Vikas SINGHAL

Department of Atomic Energy, Calcutta - India

I am working in Grid Computing and Cluster Management field at VECC. We are collaborator with CERN for ALICE experiment therefore we are establishing Tier-2 Center according requirement for ALICE project. Presently I am working with Alice Computing Team CERN for software development for ALICE grid or Alien. I have worked at CERN from Jan 2007 to April 2007 and developed Wrapper for LGC services test for testing each ALICE vobox without human intervention and then publish all result into SAM page in every 2 Hrs. I have done FTS (File Transfer Service) from CERN to Kolkata via building a channel from CERN to Kolkata on 34Mbps bandwidth under CERN IT/GD Division. I have build cluster setup on Scientific Linux, providing different applications in our organization and creating Grid Computing environment on our local cluster of 40 nodes. I have gone through one year training organized by Bhabha Atomic Research Center under Department of Atomic Energy. I have done BE in Computer Science and acquainted with parallel processing, Grid Computing and Distributed Computing concepts.

Piotr SKOWRONSKI

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

Development of MAD program that is widely used for accelerator design and simulations. I am responsible for integration of PTC library and MAD, which is capable to compute beam/particle dynamics including non-linearities up to any order. It employs Truncated Differential Algebra techniques and Normal Form techniques. This software is crucial for design and operation of LHC (Large Hadron Collider), CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) and CTF3 (CLIC Test Facility 3).  Development of the online model for CTF3 accelerator. Steering and optimization of a beam is not a straight forward task. Often a simulation code is used as backhand. Machine settings are found, often through minimization procedures, to meet requested requirements. Application that performs such a task is called the online model.  Commissioning and Study of CTF3. CTF is supposed to prove the working principles of CLIC. I am directly evolved in the commissioning of the machine as well as in experiments and measurements performed with this experimental facility.

Zbigniew STANECKI

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

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Currently, I work on a system which is used to automatic configuring CERN main firewall. The system consists of four main parts. The first is User Interface, which lets CERN users making requests for creating exceptions for theirs connections. The second is Expert Interface, which provides possibility of manual changing configuration (of the firewall), and is provided for the Security Team and Communication Systems group specialists. The third part is the Oracle database which keeps all the configuration information, and the fourth is the Compiler, which takes information stored in DB and creates control files which are then applied to physical devices of firewall. The Compiler and the User Interface has been written in Perl by colleagues from IT/CS group. My job in this project was to design and develop Oracle database structure and PL/SQL code for maintaining it, as well as design and develop the Expert Interface part. This is a web-based Java application, using Spring framework and Hibernate library.

Karol STANISLAWEK

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am an Oracle database administrator in IT-DES group. Besides administrator duties I am involved in LEMON (IT-FIO project) support and development and ALICE DCDB support (Detector Construction Database System, Created by Warsaw DCDB Group with cooperation with ALICE Experiment Groups).

Radu Loan STOICA

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am working in the Data Acquisition Group in LHCb experiment at CERN. I am currently implementing the Online Run Database for the experiment and have plans to study the possibilities of using 10 Gb technologies for data acquisition in the experiment.

Katrine Aam SVENDSEN

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland 

I am working in the IT department, and my current task is to implement encryption on an off site backup server (mainly for disaster recovery backups), situated at the CERN site in Prevessin. My job will also be to provide a key management scheme (key generation, key distribution, etc.), implement this, and provide a key management policy. Also, user guidelines for the system must be developed. In addition to this, I shall develop a web interface for the system, which will be used by the administrators and by the normal users (both interactively and to set up automatic backup jobs) of the system.

Anton TOPUROV

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland 

Since April 2006 I have been working as an Oracle openlab fellow. I am currently involved in several openlab projects of common interest to CERN and Oracle. The main areas of my work are testing new functionality and new versions of Oracle products, regression testing of CERN applications with new Oracle RDBMS versions, application scalability tuning for maximum utilization of database clusters (Oracle Real Application Clusters). Linux (RHEL 4 / SLC 4, 32 and 64 bit,) is the main OS in my projects.

Cristina TRONCONI

Italian National Research Council, Rome - Italy 

I am a Research Associate at ISAC Institute form 2005, CNR. and I am involved in several projects: MERSEA, SEADATANET, BeInGrid. Within these projects my work consists of: -Development of satellite oceanographic remote sensing data applications based on grid infrastructure, in particular for what concerning SST (Sea Surface Temperature) data -Management of TDS (thredds Data Server) -Test Seadatanet Software (DIVA) -software engineering in order to use Grid technology (with globus) for processing huge amount of data.

Paolo VERONESI

INFN, Bologna - Italy  

I am a second year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Ferrara. Since 2000 I am involved on the BaBar experiment. I started to move the BaBar simulation production to the Grid, integrating the traditional tools used for production in BaBar with the features offered by the Grid infrastructure. I joined INFN-CNAF in 2004, the Italian Center for informatics of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics to work for the INFN GRID project and EGEE project. I cover the role of system manager for the GRID infrastructure services at CNAF and the role of ROC Manager for the Italian ROC. I am involved in the GRID middleware and service support for the whole infrastructure mainly related with National Grid services operation and coordination with national project. I am mainly involved with accounting system assessment for the Grid infrastructure.

Dejan VITLACIL

INFN, Bologna - Italy

I work at INFN-CNAF in "LHC Computing Grid, Italian Regional Center (TIER 1)" section. As Storage Group Administrator, my work is Centered on the management, configuration, maintenance and development of TIER1 Storage apparatus. Precisely more than a half of my work time is dedicated to a Castor and Lemon administration and giving a storage administrative support to LHC Experiments and others. The remaining time is dedicated to a development of Lemon, Quattor, Accounting and ELog software integration and interconnection.

Barthélémy VON HALLER

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am currently working at CERN in the Project Management section of the Administrative Information System (IT-AIS-PM) as a Marie Curie Fellow. We develop project management web applications written in Java on top of an Oracle Database. I am currently working on a new project for the career advancement of staff people at CERN. My main task is the development in Java and some database related work and design. Apart from Java, which is the programming language I know the best, I am familiar with: C/C++: Master project and other personal projects Ada95, Scala, Smalltalk, PHP, LISP : used during my studies either for projects or in relation with some courses.

Lionel WALLET

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland

I am currently working on Detector Control System in the ALICE experiment. The device control in the ALICE experiment is based on OPC servers and PVSS SCADA systems. A software framework enables in addition the user to set up his PVSS project for the different devices used. To achieve a homogeneous operational environment for the ALICE experiment, these devices need to be a controlled thought standard interface, that’s why I develop some Object Libraries with PVSSII (like C++ coding). I also develop and support a Framework Component device (PVSS Client) based on an OPC server.

Karol WAWRZYNIAK

University of Warsaw - Poland

Two of my current main activities are as follows: 1) Administrator at EGEE project responsible for network issues, security and monitoring of Warsaw EGEE Cluster. Employed by Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw. 2) Ph.D. student in Polish-German PhD studies running in ICM Warsaw University in cooperation with the Graduate College at the IWR, University of Heidelberg. Research area: Multi-agent games: Evolution, Thermodynamics and Applications Supervisor: Dr. hab. W. Wi¿slicki Department: Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University: Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.

Andrea WEISE

University of Reading – United Kingdom 

My research concentrates on the area of distributed data management within a grid environment. The work comprise of development work on an Intelligent Rule Oriented Data Management System (IRODS) which is primarily being led by SDSC in the United States. One part on the work would involve the development of the security layer for the IRODS system and also work on the interface to the new tape system and on interfacing the IRODS system to other data management tools. This will explore the areas of data management, authentication, interoperability. Another part will be the investigation and development on how to pack data into the Storage Resource Broker and on the grid-ftp. This might involve the investigation of intelligent brokering within the system. At the moment I am concentrating on the development of a bundle application, which will be integrated into the IRODS. The bundle will allow transferring files faster between the IRODS nodes as well as in and out of the IRODS system.

Jennifer WILLIAMS

The University of Canterbury – New Zealand

Software support by way of maintenance of CMS Workbook and Software Guide. Beginning GRID installation using Globus/gLite middleware. Most familiar with Windows XP and Microsoft Office applications (hold International Computer Driving License), also have extensively used Linux operating systems. I have used Fortran for high energy physics experiments in my previous job (2001-5 on SLAC BaBar experiment) as well as writing much event reconstruction code in C++ and maintaining a tau reconstruction package for BaBar. This year (july2007-june2008) we have funding to support me to work with out department's computer administrator to establish a Tier 2 data Center in NZ, set up simulation (GEANT4), begin data transfer into NZ, and establish a Data Quality Monitoring station in NZ for the CMS experiment. In addition to these tasks, I will continue to contribute to CMS documentation and hope to greatly enhance my HEP computing abilities to help in this role. I have a research funding grant; I do not require any financial support from the school. While I am some time out from my studies, I am the only HEP-qualified person in New Zealand available to be trained in HEP computing.

Dawid WOJCIK

CERN, Geneva  - Switzerland 

I am a Database Administrator in Physics Services Support group in IT at CERN and I am also involved in Oracle openlab activities (http://cern.ch/openlab). Main goal of our team is to provide highly available databases for physics using Oracle Real Application Cluster. I am responsible for development of monitoring system. My work involves also preparation of some procedures and tools for running database infrastructure.

Adam WREN

Royal Holloway / University of London – United Kingdom

Studying for a PhD in Particle Physics. I am measuring the branching fraction and hadronic mass distribution of the decay tau -> Ks pi nu using tau pairs produced at the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Events are selected based on a variety of kinematics criteria that are optimized in order to maximise the signal significance. Corrections to the raw branching fraction are derived based on comparisons of simulated and real data samples. The Ks pi mass spectrum is then fitted and Standard Model parameters m_s and V_us are extracted from this fit.

Sama YOUSIF AL-ESHAIKER

University of Reading – United Kingdom  

I have started my PhD in January 2007 (first year) after MSc in Network Center Computing with Distinction in tough modules and Merit in the Project. I am currently working on my PhD project which deals with Medical Collaboration Applications to design a collaborative teleconsultation system that could increase efficiency in healthcare and over take the traditional manual way of communication and collaboration. Currently I am doing background research concern my project.

Mykhaylo ZYNOVYEV

Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt - Germany 

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In April 2007 I have started as a PhD student at GSI. The topic of my work is "Interactive Analysis on the Grid", and it is carried out in the frame of supporting the ALICE experiment at LHC. At the time of writing my master's thesis which dealt with the aspects of job management in a distributed computing environment I took a position of an IT-engineer in the Grid Computing Laboratory of Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev, Ukraine. There I was involved in the installation and maintenance of Ukrainian AliEn grid-sites. I occupied the position for one year until April 2007. As a member of the team, in parallel to administrating AliEn sites, I took part in the building of the Grid infrastructure for the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The infrastructure is based on ARC and GT middleware, and is successfully operating nowadays. Prior to my involvement in Grid computing I have been working for 3,5 years in Motorola/Freescale Embedded Systems Lab in Kiev where I have gained experience in C/C++ and low-level programming in assembly languages.