Register as an authorized PVSS User

Step I: Sign The Software Sub-License Agreement (to be performed once per outside institute)

If you are at CERN, skip this step and go to Step II.

If you are at an outside institute and your institute has already signed the Software Sub-License Agreement go to Step II. If you are not sure if your institute has already signed, you can contact us .

To have access to PVSS from an outside institute, your institute first needs to sign a Software Sub-License Agreement. This agreement is a legal document and binds your institute. It must be signed by the nominated Responsible Person at your institute. CERN does not nominate the Responsible Person. You do, or rather, your institute does.

1. Find out who is the Responsible Person at your institute.
2. Download the Software Sub-License Agreement [PDF]
3. Have it filled out and signed by your Responsible Person. It is on this form that the Responsible Person nominates a Technical Contact person for future day-to-day dealings with your institute. (It is permissible for the Responsible Person to also take on the Technical Contact role as well.)
4. Send a signed physical copy to:

M. Manuel Gonzalez Berges / PVSS Licensing
EN-ICE Group
CERN
CH-1211 Geneve 23
Switzerland

To speed the process, you can fax us a copy to the following number but for legal reasons we still need to receive the physical copy. att.: M. Manuel Gonzalez Berges , fax: +41 22 766 86 28

Step II: Become a PVSS Authorized User (to be performed once per person)

• Whether you are inside CERN or not, ask your Technical Contact Person to add your name to his list of PVSS Authorized Users. He should send a mail to our contact address with the following details about you:
  • First name
  • Last name
  • Email address that you want to use to asks for licenses, to receive news and for authentication.

• If you do not know who is the Technical Contact Person for your experiment or your institute, then email us at this contact address. Provided that your experiment or institute has already nominated someone in the past, then we should be able to tell you who it is. Please understand though that if your institute has never yet appointed a Technical Contact person, Cern cannot appoint one at your institute. Only your institute's Responsible Person can do that.

We will then update our database to recognize you as a person authorized to get the software and you will receive all relevant news about PVSS (e.g. availability of new versions, patches).

Step III: Register external email address

If the email address that you used for registration in step II is linked to a CERN NICE account, you can simply use your NICE username ans password to authenticate when you want to download PVSS

If the email address is not registerd at CERN, you will have to register it as a CERN External account to be able to download the software from our dowload pages. You can register in the CERN Portal for External Accounts.

Step IV: Proceed to download

Once the above steps have been completed, you can get PVSS from the downloads page or install directly with CMF if you are at CERN.