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Scientific Report 2007-2009 Laboratories and Facilities of the Department of Physics F1. Departmental Library The Departmental Library has recently undergone a process of transformation both from the structural and logistic point of view, and a throughout modernization of the services. The new location of the Departmental Library was inaugurated in 2005, and consists of a reading room with 46 places, 12 Personal Computers (one of which is specially equipped for the visually impaired) with direct access to the internet. The Library offers a series of services, from the traditional ones, like consulting and loan, to advanced ones, like reservation of work sessions on the PCs of the library or of the access to the wireless network with one’s own laptop. These services are offered both to institutional users and to students that visit our University. The catalogue of ancient and modern volumes (approximately 25000 books) is now fully automated. The catalogue of subscribed and historical journals (approximately 500 titles) is also automated. The bibliographic records are inserted into two important national databases (ACNP and SBN), so as to allow for the full on-line visibility of the heritage of our Library. The library provides document delivery (approximately 300 articles per year) within the interexchange circuit NILDE, and interlibrary loan with other libraries within the national circuit SBN and within international loan circuits. At the local level, the Library provides the following services: temporary loan for all students Figure 1: Main hall of the Departmental Library, with the front desk and the shelves displaying the latest issues of the subscribed journals. The reading room is located beyond the glass divider. and institutional staff member of La Sapienza (approximately 5000 loans per year); reservation of internet accesses (12 PCs in the library) for research and consultation of on-line bibliographic resources; wireless connection of one’s own laptop. All these services are accessible to all those that enroll as users at the Library (approximately 7000 enrolled users), providing their personal data. These data are stored in a database common to all the libraries of La Sapienza and of the territory of the Region Latium (Regione Lazio). The Departmental Library takes active part to the national project of automation SBN, since 1990. This allows to share data and provide services to the users, without direct charges for the structure, but thanks to the centralized financial support of La Sapienza, via the SBN project. The automation process includes an experimental activity, aimed at improving the services offered to the users. It is already possible to access to the Library after the closing time, by means of a magnetic card which is currently released only to institutional users of the Department. Access to the Library is allowed to authorized enrolled users. The premises of the Departmental Library are controlled by a webcam circuit. Within the year, a new service will be made available, i.e., the automatic loan by means of the RFID technology. Thanks to the computer science competences of the Department of Physics, a software is being developed that will allow to download data from the database SEBINA/SBN and process them with the help of dedicated hardware, fully exploiting the RFID technology. Once tested, this software might be released and made accessible to other Departmental Libraries at La Sapienza. All volumes will be equipped with a RFID tag that will allow for full traceability and all users will be provided with an identifying card. Thanks to the association of these two elements, each user will be able to loan a book and register the operation in the loan database. The RFID technology will also allow to monitor the handling and recognition of the librarian material, making the procedure simpler, as compared to the long manual procedure of inventory control of the bibliographic material. http://minosse.phys.uniroma1.it/web/home.html# Sapienza Università di Roma 197 Dipartimento di Fisica
Scientific Report 2007-2009 Laboratories and Facilities of the Department of Physics F2. APE Laboratory The APE group is involved in research and development of High Performance Computing Architecture dedicated to theoretical physics applications (LQCD Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, complex systems,...). Several generations of parallel supercomputers, known as ”APE machines”, have been built from the middle of 80’s. The last APE supercomputer, APENEXT is installed in our department from 2006 and it shows a peak performance equal to 10 TeraFlops. The APE group is currently composed of 4 staff people and 6 junior researchers with expertise ranging from hardware and software design to scientific applications coding and optimization. Current research activities focus on development of low latency and high bandwidth interconnection network for PC cluster (APENet+, 3-Dimensional Toroidal network optimized for LQCD computing platform), efficient use of (GP)GPU accelerators in theoretical physics (QUonG project) and design of specialized microarchitecture and systems optimized for scientific computing. Furthermore group members participate with leadership roles to EU FP7 project (SHAPES, EURETILE) in the area of embedded systems and high performance computing. The laboratory is equipped with storage and computing servers hosting CAD software to support ASIC and hardware design. Multiple high end PC Figure 1: Laboratorio di Calcolo apeNEXT clusters are also present to test and develop application software. A complete soldering station as well as test and measurement instruments, (high performances digital oscilloscope and logic analyzer) are used to test and verify hardware prototypes. http://apegate.roma1.infn.it Related research activities: T3. Sapienza Università di Roma 198 Dipartimento di Fisica
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