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The Scientific Computing and Computing Services Group is dedicated to providing leadership and support in computing and communications to the laboratory as a whole, and to physics research, in particular.

Announcements:

New SCCS Director: Steffen Luitz

Core Services


  • Unix Systems
    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.

  • Windows
    The SCCS Windows Infrastructure Group provides support for central servers and central services.

  • Networking
    The mission of the SCCS 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.

  • Network Operations
    Operations staffs 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.

Customer Relations and Project Management


Departmental Services


  • Administration
    The SCCS Administrative group handles the administrative tasks for SCCS department.

  • Departmental Computing 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.
  • Accounts

Enterprise Applications


Science Applications


  • 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.

Security


  • Computer Security
    SLAC's computer security policy in regards to network, server, web, firewalls, and more.

 

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