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CHEP04 Reportat UK HEP SYSMAN meetingManchester, 10 Nov 2004

David KelseyCCLRC/RAL, UK

d.p.kelsey@rl.ac.uk

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CHEP04

• Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics– Regular series, every 18 months

• 27 September to 1 October, 2004• Interlaken, Switzerland• Organised by CERN (during 50th Anniversary)• >520 registered

– A record!– ~25 registered from the UK (~15 GridPP)

• Programme details and most presentations at– http://www.chep04.org– Slides, Video (Plenary), Papers, Posters(?)

• Proceedings will be available on DVD

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Program08:30-18:30 am pm

• Mon 27 Plenary Parallel• Tue 28 Plenary/Posters Tours • Wed 29 Plenary/Posters Parallel (Dinner)• Thurs 30 Plenary/Posters Parallel• Fri 1 Plenary - Summaries

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Parallel Streams/Posters

230 Papers, 182 Posters

1 – Online Computing 242 – Event Processing (split 3rd day) 483 – Core Software 364 – Distributed Computing Services 33

4a Grid Security 105 – Distrib. Comp. Systems & Experiences 336 – Computer Fabrics 247 – Wide Area Networking 12Poster 1 Online, Fabrics, WAN 35Poster 2 Distributed Services/Systems79Poster 3 Event processing, Core Software 68

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Plenary TalksMonday 27th Sep• 50 years CERN computing (David Williams)• Running experiments: Run II, Belle, BaBar• DAQTuesday 28th Sep• Grid: 2 LCG, 1 Grid3, Grid Security• BIRN and Impact of eScience (Ken Peach)Wednesday 29th Sep• Middleware (Miron Livny)• 5 Industry (Oracle, HP, Enterasys, 2*IBM)Thursday 30th Sep• 2 software• LHC computing models and data challenges• Nordic Supercomputer Grid• 2 networkingFriday 1st Oct:7 Summary + Conclusions (L. Bauerdick)

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Industry Demos and talks

• Booths in entrance hall (posters and refreshments)

• Included a PPARC eScience booth– Led by Dave Colling (Imperial)– Showing his live LCG demo

• Visit by CERN DG on Wednesday– Good photo opportunity

• If only the camera was working!

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Mike Jones’ camera

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Comments• Very nice conference• Extremely well organised• Location was good

– Acoustics in some rooms not perfect• test of new CERN InDiCo conference management system

– EU project, builds on success of Agenda maker• High speed networking – with free Enterasys 802.11a/b/g

card– 54 Mbps Wireless, with 50 Mbps link to CERN

• Plenary talks all recorded– No live broadcast but video recordings available in

hours• CERN 50th Anniversary

– CERN DG was at the CHEP dinner• Live link to Geneva for 50th party

• blog/chat system to encourage discussion– Good idea but limited success– Why do all plenary questions come from the same 5

people?

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Nice place!

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Some recommended talks

• Many good talks, these are just a few…• Storage futures

– See IBM plenary talk (Menon) (526)• Richard Mount’s talk on

– Huge Memory systems (536)• 64 bit Opteron experience

– Talk by Wegner/Wiesand (138)

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The Bauerdick Summary

Show some of his slides

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CHEP06

• Next conference– Mumbai, India– February 2006