Welcome!
The Computing Division and Office of the CIO is dedicated to
providing leadership and support in computing and communications to the
laboratory as a whole, and to physics research, in particular. Our
name was changed in August, 2009 and you will still see us listed as SCCS
(Scientific Computing and Computing Services) in many places.
Administration
- Administration
The OCIO Administrative group handles the administrative tasks for OCIO
department.
Computer Security
- Computer
Security
SLAC's computer security policy in regards to network, server, web, firewalls,
and more.
IT Applications and Systems
- Application
and Database Administration
Provide central enterprise applications support, including central MySQL
and Oracle databases.
- Application Development
This team provides application development services. We specialize in
applications that communicate with databases and applications that provide
web front-ends.
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Information Management and Portal Services
Providing web frame-work, conference web sites, graphics, and publishing
services.
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PeopleSoft Development
Development services for SLAC's Financial and HR PeopleSoft systems.
IT Business Services
- IT Business Services
The mission of IT Business Services is to provide exceptional business support for SLAC National Accelerator Lab's world renown research program activities. We provide you with the services to assist you in the planning and delivery of desktop, server storage hardware and software, telecommunication services, vendor support & professional services for enterprise application requirements.
IT Enterprise Architect
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Enterprise Architect
To ensure that changes of architecture are well planned and serve the best
interest of the whole Enterprise.
From Data Center Operations to Enterprise Systems Administration, The SLAC IT Operations and Infrastructure organization delivers leadership and support services necessary to every SLAC Data Center implementation. We also deliver entire-campus Desktop Support, Network Management and Telecommunications Management.
- Windows
Infrastructure
Provide the best possible computing environment for enterprise computing. Support for Windows at
SLAC consists of fully-supported central services for Web, LDAP Directory
services, user authentication (Kerberos, LDAP, NTLM) - including extranet
collaboration accounts, file servers, backup/restore, name (DNS), time
(NTP), and
print services. Windows is also the platform of choice for enterprise email, IM
(Lync), SQL and Collaboration (SharePoint). Citrix servers provide a Windows desktop for remote access and
general computing use. Windows server systems are supported via central
services; Windows desktop support is the responsibility of the Departmental
Computing Support team or the individual
department. The Windows Infrastructure team provides problem escalation support for
the Departmental Computing Support team.
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Network Engineering
The mission of the OCIO Network Management & Engineering and the Network
Software groups is to provide leadership and support in data communications to
the Laboratory as a whole and to physics research in particular.
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Data Center Operations
Data Center Operations staff provide hardware installation, physical network layer
installations, resource planning, computer maintenance, power and cooling
planning, and first line of user support on a 24x7 basis.
- IT Departmental
Support
Departmental Computing Support assists SLAC users by providing an array of
services, including by not limited to: technology consultation, desktop builds
and support, application deployment, maintenance and support, and various other
duties as specified by the needs of the departments.
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Telecommunications
Provide SLAC telephone and voicemail services for the entire campus. This includes Core PBX maintenance, Voicemail Services, 24x7 field technical support and Phone/Voicemail integration with internal and external
leading-edge unified communication services
- Unix
Infrastructure
Provide the best possible computing environment for physics analysis and
numerically intensive computing, and provide the infrastructure for general
purpose computing at SLAC. Support for UNIX at SLAC consists of fully-supported
central services for user authentication, file servers, mail, news, name, time,
and print services. A number of servers provide interactive login service for
general computing use. Most desktop UNIX systems are supported as data-less
clients of the central services; support beyond that level is the responsibility
of the individual groups. A compute farm is provided for all users to provide
high-performance computing and bulk tape and disk data storage.
Library and Archives
- TIS Group
The Department includes the Archives and History Office, InfoMedia Solutions, the SLAC Research Library and SPIRES-HEP Databases, the Unix-SPIRES Collaboration, responsibility for managing the Lab's scientific and technical information, and shared responsibility for the Web at SLAC.
Scientific Computing
- Physics Experiment
Support Group
Support software developments and maintenances for the experiments SLAC is
hosting. Participate nation-wide and international collaborating research and
development activities of HEP softwares. Physics Experiment Support group
consists of three teams, ONLINE, OFFLINE and DATABASE.
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