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