2002 CERN School of Computing

Vico Equense, Italy

15-28 September 2002

 

 

Final Programme

(Bulletin 2)

 

The 2002 CERN School of Computing is, like every year, a good occasion to have high level tutorials on the recent evolutions in Computing. This year, the CSC 2002 programme has focused on four main arguments: Grid Computing, From Detectors to Physics papers, Security and Networks, Tools and Methods. These arguments, although particularly relevant for High Energy Physics Experiments, have broad importance in many other fields of applied Computing. Grid is now an extremely exciting technology promise that is about to become reality and, if successfully adopted, will dramatically change the way we access computing resources. The HEP community is largely investing in Grids and CERN is playing a major role in this programme. Security and Networking is also a very important topic nowadays. Many companies are experimenting the tremendous impact of these arguments on their computing infrastructure. HEP had, traditionally, an "open network" born on the needs of many thousands of researchers around the world to freely communicate amongst themselves. This openness had to be moderated by the necessity of shielding the community from hackers and malicious programs, without blocking the free circulation of scientific information that is now part of HEP researchers' life. The other two arguments are relevant for understanding how much computing technologies and methods are part of an experiment in HEP. From Data Acquisition to the Word Processor, passing by simulation and analysis programs, histogramming and visualization packages, all the fundamental steps which start from the concept of an experimental measure to the publication of a physics result are deeply related to computing tools and resources. This explains why HEP has been always on the forefront of computing technologies. The 2002 CERN School of Computing will present the state of the art in all these fields.

 

F. Ruggieri

Chairman of the Advisory Committee


INFORMATION ABOUT CERN

CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, undertakes research into the structure of matter. This research is largely performed by teams of visiting scientists based at their parent university or research centre. CERN staff are drawn from 20 European Member States, but scientists from any country may be invited to spend a limited period at CERN. CERN has 2,700 staff members and some 7,000 visiting scientists from all over the world carry out research at the Laboratory each year.

 

Research is carried out with the help of two large accelerators, a Proton Synchrotron (PS) of 28 GeV and a Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) of 450 GeV. The SPS has a large experimental area for fixed-target experiments at some distance from the accelerator. CERN's flagship from 1989 to 2000 was the Large Electron Positron collider, LEP, which came into operation at 45 GeV per beam in July 1989, moved up to 70 GeV per beam towards the end of 1995, and to over 100 GeV per beam in July 2000. LEP had four associated large experimental facilities, which have established, among other things, that there are three light neutrino types. LEP was switched off definitively in November 2000 but data analysis continues.

 

CERN is preparing to install a proton-proton collider inside the tunnel until recently occupied by LEP. This is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was approved at the end of 1994. The LHC will produce collisions at 14 TeV using superconducting magnets to keep the particle beams in orbit. It is scheduled to be switched on in 2007.

 

The prime function of CERN is to provide Europe's particle physicists with world-class research facilities, which could not be obtained within the resources of individual countries. Development work goes on continuously to improve the accelerators, detection systems and other auxiliary installations, and the range of equipment available at CERN is among the finest assembled at any site in the world.

INFORMATION ABOUT IMCB-CNR

The Institute for the Technology of Composite Materials (ITMC), established in 1993, is located in the Department of Materials and Production Engineering of the Naples University “Federico II”.

The main research activities of ITMC are focused on the development and applications of the composite materials, on the technologies and diffusion and rheological properties of the polymers and finally on the materials for biomedical applications.

The ITMC Technological Transfer Area carries out a role of interface between the industries need and the Institute research activities: it promotes the innovation diffusion and supports the industries in the preparation of R&D projects financing and management.

In the last years a qualified External Service has been activated in the field of Analysis and Reduction of the Asbestos Risk and the ITMC has been included among the three National Laboratories for the accreditation for public and private laboratories operating in the specific sector.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

HOTEL ADDRESS:

 

Hotel Oriente

Corso L. Serio 7/9

80061 Vico Equense (NA)

Italy

 

Tel.  + 39 081 801 5522

Fax.  +39 081 879 03 85

ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS

 

Participants will be lodged, with full board, at the Hotel Oriente in comfortable double bedrooms, equipped with bath/shower and W.C.  Breakfast and dinner times will be as follows:

 

Breakfast  

 07.00 - 08.30

Lunch  

 13.00

Dinner  

 20.00

 

Lunch and Dinner will be served in one sitting and participants are therefore requested to be on time.

 

Morning and afternoon coffee will be at the following times:

 

         Mornings  

          11.00 – 11.30

         Afternoons  

          16.30 – 17.00

 

Drinks at the hotel bar, whether alcoholic or non-alcoholic, are not included in the fee and must be paid for at the time of purchase.  The only exceptions are coffee, tea and soft drinks during the morning and afternoon breaks. 

One free beverage is provided at lunch and at dinner.

LECTURES AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES

 

All Lectures and exercises will take place at the Hotel Oriente.

 

Lectures will take place in the Lecture room on the main floor near the Reception.

 

Exercises will take place in the Tutorials room one floor down from the main floor.

 

The complete schedule and lecturers biographies can be found at this URL: http://cern.ch/csc-internal

 

Any changes to the programme will be announced verbally and notices will be posted on a notice board, which will be placed outside the lecture room.

ORGANISATION

 

F. Gagliardi, CERN, Geneva, will act as Director of the School and he will be assisted by M. Montanino, IMCB-CNR. Administrative matters will be handled by J.M. Franco-Turner, CERN, together with C. Del Barone, C. De Rosa and R. Saviano

P. Martucci, CERN, will be the Systems Manager in charge of the computing infrastructure.

SECRETARIAT

 

The School Secretariat will be located in a room adjacent to the Tutorials room.  The Secretariat will be open during lecture hours as well as approximately 30 minutes before and after.  Any additional information will be displayed on a pin board.

BADGES

 

All those participating in the School will be provided with name badges.  These badges should be worn at all times on the Hotel premises to enable all participants (lecturers and students) to get to know each other more easily.

MONEY AND VALUABLES

 

The organisers of the School decline all responsibility for the possible loss of personal belongings of participants.  It is advisable to take out an appropriate baggage insurance.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

 

A welcome drink will be offered on Monday, 16 September at 19.00. An evening banquet will be held at the end of the School. 

 

Excursions are planned as follows:

 

Wednesday, 18 September - afternoon

Sunday, 19 September - all day excursion

Wednesday, 25 September- afternoon

 

Further details will be given at the School.

 

The Hotel is a base for the Ramblers Holidays Association which organizes rambles/walks on the Sorrento Peninsula and in the Lattari Mountains. Any interested students should come equipped for such activity (walking shoes, etc.)

PROCEEDINGS

 

These will be published on a CD-ROM.  One copy will be distributed to each participant, free of charge.

SPONSORS

We would like to thank the following for their help and support of the 2002 CERN School of Computing:

Assessorato all'Università ed alla Ricerca Scientifica, Innovazione Tecnologica e Nuova Economia, Sistemi Informativi e Statistica, Musei e Biblioteche

Associazione Albergatori di Vico Equense

ATP s.r.l Materie Plastiche

Banco di Napoli Spa, Vico Equense

CNR - Progetto Finalizzato "Materiali Speciali per Tecnologie Avanzate"

Comune di Vico Equense

Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nuclears (INFN)

Provincia di Napoli

Regione Campania

SELFIN Spa, Naples

Telecom Italia

Ufficio del Turismo di Vico Equense

LECTURERS

 

Predrag Buncic, CERN, Geneva

Predrag Buncic obtained a degree in physics from Zagreb University in 1989. Then he worked on tracking algorithms for the NA35 experiment and obtained a master degree in particle physics from Belgrade University in 1994. In the period 1995-1999 he worked for the NA49 experiment on development of a persistent, object-oriented I/O system and data manager (DSPACK) designed to handle data volume on 100TB scale, and coordinated the NA49 computing efforts at CERN. At present he works for the Institute für Kernphysik, Frankfurt in the Alice experiment on the Alice production environment (AliEn). He is section leader of the database section in the Alice Offline Team.

 

Federico Carminati, CERN, Geneva

Federico Carminati obtained an Italian doctor’s degree in High Energy Physics at the University of Pavia in 1981. After working as an experimental physicist at CERN, Los Alamos and Caltech, he was hired at CERN were he has been responsible for the development and support of the CERN Program Library and the GEANT3 detector simulation MonteCarlo. From 1994 to 1998 he participated in the design of the Energy Amplifier under the guidance of Prof. C. Rubbia (1984 Nobel Physics Laureate) in the development of innovative MonteCarlo techniques for the simulation of accelerator driven fission machines, and of the related fuel cycle. In January 1998 he joined the ALICE collaboration at LHC assuming the leadership of the ALICE software and computing project. Since January 2001 he holds the position of Work Package Manager in the European DataGRID project. He is responsible for the High Energy Physics Application Work Package whose aim is to deploy large scale distributed HEP applications using the GRID technology.

 

Robert Cowles, SLAC, Stanford

With more than 30 years of experience in computing and as the Computer Security Officer at SLAC, the lecturer can ground the more abstract discussions with practical, real-world examples. In addition to seminars in the US and Europe, he has taught regular classes on Internet and web security for the University of California and Hong Kong University.  Education: BS Physics from University of Kansas, 1969; MS Computer Science from Cornell University, 1971.

 

Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne

Dr. Ian Foster is Senior Scientist and Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and Senior Fellow in the Argonne/U.Chicago Computation Institute.  He currently co-leads the Globus project with Dr. Carl Kesselman of USC/ISI as well as a number of other major Grid initiatives, including the DOE-funded Earth System Grid and the NSF-funded GriPhyN and GRIDS Center projects.  He co-edited the book “The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure".

 

Bob Jacobsen, University of California, Berkeley

Bob Jacobsen is an experimental high-energy physicist and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.  He's a member of the BaBar collaboration, where he led the effort to create the reconstruction software and the offline system.  He has previously been a member of the ALEPH (LEP) and MarkII (SLC) collaborations. His original academic training was in computer engineering, and he worked in the computing industry before becoming a physicist.

 

Bob Jones, CERN, Geneva

After studying computer science at university, Bob joined CERN and has been working on online systems for the LEP and LHC experiments. Databases communication systems graphical user interfaces and the application of these technologies to data acquisition systems was the basis of his thesis. He is currently responsible for the control and configuration sub-system of the ATLAS data acquisition prototype project.

 

Carl Kesselman, University of South California, Marina del Rey

Dr. Carl Kesselman is a Senior Project Leader at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, also at the University of Southern California.  Prior to joining USC, Dr. Kesselman was a Member of the Beckman Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.  He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angles.  Dr. Kesselman's research interests are in high-performance distributed computing, or Grid Computing.  He is the Co-leader of the Globus project, and along with Dr. Ian Foster, edited a widely referenced text on Grid computing.

 

Pascale Primet, ENS, Lyon

Pascale Primet is an assistant professor in Computer Sciences. She has been giving lectures in Advanced Networks, Quality of Service and Operating System for more than ten years; member of the INRIA Reso project. She is Manager of the Work Package Network (WP7) of the EU DataGRID project and scientific coordinator of the French Grid project E-TOILE.

 

Fons Rademakers, CERN, Geneva

Fons Rademakers received a Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Amsterdam. Since 1990 he is working on large-scale data analysis systems at CERN. He is one of the main authors of the PAW and ROOT data analysis frameworks and since July 2000 he works in the offline computing group of the ALICE collaboration where he is in charge of the framework development.

 

Paolo Tonella, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Trentino

Paolo Tonella received his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1992, and his PhD degree in Software Engineering from the same University, in 1999, with the thesis "Code Analysis in Support to Software Maintenance".  Since 1994 he has been a full time researcher of the Software Engineering group at IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research), Trento, Italy. He participated in several industrial and European Community projects on software analysis and testing. He is now the technical person responsible for a project with the Alice, ATLAS and LHCb experiments at CERN on the automatic verification of coding standards and on the extraction of high level UML views from the code.  In 2000-2001 he gave a course on Software Engineering at the University of Brescia.  Now he teaches Software Analysis and Testing at the University of Trento. His current research interests include reverse engineering, object oriented programming, web applications and static code analysis.

ASSISTANT LECTURERS

Robert Harakaly – ENS, Lyon

Robert Harakaly holds a Ph.D in Physics from the Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic and is presently a research engineer at CNRS-UREC, Lyon, France. He is member of the WP7 Networking work package (WP7) of the European DataGrid project. His interests include GRID networking, network monitoring, reliable multicast and network security and he has eight years experience with different UNIX systems and computer networks.

 

Erwin Laure – CERN, Geneva

EVENING LECTURERS

Paul Messina - Caltech, Pasadena

 

E. Burattini, Cybernetics Institute, Naples

 

THEME OUTLINES

GRID COMPUTING

“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovative applications.  In this track, we provide an in-depth introduction to Grid technologies and applications.  We review the “Grid problem,” which we define as flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources—what we refer to as virtual organizations. In such settings, we encounter unique authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and other challenges.  It is this class of problem that is addressed by Grid technologies.  We present an extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and software development kits are categorized according to their roles in enabling resource sharing.  We review major Grid projects worldwide and describe how they are contributing to the realization of this architecture.  Then, we describe specific Grid technologies in considerable detail, focusing in particular on the Globus Toolkit and on Data Grid technologies being developed by the EU Data Grid, GriPhyN, and PPDG projects in Europe and the U.S. The hands-on exercises will give participants practical experience of the Globus toolkit for basic Grid activities

 

FROM DETECTORS TO PHYSICS PAPERS

The track addresses the Information Technology challenges encountered in the transformation of the raw data coming from the HEP experiments into physics results. Particular attention will be devoted to the problem and opportunities arising from the distributed environment in which both the development of the programs and the analysis of the data will take place. This novel situation calls for the application of innovative technologies, both at the level of software engineering, computing infrastructure and data processing. Software engineering has to be rethought in the context of a highly dynamic environment, where the communication between the different actors is mainly remote. Computing techniques, such as programming language choice and adoption of advanced software tools have to support this approach. Management, planning and evaluation of the performance of a project has to be adapted to this situation of loosely coupled and dispersed human resources, which is not uncommon in other fields, but extreme in HEP. Data processing also has to adapt to this situation of distributed computing resources, where the ultimate goal is to transparently access them without having to confront the underlying dynamics and complexity of the system. These lectures will address how the different leading edge technologies both in the field of software engineering and of distributed computing can be successfully applied to a large collaboration of non-professional but demanding intensive computing users. Finally different solutions to the problem adopted by other experiments will be presented.

 

SECURITY AND NETWORKS

The development of modern distributed computing and complex data management systems, such as exemplified by the GRID, relies increasingly on two components where specific advances are necessary to satisfy these stringent requirements. These two areas are Computer Security and Network Performance. This track addresses each of them, in the form of two series of lectures, and via a selection of topics at the forefront of the technology. The security part starts with background knowledge and move to specific technologies such as cryptography, authentication, and their use in the Grid context.  The Networking part focuses on two aspects that are of primary importance in a Grid context: TCP/IP enhancements and network monitoring. The aim is to present the fundamentals and the evolutions of the TCP/IP stack and to explore advanced Network measurement and analysis tools and services for end-to-end performance measurement and prediction.

 

TOOLS AND METHODS

This track presents modern techniques for software design and modern tools for understanding and improving existing software.  The emphasis will be placed on the large software projects and large executables that are common in HEP.  The track will consist of lectures, exercises and discussions.  The first discussion session will occur after several hours of exercises have been completed.  The last discussion session will be held at the end of the track.

The first 3 lectures will cover software engineering, design, methodology and testing. This is followed by three lectures on working with large software systems, including methods for analysing their structure and improving it.  The final 2 lectures will focus on the tools that are commonly used in software design and testing.

In the exercise sessions, the students will have a chance to use the tools that are described in the lectures.  They will work with CVS and configuration management tools.  They will be asked to use the test and debugging tools on some simple examples.  By showing how these tools can locate known problems, students will learn how to use them on new problems.  Students will then be given a functional program and a brief description of what it does.  The goal is to extend the program to handle a larger problem domain.  It is expected that the example programs and exercises will be primarily in C++.

 

OUTLINES OF LECTURES AND TUTORIALS

GRID TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Lecture: GC.1/L:  

Introduction to Grids

Lecture GC.2/L:  

Overview of the Globus toolkit

Lecture GC.3/L:  

Globus components

Lecture GC.4/L:  

Globus components

Lecture GC.5/L:  

Globus components

Lecture GC.6/L:  

Globus components

Lecture GC.7/L:  

Other issues and future

Lecture GC.8/L:  

Wrap-up & Feedback session

Exercises:       

Ex. GC.1/E:  Last minute modication.  Now lecture "Introduction for hands-on exercises"

Ex. GC.2/E: basic job submission

Ex. GC.3/E: advanced jobs

                      exploring the MDS info. service for SEs and Ces submitting more complicating jobs making use of the replica catalog,and MPI/MPICH-G, etc

Ex. GC.4/E:  advanced jobs

Ex. GC.5/E:  project work

                       students work in groups on a mini-project using the Globus toolkit and related software to solve a physics related problem. The students should build on the knowledge gained in the lectures and previous exercises to develop an

                        application capable of solving a given physics problem

Ex. GC.6/E:  project work

Ex. GC.7/E:  project work

Ex. GC.8/E:  project work

 

FROM DETECTORS TO PHYSICS PAPERS

From data to analysis

DP.1.1/L: Introduction

The challenges of data processing in an LHC collaboration. Main parameters involved and order of magnitudes. Typical dataflow. Structure and organisation of an Off-line project. Management and sociological issues. Examples taken from LHC experiments will be presented. Problems and issues of technology transition. Example the transition from FORTRAN to C++.

 

DP.1.2/L: Software Development

Planning and organisation of the work in a distributed environment.  New trends in software engineering and their application to HEP.  Rapid prototyping and architectural design.  Software tools

 

DP.1.3/L: Offline Frameworks

Need of an offline framework. Definition of an offline framework. Framework components and structure, layers and modularity. Interfaces to external component and basic services. Evolution and maintenance of a framework. Practical examples from LHC.

 

DP.1.4/L: Practical Use of Grid Technology

Basic problem of transparent access to large data samples. Solutions offered by GRID technology. Use of GRID technology in HEP, from dreams to reality. Current testbeds and first results. Practical examples from LHC.

 

Distributed data handling, processing and analysis

The problems and issues of handling distributed data in typical HEP experiment. Access patterns. File catalogue vs file system. Generic API for data access. Logical, physical and transport file names. File catalogue implementation (AliEn).  Distributed data processing and analysis. Introduction to the PROOF system that provides for the distributed processing of very large collections of data. PROOF uses a parallel architecture to achieve (near) interactive performance. Introduction to the ROOT I/O system. Discussion of the PROOF three-tier parallel architecture. Description of interface of PROOF to GRID (especially AliEn, see lecture 5).

 

Lectures:

DP.2.1/L:            Distributed data handling and analysis.

DP.2.2/L:            Distributed data processing and analysis

Exercises (4 hrs):

DP.2.1/E, DP.2.2/E, DP.2.3/E, DP.2.4/E

An introduction to the AliEn architecture. Using the AliEn API from C++. An introduction to PROOF and its use in the analysis of data created using the AliEn service

 

Current approaches

The computing systems of several currently-running experiments are described, with emphasis on their experience in building, commissioning and operating them.  Several approaches to ongoing development of new experiments will be described. The choices made will be discussed

 

DP.3.1/L: Experience with current approaches.

 

SECURITY AND NETWORKS

Computer Security

SN.1.1/L:         Your Workstation

Threats

·         Destruction

·         Modification

·         Embarrassment

Responsibilities

·         Backup & Virus protection

·         Patching and configuration management

·         Email security

 

SN.1.2/L:         Cryptography and PKI

Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption

Public Key Infrastructure

·         X.509 Certificates

·         Certificate Authorities

·         Registration Authority

·         Obtaining a certificate

·         Protecting your private key

 

SN.1.3/L:         Grid Security

Registering your identity

Authentication models

Authorization to use resources

Proxy Certificates and delegation

MyProxy server

Community Access services
Threats

Vulnerabilities

How you can make the Grid more secure

Exercises (2 hrs)

SN.1.1/E:  Generate a key pair;

                 Perform steps necessary to send email that is signed and encrypted either using PGP or using X.509 certificates.

SN.1.2/E:  Register with a MyProxy server and use a web Grid portal to submit a job for execution.

 

High performance Grid Networking

These lectures present the fundamentals of the TCP/IP stack and the limits of the protocols to meet the network requirements of the Grid application and middleware. The evolution of the network layer and of the transport layer are examine in order to understand the tendencies in the high performance networking. Emphasis is placed on the practices that permit end-to-end performance measurement and improvement.

 

SN.2.1/L:    Grid Networks requirements. IP protocol. TCP protocol : main features, limits

SN.2.2/L:    IP Service Differentiation - Elevated services - Non elevated services : ABE, EDS, QBSS.

SN.2.3/L:    High Performance Transport protocol and TCP optimization

Exercises (2 hrs)

SN.2.1/E:    Configure and use tools and services for Grid status and networks performance measurement.

SN.2.2/E:    Measure and understand end-to-end performance of TCP connections over different types of links.

 

TOOLS AND METHODS

Software Engineering

An introduction to the principles of Software Engineering, with emphasis on what we know about building large software systems for high-energy physics.  These lectures cover the principles of software engineering, design, methodology and testing.

TM.1.1/L:       Introduction to Software Engineering

TM.1.2/L:       Software Design

TM.1.3/L:       Long-term Issues of Software Building

 

Analysis of Software Systems

This lecture series aims at investigating the issues related to program understanding and evolution. Since most of the programming activities are conducted on existing systems, it is important to know how their comprehension can be faced effectively and how interventions can be made without undesired side effects. Moreover, the system under evolution may require a preliminary restructuring. During the lectures some fundamental notions about static program analysis will be given. Then, program slicing will be presented as a support to program understanding and impact analysis. Reverse engineering techniques that extract an architectural description of existing systems will be also described. Finally, restructuring will be considered.

 

TM.2.1/L:        Static code analysis, slicing

                      Program slicing is a static analysis technique that extracts from a program the statements relevant to a particular computation. Informally, a slice provides the answer to the question "What program statements potentially affect the computation of variable v at statement s?" Programmers are known to formulate questions of this kind when performing activities such as program understanding and debugging.  In this lecture, the basic notions of program dependences will be introduced, so as to allow a formal definition of the program slicing problem. A program slicing algorithm will be then described. Finally, some variants of slicing and the available tools will be presented.

 

TM.2.2/L:        Reverse Engineering

                       During software evolution, knowledge about the high level organization of the system is important. In fact, it can help locating the focus of the change and hypothesizing ripple effects. Often, available architectural views do not accurately reflect the existing system. Their automatic extraction is thus desirable. In this lecture, reverse engineering techniques based on the specification of architectural patterns will be presented. The validation of the extracted model through the reflection method is then described. Finally, dynamic approaches to the identification of functionalities within components will be considered.

 

TM2.3/L:         Restructuring

Software systems are subject to a phenomenon called "architectural drift", consisting of a gradual deviation of the code implementing the system from its original design. One of its consequences is a progressive degradation of the code organization, making program maintenance harder. Refactoring is the process of modifying the code so that the external behaviour is not altered, while the internal structure is improved.  In this lecture, some examples of code refactoring will be presented with reference to the object oriented programming paradigm. They will be introduced on a small program, used throughout the lecture. Implications and approaches to use with large scale systems will be discussed.

 

Exercises: (2 hrs)

TM.2.1/E and TM.2.2/E:

          Introductory work on analysis and re-engineering

         Automation in code analysis and restructuring is fundamental in making the techniques studied from a theoretical point of view usable in practice. Among the available tools, during the exercises the tool TXL (http://www.txl.ca/) will be used. It supports code transformation and analysis and it comes with grammars for several widely used programming languages.

 

        Exercises will focus on the implementation of some simple code transformations based on the restructuring techniques presented during the theoretical lectures. Basic refactoring operations for object oriented systems such as moving methods, replacing variables and renaming entities will be considered.

 

Tools and Techniques

These lectures present tools and techniques that are valuable when developing software for high energy physics.  We discuss how to work more efficiently while still creating a high quality product that your colleagues will be happy with. The exercises provide practice with each of the tools and techniques presented, and culminate in a small project.

Lectures:

TM.3.1/L:      Tools

TM.3.2/L :     Techniques

Exercises(6 hrs):

TM.3.1/E

TM.3.2/E

TM.3.3/E

TM.3.4/E

TM.3.5/E

TM.3.6/E        Project combining all three parts of the track

 

EVENING LECTURES

 

P. Messina

Creating a global computing environment for fundamental science

 

E. Burattini

A multi-agent system for an adaptive navigation support in the web-site of the Herculaneum Excavations


COMMITTEES

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

 

W. Carena  

CERN, Geneva

M. Delfino  

CERN, Geneva

R. Edgecock  

RAL, Didcot

F. Etienne  

CPPM, Marseille

F. Flückiger  

CERN, Geneva  

(Deputy School Director)

J. Franco-Turner  

CERN, Geneva  

(School Administrator)

F. Gagliardi  

CERN, Geneva  

(School Director)

R. Jacobsen  

University of California, Berkeley

R. Jones  

CERN, Geneva

J. Marco de Lucas  

IFCA, Santander

P. Martucci  

CERN, Geneva  

(Technical Manager)

P. McBride  

FNAL, Batavia

F. Ruggieri  

INFN-CNAF, Bologna  

(Chairman)

 

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

M. Montanino  

IMCB-CNR, Naples


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR CURRENT ACTIVITIES

 

Sergio ANDREOZZI

sergio.andreozzi@cnaf.infn.it

 

I am currently working at CNAF-INFN (Bologna, Italy) in a grid computing related project.  Inside this project named DataTAG, I am focusing on advanced resource discovery mechanisms using web services technologies.  This topic is a key research area for the improvement of both resource usage efficiency and loosely coupled interworking among different grids.  I am also a PhD student at Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna.  My research activity is strictly related to my work at CNAF. My teaching activity is going to be in the field of Databases.  In the past I have written code in C/C++, PHP and SQL.  The operating systems I am most familiar with are Linux and Windows.  I am also skilled in networking, especially network QoS (e.g. DiffServ).

 

Maite BARROSO LOPEZ

maite.barroso.lopez@cern.ch

 

I work for the DataGrid project, as a member of the Fabric Management Work Package (WP4). My present activities are: - I am the WP4 representative in the DataGrid Integration Team. This implies packaging all WP4 software, testing and integrating it in the development testbed before every official delivery. The programming languages used are C, C++, Perl, Java and shell script. - I also work for the WP4 Installation and Configuration Management tasks, developing the global configuration schema, to express/structure the node and fabric configuration information using the High Level Configuration Description Language (HLDL). The HLDL is a language for expressing configurations of systems. The description resides in the Configuration Database (CDB). It is validated and transformed into Low Level configuration Description (LLD) or some other form of description that is used to configure the managed systems.

 

Andrea BELLI

andrea.belli@tilab.com

 

My current work involves development of a distributed search and categorization engine that will enable just in time, flexible allocation of data and computational resources. The idea is to aim at making petabytes of information distributed on vast amounts of geographically distant locations highly accessible. Such a search and categorization engine will operate without a central database; instead it will index documents locally in each Grid node using whatever computational resources are available right there at the storage vicinity, allowing querying on demand from any other node in the Grid. I’ve an expertise in Java programming, and I’m interested in JXTA community.

 

Rüdiger BERLICH

ruediger@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

 

My current work involves the parallelisation of Evolutionary Algorithms. The implementation of my library is general enough to allow its deployment beyond the boundaries of particle physics and across systems ranging from SMP machines over clusters of workstations to GRID environments. I have got programming experience in C++, C and FORTRAN. My Operating System of choice is Linux, which I have used since 1992. Apart from scientific work done at Crystal Barrel and Aleph (both CERN) as well as BaBar (SLAC), I have gained industry experience through my employment at SuSE Linux AG. I have held both technical and management positions in this company in the US, the UK and Germany.

 

Michal BLUJ

mbluj@fuw.edu.pl

 

My present work is related with two areas: an offline physical analysis and a computer activity supported High-Energy Physics. Specifically, I have developed the physic analysis to search for non-standard Higgs  boson decays into multi-b-quark final states in data collected by Delphi detector  at LEP. Now, I am starting the Monte Carlo studies of capability of finding non-standard  Higgs boson at future experiment CMS at LHC. My computer activity is within EUroCrossGrid project, where I am involved to creation  of Warsaw testbed and the development of a physic application running in the distributed  grid environment. The application, which our (Warsaw) group is working on, will be the offline  application to LHC Physics TDR.  I have written code mainly in Fortran77, and (more rarely) in C, C++. The operating  system I am most familiar is UNIX (Linux).

 

Tomasz BOLD

bold@mail.desy.de

 

I am involved in building a new component for the luminosity measurement of the ZEUS detector at HERA. For this purpose I have developed several systems to cooperate with the detector electronics, main ZEUS DAQ. Especially I prepared the system to control processes responsible for data taking. Also I developed the software for interactive and automated control of electronics and online reconstruction of beam parameters.  My main task is integration with the central ZEUS DAQ system.  Development is based on knowledge of C/C++/FORTRAN/PAW/DDL/CERNLIB/Qt/ROOT. I extensively use CVS for source management. I use Linux, UNIX, LynxOS as development platforms.

 

Daniele BONACORSI

bonacorsi@bo.infn.it

 

I am currently involved in the experimental work of the Bologna CMS group. I am collaborating at the computing activities concerning the management of the CMS Bologna computing farm, a Linux cluster of dual processor PIII equipped with a disk-server in RAID 5. This farm has been continuously improved during the time, and so far it has been intensively used for MonteCarlo productions of simulated events within the Official CMS Production framework. I am responsible of the development of the Drift Tubes simulation and reconstruction software (C++) for the Muon Trigger of the CMS experiment, within the ORCA project (Object-oriented Reconstruction for CMS Analysis). I am also involved in EU-DataGRID activities, performing tests of the EDG software on the CMS DataTAG testbed at CNAF (Italy); in particular, I am developing and testing a framework which performs the ORCA production and analysis steps in a grid environment. I have written code in C++, Perl and scripting languages, Tcl/Tk and Fortran. The operating system I am most familiar with is UNIX (especially Linux).

 

Diana BOSIO

Diana.Bosio@cern.ch

 

I have just started working at CERN, in the database group of the IT division. I am currently  involved in the Grid, collaborating in both the European DataGrid and the LHC Computing Grid  projects. More, specifically I am involved in the WP2 activity, working on data management . I  will also provide a contact point for the experiments, providing support for the installation procedure  of the modules developed by WP2, and also to receive their comments and requirements. The  computers I am familiar with are PCs running Linux or Windows, Suns running Solaris and  Macs running OS 9. The programming languages I am familiar with include C, FORTRAN, Mathematica, and Maple.

 

Hugo CAÇOTE

Hugo.Cacote@cern.ch

 

My current work involves the development of a scalable and flexible system, responsible for the supervision (monitoring and controlling) of CERN’s Computer Center equipment and Services.  In the Management Station the project employs a commercial SCADA system to where the status information collected form the nodes is sent. In the Management Station the data can be subject to analysis (trending, correlation,..) and actions can be launched on the monitored nodes. The first prototype of the Project performs monitoring in 1000 nodes (100 parameters in each node) of the Computer Center.  I am specifically involved on the study and implementation of the communication protocol between the nodes and the SCADA System. Future work will involve the development of a SNMP driver, automatic configuration of the nodes through the Supervision System and the use of correlation engines on the local nodes.  I have experience in written code in C, C++, Java, CORBA, Perl and the Operating System I am most familiar with is UNIX and Linux.

 

Arnaud CAMARD

acamard@lpnhep.in2p3.fr

 

My work for time being consists in the study of muons produced in the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter testbeam. In particular, I study uniformity of final barrel modules. I also study the TTCrx chip that sends LHC Clocks and level 1 trigger to all electronics channels. I use Labview and C programming to send commands and receive data from an oscilloscope (via GPIB Bus). Now, I should start a physics study of long lived time supersymetric particles that can only studied with EM calorimeter (difficult to see in central tracking detectors, decay before reaching muon systems). To make this study, I need to learn more C++ programming to use ATHENA, the standard Framework in ATLAS collaboration. In my current work, I program mostly using C language, Labview for electronics applications, and PAW to finalize physics studies. But I know also basics of shell programming, perl, and C++, and use almost only Linux operating system.

 

Sylvain CHAPELAND

sylvain.chapeland@cern.ch

 

My current work is part of the European Data Grid Project, in the fabric management work package. I have been developing for one year a monitoring system scalable to several thousands of nodes and able to deliver performance and exception monitoring data. On each node, some sensors are running, and a collector transmits their output to a central place, where measurements are stored in a database. Correlation of metrics allows automatic actions to be taken on failure. Two prototypes were deployed on CERN Linux nodes. Results from these tests were used to design the final system being implemented. The code is written in C and C++, with some Tcl/Tk scripts to generate HTML pages with plots, updated regularly or on CGI queries. Latest prototype is deployed on data challenge cluster, DataGrid testbed, and used as a base for CERN IT batch and public services monitoring (total exceeding 1000 nodes). I am familiar with Unix and Windows systems, and program mainly in C, C++, Tcl/Tk, and Visual Basic.

 

Dinker CHARAK

dinker@fnal.gov

 

I am involved in online computing development and support for experiments (CDF, D0, CMS, etc) in Fermilab. This involves real-time OS support (mainly VxWorks 5.4 kernels) and real-time application support for these kernels. I am primary contact for handling support issues for VxWorks 5.4 on various targets, FISION (used for VME Bus access), etc. I am also involved in software development for new data acquisition system/triggering framework for D0 experiment at Fermilab. I am involved in port of c++ online software between from Windows NT/VC.NET to Linux/g++/KCC using ACE interfaces for maximal platform independence. I have written code in c/c++.

 

Andrea CHIERICI

andrea.chierici@cnaf.infn.it

 

I am currently involved in Data-GRID and INFN-GRID projects; I am also involved in the Italian Tier-1 project. My main activity is on farming and testing for datagrid, following the development of a tool that will be able to install, configure and maintain a workstation from the connection to the network to it’s usage as a computation resource. The operating systems I know are Solaris, Linux (I am a RedHat certified Engineer) and Win9x/NT/2000. I have written code in C, Perl and can program shell scripts.

 

Paula CHIN KEE FIGUEIREDO

paula.figueiredo@cern.ch

 

At present I am working as a Fellow in the CERN IT division. I am participating in the development of a data management tool.  CERN IT division provides the computing infrastructure for the laboratory. The system that manages and stores data, concerning IT Computing Services and its users’ accounts, is CCDB (Computer Centre Data Base). This Oracle based system is in production since 1987 and includes a data repository and interfaces to manage the stored data. It manages 27 services with a total of more than 89000 accounts.  A CCDB and dependent tools re-design and re-implementation is ongoing. The objective is to re-design the system considering the current requirements of IT services and using database features and more modern technologies.  I have been participating in a working group to define requirement for the new system and will be one of the developers and maintainer of the new system. The understanding of the current functionalities and database design is essential for its maintenance as well as for the next system design. A reverse engineering of the database was made in order to obtain the database design and the same exercise is on going for the existing Oracle Forms.

 

Karim CHOUIKH

karim.chouikh@cern.ch

 

My current work on the CASTOR project(CERN Advance storage manager) is to extend the CASTOR system monitoring being implemented by to include history functions; storage of system performance parameters in an database for the production of historical reports via the web. Assist in developing, running and understand the results of test suites for the LHC mock data challenges on specific hardware configurations.

  

Benjamin COUTURIER

Ben.Couturier@cern.ch

 

I am currently part of the CASTOR team in the IT division at CERN.  CASTOR is the Mass Storage System used to store on tapes the physics data from the experiments.  I am working on a monitoring application for the system developed in C (for the daemon) and Python (for the client GUI application),  that’s runs on several platforms.  I will also be involved in new developments for CASTOR (bug fixes or new features like the proposed CASTOR File system),  as well as the support for users from the physics community.  In previous jobs, I also have done object-oriented software design (using UML), and development using Java and C++ on Linux, Solaris and Windows.

 

Stephen DALLISON

stephen.dallison@cern.ch

 

I have recently completed research for my Ph.D. on the OPAL experiment and have now taken up an appointment at Manchester university working on core networking services  required for Grid operations. This involves the use of traffic engineering techniques to  configure managed bandwidth and quality of service between grid sites. This will  facilitate high performance data transport mechanisms including advanced TCP and  non-TCP applications. I am proficient at writing code in Fortran and have developed a number of programs using C and C++, I am also familiar with HTML and purl. I am experienced using the UNIX/LINUX and OS9 operating systems as well as Windows based software.

 

Péter Pal EMBER

ember@alpha0.iki.kfki.hu

 

Since 1998 I'm working on my Ph. D, on the topic of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis. The major part of the thesis consists of the development and testing of a multidetector coincidence measuring method. My current work involves the creation of a simple and user friendly software that is able to extract the necessary information from the great amount of data produced by the detectors. The program is written in C++, and is planned to contain a command line part for batch processing, and a separate user interface with OPEN-GL graphics to visualize the spectra, and the coincidence gates. The command line part should work under Windows and Unix also, while the graphical part is for Windows only. It is planned to merge the program with the online data collection and spectrum analysis programs we already have. I am also familiar with java/JSP, and Pascal languages.

 

Gareth FAIREY

garethf@hep.man.ac.uk

 

My current work is with DataGrid, where I am working on network monitoring, particularly in trying to understand the behavior of Gigabit Ethernet traffic, as well as setting up the necessary infrastructure (both hardware and software) for such tests. This has involved running performance tests with various NICs as well as debugging and further developing Perl wrapper scripts for them. Aside from that, I've worked on configuring appropriate firewalls on the PCs involved. The operating system I am most familiar with is Linux where I am working on understanding the networking code at the moment. I have also begun using NetBSD and learning Python.

 

Alessandra FANFANI

fanfani@bo.infn.it

                       

I am currently working within the CMS Collaboration. I am involved in MonteCarlo production of large amounts of simulated events and analysis of high level trigger performances in muon events. The production chain of simulated  events in CMS involves both traditional (Fortran, GEANT3 based program) and distributed object oriented techniques (C++,Objectivity/DB).  I am also working within the EU-Datagrid project, performing tests of the EDG middleware in a CMS scenario, focusing on problematic related to production of simulated data and  their analysis in a distributed environment. I have written code in C++, Fortran, perl, sh/csh .The operating system I am most familiar with is Unix (Linux).

 

Alessandro FARNESI

alessandro.farnesi@tilab.com

 

Actually I’m involved in the GRACE project, funded by the European Commission within the 5th Framework programme for the Research and Technological Development of the European Union. CERN is one of the partners of this project. The project proposes development of a distributed search and categorization engine that will enable just-in-time, flexible allocation of data and computational resources and aims at making terabytes of information distributed on vast amounts of geographically distant locations highly accessible thanks to the development of a decentralized search and categorization engine built on top of Grid technology. Such a search and categorization engine will operate without a central database. Instead it will index documents locally in each Grid node using whatever computational resources are available right there at the storage vicinity. The resulting index will be also stored locally and will allow querying on demand from any other node in the Grid. Programming languages known are Fortran, Pascal; O.S.:UNIX (Linux), Windows; MAC OS.

 

Joao FERNANDES

joao.fernandes@cern.ch

 

I am an electrical engineer working with the Integration/Control Group of the CMS Tracker.  The group’s responsibilities include the integration of all the electronic components of the Tracker as well as the implementation of the Front-End and Slow controls.  I am working on the integration of the Tracker’s Detector Control Unit (DCU).  The rad-hard DCU will perform the monitoring of 100,000 current and the same number of voltage channels and 30,000 temperature channels.  I am developing the software that will define the detector monitored temperature states as a function of the DCU data.  The state will be transmitted to the Detector Control System (DCS).  In my work U use C++, Java and the XML protocols (SOAP) for message transmission, under Linux platforms.

 

Enrico FERRO

enrico.ferro@lnl.infn.it

Currently I am mainly working for the DataGRID project in the Installation Task of the Fabric Management Work Package (WP4) and in the testbed (WP6). The Installation Task is providing tools for automatic system administration of farms with thousands of hosts, while for the testbed I am working to automate the basic configuration of the different kind of nodes required by DataGRID. I have some experience with the languages Pascal, C, C++, Java, SQL, Perl and shell script. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Linux and Windows.

 

Joachim FLAMMER

joachim.flammer@cern.ch

 

I am a member of the CERN Trigger/DAQ group of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and I am working for the online software group. The online software encompasses the software to configure, control and monitor the Trigger-DAQ but excludes the processing and transportation of physics  data.  My current work involves code development and system testing for the  Integrated Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Java and the Run Control  package in C++.  The purpose of the IGUI is to provide a single GUI for end-users to monitor and control the overall DAQ system.  The run control system controls the data taking activities by coordinating the operating of the DAQ sub-systems, back-end software  components and external systems.  I have been using C, C++, FORTRAN and Java to develop code and the operating systems UNIX (Solaris, Linux, SGI) and Windows, being most familiar with Linux.

 

Giovanni FRANZONI

giovanni.franzoni@cern.ch

 

I am currently a PhD student in high energy physics at Milan Bicocca University. I am involved in the research program of the group headed by Prof. Antonino Pullia, presently focused on building the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the CMS experiment. I am part of the group of people taking care of the ECAL simulation for the physics studies necessary to design a combined test of the electromagnetic calorimeter and the tracker. At the moment I am studying previously generated MC events before going into the new simulation of the setup for the test. I will participate to the studies for the calibration of the ECAL. I am also involved in the design of the CMS ECAL cooling. I know the Windows environment and the Linux OS and since my thesis activity I am familiar with Root and C++. In the near future I will be involved in the building of a small farm of PC's in the Physics Department of Milano Bicocca.

 

David FRONT

david.front@cern.ch

 

My current assignment at CERN IT department, is to test and implement the replacement of the existing flat file system of LCG fabric monitoring system with one (or two) relational Database(s). The main challenge is to design a scalable solution for up to 10000 nodes, with reasonable performance, supporting heavy queries. This assignment involves Oracle DB, MySql DB, SQL, PL/SQL, C, perl and Linux. Additionally, I have much experience with design of various management applications for tele/communication systems, both at the manager and at the agent side. Main technologies: ADSL, fiber optics, fixed wireless, router, SDH, SONET, IP, Main protocols: SNMP, DOCSIS, proprietary protocols.  Additional Operating systems: Windows (NT), Psos, Java Additional languages: Java, Tcl/Tk, assembler, UML, REXX. 

 

Marek GARBACZ

marekg@icsr.agh.edu.pl

 

graduated on 1999 and the subject of my master thesis was 'Analysis and Implementation of Chosen Parallel Programming Paradigms". I programmed using MPI library for HP Convex Exemplar machine as well as using HP C compiler parallel programs and thread library. Apart from that I experimented with shmem library for Fortran and C on SGI Origin machine, trying to implement the functionality of this library on top of newly developed communication library FCI (Fast Communication Interface, developed by SIS Zurich). My current work (within CrossGrid project) includes implementing software engineering standards: standard operational procedures that are to be used within the project, project repository structure and access rules, requirements gathering policy, design tools, etc. Apart from that I'm involved in designing the architecture of the software that is to be developed within the project. The programming languages I'm familiar with are: C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Java.

 

Ruben Domingo GASPAR APARICIO

ruben.gaspar.aparicio@cern.ch

 

I am working within the mail service (12000 users, cluster of 14 Unix machines, 2800 distribution lists, Usenet node). Co-responsible person for the maintenance of the system, 24hours call-out, developer of new features for the web interfaces (servlets, and Perl cgi), maintenance of the distribution list infrastructure (monarch, Majordomo, LDAP), routing issues (sendmail, DNS configuration), store issues (IMAP servers), News configuration (INN).The tasks are mainly carried out using Perl, Java (Servlets), JavaScript, and shell scripting (normally ksh). The operating system is mainly Solaris, but we have also an OSF.1 machine.  Taking part in the Exchange project whose aim is to migrate the actual system to the Windows Exchange platform (W2000). For the time being I’m implementing a SMTP routing sink using VC++ and the High Energy Physics LDAP directory.  The tasks are mainly carried out using VBScript, VC++, VB, and new .NET technologies (C#) on W2K.

 

Elena GIANOLIO

elena.gianolio@cern.ch

 

My current work involves all aspect of the System administrator tasks including security and network. I am in charge of both
hardware and software maintenance of all our 100 computers and of both help and support to the division members and visitors.
I am also involved in the development of programs based on distributed DB, and I have to develop programs that have to manipulate data
from the HR database. I am the first contact for any problem concerning the computers in the TH division and the webmaster of our web
server. I have been involved in the maintenance of several programs in C and FORTRAN or shell languages like PERL, c-shell, bash,
t-shell. I have knowledge of several operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Nice. I am very interested in the evolution of the Grid project
and in the application of the new technologies in the high-energy experiments. Obviously I am very much interested in the security
section and in the tools and method part of the school.

 

Pietro GOVONI

pietro.govoni@cern.ch

 

I am a PhD student from Milano Bicocca University. The group in which I am making my research activity, headed by prof. A. Pullia, is  involved in the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment. Presently I am studying, by Montecarlo simulations, the combined use of the  tracker with the calorimeter. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a combined testbeam to measure, with tracker elements upstream a calorimeter module, the  combined response inside a high magnetic field. Meanwhile, I am also involved in the design of the cooling system with the aim of keeping the crystal temperature stable at the 0.1 C level. I have a good knowledge of both FORTRAN and C++ programming language  and of the  Linux/Unix operating system. I am also familiar with the ROOT package for the data analysis.

 

Mario Rosario GUARRACINO

guarracino.m@cps.na.cnr.it

 

I am currently working on two projects founded by the Italian National Council for Research and aimed to the development of grid computing applications to process, manage and access PET/SPECT images. Such applications will provide medical doctors with a portal from where they can submit jobs, check job status, view and analyse processed images. The second, which has just started, is concerned with the integration of existing software for business and science grid applications. I have experience in various Unix-like environments of shell scripting, Fortran and C programming, and basic knowledge of OO programming.

 

Marcus HARDT

marcus.hardt@hik.fzk.de

 

At Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) I am a scientific employee in the department for Grid-Computing and e-Science and I am currently involved in two Grid projects:  1) In the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Project our group is exploring cluster management methods and storage technologies that help setting up the German tier-1 center for LHC. My task is to configure a SourceForge service, used as a collaborative software development platform.  2) CrossGrid focuses on interactive grid applications such as weather forecast, medical simulations, flood prediction systems as well as high energy physics data-mining applications. The CrossGrid architecture is based on the DataGrid infrastructure. My tasks in this project are: deployment of the local testbed, integration/coordination with DataGrid releases, integration and packaging of CrossGrid releases and assuring platform independence.  My programming skills are concentrated in C, C++, Shellscript (bash) and Perl with which I am familiar under Linux, Free-/OpenBSD, OS/2 and DOS (as available).

 

Nils-Joar HOIMYR

Nils.Hoimyr@cern.ch

 

My work at CERN consist of the distribution, support and integration of computing applications for engineering.  Over the last years I have been responsible for the IT-part of the Engineering Data Management System (EDMS) service, that involved the installation, customisation and  running of a client server information system (CADIM) and the EDMS application servers. A major part of the work has been to interface EDMS with other tools such as the electronic design application Cadence and file conversion utilities. I have also taken part in the development of a Web-interface to EDMS.  For systems integration I mainly use scripting languages (Perl, Shell scripts) and API's (ECI, LogiView, Skill, SQL) but I have also written code in Fortran, LISP and Tcl/TK. I have a good knowledge of Unix (OSF1, Irix) and Linux  operating systems and Web-servers (Apache). I also have a certain experience with Windows.

 

Jelena ILIC

Jelena.Ilic@cern.ch

 

The project I am currently involved in includes writing, testing and debugging of the C++ code for the online and offline data analysis in the Barrel of CMS ECAL detector. I particularly develop the algorithm for photon conversion reconstruction (in the CMS Tracker), as well as algorithm for Pi0 rejection in the Barrel of CMS ECAL detector in the presence of tracker material.  I have written many applications and scripts in Pascal, C, C++, Fortran and Matlab. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (Linux) and Windows.

 

Saima IQBAL

Saima.Iqbal@cern.ch

 

I am working on the Evaluation of Oracle9i as the ORDBMS (Object Relational Database Management System) for CMS and LHC. The object types of Oracle9i maps closely to the class mechanisms found in C++ and Java. So, by using this facility of Oracle I worked with my group to write down the PL/SQL wrapper for existing C++ classes, already in use by CMS, to interact with Event data in Oracle Database. I am involved in creating the simple objects, embedded objects and objects with REF. To load the object data in Oracle database and their overhead measurements. I had also developed Oracle9i-based architecture to store Peta-Byte of CMS data and publish CMS internal note. This architecture proposes the use of Oracle Data Warehouse technology for the CMS event store, based on Star Schema that represents the MultiDimensional data model. Recently I write down the Java classes to load and access the Event(Tags) data from Oracle database. Its first prototype is successfully checked and also trying to deploy it in Grid environment. This web service is created in JSP( Java Server Pages)which creates Servlets automatically. Before selecting JSP for web service I made comparison study of web services created in APPLETS, SERVLETS, Java Scripts, PERL CGI, FrontPage. For this study, I write down code in each of above language and create simple prototypes of web services. The operating system I am using and most familiar with is Unix(Linux). I have also experience of doing programming in C++.

 

Antonio Jose JIMENO YEPES

antonio.jimeno@cern.ch

 

My work is related to the development and maintenance of the LHC Web Site. In addition, I am working on the lifecycle of the Layout Reference Database for the LHC providing some services like tree navigation through the layout of installable and search facilities. I am working as well on the creation of a catalogue of elements for the LHC that will be used as the reference for several systems like DMU, layout database, electrical circuits database. I am working as well on the electrical circuits database (input/output of circuit definition, ). I am developing a knowledge-based search mechanism for the EDMS. I have written in C, C++, java, javascript, visual basic, vba script, lisp, prolog, FORTRAN, assembly 80x86 and 68000, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML. I am familiar with several operating systems like Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP and UNIX (AIX, SunOS, LINUX (Mandrake, SUSE, Red Hat)).

  

Emil KNEZO

Emil.Knezo@cern.ch

 

Just recently I joined the CASTOR (CERN Advanced Storage Manager) development team at CERN where I started to work in the area of development of software interfaces between EU DataGrid middleware and CASTOR.  Last three years my work was connected with designing of the ATLAS Second Level Trigger based on Ethernet technology and building of the Trigger testbed. I designed and implemented an SMP-version of a user-level thread scheduler and messaging system (SMP-MESH). SMP-MESH is delivering 88% of the Gigabit Ethernet throughput into the application layer with only 5% communication CPU-load. This was achieved using interrupt-less zero-copy communication. Further, I wrote a software package for testing and debugging of the FPGA Read-Out Buffer (ROB) Emulators. FPGA ROB Emulators will be used to increase the Trigger testbed size up to the 10% of the final system.  My favorite operating systems are Linux(x86), Solaris and HP-UX. I have written code in C, C++, Java, x86 Assembler, Fortran, Haskell, Bash and Perl.

  

Tapio LAMPEN

tapio.lampen@cern.ch

 

I work at Helsinki Institute of Physics in a team devoted to software and physics issues of the CMS experiment. Our institute participates actively also in the EU DataGrid and NorduGrid, the Nordic Testbed for Wide Area Computing project as well as in distributed computing in the CMS experiment.  My work consists of developing a detector alignment algorithm based on reconstructed tracks. The algorithm is intended to be used in the ultimate position and orientation calibration of the CMS Tracker as a part of the ORCA software. The algorithm uses the natural smoothness of reconstructed particle trajectories as a constraint to find corrections for position and orientation of the sensors.  I have several years of experience of working with the CMS software (written C, C++ and Fortran) and of the different Unix-like operating systems. 

 

Dietrich LIKO

Dietrich.Liko@cern.ch

 

In my current work I took responsibility of the Run Control of the ATLAS Online Software. In the ATLAS T/DAQ project the Online Software  is responsible for the control of the Data Acquisition System. The Run  Control is mainly concerned with the synchronisation of the various detector readout components and T/DAQ subsystem. It uses a State machine model to abstract the diverse nature of the underlying systems. The Run Control is also concerned with the Supervision of the datataking by an expert system (CLIPS). I am involved in the maintenance of the current programs and I am participating in the requirements collection and design, that should lead to the final system. My experience includes offline (Fortran, C++) and online programming (C,C++,Java). I have mainly experience with Unix and VMS Operating Systems.

 

Giuseppe LO RE

giuseppe.lore@ct.infn.it

 

I am involved in the Off-line Group of the ALICE Experiment. My work concerns the implementation of the reconstruction code for the LHC Pb-Pb collisions, in particular, for the reconstruction of primary and secondary vertices. I carry out this activity using the ALICE Object Oriented framework, AliRoot, based on ROOT and written in C++ except some preexisting package like GEANT and Pythia.  Recently, I have begun to collaborate with the ALICE-EDG Test Group, testing the EDG tools with the ALICE applications and writing some ALICE JDL jobs.  The operating system and the language I am more familiar are respectively Linux and C++.

 

Nina LOKTIONOVA

nloktion@mail.desy.de

 

I've got my background and PhD in computing modeling for High Energy Physics. But now my main field of interests is computing. I've had three years of experience as a Linux expert in H1 collaboration at DESY. My responsibilities include both hardware and software support of about 180 desktop PCs. I also deal with Solaris, IRIX, Windows NT and I've been involved in installation of VME-boards. The programming languages I am familiar with are Fortran, Perl and Shell and I've had basic knowledge of C/C++.

 

Ernesto LÓPEZ

lopez@to.infn.it

 

My current work involves the development, testing and debugging of the simulation of silicon drift detectors performance inside the AliRoot package. AliRoot is the ALICE Off-line framework for simulation, reconstruction and analysis. It uses the ROOT system as a foundation on which the framework and all applications are built.  I am also involved in a INFN project to port the software CALMA (Computer Assisted Library in MAmmography) from C/Tcl/Tk to C++/ROOT/PROOF to be used in a GRID system.  I have written code in FORTRAN, C, C++, with several years of experience in object-oriented programming. The operating systems I am familiar with are Windows and Linux.

  

Anna MASTROBERARDINO

mastrobe@mail.desy.de

 

My current work involves data analysis of electron-proton scattering events  in the ZEUS experiment. I'm responsible of the measurement of the diffractive  structure function of the proton and the azimuthal angle between the electron  and proton scattering planes in the deep inelastic scattering regime.  As a recent work I was involved in the project of the new silicon microvertex  detector (MVD) for the ZEUS experiment. Within this project, I was responsible  of the development of the Slow Control Software of the Low Voltage System,  used to supply the HELIX chips, chosen for the silicon readout electronics.   The Low Voltage (LV) communication with the MVD complex readout chain  (~ 225.000 channels) is handled by a CAN controller, equipped with an on  board CAN-bus controller (20CN592), itself ruled by the central system.  I wrote all LV slow control software in C using IAR System ICC8051 Development  Kit for the 8051 microcontroller family: it consists of an ANSI-C cross-compiler,  assembler, linker and librarian, all running on a PC under MS-DOS. The software, developed according to CANopen, a high level protocol supported  by the Can in Automation (CiA), is able to control and monitor up to 8 ADCs  (PCF8591 from Philips), each with up to 32 multiplexed analogue inputs and foresees  the system autonomous self-monitoring for status change and the hardware fault  detection and recovery.  I'm also responsible of a Monte Carlo generator (Diffvm) simulating diffractive events  in electron-proton scattering which I updated and implemented in the ZEUS software  package.   In charge of the Diffraction and Vector Meson Data Quality Monitoring DQM, I recently  developed software codes performing automatic checks, used for real time monitoring of  the quality of the data.   I've experience in programming in C/C++ Fortran and HTML languages.  The operating systems I'm familiar with are: UNIX,ALPHA/OSF,VAX(VMS),PC and  MS/DOS. 

 

MARIA SANTA MENNEA

maria.mennea@ba.infn.it

 

For my Ph.D thesis I am working in the CMS collaboration. I have worked in the Data Management Work Package of the European DataGrid project. In this context I've developed the GNU Autotools functionality for the GDMP package. My current work involves the development of graphics objects to improve CMS Tracker Visualization. I write my programs using mostly C++ and Java on Unix platforms.

 

Gonzalo MERINO

merino@ifae.es

 

My current work is focused on two quite different topics. On one hand I am working in the European DataGrid (EDG) project. Inside EDG I am part of the Testbed work package, whose ultimate responsibility is to deploy the EDG s/w in a number of sites across Europe so that various applications can be run and tested on this distributed environment. Most of my work inside the EDG Testbed up to now has been related to installing and configuring at my local institute those "Grid services" that have to be deployed in an EDG Testbed site. These are mainly the so called Storage Element, Computing Element, Worker Node and User Interface. For the time being, all of these services are deployed on Red Hat linux boxes, which are installed and configured in an automated way using a tool called LCFG. My main activity, therefore, has been devoted to testing all these services and tools.

On the other hand, I also recently started to work for the trigger of the Atlas detector. In particular, our group is collaborating in the 3rd level trigger, or "Event Filter", that will be based on a PC farm of O(1000) nodes running the offline reconstruction code based on the Athena framework. My work there, which just started, will be essentially c++ code developing.

I have written code in Fortran, C, C++ and Tcl/Tk. The operating system I am most familiar with is Linux.

 

Predrag MILENOVIC

Predrag.Milenovic@cern.ch

 

I am currently involved in two LHC projects. The first project is software and hardware design of the DCS sub-systems for CMS ECAL detector. My work includes: the design and hardware implementation of the system, programming of PLC microprocessors in assembler and building applications for distributed system control and monitoring in PVSS II.  The second project includes the development (writing, testing and debugging) of the C++ code for the online and offline data analysis for the Preshower of CMS ECAL. I particularly write the algorithms for the beam-position and energy reconstruction, as well as algorithm for Pi0 rejection in the ECAL Endcap (in the presence of Tracker) using neural networks.  I have also experience in building and servicing computer networks and building server-client applications. So far, I have written the code for applications and scripts in Pascal, C, C++, Assembler, Fortran, Matlab and Mathematica. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (Linux) and Windows.

 

Asif Jan MUHAMMAD

asif.muhammad@cern.ch

 

My current work involves deploying the GRID tools and frameworks developed by various sources and test their efficiency in production environment. This work is in  supplement to Data Grid effort and our aim is to integrate the technologies  currently used for production into GRID infrastructure and vice versa. At the same time I am also involved in developing a Monitoring Tool / Service for monitoring systems and applications in GRID like environment. The monitoring data from various entities is used for simulation which helps to determine  work load and usage for various entities. This tools aims to be very flexible and  easily integrated with current technologies and tools and at the same time tries for cross platform compatibility and uses next generation technologies . I am familar with Java , SQL , JavaScript , JSP , Windows NT /2000 and Linux.

 

Nello NELLARI

nello.nellari@cscs.ch

 

Currently my main activities focus on evaluation, deployment,  development and enhancement of Grid products and tools. I'm involved in  different European projects such as EUROGRID for the HPC-Grid and Meteo-Grid  work packages. In particular, the Meteo-Grid goal is to provide an on-demand  numerical weather forecast service on top of UNICORE. In this context  I'm responsible of designing and implementing a Java application that  controls the submission and the execution of the weather forecast codes  in UNICORE. Main programming skills: Java (Certified programmer), C, C++ in  Unix/Linux and MS-Windows environments. OS experiences with Unix (Solaris,  IRIX, Super-ux, Linux) and MS-Windows.

 

Krzysztof NIENARTOWICZ

Krzysztof.Nienartowicz@cern.ch

 

Nowadays, I am the member of the Physics Data Management activity within Database Group at CERN. Our main focus is to employ ORDBMS (extended RDBMS) as a storage frameworks in the fields dominated either by OODBMS, hybrid or flat files systems before. So far, new OO features of Oracle have been investigated, some benchmarks conducted. Recently, I have been responsible performing comparative (functionality, speed) database to Root based physics tags analysis from Aleph experiment (ALPHA++). I have several years of experience in industry, mainly with middleware technologies like message oriented middleware, message brokers (MQSeries, MQIntegrator), global parallel data acquisition and processing using those technologies along with integration of relational/mainframe databases. In addition to relational DBs (Sybase, MSSQL) one of my main topic of interest during studies were experimental transactional mechanisms (semantic based, temporal dependencies, lockless) and OODBMS. I am fluent in C++/Java/VB/STL/MFC/ATL, COM/SQL (depends on the platform..)/DAO/ADO/RDO/WinAPI/PVM/MPI/PCCTS etc, used to use Smalltalk, prolog, assembler. Worked on UXes/NT. I am also responsible for contacts with IBM as their DB2 "evangelist" at CERN...

 

Danila OLEYNIK

danila@jinr.ru

 

My current work involves software development for cosmic test for Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) Chambers manufactured in LNP JINR for the ATLAS experiment. The setup includes reference module, test module and trigger system. Data acquisition system is based on PCs under OS Linux using DATE and ROOT software. My work consists in data monitoring, reconstruction of cosmic muons in reference module and definition of test module geometric parameters. I have written code in C (for monitor), C++ (for ROOT representation and analysis). The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (Linux) and Windows.

 

Gennaro OLIVA

oliva.g@cps.na.cnr.it

 

I’m currently working on the realisation of a prototype application for medical diagnoses based on PET/SPECT images. It consists of a database containing the archive, a software system for the reconstruction of PET/SPECT images that runs on a Beowulf cluster and a web portal. Medical doctors can access the archive trough the portal, submit PET/SPECT images to the reconstruction engine and store their diagnosis. The project is written in java and C and uses both the Globus toolkit & APIs. In my life I have mostly written code in C and Fortran and the operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix, Windows and Mac OS.

 

Carlos OLIVEIRA

carlos.alves@cern.ch

 

The work I'm developing concerns to the data change between a ATLAS offline software framework called Athena and the configuration, calibration, alignment and robustness database used also on the TDAQ environment. The Athena common framework is the main structure of an application where algorithms can be plugged to provide common functionalities for event reconstruction. Users can plug their applications using specific C++ based algorithms. Data objects are passed between the different algorithms and transient store becoming available in a temporary repository of information in order to reduce coupling of all the algorithms. Several services are available to clients, with specific capabilities. These services get data objects off the transient store and work them out on the purpose of that service. The goal of my work is to investigate the ConditionDB service (ConditionDBSvc) and transfer the objects, with a time interval validity, into the ConditionsDB. I am investigating commercial and open source implementation of the ConditionsDB made available by our group.

 

Stephen PAGE

Stephen.Page@cern.ch

 

I am working on the development of a server system in C for hard real-time control of the power converters within LHC. LHC will contain circa 100 instances of the server controlling around 1800 converters. The system runs on a Power PC with the LynxOS real-time operating system and forms a gateway between the CERN controls network (ethernet) and the field-bus to which the power converters are attached (WorldFIP). The system will handle routing of both synchronous and asynchronous commands to the converters as well as performing a number of system management activities such as arbitrating the activity on the field-bus and updating software on the converters' embedded systems. A CORBA interface into the server is also foreseen. I am familiar with the following programming languages (amongst others): C, C++, Java, Perl, Unix shell programming (various). I work primarily in a Unix (HP-UX / Linux) environment, and am also fully familiar with Microsoft Windows.

 

Juan PELEGRIN

Juan.Pelegrin@cern.ch

 

My work environment is defined by the central Unix services run by PS group, including  system support for SUNDEV, PaRC, SLAP, PRINT spool server cluster, LICMAN license  server cluster and AXCAD (Euclid) and Cadence engineering clusters. The strategic OS  for these services is Solaris but there are also some Linux and Tru64 systems. In this environment I'm programming some scripts in Perl or shell to improve the Solaris  network installation server, and in few weeks I will start with the development of a Graphical  User Interface for client setup. Another aim is to design and implement an automated client  system follow-up to synchronize the information in the installation server with the network  registration database.  Finally, it's possible that I'll have the opportunity to participate in the DataGRID Solaris port.

 

Maria Valeria PEREZ REALE

Valeria.Perez.Reale@cern.ch

 

My work as a PhD student at the University of Bern involves participation in software development for the ATLAS experiment at CERN, which is currently under construction. In ATLAS, Bern has an active role in the PESA working group “Physics Event Selection Algorithms” and the Data Collection group, both part of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition TDAQ subsystem. PESA is responsible for the event selection in TDAQ, with emphasis in the high level trigger HLT and its goal is to produce a software framework which allows trigger algorithms and steering to be run within the new offline software framework (ATHENA). Within this framework I will be involved in the development of EF (event filter) algorithms needed for performance studies of the current prototype. DataCollection is a subsystem of the Atlas TDAQ DataFlow system responsible for the movement of event data inside the HLTs and to the Event Filter and also to Mass Storage. Currently I am developing a time stamp library for instrumentation and performance measurements in ATLAS TDAQ (C++).  I have written code in Fortran, C, C++ and I am very familiar with Unix operating systems.

 

Valentino PIETROBON

pietrobo@dsi.unive.it

 

My PhD course at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Venice has been funded by INFN, section of Padua, to follow a research program in the field of Computational and Data Grids. In particular, my current work involves the study of the actual solutions adopted in the Data Grid European project for workload management and job scheduling, and propose innovative solutions, aiming at improving the use of resources and thus increasing the system throughput. I'm also involved in testing the actual Data Grid system at the INFN section of Padua-Italy. I have written code in C, C+, Fortran and Prolog. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Windows and Linux. 

 

Piotr POZNANSKI

Piotr.Poznanski@cern.ch

 

Currently I work for the Fabric Management (WP4) of the European DataGrid Project (EDG). I am a member of Configuration Management and Monitoring Tasks.  In Configuration Task I have been involved in development of all aspects of the WP4 Configuration System, which include design of the new language (called pan) to describe high level configuration of the systems, design and implementation of the compiler of the pan language, low level description language (XML based) to transport the information to fabric elements, daemon and its access API running on the fabric node which serves configuration information to local applications, and also design of the central repository to store configuration information of the systems developed by WP4.  For Monitoring Task, I have been involved in works on the configuration issues of the monitoring system and I will be involved in the design and the implementation of the main database storing the data collected by the Monitoring System.  I am familiar with OO software development technologies, C++/Java programming languages, XML and UNIX operating systems (mostly Linux).

 

Alberto PULVIRENTI

alberto.pulvirenti@ct.infn.it

 

My current work deals with the problem of track reconstruction in the ALICE ITS detector. The scope of the work is increasing the reconstruction efficiency, by finding also some particle tracks which aren't recognizable with the already present TPC+ITS Kalman filter method, because of a low pt or a decay within the TPC (e.g. the charged kaons). I'm developing a neural network simulation algorithm which implements a Hopfield neural network model in order to face this problem. The main idea is the Denby-Peterson model, where each "neuron" represents a guess for a segment between two consecutive points in a track, and the neural weights are defined in order to select chains of such segments to produce good track candidates. At present I'm studying which kind of improvements are necessary to adapt this algorithm to the confusion due to the high multiplicity which is expected in a typical ALICE event.

 

Mario REALE

mario.reale@cnaf.infn.it 

My current activity is focused on WorkPackage 8 (Hep Applications) of the European DataGrid (EDG) project, for which I am responsible of the testing of all software provided to the applications and in particular to the high energy physics experiments. I have developed a set of tools to monitor the status of the EDG distributed testbed and I contribute to the set up of a set of installation and configuration testing suites. I belong to a small set of Experiment-Independent Persons which contributed to the end user perspective overview and check of the EDG provided middleware and contributed to the set up of the High Energy Physics Use Cases for the EDG project, in view of the set up of a Common Application Layer for interfacing the GRID and the High Energy Physics applications. I initially joined the EDG integration team during the initial deployment of the first EDG testbed (testbed-1) at CERN, where I contributed to the set up and test of the system on the EDG tb cluster.

Nicola REALE

nicola.reale@tilab.com

 

Currently I'm leading the evolution and the development of a distributed testing and monitoring system for performance analysis. Several geographical distributed agents run tests simulating end users and measuring key quantities; all the collected measures are transferred to a centralized system which allows, via WEB, several types of navigation and analysis of all the stored data. The product is currently being used by Telecom Italia. I’m also the main architect of the whole solution, the designer and the developer of the distributed agents and of part of the centralized system.. I have worked for some years at TINA (Telecommunication Information Network Architecture) and distributed architectures. I’m proficient in UML, C/C++, Visual Basic, CORBA, but sometimes I use Java, JavaScript, JScript, VBScript. I studied Fortran, Lisp, and Prolog too. I’m familiar with Windows and Solaris platforms.

 

Elisabetta RONCHIERI

elisabetta.ronchieri@cnaf.infn.it

 

At the moment I am working for Datagrid project, within the WP1 team.  My main concerns are looking at packaging problems, i.e. starting from the structure of  the code through to the delivery of it in rpm format. This kind of activity allows me to improve my knowledge in autotool and my skills in making rpm. Additionally, I am  currently studying both GARA and DAGman for advanced reservation and job  dependencies respectively. These are two functions that will be added in WP1 software  by September 2002. I have experience of writing code in C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Fortran and  Assembler plus the operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (RH 6.2, 7.1,  7.2 Linux) and Windows.

 

Marta RUSPA

ruspa@to.infn.it

 

I am presently involved in the ZEUS experiment at the HERA collider and in the CMS experiment at the LHC collider. The former has been taking data for almost 10 years and I am working in data analysis. The latter is under construction and I participate to the construction of the muon chambers.  In a class of events at the ep collider HERA the proton emerges intact or excited in a low mass state carrying most of the incident proton momentum and is well separated in phase space from the closest energy deposit in the calorimeter. These events are commonly referred to as diffractive events and contribute almost the 10% of the total DIS cross section. The selection of diffractive events in my analysis job is done asking for a proton in the ZEUS Leading Proton Spectrometer, which was placed along the beam line, downstream to the interaction point. The scattered electron (positron) is measured for virtualities of the exchanged photon down to 0.03 GeV2. The diffractive cross section is measured.  Inside the CMS Collaboration, the Torino group is responsible of the assembly of a part of the drift chambers for the muon detection which will surround the central part of the CMS detector.  A production line for the assembly of the chambers is under installation and I am working at the software for its control and handling.  I am quite familiar with Fortran and C programming under UNIX, with Visual Basic, with the programming of microprocessors and with the software for statistical and graphical analysis of a great amount of data.

 

Scott RUTHERFORD

scott.rutherford@cern.ch

 

I am currently working on the software for the CMS Ecal, specifically it has been my responsibility to design and implement an algorithm capable of performing intelligent selection and readout  of the ecal crystals. The main bulk of this has been carried out in C++ although I use Perl on a daily basis as the glue for many applications. I have made a point of finding out as much as possible about OO paridigms (including attending the Patterns Designs course run by CERN), and try to implement these in my code. On an everyday basis I work exclusively on Linux, however when debugging I regularly turn  to Solaris for a more sane and informative environment Before joining CMS, I was involved in the ALEPH experiment, so I also have a good knowledge of FORTRAN, and a limited knowledge of VAX from being Data Coordinator. Outside of the experiments I also have made it my business to get a working knowledge of  Java and SQL (PostGresSQL and MySQL), and of course Javascript / HTML / CGI.

 

Pablo SAIZ

pablo.saiz@cern.ch

 

I am working in the development of AliEn (Alice Environment) AliEn is a lightweight GRID framework developed by the Alice Collaboration to satisfy the  needs for large scale distributed computing. AliEn provides a virtual file catalogue that allows transparent access to distributed datasets, applicable to cases when handling of a large number of files is required . At the same time, AliEn is meant to provide an insulation layer for access to other GRID  implementations and a stable user and application interface to the community of Alice  users during the expected lifetime of the experiment.   This project is written in PERL. I am also familiar with C++, C, Java, FORTRAN.  The operating systems I am most familiar with are UNIX (Linux), and windows

 

Kilian SCHWARZ

k.schwarz@gsi.de

 

My current work involves the setup of ALICE GRID Software at GSI Darmstadt and  Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany. This includes the installation of the Globus Software package at various sites as well as the installation and maintenance of the ALICE "GRID" software package AliEn. The basic analysis software packages like ROOT and AliRoot are installed and serviced by me, too. During the ALICE Productions (PPR and Data Challenge)  I am the primary contact person concerning ALICE and GRID Software at GSI and Karlsruhe. I contributed developing an LDAP client for ROOT which enables   physicists to address directly from AliRoot LDAP databases,  which are an integral part of the Globus MDS service. Additionally, I am a member of the RDCCG-TAB group which is responsible for  setting up the technical infrastructure of the  Regional Data and Computing Center Germany and I am working together  with the EDG - WP6. I have written code in C, C++ and Fortran. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Unix (Linux, AIX, DEC) and Windows.  M

   

Tadeusz SZYMOCHA

szymocha@chall.ifj.edu.pl

 

I finished my studies (in Computing Physics) at Jagiellonian University Cracow in 2001. My Mater Thesis concerned studies of proton induced  strangeness production in the nuclear medium at energies 1-2 GeV as well as non-mesonic decay of Lambda hyperon in proton induced reactions on heavy targets. I wrote a common analysis programme for both experiments. Now I am involved in activities of Cracow group of experiment ATLAS (one  of the detectors at LHC,CERN). I am using dedicated software called Atlfast for fast simulation of physics in this experiment. Concurrently I take a part in the CROSSGRID project (High Energy Physics Application task).

 

Lukas TOMASEK

tomasekl@fzu.cz

 

For the last two years I have been mainly working on the ATLAS Readout Driver(ROD) Test Stand software, which is used for debugging and production testing of the ROD boards. I'm also involved in a work on the ROD hardware library for the ATLAS Pixel/SCT DAQ system. My another responsibility has been the measurement system that is used for a testing of silicon sensors in our laboratory.  I'm most familiar with C/C++.

  

Luca VACCAROSSA

luca.vaccarossa@mi.infn.it

 

I am currently involved in Work Page 4 of the DataTAG project (Research and Technological Development for a Transatlantic Grid) which has as main goal interoperability between EU and US Grids services from DataGrid, GriPhyN, PPDG and in collaboration with iVDGL, for the HEP applications.  My work is the evaluation, deployment and possible integration of existing Grid services and tools;  in particular I am involved in the field of the packaging and deployment tools (VDT/PACMAN; EDG/LCFG) and services of job scheduling, submission, monitoring (DAGMAN, Condor-G, EDG/RB).  The near term plan is to produce a distribution of the EDG (European DataGrid) software via Pacman and to produce a collection of requirements regarding the job scheduling, submission and monitoring services.  As preparation for the interoperability tests between EDG and US Grids, I have collaborated in the setting up and deployment of the EDG testbed farm in Milan.

Before this activity I worked for Oracle supporting services as a technical analyst, becoming experienced in Oracle database administration and UNIX system management.

As an undergraduate student, I have been a collaborator of the BaBar experiment, so I have worked within BaBar software framework, using C++ as programming language.  I have written code in C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL.  The operating systems I am most familiar with are UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Digital, HP-UX, Linux) and Windows NT, 2000.

 

Jan VAN ELDIK

Jan.van.Eldik@cern.ch

 

I am currently working in the Computer Center Supervision project of  IT division. Specifically, I am prototyping and field-testing different solutions for fabric monitoring, combining the EDG WP4 sensor agent and the PVSS Scada tool, and providing sensors to measure 100 different quantities on a 1000 machines. I am also working on the configuration of the monitoring infrastructure, and on the display of alarms.  As a member of the Offline Computing Group of the DELPHI experiment, I have been actively developing High Energy Physics analysis programs.  These applications run on a multitude of UNIX platforms (Linux, DigitalUnix, HPUX, AIX), and are mainly written in FORTRAN, Perl and shell scripts.

 

Fritz VOLLMER

fritz.vollmer@physik.uni-muenchen.de

 

My current field of work is the analysis of the W-boson mass and width with data taken by the OPAL detector at LEP. Probability density functions for each event are calculated and convoluted with a function describing the physical process yielding a likelihood analysis. To reduce cpu time for calculating of the probability density functions parallelization methods in a master-slave environment on a local Linux cluster are used.   The LAM/MPI package is used in an object-oriented way with the OOMPI package under a ROOT environment. I have written code in C++, C, Perl and Fortran under a Linux system.

 

Andrew WASHBROOK

ajw@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk

 

Over the last three years I have been searching for the signature of scalar lepton production using the DELPHI detector at LEP. No significant deviation from Standard Model predictions was found. In the absence of a signal in the data, conservative lower limits were placed on the masses of the sleptons. The statistical techniques used in my analysis were written in Fortran77 and ran under a number of UNIX architectures (LINUX, OSF, AIX, HPUX). Perl scripts were extensively used for file handling and data manipulation. I was also able to successfully implement large scale event simulation using the 300 PC Monte Carlo Array Processor (MAP) at Liverpool. Other aspects of my PhD allowed me to learn additional programming languages (C/C++) and become familiar with the VAX/VMS operation system.  As a research associate I intend to work on ATLAS/LHCb software and take an active role in the ATLAS data challenges.

 

Katarzyna ZAJAC

kzajac@uci.agh.edu.pl

 

Currently I am involved in the CrossGrid project that will develop, new Grid components for interactive compute and data intensive applications (including also distributed data analysis in HEP).  I am a member of CrossGrid Architecture Technical Team. The goal of my work is to define grid architecture for the project, especially for distributed, near real-time interactive simulation and visualisation for surgical procedures.  I am investigating Cactus tool and HLA standard for that purpose.  I am also familiar with high performance programming (MPI). Recently, we have developed the library for parallelisation of irregular and out-of-core applications built over MPI.  I have written code in C, C++, Java, Perl. I am familiar with Unix (Solaris, Linux) and Windows (95/98/Millenium/NT/2000) operating systems.  I was a summer student at CERN in 1999. I also participate in Summer Scholarship Program in Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (University of Edinburgh) in summer 2000.  I am coauthor of 2 papers in Computer Physics Communications and 4 papers in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

 

Alexsander ZAYTSEV

azaitsev@dx1cmd.inp.nsk.su

 

The first part of my current work involves the design and development of online and offline software for CMD-2M detector at VEPP-2000 electron-positron collider, which is being commissioned at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Software design standards for this project are object oriented programming techniques, C++ as a main language and Linux. I am also participating in the CMD-2 offline processing Linux farm support and design group. The essential upgrade of the farm and distributed data storage management software is required to satisfy new CMD-2M detector needs and scheduled to perform in near future. The second part of my work involves the physical analysis of the data collected recently with CMD-2 detector at VEPP-2M collider and support of data processing (ROOT and JAS), detector simulation (GEANT), numerical/symbolic calculation and FORTRAN-based offline software for these purposes. I have written code in FORTRAN, C, C++ and several symbolic calculation script languages. The operating systems I am most familiar with are Linux and Windows NT.

 

Marianna ZUIN

marianna.zuin@cern.ch

 

My current work deals with two different areas of the networking field, namely network testing and wireless installation. I am currently completing measurements to test the network of the SM18 pilot installation. It consists of a redundant Gigabit Ethernet network designed to simulate that of the future Large Hadron Collider at CERN. After participating in the building of the network, I am now testing network behavior and measuring network latency according to different types of traffic, loads and events. My work on wireless installation has involved studying the 802.11b protocol and its features, and testing them in different possible environments. I am currently implementing standard procedures for installing, replacing and handling wireless base stations in the CERN area. Once these procedures are fully implemented and tested, they will be ready to become part of the official network management of CERN. 

 

 

 

 

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