CERN | Accelerating science

European Organization for Nuclear Research

Organisation

The IT Department is organised into groups and sections to provide services to CERN and our global collaborators.

Group	Acronym	Mandate summary
Collaboration & Information Services	IT-CIS	Collaboration and information services including video conferencing, webcast, Indico, ePublishing, the CERN Document Server, the Multimedia server, the CERN Bulletin application and printing.
Communication Systems	IT-CS	Responsible for most communications services in use at the Laboratory.
Computing Facilities	IT-CF	Manages and operates the CERN Computer Centre and associated Computing Facilities.
Data & Storage Services	IT-DSS	Ensures a coherent development and operation of storage services at CERN for all aspects of physics data.
Database Services	IT-DB	Database and middleware services.
Department Infrastructure	IT-DI	Provides and maintains the administrative and infrastructure support for the IT Department.
Experiment Support	IT-ES	Co-ordinates the WLCG services and assists the experiments in their use of this services, focussing on common solutions whereever possible.
Grid Technology	IT-GT	Responsible for maintaining and evolving CERN’s grid software components and grid monitoring infrastructure.
Operating System & Infrastructure Services	IT-OIS	Supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, services for information exchange and collaboration such as Mail, web content and authentication.
Platform & Engineering Services	IT-PES	Provides batch, interactive and specialized services to the users of the physics and engineering communities.

Department Roles


Department Head	Frederic Hemmer
Deputy Department Head	David Foster
Department Administrative Office	Nathalie Thiers
Departmental Planning Officer	Christian Isnard
Department Safety Officer	Tony Cass
Department Training Officer
Computer Security Officer	Stefan Lueders
Externally Funded Projects	Bob Jones
WLCG Project	Ian Bird

IT Dept Organisation


IT Group & Section contacts
IT Organigram