Short presentation of the "SIE de Investigación y Enseñanza "
The SIE acronym stands for Servicios Informaticos Especializados
= Specialized Informatics Services.
An alternative, unofficial acronym, is SINFIN: Servicios INFormaticos
de INvestigación.
We are a new department created after the reorganization of the previous
Computing Center. It consists of the Coordinator, one Software Postdoc
and a Web Officer. We report to the Head of the Research Division. Our duties
are the installation, maintenance and user support of all astronomical software,
supercomputing and Web development.
The SIE Personnel
The SIE is composed of the Software Postdoc Coordinator,
of a Software Postdoc who devotes 70% minimum of his time to software duties,
and of a full-time Web Officer. The table below provides the basic info on the SIE members.
Name
Email - phone - office
Main Responsibilities
Nicola Caon
- tel: 5383
- office: 1322
Coordinator - Astronomical software
Antonio Dorta Lorenzo
- tel: 5278 -
office: 1508
Supercomputing, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Programming languages
Jorge Andrés Pérez Prieto
- tel: 5278 - office: 1508
Web Officer
The SIE duties
Our basic duties are:
The installation, maintenance and
user support of all astronomical software, including all that software which, although
not astronomical, is nevertheless used here at the IAC mostly by astronomers
in the Research Area. The SIE is also responsible
for all the documentation on the software supported (specific web pages, printed
manuals, FAQs etc.).
The development and maintenance of websites and applications for the Research and Graduate Studies Divisions, and for conferences and workshops organized by the IAC.
Support for supercomputing, including the Condor system and the Chimera and the LaPalma clusters.
Here is a more detailed list of the main duties of each of us.
Nicola Caon
Overall administration of the computing resources in the Research and Graduate Studies Divisions.
Installation, maintenance and user support of astronomical packages and tools.
Maintenance of the SIE website.
Antonio Dorta Lorenzo
Installation, administration and user support of the Condor Distributed Computing environment.
Administration and user support for the LaPalma supercomputer.
Parallel and Distributed Programming user support.
Support for programming languages, compilers, and programming environments in general.
Jorge Andrés Pérez Prieto
Development and maintenance of websites and tools for the Research and Graduate Studies Divisions.
Development and maintenance of websites and tools for conferences and workshops organized by the IAC.
Support for websites and tools for research projects and scientists.
Local implementation and support of Virtual Observatory tools.
