Electronic Systems Support

EPTAB 7Electronics Pool Status Report

6 December 2004Chris Parkman

Catherine Moine

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Personnel changes Retirements

Gilbert Dumont – end May Power supplies, crates, measurement instruments,

etc., etc. Albert Zimmer – end June

Pool reception Recruitment

Ex-industrial support Bertrand Smaniotto – Pool administration Alain Guy – Instruments

New Clement Richard – Pool reception, maintenance

Ex-CERN apprentice, 3 year LD, LS contract Started 1 December 2004

Paid from Pool funds Guy & Richard

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Reduced opening hours 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 16:00

In any case these were the most popular times

Help given out of these hours on request.

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New financial conditions Approved by Cashmore

November 2003 Simplified conditions for

Rental Calculated from the real cost

Purchase + maintenance (verification & repair) Adjusted annually

Compensation 100% of purchase price for first year -10%/year to minimum of 10%

Resales Market value

See “Electronics Pool User’s Guide” http://ess.web.cern.ch/ESS/ElectronicsPoolUsersGui

de.htm

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Pool rental “freeze” For experiments not wishing to

dismantle during shut-down “Freeze” conditions

18% of normal rental (~overhead costs) No use, no movements, no support

NA49, Cosmics, Dirac Offered to the LHC experiments

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Financial status - end 2004 Income: 2.2 MCHF Maintenance: 250 kCHF Manpower: 80 k CHF Investment: 1 MCHF TOTAL: 870 kCHF

Manpower for 2005 ~200 kCHF Investment carry-over ~670 kCHF

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InvestmentsJTAG hardware 17’400

Agilent LCR Meter 16’100

CAEN HV 225’000

CAEN Front end 120’000

Wiener CAMAC-PCI 10’000

CAEN USB-VME bridge 35’000

CAEN EASY (LV PS) 82’000

Wiener PL500 (LV PS) 140’000

Keithley Sourcemeter 50’000

Gossen PS 42’500

Delta PS 5230 46’000

Agilent Pulse generator 70’000

Lecroy Scopes 126’000

Total 980’000

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Migration to BAAN400 First stage complete

Same instance as CERN Stores Water-tight from Stores accounting, etc.

Improved monthly billing procedure, No further need for database

support in ESS Group One full-time equivalent database

engineer position redeployed into technical support role

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Electronic reservation Work by IT/AIS Ensures that budget accounts are

valid and provisioned EDH signature chain

Allows off-line work by Pool reception Better preparation

Requires a different approach by users Planning! “Self-service” still available

Web site

Electronic Systems Support

The Pool > 2004

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Where to go Critical size

With given resources, Pool can handle certain level of “business”

We need to keep that level up to ensure best use of resources and survival of the service

Laboratory instruments? Principal (sole?) supplier of instruments

To PH, to CERN? Modular electronics

Coherent product lines in NIM and VME Modules Housings

What next? Power supplies

HV LV

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Purchases of ‘scopes

CERN Pool

(kCHF) (kCHF)

%

2000

1’200 400 33%

2001

450 22 5%

2002

730 230 32%

2003

600 157 26%

2004

500 126 25%

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Income > 2005

0

0.5

1

1.5

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2.5

3

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

MCH

F

Rental income Equipment purchases

Guesstimate - Best case?Assumes that some

experiments will keep equipment in place at

“overhead” rate of 18%Guess!

Resumption of LHC test activity at 2004

levels, no fixed target and other

users continuing at 2004 levels

Overhead 13%

Overhead 19%

Overhead 20%

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Electronics Pool Technical Advisory Board

Mandate EPTAB advises the ESS Group Leader on

the technical profile of the Electronics Pool (types and mix of equipment) and on the choice of individual items of equipment

Future Given the demise of the EAB, Dieter

Schlatter has asked me to proposed a broader mandate for a committee to cover the mandate of EPTAB and that part of the EAB mandate concerned with the Pool. Also to include representatives of the wider user community (CERN users)

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EPTAB Members act

Ad personum As representatives of the

experiments As representatives of their groups

Thank you for your help We will need more of your time to

best define investments