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A report on the CHEP04 conference held in Interlaken, Switzerland, featuring plenary talks, parallel sessions, posters, and industry demos. The report highlights the program details, key presentations, and the success of the conference. It also provides information on the next conference, CHEP06, to be held in Mumbai, India.
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CHEP04 Reportat UK HEP SYSMAN meetingManchester, 10 Nov 2004 David KelseyCCLRC/RAL, UKd.p.kelsey@rl.ac.uk D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
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 D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
Program 08:30-18:30 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 D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
Parallel Streams/Posters 230Papers, 182 Posters 1 – Online Computing 24 2 – Event Processing (split 3rd day) 48 3 – Core Software 36 4 – Distributed Computing Services 33 4a Grid Security10 5 – Distrib. Comp. Systems & Experiences 33 6 – Computer Fabrics 24 7 – Wide Area Networking 12 Poster 1 Online, Fabrics, WAN 35 Poster 2 Distributed Services/Systems 79 Poster 3 Event processing, Core Software 68 D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
Plenary Talks Monday 27th Sep • 50 years CERN computing (David Williams) • Running experiments: Run II, Belle, BaBar • DAQ Tuesday 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 networking Friday 1st Oct: 7 Summary + Conclusions (L. Bauerdick) D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
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! D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
Mike Jones’ camera D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
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? D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
Nice place! D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
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) D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
The Bauerdick Summary Show some of his slides D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report
CHEP06 • Next conference • Mumbai, India • February 2006 D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report