In the context of the EP-SFT activities, the SPI team provides coherent software stacks for the use of LHC experiments and CERN users in general. These software stacks consist of several packages - including Monte Carlo generators, Machine Learning tools, Python modules - all available for a large number of compilers, operating systems and hardware architectures.
Software packages like mathematical libraries, DBs, Compilers etc which used in specific software at CERN are recompiled and made available for specific platforms.
The Librarians and Integrators Meeting (LIM) is a forum bringing together librarians of all the LHC and other expriments to share experiences about software stack provisioning. The forum meets regularly - usually every two weeks - to discuss issues about the builds, new compilers or package versions, new operating system versions, et etc.
LIM Meetings minutesWe manage and maintain our own Jira instance to track issues for most of the software developed in the SFT group and also a few projects from the experiments.
Create a new issueA description of the deliverables of the SPI team, the contrib tool, the LCG releases and their usage, including the available RPMs and the CVMFS repository /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch.
This documentation is a collection of HOWTO's documenting the operations required to run the LCG infrastructure.
In case you want to cite SPI in your own publications, this is the preferred reference:
Building, testing and distributing common software for the LHC experiments, CHEP 2018, EPJ Web Conf. Volume 214, 2019 .
In the context of the EP-SFT activities, the SPI team provides coherent software stacks for the use of LHC experiments and CERN users in general. These software stacks consist of several packages - including Monte Carlo generators, Machine Learning tools, Python modules - all available for a large number of compilers, operating systems and hardware architectures.
The SPI team is also responsible to run the Librarians and Integrators Meeting (LIM), a forum bringing together librarians of all the LHC and other expriments to share experiences about software stack provisioning.
Among the services further provided by the SPI team, there is support for Jenkins-based build orchestrations, a JIRA issue tracking instance (in coordination with IT), and maintenace / support for the SFT and related web sites.
