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SFT Group Meeting May 15th 2009: News and Updates

Highlights from the SFT Group Meeting on May 15th, 2009, including CernVM Infrastructure insights, Geant4 test system, staff movements, expenses summary, and forthcoming events. Details on new rules and projects discussed.

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SFT Group Meeting May 15th 2009: News and Updates

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  1. SFT Group MeetingMay 15th 2009 Group News Pere Mato The CernVM Infrastructure: Insights of a paradigmatic project Carlos Aguado The new Geant4 test system Victor Diez AOB

  2. Staff Movements • Arrivals • Departures • Roberto Gracia left the group in March • Jan Iwaszkiewicz left the group in March

  3. Summer Students • Nathalie will start allocating office space for them • Any preference should be communicated to her

  4. Group summary expenses – 2009 • Allocations 2009 : • SFT: 420 kCHF • WP8, WP9: 50, 80 kCHF LCG (PJAS): Not yet decided (*) not yet completed

  5. MARS 2009 Exercise • It is completed from our side • Very smooth exercise although quite a lot of work mainly for the written documents • Thanks to everybody that participated ! • Decisions to be communicated during July • Individual notification letters for all exceptional advancements • Official notification via pay-slip

  6. CHEP Statistics 21 - 27 March 2009 Prague, Czech Republic • 14 People from the SFT participated (50%) • 2 Plenary talks • 8 Oral presentation in parallel sessions • 8 Posters Overall a very important and influential contributionThanks!

  7. 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 • ???

  8. New Project Associates Rules • The purpose of the new rules is to align with the rules of Paid Associates • From January 2010 maximum association period is 3 years (no more extensions up to 5 years related to LHC construction) • Two years gap after 3 years of PJAS contract (pro-rata) • Additional subsistence if spouse accompanies him/her regardless of other possible incomes

  9. Linear Collider Detector Studies • New group in the PH department LCD (Lucie Linssen) • Built-up a collaboration with other institutes to address the physics and detector options for a CLIC machine in the energy range from 500 GeV to 3 TeV. This activity is carried out in close collaboration with the world-wide linear collider physics community, which historically has focused on ILC. • Participation in core software developments for the linear collider physics/detector studies by providing common interfaces and software tools (hosted in PH-SFT) • Discussions have been initiated with the ILC concepts on common solutions for the exchange of detector descriptions, event models, I/O formats and digitization packages. • These will be the subjects of a common software workshop to be held at CERN in 28-29 May 2009 • A Fellow has been requested for the May committee

  10. Relay Race • Better than last year!! • ‘Running Bugs’ 41/88 - 13’ 22’’ (2008 - 49/76 – 13’ 53’’) • ‘Running Exceptions’ 56/88 - 13’ 45’’ Photo

  11. A.O.B • Dr Dobbs magazine has stopped • It is now published as Dr Dobbs report (monthly) integrated in the Information Week magazine (weekly) • Cancelled subscription • Workroom • Noticeable the increase of ‘foreigners’ using the resources (bulk printing, water) • We need to pay a bit of attention and ‘kindly’ remind people that the room is for the SFT group • We could try to lock the room over nights and weekends

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