SFT Group Meeting January 22th 2010 1.Group News Pere Mato 2.Geometry Toolkit for LC Detector Studies Astrid Münnich 3.AOB
Jan 13, 2016
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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