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EP SFT Group Meeting

Stay informed with the latest staff movements, web updates, budget updates, and future events at CERN. Explore the SFT news for valuable insights.

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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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