sft group meeting 2 nd september 2005 1. news (10') john harvey 2. summer student reports denis...
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SFT Group Meeting2nd September 2005
1. News (10') John Harvey
2. Summer Student reports
Denis FAVRE-MIVILLE (15')
Johannes Feist (15')
Tomas Kubes (15')
Andrew McLennan (15')
Danilo Piparo (15')
3. AOB
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
SFT Personnel News
Leaving SFT Valerie Onoutchine finished his PJAS in July Torbjorn Sjostrand finished his PDSA end August
Torbjorn is due to return as a PJAS 1st half of 2006 Oliver Link and Marek Biskup leaving end September Massimo Marino leaving to join Apple
Joining SFT Bertrand Bellenot – staff: started August 1st (ROOT/SPI) Alexander Howard – Applied Fellow: starts Oct 3rd (Geant 4) Axel Naumann – staff: starts Nov 1st (ROOT/CORE)
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
Bottom-up Review of PH Department (1)
Internal Audit (HR) asked to make a ‘bottom-up’ review of PH department by DG in past focused on LHC machine and experimental areas will look at all departments, starting with PH ‘focus on CMS support’ and in particular the following groups:
CMS groups : CMI, CMA PH Support Groups : DT1, DT2, SFT, ESS, ED, MIC
Objectives and Scope to ensure strategic aims are met in cost effective manner look at effectiveness of procedures and controls assess the strategy, risks, departmental structure and interfaces
to other departments and clients assess on individual level job functions, overlaps, gaps, workload
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
Bottom-up Review of PH Department (2) Audit approach
processes identified and documented manpower documented and measured risks and controls evaluated report will be produced highlighting strengths and weaknesses and
making recommendations for improvement where appropriate follow-up strategy will be agreed based on an action plan
JH interview with HR beginning of August 2005 group mandate, objectives, structure and profile, budget scope of activities, projects, interaction with clients (LCG bodies) software map, current status, participation in inter-lab collaborations successes, risks, links to further information
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
SFT Group Inventory
New procedure for PH inventory – managed by Gino De Bilio Nathalie has checked the inventory for SFT equipment
PCs, screens, printers, ... http://ph-sft.web.cern.ch/ph-sft/Computer%20inventory/phsft_0507R_final.htm ‘New’ fields and red entries are changes w.r.t. main inventory
SFT inventory will be updated by Nathalie whenever new equipment is ordered please ensure she is informed
Inventory updates will sent to De Bilio (every quarter?) inventory stickers will be issued by de Bilio and stuck on by Nathalie
NETOPS database also being updated by Nathalie Convention for naming new equipment PCPHSFTnnn ‘Responsible’ SFT/PCADMIN - [email protected]
except for special servers (e.g. Geant 4 – Gunter)
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
Portable Computers
Need paperwork in order to take equipment off the CERN site, e.g. for portable computers
Please supply description of equipment to Nathalie Manufacturer and model (IBM Thinkpad) Type (2647 -4 MG) Serial number (552K62P205) EDH document number (1163566) - to get the value, for example
Nathalie will issue a ‘shipping request’ for you ‘Logistics Services’ will then supply an invoice which
Nathalie will give to you Please keep it with your portable
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
Future SFT Group Meeting Dates
Friday October 7th
Friday November 11th
Friday December 9th
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
Summer StudentsSummer student Supervisor Proposed office Start Date
ANNINOS Dionysios GRICHINE Vladimir 2/R-021 28th June
FAVRE-MIVILLE Denis ANTCHEVA Ilka 32/R-C09 21st June
FEIST Johannes FOLGER Gunter 2/R-020 5th July
KUBES Tomas PFEIFFER Andreas 32/R-B15 21st June
MADEJCZYK Jakub RADEMAKERS Fons 32/R-B16 5th July
MCLENNAN Andrew MONETA Lorenzo 32/R-C22 21st June
PIPARO Danilo POINSIGNON Eric 32/R-B03 19th July