Graduate School in Physics and Astrophysics ------------------------------------------- ANNUAL REPORT ------------------------------------------- Fill with a text editor (without TAB or formatting) Repeat fields for each course as necessary. ------------------------------------------- name: Gabriele Gaetano Fronzé email: gfronze@cern.ch ciclo: XXXI year completed (1,2 or 3): 3 supervisor: Martino Gagliardi ------------------------------------------- GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) code: 06 title: Quntum Communication teacher: Degiovanni hours: 16 ------------------------------------------- COURSES FROM OTHER GRADUATE SCHOOLS (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) school: IMT-Atlantique, Université de Nantes title: Pilotage d'Équipe teacher: Anne de Saint Lauvent hours: 24 ------------------------------------------- UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (Laurea Magistrale) (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) title: teacher: hours: ------------------------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS (only those attended in the current year) title: SOSC - School on Open Science Cloud place: Perugia webpage: https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=15534 days: 5 talk or poster (Y/N): N title: TEACHER at inverted CERN School of Computing place: CERN webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/671879/page/11702-speakers days: 4 talk or poster (Y/N): Y (6 hours of teaching) ------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP (only those attended in the current year) title: QGP France place: Etetrat webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/706294/ days: 4 talk (Y/N): Y poster (Y/N): N title: EuNPC place: Bologna webpage: http://www.eunpc2018.infn.it days: 5 talk (Y/N): Y poster (Y/N): N ------------------------------------------- VISITS AND STAGES (only those done in the current year ) institution: IMT-Atlantique place: Nantes (F) starting date: Various days: 5 Months --------------------------------------------------- Research activity/Publications in the current year (max characters 2500) During the current year the finalization of the Upsilon production paper has undergone. The paper is currently being evaluated by the collaboration and some work is still being performed to implement new T_AA extrapolation values from other analysis groups. Big effort on testing the ALICE MTR performance analysis framework was put and the result is a reliable and currently available framework that anyone approaching the MTR can use. The documentation of the framework has been produced and published on github: https://gabrielefronze.github.io/MTR-shuttle/ For a relevant part of the year (~9M) the main task was related to writing the acquisition and first level processing algorithms for the ALICE MTR. Using a new paradigm called Data Processing Layer (DPL) the noisy channels filtering algorithm has been written in a MPI-like fashion, with the introduction of processes which can be run transparently locally or across network connection. The introduction of DPL required the development of several tool helpfull for the whole ALICE community. I have tackled two general scope topics: 1. I wrote the methods to introduce boost serialization of classes and structs in a trasparent way, in order to avoid the end-user hassle caused by by-hand serialization. The tool is currently on ALICE O2 github (https://github.com/AliceO2Group/AliceO2/blob/dev/Common/Utils/include/CommonUtils/BoostSerializer.h) and will be pushed to the GSI FairROOT repository; 2. I wrote some collective communication routines in DPL, implementing devices able to route mesages (router), clone them over several output channels (broadcaster) or aggregate them to a single output channel (fan-in fan-out). The code is currently published on github in the ALICE O2 repository (https://github.com/AliceO2Group/AliceO2/blob/dev/Framework/Utils/include/Utils/Utils.h) BE AWARE: visits and stages,research activity and pubs are not evaluated as didactic credits, but are requested to trace the PhD students' career