EP SFT Group Meeting

EP SFT Group Meeting

June 20th 2003 SFT Newsstaff movementsweb, libraryOfficesBudget

General News CERN Projects FOCUS

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

SFT Newsstaff movementsweb, libraryOfficesBudget

General News Future Events AOB

SFT Web

Web – new information http://ep-sft.web.cern.ch/ep-sft/



SFT Library

Please submit books to Nathalie who will :1. register them in database 2. put stickers on them3. store them in a ‘public’ place when you

have finished with them Please consider registering and

sharing the books you already have



Offices – Bat 32/R-B&C

Storage

UK/Glasgow

Batiment 32Rez-de-chaussee

Legende

ATLAS

CMS

EPSFT

HarveyWenausAdamsKnoorsBrun

SchmueckerWinkler

QuarrieMarino

Dell'Acqua Gianotti

CouetAntcheva

Ganis OnoutchineRademakers

GallasMancera

Innocente Beringer Moneta

MatoGenerowicz

June 10th, 2003 JH

AimarLamanna

Feichtinger Orellana Moscicki

Pfeiffer

AshbyPoinsignon Roman

end June

end June

on track

on track



Offices – Bat 2/ R-

LBC

Closier

Cattaneo

LBC

Neufeld

Roiser

Ponce

LBC

Vannerem

Marino

Zbijek

LBC

Gaspar

LBC

Corti

Pokorski

Moritz

LBC

Charpentier

LBC

Library &

Meeting

Room

NA48 NA48 LBC

Ranjard

LBC

Arnaud

Hernandez

LBC

Loverre

Frank

LBC

Jacobsson

LBC

Jost

LBC

van Herwijnen

Harris

LBC

Dufey

LBC

LHCb Online Lab

LHCb ALEPH

Annecy Annecy

ALEPH

ATLAS

MPI

LBC

Brarda

ALEPH

Computer

Room

ALEPH

Computer

Room

EP SFT / LHCb

Terminal Room

Printers

EP SFT

Wellisch

Grichine

ALEPH

Mainz

EP SFT

Free

ALEPH

Saclay

ALEPH

IC

ALEPH

Blondel

on track

end 2003 ?

end 2003



BudgetDate: 18 Jun 2003

EP-SFT CODES

Paid (CHF)Annual

Commitment (CHF)

Annual Open Commitment

(CHF)

Payment Budget (CHF)

Pipeline (CHF)

Commitments incl. Pipeline

Balance (Including Pipeline)

Percentage Budget Used

Balance (Excluding Pipeline)

33500 94,133 100,629 6,496 195,000 11,060 111,689 83,311 57 94,371Total 94,133 100,629 6,496 195,000 11,060 111,689 83,311 57 94,371

IT-API CODES47000 10,300 10,300 42,000 658 10,958 31,042 26 31,70047001 8,152 8,152 55,000 -109 8,043 46,957 15 46,84847004 70 70 23,000 70 22,930 0 22,93047005 10,00047006 865 18,865 18,000 10,000 18,865 -8,865 189 -8,86547022 7,000 7,000 7,000 -7,000 -7,00047040 164 164 164 -164 -16447042 7,001 7,001 56,000 7,001 48,999 13 48,99947080 274 274 274 -274 -27447082 35,260 35,260 90,000 35,260 54,740 39 54,74047084 4,134 4,134 4,134 -4,134 -4,13448055Total 73,220 91,220 18,000 286,000 549 91,769 194,231 32 194,780



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’

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


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


CERN Projects FOCUS

Future Events AOB

EGEE - partners


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


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)


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


CERN Projects FOCUS

Future Events AOB

FOCUS – Windows Terminal Service

Access to Microsoft FrontPage from LinuxAccess to Microsoft FrontPage from Linux


CERN Projects FOCUS

Future Events AOB

FOCUS- Pilot PC Rental Scheme

Package Name Description Contract Fee Monthly Fee Minimum Contract

RP-PC Standard PC Desktop 100 CHF 30 CHF 6 Months

RP-PCENGStandard PC

Engineering 100 CHF 52 CHF 6 Months

RP-PCLAP Standard PC Laptop 100 CHF 124 CHF 1 Year

RP-PC15LCDStandard PC Desktop

& LCD 15"100 CHF 45 CHF 6 Months

RP-PCENG21CRTStandard PC

Engineering & CRT 21"

100 CHF 78 CHF 6 Months


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


CERN Projects FOCUS

Future Events AOB

Hardware address registration for portables using DHCPCERN 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


CERN Projects FOCUS

Future Events AOB

Future Events 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/

SFT News General News Future Events AOB

Future Events 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


Future Events 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


Future Events 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/


Future Events 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


Future Events - SFT group meetings

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 ?


Future Events

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


AOB ?


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