The SFT group in the EP department develops and maintains common scientific software for the physics experiments in close collaboration with the EP experimental groups, the IT department and external HEP institutes. The majority of the group is involved in projects organised as part of the Applications Area of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project. In addition, several group members have direct responsibilities in the software projects of the LHC experiments. SFT projects are organised in four core areas: Simulation, Libraries and Frameworks, Distributed Systems and Collaborations with Experiments.

Group Leader: Pere Mato
Deputy Group Leader: Gerardo Ganis
Secretariat: Cinzia Pinzoni

Under the spotlight

  • CHEP2015: Evolution of Software and Computing for Experiments
    13th of April 2015 to 17th of April 2015

    CHEP 2015 will take place in Okinawa at OIST. The conference focusses on "Evolution of Software and Computing for Experiments". An exciting event for the HEP community! For all the details visit: http://chep2015.kek.jp

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  • MetaLibm Annual Meeting
    18th of February 2015

    The MetaLibm project annual meeting will take place in Paris. The workplan for 2015 will be presented and the progress of 2014 will be reviewed. http://perso.citi-lab.fr/fdedinec/recherche/metalibmweb/2015-02

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  • CernVM Users Workshop
    5th of March 2015 to 6th of March 2015

    A workshop about the CernVM ecosystem will be held at CERN on March 5th and 6th, 2015. The workshop aims to bring together users and developers to discuss the current status of the project and and to plan for future developments on the base of users’ expectations and feedback. The preliminary agenda and practical information can be found at: http://indico.cern.ch/event/348657/ .

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  • HEP Software Foundation Workshop
    20th of January 2015 to 21st of January 2015

    The HSF will have a workshop at SLAC in January 2015, Tue 20 - Wed 21. The main goal of the workshop is to refine the next steps for building the HSF. Ancillary meetings will take place on Thu 22.

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  • CERN SFT Gsoc 2015 ideas page
    19th of February 2015

    We participated in the Google Summer of Code with success each year since 2011, so we are applying again in 2015!
    We intend to offer three options - pick one of the Project ideas which are grouped into categories, have a look to the section dedicated to Blue Sky ideas or propose your own great idea for this summer: we are looking forward to hearing about your perspectives.

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  • GPU Programming tutorial at UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, 6-17 October 2014
    6th of October 2014 to 17th of October 2014

    Trainer: Felice Pantaleo 
    Host Institute: UERJ, Rio de Janeiro
    Duration: two weeks

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  • Workshop on Cloud Services for File Synchronisation and Sharing
    17th of November 2014 to 18th of November 2014

    The objective of this workshop is to share experiences and progress for technologies and services in cloud storage file synchronization and file sharing.

    Cloud storage services for scientific and technical activities allow groups of researchers to share, transfer and synchronize files between their personal computers, mobile devices and large scientific data repositories. Adding synchronization capabilities to existing large-scale data repositories (typically above the 1-PB mark) creates an opportunity for new scenarios for data analysis. The challenges include seamless data sharing across working groups and providing an extremely easy to use interface available on all client platforms.

    https://indico.cern.ch/event/336753

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  • Web Development Project in the PH Newsletter!
    27th of July 2014

    The SFT Web Development project made it to the PH Newsletter! The experience of creating two modern Drupal websites for the PH-SFT and PH-DT groups is described in this article.

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  • Workshop on Grid and Cloud Computing - Concepts and Practical Applications
    24th of July 2014 to 29th of July 2014

    This course will be centered on Grid and Cloud computing. Following on from the hypercomputing experiments of the 80's and 90's, the Grid paradigm was proposed at the end of the last century.

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  • CSC 2014
    23rd of August 2014 to 5th of September 2014

    The 37th CERN School of Computing will be held in Braga, Portugal from Monday 25 August to Friday 5 September 2014 evening. Students will have to arrive on the Sunday 24th of August and leave on the Saturday 6th of September 2014.
    http://indico.cern.ch/event/298406

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