1 ph/sft group meeting john harvey september 8 th, 2004
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Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 2
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Agenda
PH/SFT News (JH) PH/SFT staff movements Students, Fellows, Associates Committee Dates Skills and talents inventory (STI) Status of CHEP04 Next Meeting
News from PH and LCG management bodies (JJB) Summer Student Reports
Hans Moritz GUENTHER (15') ( transparencies ) Anna CIMMINO (15') Umberto DI MEGLIO (15') Jacob GROTH-JENSEN (15') Carsten HOF (15') David LAMBERT (15') Ernesto RIVERA CAMACHO (15')
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PH/SFT Staff Movements
Leaving 7/04 Eddy Offerman 9/04 Marte Hatlo 9/04 Frank Harris 9/04 Fabiola Gianotti
Starting 06/04 Anna Kreshuk (ROOT - visitor) 08/04 Johanne Benard (SPI – EGEE/CNRS) 08/04 Andras Zsenei (Mathlib – CERN Fellow) 09/04 Torbjorn Sjostrand (Simulation - CERN PDSA) 10/04 Richard Maunder (ROOT – CERN PJAS)
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Dates of Students, Fellows, Associates Committees
Committee Application Deadline Committee Meeting
Fellows 2 September 2004
3 March 2005
5 September 2005
23 November 2004
31 May 2005
22 November 2005
Associates 13 September 2004
11 March 2005
19 September 2005
23 November 2004
31 May 2005
22 November 2005
TS/DS # 16 July 2004
14 October 2004
18 February 2005
15 July 2005
14 October 2005
14 September 2004
7 December 2004
19 April 2005
13 September 2005
6 December 2005
# ongoing discussion to give more flexibility to groups to take more students
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Skills and Talents Inventory (STI)
The STI project was described in letter from DG and also in the Weekly Bulletin (No. 33/2004) http://ais.cern.ch./apps/sti
Three information sessions were held during the summer ~ 700 staff attended
Last information session will be held next week 16 September 2004 - TH amphitheatre (4-3-006), 10h30 – 12h00 N.B. likely that room will be changed to main auditorium
The database has been in production for about 1 month 19% of CERN staff have submitted an entry so far Every staff member is asked to make their entry by end Sept 2004 Automatic reminders will be sent by email Please make your entry as soon as possible
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STI – Experience so far
Select skills from the ‘Competency Model’ Domain (12), Skill, Specialization
For example : Domain 7 – Information Technology Skill 1 – Application development
Specialization 4 : Modeling and simulation (e.g. GEANT, …) ….. Skill 9 – Software development technologies
Specialization 1 : object oriented languages (e.g. C++, Java, ..) Skill 10 – System Management
Specialization 12 – web server management
Competency model is being used correctly only 7% ‘other’
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STI – Experience so far
"Expert" level is being over-used. About 24% of the 1310 specializations validated so far are given
the "Expert" level. The ‘Expert’ level is reserved for people who are ‘able to innovate
or to make forward moves in a domain’. “Experts” develop concepts or theories. They teach the subject. Do you fulfil the definition given on : ask themselves honestly if do you fulfill the definition given on :
http://ais.cern.ch/apps/sti/faq_e.html#2.7
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Status of CHEP04 – Kursaal, Interlaken
27th September - 1st October, 2004
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CHEP04 status
Full programme is available on the CHEP04 web site http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=0 … and is currently at the print shop
Registered delegates 453 (expect ~470) Abstracts submitted 533 Plenary talks 32 (5 mornings) Parallel tracks 7 (3 afternoons)
Parallel talks 222 Poster sessions 3 (3 mornings 1 hour
each) posters 187
1 BOF session – ‘Semantic web applications in HEP’
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SFT Oral Presentations ANTCHEVA Ilka - Guidelines for Developing a Good GUI [id. 169] APOSTOLAKIS John - Geant4: status and recent developments [314] GALLAS Manuel - Quality Assurance and Testing in LCG [361] GANIS Gerardo - Authentication/Security services in the ROOT framework [104] GIANOTTI Fabiola Physics Validation of the LHC Software [510] MONETA Lorenzo -
Developments of Mathematical Software Libraries for the LHC experiments [268] PFEIFFER Andreas -
Software management infrastructure in the LCG Application Area [241] RADEMAKERS Fons - Global Distributed Parallel Analysis using PROOF and
AliEn [430] RIBON Alberto -
Physics validation of the simulation packages in a LHC-wide effort [493] ROISER Stefan - The SEAL C++ Reflection System [222] SCHMUECKER Helmut -
Optimizing Selection Performance on Scientific Data by utilizing Bitmap Indices [160]
Presentations to be uploaded before start of conference
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SFT Poster Presentations
ANTCHEVA Ilka - The User Interface Design in ROOT [170] BRUN Rene - The ROOT Linear Algebra Package [303] FOLGER Gunter - The Binary Cascade [256] PERRIN Yves - The LCG Savannah software development portal [384] PFEIFFER Andreas - Status and Plans of the LCG PI Project [240] POINSIGNON Eric -
Managing third-party software for the LCG Application Area project [277]
Posters can be prepared with help of CERN print shop (Building 510) please contact Nathalie who will coordinate with print shop
Posters to be handed it at the registration desk
Papers (oral/poster) to be uploaded before the end of the conference
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Next SFT Group Meeting
Friday Oct 15th 10h00 -12h00 Wolfgang von Rueden invited He will inform us of new and on-going activities in IT
Openlab Security ….
Plus opportunity for discussion Suggestions for additional topics are welcome