21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2015)

Scientific Program

This conference covers following topics represented by 'keywords'. The keywords are categorized in two areas: Applications and Technologies. Abstract submitters should check as many keywords as they think they fit. The keywords selection is not mandatory for the abstract submissions, but warmly suggested as it helps the PC to organize the tracks. In case of questions/doubts about which keywords to select, please contact the PC chair (e-mail: chep2015-pc-chair@icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp ).

A01 DAQ

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A02 Trigger

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A03 Simulation

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A04 Reconstruction

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A05 Data analysis

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A06 Data stores

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A07 Experiment frameworks for WAN distributed computing

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A08 Middleware and services for production-quality infrastructures

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A09 Outreach

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A10 Multi-discipline / multi-experiment topic

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A11 Computing models

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A12 Data preservation

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A13 Monitoring

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T01 Control systems

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T02 Event processing frameworks

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T03 Data structures and algorithms

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T04 Data handling/access

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T05 Databases

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T06 Storage systems

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T07 Computing facilities and infrastructures

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T08 Software design

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T09 Software development process

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T10 Performance and validation tools

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T11 Continuous integration systems

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T12 Parallel programming

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T13 Networking

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T14 Collaborative tools

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T15 Cloud computing

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T16 Virtualization

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T17 High performance computing

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T18 CPU architectures, GPU, FPGA

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Track1: Online computing

DAQ and Trigger; development, design, architecture for filtering, reconstruction, etc. and use within experiments and facilities; evaluation and testing of such systems; parallelism, HPC, and accelerator use in such systems; event building and farm networks; compute farms for high-level triggering; configuration and run controls; describing and managing configuration data and conditions databases; online software frameworks and tools; online calibration procedures; remote access to (and control of) DAQ systems and experimental facilities.

Track2: Offline software

event generation, simulation and reconstruction; detector geometries, algorithms for physics analysis; tools and techniques for data classification and parameter fitting; event visualization and data presentation; frameworks for event processing; toolkits for simulation, reconstruction and analysis; event data models.

Track3: Data store and access

storage management; local I/O and data access; mass storage systems; object dictionaries; event stores; metadata and supporting infrastructure; databases; access patterns and caching strategies.

Track4: Middleware, software development and tools, experiment frameworks, tools for distributed computing

Grid middleware; software reliability, interoperability and security; experiment specific middleware applications; software testing and quality assurance; programming techniques and tools; software build, release, distribution tools and documentation; configuration management; Grid monitoring tools; mobile computing.

Track5: Computing activities and Computing models

distributed computing aspects with focus on operations; distributed data processing experience, including experience with grids and clouds; workflows and data management in operations; distributed data analysis; experience with production and data challenges; experience with analysis using distributed resources; interactive analysis using distributed resources; monitoring of user jobs and data; global usage and management of resources; data preservation; data curation and long-term data reproducibility.

Track6: Facilities, Infrastructure, Network

hardware and benchmarks; fabric virtualization; fabric management and administration; local (LAN) and wide-area networking (WAN); private networks; collaborative systems: progress in technologies and applications; tele-presence and teleconferencing systems; experience in the use of teleconferencing tools.

Track7: Clouds and virtualization

Cloud, virtual machine, container, volunteer computing technologies; frameworks and tools to exploit these technologies and environments; experiences in managing and using these technologies in production environments.

Track8: Performance increase and optimization exploiting hardware features

CPU/GPU architectures; tightly-coupled systems; GPGPU; hardware and benchmarking; concurrency; vectorization and parallelization; mathematical libraries; foundation and utility libraries; documentation.