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Philippe Defert
CERN, IT Division
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Geneva, Switzerland
CH-1211 Geneve 23

Phone: +41 22 767 3923
Philippe.Defert@cern.ch

CERN Activities

In the Information Technology Division (IT) of CERN , I am a UNIX support manager and currently work on 2 different projects.

ASIS, the Application Software Installation Server, is a service offered at CERN and other HEP centres. It contains a repository where application software is stored in a ready-to-use form. The service includes automatic access to the software for every computer of a site and automatic generation of the supported packages for each supported platform. Version control is provided at the level of the product maintainer as well as of the end-user.

In the European DataGrid (EDG), the Fabric Management Package has the following objectives: to deliver a computing fabric comprised of all the necessary tools to manage a centre providing grid services on clusters of thousands of nodes. The management functions must uniformly encompass support for everything from the compute and network hardware up through the operating system, workload and application software. Provision will be made to support external requests for services and information from the grid.

Presently, I am also a delegate of the personnel in the CERN Staff Association

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