Conveners
Plenary: Session 1
- Guy Wormser (LAL Orsay)
Plenary: Session 2
- Richard Mount (SLAC)
Plenary: Session 3
- Mirco Mazzucato (INFN)
Plenary: Session 4
- David Williams (CERN)
Plenary: Session 5
- Yoshiyuki Watase (KEK)
Plenary: Session 6
- Neil Geddes (CCLRC-RAL)
Plenary: Session 7
- Jean-Jacques Blaising (CERN)
Plenary: Session 8
- Harvey Newman (CALTECH)
Plenary: Session 9
- Manuel Delfino (Port d'Informatcio Cientificica (PIC))
Plenary: Session 10
- Viatcheslav II'ln (SINP MSU)
Wolfgang von Rueden
(CERN)
9/27/04, 9:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
David Williams
9/27/04, 9:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
"Where are your Wares"
Computing in the broadest sense has a long history, and Babbage (1791-1871),
Hollerith (1860-1929) Zuse (1910-1995), many other early pioneers, and the wartime
code breakers, all made important breakthroughs. CERN was founded as the first
valve-based digital computers were coming onto the market.
I will consider 50 years of Computing at CERN from the...
A. Boehnlein
(FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)
9/27/04, 10:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
In support of the Tevatron physics program, the Run II experiments have
developed computing models and hardware facilities to support data sets at
the petabyte scale, currently corresponding to 500 pb-1 of data and over 2
years of production operations. The systems are complete from online
data collection to user analysis, and make extensive use of central services
and common solutions...
N. KATAYAMA
(KEK)
9/27/04, 11:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The Belle experiment operates at the KEKB accelerator, a high
luminosity asymmetric energy e+ e- machine. KEKB has achieved the
world highest luminosity of 1.39 times 10^34 cm-2s-1. Belle
accumulates more than 1 million B Bbar pairs in one good day.
This corresponds to about 1.2 TB of raw data per day. The amount of
the raw and processed data accumulated so far exceeds 1.4 PB....
P. ELMER
(Princeton University)
9/27/04, 11:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The BaBar experiment at SLAC studies B-physics at the Upsilon(4S) resonance using
the high-luminosity e+e- collider PEP-II at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(SLAC). Taking, processing and analyzing the very large data samples is a
significant computing challenge.
This presentation will describe the entire BaBar computing chain and illustrate
the solutions chosen as well as...
M. Purschke
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
9/27/04, 12:00โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The concepts and technologies applied in data acquisition systems have changed
dramatically over the past 15 years. Generic DAQ components and standards such as
CAMAC and VME have largely been replaced by dedicated FPGA and ASIC boards, and
dedicated real-time operation systems like OS9 or VxWorks have given way to Linux-
based trigger processor and event building farms. We have also...
Les Robertson
(CERN)
9/28/04, 8:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The talk will cover briefly the current status of the LHC Computing Grid project
and will discuss the main challenges facing us as we prepare for the startup of LHC.
I. Bird
(CERN)
9/28/04, 9:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
In September 2003 the first LCG-1 service was put into production at most of the
large Tier 1 sites and was quickly expanded up to 30 Tier 1 and Tier 2 sites by the
end of the year. Several software upgrades were made and the LCG-2 service was put
into production in time for the experiment data challenges that began in February
2004 and continued for several months. In particular...
9/28/04, 9:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The U.S. Trillium Grid projects in collaboration with High Energy Experiment groups
from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS and CMS, Fermi-Lab's BTeV, members of
the LIGO , SDSS collaborations and groups from other scientific disciplines and
computational centers have deployed a multi-VO, application-driven grid laboratory
("Grid3"). The grid laboratory has sustained for several...
M. Ellisman
(National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research of the Center for Research in Biological Systems - The Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego School of Medicine - La Jolla, California - USA)
9/28/04, 11:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The grand goal in neuroscience research is to understand how the interplay of
structural, chemical and electrical signals in nervous tissue gives rise to
behavior. Experimental advances of the past decades have given the individual
neuroscientist an increasingly powerful arsenal for obtaining data, from the level
of molecules to nervous systems. Scientists have begun the arduous and...
David Kelsey
(RAL)
9/28/04, 11:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The aim of Grid computing is to enable the easy and open sharing of resources
between large and highly distributed communities of scientists and institutes across
many independent administrative domains. Convincing site security officers and
computer centre managers to allow this to happen in view of today's ever-increasing
Internet security problems is a major challenge. Convincing...
Ken Peach
(RAL)
9/28/04, 12:00โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Just as the development of the World Wide Web has had its greatest
impact outside particle physics, so it will be with the development
of the Grid.
E-science, of which the Grid is just a small part, is already making
a big impact upon many scientific disciplines, and facilitating new
scientific discoveries that would be difficult to achieve in any
other way. Key to this is the...
Max Lemke
9/28/04, 12:30โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The European Grid Research vision as set out in the Information
Society Technologies Work Programmes of the EU's Sixth Research
Framework Programme is to advance, consolidate and mature Grid
technologies for widespread e-science, industrial, business and
societal use. A batch of Grid research projects with 52 Million EUR EU
support was launched during the European Grid Technology Days 15...
Miron Livny
(Wisconsin)
9/29/04, 8:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
In the 18 months since the CHEP03 meeting in San Diego, the HEP community deployed
the current generation of grid technologies in a veracity of settings. Legacy
software as well as recently developed applications was interfaced with middleware
tools to deliver end-to-end capabilities to HEP experiments in different stages of
their life cycles. In a series of data challenges,...
Andrew Sutherland
(ORACLE)
9/29/04, 9:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Dr Sutherland will review the evolution of computing over the past
decade, focusing particularly on the development of the database and
middleware from client server to Internet computing.
But what are the next steps from the perspective of a software
company? Dr Sutherland will discuss the development of Grid as well
as the future applications revolving around collaborative...
Jai Menon
(IBM)
9/29/04, 9:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
In this talk, we will discuss the future of storage systems. In particular, we will
focus on several big challenges which we are facing in storage, such as being able
to build, manage and backup really massive storage systems, being able to find
information of interest, being able to do long-term archival of data, and so on. We
also present ideas and research being done to address...
Stan Williams
(HP)
9/29/04, 11:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Today's computers are roughly a factor of one billion less efficient at doing their
job than the laws of fundamental physics state that they could be. How much of this
efficiency gain will we actually be able to harvest? What are the biggest obstacles
to achieving many orders of magnitude improvement in our computing hardware, rather
that the roughly factor of two we are used to...
J. ROESE
9/29/04, 11:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Today and in the future businesses need an intelligent network.
And Enterasys has the smarter solution. Our active network uses a combination of
context-based and embedded security technologies -
as well as the industryโs first automated response capability
- so it can manage who is using your network.
Our solution also protects the entire enterprise - from the
edge, through the...
Dave McQueeney
(IBM)
9/29/04, 12:00โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The Global Technology Outlook (GTO) is IBM Researchโs projection of the
future for information technology (IT). The GTO identifies progress and
trends in key indicators such as raw computing speed, bandwidth, storage,
software technology, and business modeling. These new technologies have the
potential to radically transform the performance and utility of tomorrow's
information processing...
M. Paterno
(FERMILAB)
9/30/04, 8:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
As Fermilab's representatives to the C++ standardization effort, we have
been promoting directions of special interest to the physics community.
We here report on selected recent developments toward the next revision
of the C++ Standard. Topics will include standardization of random
number and special function libraries, as well as core language issues
promoting improved run-time...
Fabiola Gianotti
(CERN)
9/30/04, 9:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The LHC Software will be confronted to unprecedented challenges as
soon as the LHC will turn on.
We summarize the main Software requirements coming from the LHC
detectors, triggers and physics, and we discuss several examples of
Software components developed by the experiments and the LCG project
(simulation, reconstruction, etc.), their validation, and their
adequacy for LHC physics.
David Stickland
(CERN)
9/30/04, 9:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The LHC experiments are undertaking various data-challenges in the
run-up to completion of their computing models and the submission of
the experiment and of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), Technical Design
Reports(TDR) in 2005. In this talk we summarize the current working
models of the LHC Computing Models, identifying their similarities and
differences. We summarize the results and...
Bo Anders Ynnerman
(Linkรถping)
9/30/04, 11:00โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
This talk gives a brief overview of recent development of high
performance computing and Grid initiatives in the Nordic region. Emphasis
will be placed on the technology and policy demands posed by the integration
of general purpose supercomputing centers into Grid environments. Some of
the early experiences of bridging national eBorders in the Nordic region
will also be...
Peter Clarke
9/30/04, 11:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The global network is more than ever taking its role as the
great "enabler" for many branches of science and research. Foremost
amongst such science drivers is of course the LHC/LCG programme,
although there are several other sectors with growing demands of the
network.
Common to all of these is the realisation that a straightforward
over provisioned best efforts wide area IP...
F. Fluckiger
(CERN)
9/30/04, 12:00โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
The Architectural Principles of the Internet have dominated the past decade.
Orthogonal to the telecommunications industry principles, they dramatically changed
the networking landscape because they relied on iconoclastic ideas. First, the
Internet end-to-end principle, which stipulates that the network should intervene
minimally on the end-to-end traffic, pushing the complexity to the...
Dr
Pierre Vande Vyvre
(CERN)
10/1/04, 8:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Stephen Gowdy
(SLAC)
10/1/04, 8:55โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Philippe Canal
(FNAL)
10/1/04, 9:20โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Massimo LAMANNA
(CERN)
10/1/04, 9:45โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Douglas OLSON
10/1/04, 10:40โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Tim Smith
(CERN)
10/1/04, 11:05โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Peter CLARKE
10/1/04, 11:30โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
L. BAUERDICK
(FNAL)
10/1/04, 11:55โฏAM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
Wolfgang von Rueden
(CERN/ALE)
10/1/04, 12:25โฏPM
Plenary Sessions
oral presentation
