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Computing Division and Office of the CIO

 

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.

  • Information Management and Portal Services
    Providing web frame-work, conference web sites, graphics, and publishing services.

  • 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


  • Enterprise Architect
    To ensure that changes of architecture are well planned and serve the best interest of the whole Enterprise.

IT Operations and Infrastructure

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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