10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report1 CHEP04 Report at UK HEP SYSMAN meeting Manchester, 10 Nov 2004 David Kelsey CCLRC/RAL, UK

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report2 CHEP04 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics –Regular series, every 18 months 27 September to 1 October, 2004 Interlaken, Switzerland Organised by CERN (during 50 th Anniversary) >520 registered –A record! –~25 registered from the UK (~15 GridPP) Programme details and most presentations at – –Slides, Video (Plenary), Papers, Posters(?) Proceedings will be available on DVD

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report3 Program 08:30-18:30 am pm Mon 27PlenaryParallel Tue 28Plenary/PostersTours Wed 29Plenary/PostersParallel (Dinner) Thurs 30Plenary/PostersParallel Fri 1Plenary - Summaries

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report4 Parallel Streams/Posters 230 Papers, 182 Posters 1 – Online Computing24 2 – Event Processing (split 3 rd day)48 3 – Core Software36 4 – Distributed Computing Services33 4a Grid Security10 5 – Distrib. Comp. Systems & Experiences33 6 – Computer Fabrics24 7 – Wide Area Networking12 Poster 1Online, Fabrics, WAN35 Poster 2Distributed Services/Systems79 Poster 3Event processing, Core Software68

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report5 Plenary Talks Monday 27 th Sep 50 years CERN computing (David Williams) Running experiments: Run II, Belle, BaBar DAQ Tuesday 28 th Sep Grid: 2 LCG, 1 Grid3, Grid Security BIRN and Impact of eScience (Ken Peach) Wednesday 29 th Sep Middleware (Miron Livny) 5 Industry (Oracle, HP, Enterasys, 2*IBM) Thursday 30 th Sep 2 software LHC computing models and data challenges Nordic Supercomputer Grid 2 networking Friday 1 st Oct:7 Summary + Conclusions (L. Bauerdick)

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report6 Industry Demos and talks Booths in entrance hall (posters and refreshments) Included a PPARC eScience booth –Led by Dave Colling (Imperial) –Showing his live LCG demo Visit by CERN DG on Wednesday –Good photo opportunity If only the camera was working!

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report7 Mike Jones’ camera

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report8 Comments Very nice conference Extremely well organised Location was good –Acoustics in some rooms not perfect test of new CERN InDiCo conference management systemInDiCo –EU project, builds on success of Agenda maker High speed networking – with free Enterasys a/b/g card –54 Mbps Wireless, with 50 Mbps link to CERN Plenary talks all recorded –No live broadcast but video recordings available in hours CERN 50 th Anniversary –CERN DG was at the CHEP dinner Live link to Geneva for 50 th party blog/chat system to encourage discussion –Good idea but limited success –Why do all plenary questions come from the same 5 people?

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report9 Nice place!

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report10 Some recommended talks Many good talks, these are just a few… Storage futures –See IBM plenary talk (Menon) (526) Richard Mount’s talk on –Huge Memory systems (536) 64 bit Opteron experience –Talk by Wegner/Wiesand (138)

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report11 The Bauerdick Summary Show some of his slidesslides

10-Nov-04D.P.Kelsey, CHEP04 report12 CHEP06 Next conference –Mumbai, India –February 2006