1 ph/sft group meeting john harvey september 8 th, 2004

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PH/SFT Group Meeting

John Harvey

September 8th , 2004

Friday, 23 April 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting 2

SFT S o F T w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t f o r E x p e r i m e n t s

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')



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)



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



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



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’



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



Status of CHEP04 – Kursaal, Interlaken

27th September - 1st October, 2004



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’



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



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



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

1 ph/sft group meeting john harvey september 8 th, 2004

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