A light-hearted View of A Career inside Change Jan – March 2014 Sverre Jarp
First of all: Thanks to all the speakers and the organisers!
31/03/20143 Tapes Supercomputers Mainframes RISC workstations SHIFT/Snakefarms S370 x86 PC farms VM/CMS MVS ATLAS link Y2K TEACC Fellows/Tech Summer Students CERN openlab Share European Software Optimisation Computer Architecture Parallelisation Workshops CHEP/ACAT Sabbatical/HP Labs Japan/IBM/KEK Benchmarking DD/CN/IT IA-64 High Throughput Computing Batch Grids/Physics ComputingLinux Unix Vectorisation 64-bit computing Floating-point SW Group Compilers OpenMP/Cilk+ Databases
CERN and its changing accelerator landscape I experienced: – – PS/ISR, SPS, LEP, LHC – – And, of course, the construction periods in between 31/03/ SPS: 76 UA1/UA2: 81 90 LEP (Aleph, Delphi, L3, Opal): 1989 2000 LHC: 2009
Changing Nobel prize rules 1984: Awarded to experimentalist – – After discovery at CERN 2013: Awarded to theoreticians – – After discovery at CERN 31/03/20145 Rubbia/van der Meer SPS: 76 UA1/UA2: 81 90 LEP (Aleph, Delphi, L3, Opal): 1989 2000 LHC: 2009 Englert/Higgs Charpak
Computer Centre Changes Supercomputer/mainframes – – CDC/Cray, IBM/Fujitsu RISC workstations – – DEC, HP, IBM, SGI, Sun PCs 31/03/20146 Rubbia/van der Meer SPS: 76 UA1/UA2: CDC, IBM LEP: IBM/Fujitsu, CRAY, RISC LHC (Prep+Run) : PCs Englert/Higgs 1974
Another Change: 25 years of Tim’s Web The Web (as of 1989) 31/03/ My claim to fame: I refused an offer to become Tim’s manager! 1989: The Web was born BeforeAfter
Four Decades of Change inside a 50+ Year “Law” – – Moore, G.E.: Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Electronics, 38(8), April /03/ Moore’s Law ? IBM PC CHEP’95
The Future ? Apparently, somebody (David Patterson?) said: – – The first fifty years of computing were interesting, but wait for the next fifty! One area that seems interesting (alongside BIG Computer Facilities): 31/03/20149 IoT (the Internet of Things)
31/03/ Tapes Supercomputers Mainframes RISC workstations SHIFT/Snakefarms S370 x86 PC farms VM/CMS MVS ATLAS link Y2K TEACC Fellows/Tech Summer Students CERN openlab Share European Software Optimisation Computer Architecture Parallelisation Workshops CHEP/ACAT Sabbatical/HP Labs Japan/IBM/KEK Benchmarking DD/CN/IT IA-64 High Throughput Computing Batch Grid/Physics ComputingLinux Unix Vectorisation 64-bit computing Floating-point SW Group Compilers OpenMP/Cilk+ Databases But, rather than dwelling on the past, let’s go and have a drink! Thanks to all!