ACAT 2010

Session

Afternoon session

22 Feb 2010, 14:30

Jaipur, India

121. Official Openning

22/02/2010, 14:30

122. High Tea

22/02/2010, 15:30

138. Computing Outside the Box: On Demand Computing & its Impact on Scientific Discovery by Ian FOSTER

Ian Foster (Unknown)

22/02/2010, 16:30

Computing Technology for Physics Research

Plenary

137. History of the ROOT System: Conception, Evolution and Experience by Rene BRUN

22/02/2010, 17:30

Computing Technology for Physics Research

Plenary

The ROOT system is now widely used in HEP, Nuclear Physics and many other fields. It is becoming a mature system and the software backbone for most experiments ranging from data acquisition systems, controls, simulation, reconstruction and of course data analysis. The talk will review the history of its conception at a time when HEP was moving from the Fortran era to C++. While the...