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 department created in 2001 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 about 50% 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: 1.124
Coordinator - Astronomical software
Ángel de Vicente
- tel: 5747
- office: 1.123
HTCondor, Supercomputing, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Programming languages
Isaac Alonso Asensio
- tel: 5450
- office: 1.401
Supercomputing, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Programming languages
Jorge Andrés Pérez Prieto
- tel: 5440 - office: 1.124
Web Officer
Maximiliano Hernández Gil
- tel: 5278 - office: 1.124
Web Officer
Carlos Westendorp Plaza
- tel: 5330 - office: TBC
Machine Learning
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 HTCondor system 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.
Ángel de Vicente
Installation, administration and user support of the
HTCondor
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.
Isaac Alonso Asensio
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, administration and support of Virtual Observatory tools.
Carlos Westendorp
Machine learning
Maximiliano Hernández Gil
Development and maintenance of websites and tools for conferences and workshops organized by the IAC.
