HEPiX Fall 2011 Workshop

20 years of AFS service

28 Oct 2011, 10:45

30m

Hosted by TRIUMF, SFU and the University of Victoria at the Harbour Center - Downtown Vancouver

20th Anniversary HEPiX Past and Future

Speaker

Rainer Toebbicke (CERN)

Description

Almost 20 years ago, the AFS service was born at CERN alongside a paradigm shift away from mainframe computing towards clusters. The scalable and manageable networked file system offered easy, ubiquitous access to files and greatly contributed to making this shift a success. Take a look back, with a smile rather than raised eyebrows, at how pre-Linux, pre-iPad, MegaByte and Megahertz technology faced the headwind of technological evolution and adapted over decades: AFS did a good job and continues to defeat, not always best in class but usually flexible.

Presentation materials

Slides

AFS20.odp

AFS20.pdf

AFS20.pdf