UK-DTI International Technology Service-GlobalWatch

28 Jun 2004, 08:30 → 30 Jun 2004, 16:30 Europe/Zurich

513-1-070 (CERN)

Francois Fluckiger

The mission is visiting CERN between the 28th and 30th of June 2004. It will provide three days of detailed interaction between the mission participants and CERN staff. The mission to CERN on Distributed IT Applications is sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Industry’s Global Watch Service.

Monday, 28 June

08:30 → 10:00 Welcome - Presentation of Mission by Mission Leader

08:30 Presentation of Mission by Mission Leader

Speaker: Mission Leader (tbc)

09:00 Presentation of CERN

Speaker: Maximilian Metzger/Jean-Marie Le Goff (CERN)

13:30 → 15:45 ETT related activies and projects

13:30 IP issues in TT at CERN

Speaker: Robert Abbott/Nelly Castilla (CERN)

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13:50 The Mammogrid project

Speaker: Roberto Amendolia (CERN)

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14:20 CRISTAL: a process and data management system. A spinout from the CMS experiment

Speaker: P. Bayle (AGILUM)

14:50 TT through procurement activities study

Speaker: Marilena Streit-Bianchi (CERN)

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15:10 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

16:00 → 17:30 IT Department (General), Procurement

16:00 IT Department: mission, goals, skills

Speaker: Wolfgang von Ruden (CERN)

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16:15 General Services and Administrative Computing

Speaker: John Ferguson (CERN)

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16:30 Technology Transfer in IT Department

Speaker: Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

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16:40 CERN procurement principles

Speaker: Anders Unnervik (CERN)

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17:00 Discussion

Speaker: All

Tuesday, 29 June

08:30 → 10:30 The LHC Computing Grid and the CERN openlab

08:30 Introduction to Physics Computing

Speaker: Les Robertson (CERN)

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08:40 The LCG (inc. timeline for procurement)

Speaker: Les Robertson (CERN)

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09:00 openlab (overview)

Speaker: Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

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09:15 openlab (technical)

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

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09:30 Discussion

Speaker: all participants

10:45 → 12:45 Grid technologies and EGEE

10:45 EGEE (overview)

Speaker: Robert Jones (CERN)

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11:00 Grid Middleware

Speaker: Robert Jones (CERN)

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11:15 Grid Deployment

Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)

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11:30 Grid Security

Speaker: Ian Neilson (CERN)

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11:45 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

13:30 → 14:30 Visitors' Closed Meeting

14:30 → 15:30 Storage and Data Management Technologies

14:30 Grid Data Management

Speaker: James Casey (CERN)

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14:40 Databases and Pool

Speaker: Jamie Shiers

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14:50 CASTOR

Speaker: Olof Barring (CERN)

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15:00 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

15:45 → 17:30 Innovative General and Administrative Computing

15:45 Innovative Desktop Services (including NICE, web, print, anti-spam services)

Speaker: Alberto Pace (CERN)

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16:00 Workflow Solutions, EDH and E-Commerce

Speaker: Derek Mathieson or James Purvis (CERN)

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16:10 Collaborative Project Management Tools (EVS)

Speaker: Jurgen de Jonghe (CERN)

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16:20 Summarized Overview of AIS Activities

Speaker: Reinoud Martens (CERN)

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16:30 Document Management: CDS and InDiCo

Speaker: Jean-Yves le Meur/Mick Draper (CERN)

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16:40 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

17:45 → 18:45 Visit of IT Computer Centre

Wednesday, 30 June

08:30 → 10:30 Physics Software

08:30 Introduction to Physics Software (requirements, basic application, spectrum of components)

Speaker: Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

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08:45 Geant4

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

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09:00 Root-Proof

Speaker: Rene Brun (CERN)

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09:15 Software Engineering (code and release management, external libraries, testing processes and tools)

Speaker: Alberto Aimar (CERN)

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09:30 Discussion

10:45 → 12:45 Physics on-line technologies: the ALICE experiment

10:45 Challenges of Data Acquisition at the LHC

Speaker: Pierre Vande Vyvre

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11:15 Evaluation of Computing Technologies for the ALICE Data Acquisition

Speaker: Klaus Schossmaier (CERN)

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11:35 Electronics Integration of the ALICE Pixels Tracking Detector

Speaker: Alex Kluge (CERN)

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11:55 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

13:30 → 14:30 Visitors' Closed Meeting

14:30 → 15:30 High Performance Networking

14:30 High Performance LAN Networking

Speaker: Jean-Michel Jouanigot (CERN)

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14:45 High Performance WAN Networking

Speaker: Olivier Martin (CERN)

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15:00 Discussion

Speaker: All participants

15:45 → 16:30 Concluding Session