SFT Group Meeting January 22th 2010 1. Group News Pere Mato 2. Geometry Toolkit for LC Detector Studies Astrid Münnich 3. AOB.

SFT Group MeetingJanuary 22th 2010

1.Group News Pere Mato 2.Geometry Toolkit for LC Detector Studies Astrid

Münnich 3.AOB

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Staff Movements

Arrivals Tania Pardo has started as group secretary (mornings) Witek Pokorski has half-moved to our offices

Departures Gabriele Camellini will leave at the end of January Mikhail Kosov will leave at the end of January

Next Arrivals Przemyslaw Paprocki will start as TECH in March (Geant4+SPI) Artem Harutyunyan will start as FELLOW in March (CernVM)

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Offices (*)

Cosmo

Kolet

Aguado

Perrin

Nikitina

Tsagri

Rabacal

Free

Folger

(*) Only indicating people withlong-term occupancy

Smith Gaspar

Pokorski

Blomer

CamelliniKruse

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Offices

Harvey

Ribon

Genservisitors

Free

FreeDottiKosov

Münnich

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Group summary expenses – 2010

Allocations 2010 : • SFT: 420 kCHF• WP8: 44 kCHF, WP9: 80 kCHF

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Forthcoming Events

Geant4 Users' Tutorial, CERN, 15-19 February 2010 ACAT 2010, Jaipur (India), 22-27 February 2010

Rene, Fons, Axel, Gerri will be participating

CERN School of Computing, CHEP 2010, Taipei (Taiwan), 17-22 October 2010

1st Bulletin not yet out

3rd Monte Carlo Conference (MC2010 ),Tokyo (Japan), 17-20 October 2010

2010 IEEE-NSS, Knoxville (Tennessee, US), 30 October - 6 November 2010

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MARS 2010 Exercise No changes wrt last year Key dates:

Interviews: Dec/09-Feb/10 Deadline interviews: 12 March Deadline reports (GL signed):

16 April PH deadline for advancements

propositions: 28 February Letters for all exceptional

advancements: 30 June Appraisals released: 15 July

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MARS: reminderStages:Stages: Actions / Decisions taken by:Actions / Decisions taken by:

InterviewInterview Supervisor

Appraisal Appraisal (Evaluations in MARS form)(Evaluations in MARS form)Supervisor & Group Leader

Performance ratingPerformance ratingNon meritoriousMeritoriousParticularly Meritorious

Group Leaders + HRA consulted byDepartment Head

Advancement Advancement (steps)(steps)PeriodicExceptional

Group Leaders + HRA consulted byDepartment Head

Department Heads consult GLs + advise Director-General

PromotionPromotionSalary Band changeCareer Path changeExceptional Career Path Extension

Career reviews (interview with Assessor + HR)

Advisory bodies (e.g.: SSAC)

Department Heads + HR consulted byDirector-General

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MARS: Routing of the Report

1. Creator “sends”

2. SV 2009 signs (if still at CERN)

3. SV 2010 signs (if <> SV 2009)

4. GL 2009 signs (if still at CERN)

5. GL 2010 signs (if <> GL 2009)

6. Staff notified (comments possible within 10 working days)

7. Wait status

8. 15.7.: Distribution & End

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Training budget / guidelines Centralized Training Budget situation 2010

Budget allocation per eligible staff ~ 300 CHF per year PH Training guidelines

Management and communication courses Identify and consolidate needs during the MARS interviews. Outside the

MARS interview will not be authorized  Language courses

No language courses paid from departmental budget New ! As from January 2010 first term for doctoral students to be paid from

PH training budget => homogenize language training for fellows who are paid by HR (10208) for their first term

Technical courses are given priority but should always be relevant to work

Safety training for staff to be systematically ensured and carried out according to risk situations, hierarchies are responsible

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Training FiguresAverage amount spent by departments for internal training per MPE in 2008

• External training not included• Some training courses are free of charge (mainly for the safety training programme) for departments

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CNL

The CERN Computer Newsletter (CNL) offers the possibility to make known our work to many people It is produced by professionals (same as CERN Courier) Proofreading - English corrections - DTP layout Your article will make a great addition to your list of

publications...!

So far SFT has had a modest contribution Parallel Coordinates – Olivier Nightly build system – Stefan et al.

The deadline for contributions to the next issue is February 19th

http://cern.ch/cnl

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ITSRM December 10th BE Computing Needs and Issues

Databases and networks are “critical”; security, TS, conf. rooms, etc. Needed support for CAE tools, Fortran, etc.

Mobicall Service provided by IT/CS SMS and/or voice messages to predefined list with acknowledge. Any alarm can be tagged as “mobicall”

Web Application Security The risks: loss of Service, leakage of Sensitive Data, loss of Reputation New Policy being proposed and a number of immediate actions Stefan Lueders presentation

IT Organization in 2010

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Department Head’s Office

(DHO)

Department Head

Frédéric Hemmer

Communication Systems

(CS)Jean-Michel Jouanigot

Departmental Infrastructure

(DI)Alan Silverman

Database Services

(DB)Tony Cass

Experiment Support

(ES)Jamie Shiers

Computing Facilities

(CF)Wayne Salter

Operating Systems & Information

Services(OIS)

Christian Isnard

EU Projects

Bob Jones

Deputy Head

David Foster

Planning Officer

Alan Silverman

WLCG

Ian Bird

Data & Storage

Services (DSS)

Alberto Pace

User & Document

Services (UDS)

Tim Smith

Platform & Engineering

Services(PES)

Helge Meinhard

Grid Technology

(GT)Markus Schulz

OrganizationIT Organization

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New GSM subscriptions

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New GSM Tariff

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Program of Work Residential Meeting

Motivation LHC experiments entering a new phase. Basic functionality done. Foreseen increase in user support and maintenance Need better rationalization, process automation, consolidation, etc. Keep up with new technologies and R&D

Objectives Identify work items that will make an impact on the usability and

maintainability of our software for the LHC experiments Identify possible synergies between projects to optimize overall effort Identify what parts of the software needs more

consolidation/reengineering work Better support forthcoming activities related to new experiments (LCD,

NA62, NA61)

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Program of Work Residential Meeting (2) Deliverables

Prioritized list of work items that the group as a whole consider most important

This will then be presented to a special meeting involving the experiments to receive feedback and/or support

Format Very short presentations (5-10 minutes/ max 4-5 slides) with a

single work-item idea A lot of time for discussions should be foreseen I would like to see presentations from everybody in the group

Sessions A number of coherent sessions will be defined to group the

proposals

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Program of Work Residential Meeting (3)

Proposal to go to “La Mainaz” (Col de la Faucille) A complete day

Starting early in the morning ~8:30

Finishing with a dinner

Proposed date Wednesday, March 3rd

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SFT Ski Day

Has been proposed to go to Flaine Next Thursday January 28th

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