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PH/SFT Group Meeting John Harvey. September 8 th , 2004. 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
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PH/SFT Group MeetingJohn Harvey September 8th , 2004
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 Group Meeting
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) PH/SFT Group Meeting
Dates of Students, Fellows, Associates Committees # ongoing discussion to give more flexibility to groups to take more students PH/SFT Group Meeting
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 PH/SFT Group Meeting
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’ PH/SFT Group Meeting
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 PH/SFT Group Meeting
Status of CHEP04 – Kursaal, Interlaken27th September - 1st October, 2004 PH/SFT Group Meeting
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’ PH/SFT Group Meeting
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 PH/SFT Group Meeting
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 PH/SFT Group Meeting
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 PH/SFT Group Meeting