The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. This article presents an overview of the ongoing activities.

The increase of service offerings for data analysis in the cloud, accessible via a web interface led the SFT and IT-ST groups, to the creation of SWAN, the CERN Service for Web-based ANalysis.

The 2016 CERN School of Computing (CSC)  was held in Mol, Belgium from August 28th to September 10th attracting about 50 students from 25 countries.

The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. It is a very busy time with everyone working energetically to meet various deadlines. All last minute changes and fixes need to be integrated and run through extensive checks to ensure that quality of the performance of the code.

This year, 14 students have been funded by Google to work for 3 months during the summer on CERN open source software projects. The projects involved are related to ROOT, the Geant simulation frameworks and CERNVM, which are developed by the PH-SFT group, and SixTrack, a numerical accelerator simulation software, developed in the Beams department.

In May 2015, the first public release was made of Virtual Atom Smasher, an educational game platform that was developed by a partnership between CERN and Citizen Cyberlab.

 A new web-based volunteer computing platform  was launched in the framework of CERN’s 60th anniversary, allowing volunteers to simulating events from the experiments 

The SFT team has worked closely throughout the year with software experts to prepare the software used for analysis and data processing.

The CERN PH/SFT group participated for a fourth year in the Google Suumer of Code

A two-day workshop was held at CERN to discuss a new initiative for establishing a collaboration that would foster the further development of scientific software packages for use in HEP experiments worldwide.