Rueden chair • Local Organising Committee • chair A. Silverman • possible sites – Montreux, Interlaken, Davos • Programme Committee • chair J.Harvey • with strong participation from EP-SFT • International Advisory Committee

  24. Future Events - SFT group meetings • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • Friday July 25th a.m. - 32/1-A24 • Friday August 29th – 32/1-A24 • Topics – suggestions welcome • visit to Atlas pit • visits to various detector assembly areas • visit to computer centre • presentations ?

  25. Future Events • SFT News • General News • FutureEvents • AOB • Summer Barbecue • July 10th – La Chenaille, starting 7 pm • ‘Entourage’ invited • LCG Applications Area colleagues invited • Please register with Nathalie • Contributions welcome • 10 Euros or 15 CHF per adult • children no charge

  26. AOB ? • SFT News • General News • Future Events • AOB

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