HEPiX Fall 2012 IHEP Beijing / PR China Workshop wrap-up Helge Meinhard

Attendees  67 registered participants  20 from Asia, 39 from Europe, 6 from USA, 2 from Australia  Plus some colleagues from IHEP  Representing 27 institutes, 2 sponsors  9 from Asia, 15 from Europe, 2 from USA, 1 from Australia  2 worldwide sponsor companies  Would have been even more if…  There wasn’t death in the family, illness, …

Presentations  60 contributions  Scheduled total duration: 27 hours 10 min  Rich and very interesting programme  Excellent quality of presentations  Including by those who are not that used to give presentations in English!  4 presentations by teleconferencing  Good quality, no hiccups of technical infrastructure  1 BoF session on batch systems

Tracks and Trends…  Computing: 8 talks, all on batch systems  Evolving ‘hot’ topic Evolving ‘hot’ topic  Need more exchange of information and experience  Networking: 11 talks  Two main themes: IPv6, network monitoring Two main themes: IPv6, network monitoring  Network monitoring: same as for batch systems? Network monitoring: same as for batch systems?  Computing infrastructure: 12 talks  Grids, clouds, virtualisation: 7 talks  Common theme: IaaS etc. Common theme: IaaS etc.

Breaks  Coffee breaks  Lunch breaks  Dinner, evening discussions Countless hours of valuable discussion

Board Meeting  Current meeting  Next meeting  About same tracks  Batch systems; Windows 8?  Working groups  IPv6, storage, virtualisation: see reports  Virtualisation: terminated – thanks to all involved  Benchmarking: Manfred Alef and Michele Michelotto jointly replacing Helge as convenor  Batch: endorsement of BoF conclusion, Wolfgang Friebel volunteered to take some coordination role, to be rediscussed in spring  New Web page in preparation

Next meetings  Spring 2013: CNAF, Bologna, Italy  April 15 – 19  Fall 2013: U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA  October 28 – November 1  Spring 2014: to be decided  France (tbc) Proposals are always welcome…

Photos  Taken by IHEP photographer  Taken by (numerous) participants  Suggestion: Send collections or links to Gang and myself  We will collect on Indico and do one announcement

Thanks  … to all participants, at Beijing or remote  … to all speakers, at Beijing or remote  … to the track convenors and chairs

Special thanks John Gordon and Philippe Olivero Both will have retired by the next meeting Thank you and… see you soon instead of good bye! au revoir au lieu d’adieu!

Special thanks (cont’d)  Huawei  Western Digital  Without their participation, we would not have had the excellent dinner last night  CCAST

Special thanks (cont’d) Local organisers:  Gang Chen  Wenyuan Jin  Jingyan Shi  Chunzhen Wu  Yanming Wang  Fazhi Qi  Wenxiao Kan  Xiaofei Yan

Final Words Have a good trip back… … and see you in Bologna!