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SFT News 24 th June 2013

SFT News 24 th June 2013. Summer Students. More visitors. EPLANET. SFT contributes (leads) WP8 on Scientific Computing SFT committed to making 8 ER visits (0 ESR visits in plan) Term of project is 4 years, we are in year 3

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SFT News 24 th June 2013

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  1. SFT News24th June 2013

  2. Summer Students SFT Group Meeting 24th June

  3. More visitors SFT Group Meeting 24th June

  4. EPLANET SFT Group Meeting 24th June • SFT contributes (leads) WP8 on Scientific Computing • SFT committed to making 8 ER visits (0 ESR visits in plan) • Term of project is 4 years, we are in year 3 • Activities include, teaching, exercises, mentoring, software deployment • 3 visits made so far • Artem to UERJ in RIO (March 2012): hands-on CernVM • Benedikt to USP in Sao Paolo (Sept 2012): teaching development practices and basics of concurrency, mentoring • Danilo to UTFSM in Valparaiso (Sept 2012):teaching development practices and basics of concurrency, mentoring • 5 visits still on “to-do” list • 3 more to UERJ, 1 to UNLP (La Plata, AR), 1 to CBPF (Rio)

  5. EPLANET – plans for next 2 visits SFT Group Meeting 24th June • Jakob will visit UERJ (Rio) on October 23rd for 2 weeks • Contact Alberto Santoro • Theme is “HEP data processing in the Cloud” • Covers lectures, exercises, hands-on Stratum-0 service, volunteer platform • Course outline :  http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/eplanet • A 3rd visit could be on GPU programming (Felice is interested) • Next planned visit is to UNLP (La Plata, AR) • team works on analysis in ATLAS (Higgs, SUSY searches, …) • topics requested to be covered are "how to analyse data with ROOT" (oriented to general audience of PhD students from different fields) and the installation of PROOF, including the tutorial on how to use it.” • I have asked Lorenzo and Gerri to prepare a detailed proposal

  6. EPlanet Subsistence SFT Group Meeting 24th June • European Commission provides, under the Marie Curie Programme, IRSES, a subsistence of 1750 euro/month to people detached in Latin America. This subsistence is handled through a CERN budget code (34502) • The group can complete the subsistence to cover all the expenses. • Things to remember: • Flights to be booked well in advance • The participant takes care of accommodation • On place: fill in a time-sheet, make it sign by your responsible • Prepare a report;“diary” of your activities on place (contacts, interactions, lectures…) needed for the end-of-year report • Keep all the receipts, especially the BOARDING PASSES!!!

  7. EPlanet : Further Information SFT Group Meeting 24th June • Web sites • Europe: http://www.roma1.infn.it/exp/eplanet • LA: http://vega.fis.cinvestav.mx/eplanet • CERN share point space: https://espace.cern.ch/eplanet

  8. New machine purchased SFT Group Meeting 24th June • The new generation intel chips are just out for workstations • Haswell chip with new AVX2 (including FMA) • Vincenzo has ordered a small W/S to sit in his office • Intel DH87RL mainboard, H87 chipset • Intel CPU i7-4770K, 3.5GHz Quadcore • 16 GB DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 4GB) quad channelL4 • 256GB SSD Pro drive, SATA • Vincenzo will report performance figures as soon as they are ready • Open for other group members to make tests – contact V.

  9. Water Fountain SFT Group Meeting 24th June • The water fountain had to be repaired • the filter was full of tape protecting the hole on top • When changing the bottle • PLEASE remove the protection • Place the bottle vertically • Place it on gently

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