HEPiX Fall 2011 Workshop

Session

HEPiX Past and Future

Oct 28, 2011, 9:00 AM

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

Conveners

HEPiX Past and Future

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HEPiX Past and Future

• Alan Silverman (CERN)

3. HEPiX From the Beginning

Mr Alan Silverman (CERN)

10/28/11, 9:00 AM

20th Anniversary

HEPiX is 20 years old this year and this talk will try to summarise some of the significant events of those 20 years. The speaker will also try to answer the question - is HEPiX worth the money?

4. Networking Retrospective

Mr Les Cottrell (SLAC)

10/28/11, 9:30 AM

20th Anniversary

At the inauguration of HEPiX in 1991, mainframes (and HEPVM) were on their way out with their bus & tag cables, channels with 3270 emulators and channel attached Ethernets. DEC/VMS and DECnet were still a major player in the scientific world. Mainframes and to a lesser extent VMS hosts were being replaced by Unix hosts with native TCP stacks running on thin and thicknet shared media, the...

14. Hepi-X-Perience

Thomas Finnern (DESY)

10/28/11, 10:00 AM

20th Anniversary

This is a personal retrospective view on 18 years of membership in the HEPiX community. Starting in 1993, it was associated with my career as a computer system engineer, the progression of high performance computing, and shifts of paradigm. The talk gives some spot lights on my own and community aspects during this time by recalling personal projects and events.

24. 20 years of AFS service

Rainer Toebbicke (CERN)

10/28/11, 10:45 AM

20th Anniversary

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...

25. An overview of computing hardware changes from 1991 to 2011

Mr Corrie Kost (TRIUMF)

10/28/11, 11:15 AM

20th Anniversary

An overview of computing hardware changes from 1991 to 2011 is given from a TRIUMF perspective. Aspects discussed are Moore’s law from speed, power consumption, and cost perspectives as well as how networks and commoditization, have influenced hardware. Speculation into the near and distant future nature of computing hardware is provided.