Welcome to HEPiX 2011 20th Anniversary in Vancouver Steve McDonald | TRIUMF Welcome to HEPiX 20th Anniversary Welcine to Vancouver Canada Welcome to not TRIUMF – construction.

Why we are not at TRIUMF Last Week – demolition started in preparation for ARIEL construction. TRIUMF’s new e-linac facility Auditorium Demolition & Construction Start Oct 24 All TRIUMF’s external fiber circuits ~3ft under Backhoe’s present position Oct 2009 Month Date Year Presentation Title

Meeting logistics & Info Meeting schedule Facilities Banquet Presentation uploads EVO Internet access Vancouver Sponsors Month Date Year Presentation Title

Meeting Schedule 97 Full registrations –  Schedule Largest North American Meeting ?? thank-you Schedule Talk start 9am (except Wed 8:30am) All talks in Fletcher (except Tue Labatt's – next door) Coffee Breaks 10:30 and 3:30 (30 mins) Lunch from 12:30 – 2:00 (1.5hours) Local food courts, bistros, sandwich shops Light breakfast available 8am Must finish by 5:00pm, theatre vacated by 5:15 Month Date Year Presentation Title

Usual HEPiX Format Meeting Mon – noon Friday Site Reports (15 minutes) IT Infrastructure (everything else ~30 incl. QA) Computing Grid, Cloud & virtualization Network & Security Storage & File Systems HEPiX Past and Future Month Date Year Presentation Title

Talk Uploads Presentation laptop Windows7 MS office 2010 OpenOffice v3.3.0 Adobe Reader v10.1.1 Please confirm you presentation will display to your satisfaction Please upload presentation to CERN InDiCo site at least two session breaks before your presentation. Month Date Year Presentation Title

EVO Going to do our best To broadcast audio/video Look under community WLCG Title HEPiX Fall 2011 Workshop Password triumf Will not be attempting two-way Month Date Year Presentation Title

Wireless Internet Access Information in conference kit Eduroam network available. You can also connect to wireless network SFUnet Must bring up a web browser first Login : lw390  that’s a lower-case L Password : 39AD2!Q8 Power outlets  Will be a problem but will do our best to provide facilities. We have a very obtuse username; but that was out of our control And a very secure password, at least it was until I displayed and broadcast it on EVO. Month Date Year Presentation Title

Smoking Smoking is not permitted … in any fully or substantially enclosed public place or workplace within 3m of doorways or windows In transit shelters on Grouse Mountain Banquet location Month Date Year Presentation Title

Group Photo Something for the 20th Anniversary record books. Details to follow…. Looking to do something at beginning of Lunch. Wait for a nice day Month Date Year Presentation Title

Banquet Thursday Last session at 4pm Coffee & Juice available (but no Cookies  ) Buses depart in front of SFU Conf center 5PM ~30 min “yellow” bus ride Gondola tickets distributed at Grouse Mtn. Hopefully time to take in view Banquet at 6:30pm Buses leave Grouse Mountain resort 10:30pm Return to SFU Conference Centre Month Date Year Presentation Title

Lunch and surrounding area Mountains North SFU Gastown Metropolitan Abbott & Carrall ? Ramada Month Date Year Presentation Title Sandman 

Your Support is Appreciated “HEPiX’s thanks you for your support of our meeting” Month Date Year Presentation Title

Welcome from SFU Mike Vetterli Mike Vetterli is a professor of physics at Simon Fraser University and holds a joint appointment with TRIUMF.  He was the computing coordinator for ATLAS-Canada from 2003 to 2010 and continues to be the project leader for the Tier-1 centre at TRIUMF.   He has also been involved for many years in high-performance computing in western Canada. Month Date Year Presentation Title