Computing at CERN

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Computingat CERNFrom paper to Web......from
Web to Grid
François BRIARDIT-AIS-HR
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1. Computing at CERN6 categories2.
Administrative computingfrom paper to Web3.
LHC computing challengesfrom web to Grid
Agenda
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1. General-purpose computing2. Administrative
Computing3. Physics and engineering computing
4. Consolidation, coordination and
standardization 5. Physics applications 6.
Accelerator design and operations
Computing at CERN6 categories
IT Department
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1. Computing at CERN6 categories 2.
Administrative Computingfrom paper to Web3.
LHC computing challengesfrom web to Grid
Agenda
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Administrative Information Servicescovered
business areas
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1. Cover all business areas with a coherent
software offer2. Cover the whole software
lifecycle - Analysis - Conception - Tests -
Support - Maintenance
Administrative Information Servicesour mission
From paper to Web
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Administrative Information Servicestargeted
population
- Any individual at CERN- Department and
Experiment secretariats- Administrative services
(HR, FI, SG)- Other CERN central services (IT,
SC)- Management- External Physics Institutes-
External Companies contracting with CERN-
Authorities (Member States, CH, FR) More than
12000 AIS users
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Homonegeous Hardware- 1 RDBMS Oracle- 1
hardware platform Sun- 1 Operating System
SolarisHeterogeneous Software- Best of
breed- In house development
Administrative Information Servicesthe
infrastructure
HP nodes
Red Hat
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Administrative Information Servicesheterogeneous
application environment
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Example 1. EDH Electronic Document
Handlinghttp//edh.cern.ch- replaces all
administrative forms- cover all business areas-
more than 2380000 document as of January 2007-
manages workflow (signatures, conditional flow
etc)
Administrative Information ServicesExamples
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Example 2. e-RT e-Recruitment Toolkithttp//cern
.ch/jobs- free access from wole world- more
than 32000 candidates registered in 3 years-
more than 53000 applications received- e-mail
communication with candidates- electronic
distribution of applications internally
(replaces thousands of photocopies)
Administrative Information ServicesExamples
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Computing at CERN6 categories2.
Administrative Computingfrom paper to Web 3.
LHC computing challengesfrom web to Grid
Agenda