1. Paolo Pagano1 About myself A brief presentation of my professional profile

2. Paolo Pagano Outline Education Experience Activities Skills this presentation covers…

3. Paolo Pagano Education (the origin) 1996 : Moving to Trieste attending classes and doing exams in: Theoretical Physics Solid State Physics Nuclear Physics 1993 : Starting Diploma in Physics in Messina attending classes and doing exams in: Algebra Geometry Analysis Classical physics Chemistry

4. Paolo Pagano Education (@ CERN) 1998 : Technical studentship at CERN in Gas Detector Development group RD of Gas Electron Multiplier http://gdd.web.cern.ch/GDD

5. Paolo Pagano Physics @ CERN To work on a new CERN experiment (last one before LHC hera): Stage of 1 year hosted by: COMPASS SPS LHC

6. Paolo Pagano High Energy Physics… … develops on a scale compatible with turtle life time … 1996 COMPASS is designed 1998 Start of set up 2000 DAQ is tested 2001 Detectors are commissioned 2002 Start of Physics DAQ 2005 First Physics results

7. Paolo Pagano photocathodestoring glove box to handlephotocathodes photocathodetransportationsystem CsI: hygroscopic, water degrades QE never never exposed to air (max 50 ppm O 2, routinely: 10 ppm) radiato r: C 4 F 10 5 m 6 m 3 m photondetectors: CsI MWPC mirrorwall vessel radiato r: C 4 F 10 detection of VUV photons (165-200 nm) …. so I had the time to build the photon detectors up … …. to write down my Diploma Thesis: http://www.ts.infn.it/~ppagano/tesi.pdf … and to get my PhD (stage of 3 years hosted by INFN) … http://www.ts.infn.it/~ppagano/tesi.pdf

8. Paolo Pagano Some motivations for being turtles … Data come from 300 tracking detectors (not considering calorimetry and RICH) built up using inhomogeneous technologies. 250k analog channels: – to be read at a rate up to ~ 100 kHz; –corresponding to a flux (to DAQ) of ~ 4 GB/s, an event being ~ 40 kB; –cumulated statistics: 250 TB/year.

9. Paolo Pagano Data go from detectors to DAQ… DAQ concept and layout …and are recorded on (many) tapes 250 TB In running time…

10. Paolo Pagano … to pass from low-level information to high-level-like Billions of events to be processed… Processed more than 40K jobs at CERN batch system (LSF) only for 2002 data. Set-up of Data Reconstruction software (C++); Description and details in: http://www.ts.infn.it/~ppagano/thesis.pdf

11. Paolo Pagano … and DSTs are cloned and transferred to TRIESTE computing farm … … to extract Physics (task of my post- doctoral fellowships in Bonn and Trieste)

12. Paolo Pagano The outcome has been shown by me in: Saint Petersburg Madison Prague and more…

13. Paolo Pagano Publications

14. Paolo Pagano My skills (IT-oriented list) Operating Systems: –Linux (good knowledge); –Solaris - Unix for Sun (basic knowledge); –Windows 2000, XP (basic knowledge). Batch Systems: –LSF (standard CERN); –GE (standard INFN-TS). Programming languages: –C, C++ ( frequently used ), Java, Fortran; –Unix Scripting: Perl and Csh. Data Bases: –MySQL 4.1; –Objectivity/DB 6.1; –Oracle 9i. Generic Software: –MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); –Emacs, LaTeX; –Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator. Internet Software Technology: – HTML, Javascript; – Java networking applications; – Operating interfaces to access DBs.

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