Robert ZIMMERMANN

Universität Bonn - Germany

As a PhD student at the University of Bonn I am currently working on setting up and commissioning an ATLAS Tier-3 computing cluster in the context of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG). This includes work on all required parts of such a cluster, like network infrastructure (DHCP, dDNS), base-system (SL) and middleware (gLite) installation and configuration, monitoring and the automation of all of this (Quattor). I am also one of the administrators of the local desktop (Debian) and batch (SGE) clusters for our high energy physics groups. I am familiar with various flavors of Linux like Scientific Linux, Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu, have, of course, run across MS Windows and personally enjoy using Mac OSX. Programming and scripting languages I've worked with (out of necessity or just for fun) include C, C++, Objective C, ruby, perl and bash.