General services to support all staff.
Instrumental services to build tomorrow's experimental facilities.
- 13administratives
- 3risk prevention and infrastructure
- 7computing
- 10electronics
- 12mechanics
- 1994/2004
- Creation of mechanics department
- 2005
- Creation of the IT machine room
- 2008
- Commissioning of ALICE Tier2 (WLCG)
- 2015
- Creation of « SPR-I »
- 2021
- Creation of the MNDL IT division
administration
computing
electronics
mechanics
SPRI
Risk Prevention and Infrastructure Management Department
Outreach
Computing (MNDL division), electronics and mechanics departments have been developed to meet the demands of building scientific systems as part of major international collaborations.
ALICE: a major contribution to the construction of the detector
The technical teams were involved in the ALICE experiment from an early stage, designing, building, installing and fine-tuning several parts of the muon spectrometer and electromagnetic calorimeters at the CERN site. In particular, they were responsible for the construction of the trajectography chambers, the acquisition electronics and the detector support structure
XEMIS2: the development of a camera for medical imaging
A technical team has set up at Nantes University Hospital to integrate this instrument for 3-gamma imaging of small animals. The camera was designed at Subatech around a time-projection chamber filled with liquid xenon, using 20,000 measurement channels to localize the radioactive tracer.
ALICE Tier2: impressive availability over 15 years
The IT department (ASR division) installed, integrated and administered the hardware and software infrastructure of a Tier2 WLCG computing node for the ALICE experiment, which included 74 servers (1,424 processors) running at full power, 2.5 Po of disk space and an availability of over 98% during the most representative production period.
SMILES: a new mass separator at Subatech
A technical team has begun work on this instrument by designing and building the laser assembly for sample desorption and ionization, and fitting out the enclosure incorporating electrostatic time-of-flight mass separation, before designing the final device.