Organisation
IT department organigram & information
Management
| Department Head | Frederic Hemmer Department Head Office |
| Deputy Department Head | Maite Barroso Lopez Department Head Office |
| Departmental Planning Officer | Gianni Deroma Department Head Office |
| Deputy Departmental Planning Officer | Christian Isnard Department Head Office |
| WLCG Project Leader | Simone Campana Department Head Office |
| Externally Funded Projects | Bob Jones Department Head Office |
| Department Administrative Officer | Nathalie Del Vicario |
| Deputy Department Administrative Officer | Florence Moura |
| Financial administration | Valentina Clavel |
| IT Communications Officer | Melissa Gaillard |
| Department Training Officer | Michal Kwiatek |
| Computer Security Officer | Stefan Lueders |
| Deputy Computer Security Officer | Sebastian Lopienski |
| CERN openlab Head | Alberto Di Meglio |
| CERN School of Computing Director | Sebastian Lopienski |
| Human Resources Adviser | Benjamin Salignat HRA 'permanence' is in 31/R-013: |
| Software Licence Officer | Ignacio Reguero Please contact software-licence-officer@cern.ch See also role description and about licenced software usage |
| CTO & Hardware Resource Manager | Bernd Panzer-Steindel |
| Department Safety Officer | Wayne Salter |
| IT Technical Coordinator | Xavier Espinal IT Technical coordination for experiments and departments. |
Administration
| Assistant to Department Head | Silke Bachmann |
| IT Secretariat | Florence Moura |
Groups
| Group | Mandate |
|---|---|
| IT-CF Computing Facilities |
Manages and operates the CERN Data Centre and associated Computing Facilities. |
| IT-CS Communication Systems |
Responsible for networking and telecommunications services for the Laboratory, including the campus network for office and Wi-Fi connectivity, a technical network to support accelerator operations and critical laboratory infrastructure, a high-performance data centre network to support physics computing, including high-bandwidth connections to computing facilities around the world, fixed and mobile telephony services, and TETRA digital radio services for the Fire and Rescue Services. |
| IT-DB Databases |
The Database Services Group (IT-DB) is responsible for current and future databases and their platform for accelerators, experiments and administrative services. It is also in charge of hosting Java Web applications as well as critical engineering and administration applications at CERN scale. Moreover, the group provides scale-out analytics services including Hadoop, Spark and Kafka for CERN and the LHC experiments. |
| IT-DI Departmental Infrastructure |
Provides and maintains the administrative and infrastructure support for the IT Department. |
| IT-CDA Collaboration, Devices & Applications |
The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) provides information services such as video conferencing, webcast & recording, indico, the CERN Document Server (CDS), document conversion, printing, e-mail, IP telephony, the Invenio Digital Library Framework, Windows' environment tools, web services, authentication and authorisation services, e-publishing and software development tools on a range of devices, such as desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. |
| IT-CM Compute & Monitoring |
Responsible for service delivery and evolution of Compute, Monitoring and Infrastructure tools services for the CERN Tier-0 Data Centre and the Worlwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The group's activities were described in more detail at the IT Technical Forum in Autumn 2016. |
| IT-ST Storage |
Ensures a coherent development and operation of storage services at CERN for all aspects of physics data. |
| IT-SC Scientific computing collaborations |
The group hosts the LCG project office, coordinates WLCG operation and consults on the efficient use of scientific computing resources in close liaison with EP-SFT, experiment and HSF efforts. |