SFT Group MeetingJuly 3rd 2009
1.Group News Pere Mato 2.Proposal for the new group web infrastructure Yves
Perrin3.Parallelizing Gaudi applications Eoin Smith4.Improvements to the CernVM File System Jacob
Blomer5.AOB
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Staff Movements
Arrivals Vladimir Uzhinskiy has rejoined the group as PJAS in June 15th Andrea Dotti has joined as Fellow in July. He will be working in
Geant4 with John A. Bartolomeu Rabacal joined as Trainee on July 1st. He will be
working on ROOT/Math with Lorenzo 5 out of 7 Summer Students have already arrived
Next arrivals Juha Hollanti will join in July 15th as Stagaire to work with Yves Astrid Muennich will join us in September to work for LC Detector
studies
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Summer Students
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Offices (*)
Cosmo
Kolet
Aguado
Gonzalez
Perrin
Nikitina
Tsagri
Rabacal
Free
Folger
(*) Only indicating people withlong-term occupancy
Smith Gaspar
DiezBlomer
CamelliniKruse
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Offices
Uzhinskiy
Ribon
Genservisitors
Free
FreeDottiKosov
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Group summary expenses – 2009
Allocations 2009 : • SFT: 420 kCHF• WP8, WP9: 50, 80 kCHF
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MARS 2009 Summary in PH
Band changes from Ga to Gb: 2 (CERN =3) Career path changes from Fc to Ga: 1 (C=6) Band changes from Fb to Fc: 4 (C= 9)
Promotion into ECE to Fe 1 (C=3) Career path changes from E to F: 8 (C=29) Other CP changes A to D : 7 (C=39) Band changes b→c: 9 (C=81)
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MARS 2009 Summary in PH (2)
Steps (normalized to eligible staff)
Steps PH (%) CERN (%)
1 23.8 25.0
2 45.7 45.3
3 27.4 25.7
4 3.1 3.5
5 0 0.4
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Forthcoming Events
Cern School of Computing, 17-28 August 2009, Göttingen, Germany Axel, Bertrand, Predrag and Pere will be teaching Ana, Victor, Danielle, Gabriele, Carlos have applied
NEC'2009, 7-14 September 2009, Varna, Bulgaria Rene will participate
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 25-31 October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA 1 paper submitted
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MTP strategy (1) LHC
Exploitation of LHC in its nominal luminosity Increased allocation to accelerators of 15 MCHF p.a.
Preparation for long operational lifetime Consolidation Program of up to 200 MCHF, so far 25 MCHF p.a.
First stage Luminosity Upgrade planned for 2014 Linac4, New Inner triplets, CERN part of detectors
R&D/studies for second stage upgrade (PS2, SPL and detectors) Increase of Tier0 computing centre
Either new building in Prevessin or increased capacity in Meyrin Analysis Center
Tier 2.5/3 at CERN Increased interactions with Theory (inside and outside CERN)
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MTP strategy(2) Preparation for long term future and continuation of
diversity at CERN CLIC accelerator Linear Collider Detector R&D at CERN
Initiative run by Lucie Linssen, LCD group in PH Working together with the ILC detector concepts and with the
linear collider detector technology collaborations to study modifications to the ILC concepts for CLIC energies and beam conditions
Financing of CERN contribution to approved FT experiments (CLOUD, AEGIS, NA62)
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MTP strategy(3)
Consolidation of general infrastructure Buildings: cooling/roofs/windows/sanitaries… Restaurant 3 improvement, Restaurant 1 extension New amphi-theater (if external funds)
Amortization of accrued staff benefit 17 MCHF p.a. to compensate for (old scheme) saved leaves and
compensation
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SFT group activities review
The Director for Research and Computing would like to have a review of the SFT group
The review board will be composed by representatives from the experiments
A soon as possible (preferably in July or August)
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Other News
New HR Advisor for PH, Marie-Luce Falipou, working with Cecile Granier. She will be taking care of the support groups, in particular the
SFT group
Projector 32/1-A24 New projector has been purchased and installed It should ‘fix’ the problems with colors