1. CHEP 2012 ADC talks G. Carlino (INFN Napoli) on behalf of the Computing Speaker Committee ADC Weekly, August 29 th

2. Useful information New York May 21 st -25 th (Monday – Friday) – The conference will be held at NYU’s Skirball Center (plenary sessions) and the nearby Kimmel Center (parallel sessions), located in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan, NY. www.chep2012.org Important Dates – Abstract submission deadline: September 30 th 2011 – Notification of acceptance: December 19 th 2011 – End of early registration: January 31 st 2012 WLCG Workshop: May 19 – 20 (Saturday – Sunday)

3. Sessions Online Computing Event Processing – Event generation, simulation and reconstruction; Detector geometries; Physics analysis; Tools and Techniques for data classification and parameter fitting; Event visualization and data presentation; Frameworks for event processing; Toolkits for simulation, reconstruction and analysis; Event data models Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds – Distributed data processing; Data management; Distributed analysis; Distributed processing experience including experience with Grids and Clouds; Experience with real productions and data challenges; Experience with real analysis using distributed resources; Interactive analysis using distributed resources; Solutions for coping with a heterogeneous environment; Experience with virtualization; Mobile computing; Monitoring of user jobs and data, Grid/Cloud software and monitoring tools; Global usage and management of resources; Grid/Cloud middleware interoperability; Grid/Cloud middleware reliability; Grid/Cloud security; Evolution and perspective of Grid and Clouds; Experiment specific middleware applications. Computer Facilities, Production Grids and Networking – Basic hardware, benchmarks and experience; Hardware trends and issues such as multi-core, GPU, FPGA, etc; Fabric virtualization; Fabric management and administration; Local site I/O and data access; Mass storage systems; Local and wide area networking. Software Engineering, Data Stores and Databases – Programming techniques and tools; Software testing and quality assurance; Configuration management; Software build, release and distribution tools; Documentation; Foundation and utility libraries; Mathematical libraries; Component models; Object dictionaries; Scripting; Event stores; Metadata and supporting infrastructure; Databases. Collaborative tools

4. ATLAS abstract submission Conference deadline: September 30 th 2011 Internal deadline: September 16 th 2011 – two weeks for reviewing the large number of abstracts expected (about 80 at CHEP2010) 1.Upload the abstracts in the indico page: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId =152073 in the right session https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId =152073 2.Add all the co-author names in the speaker field 3.Specify if talk or poster is required 4.Notify by mail the CSC (atlas-computing-speakers@cern.ch)atlas-computing-speakers@cern.ch

5. Abstract submission The submission procedure is yet under discussion with SC. They have to decide (probably today) if to leave the SSCs (Computing & TDAQ) to handle it. If so: the Computing Speaker Committee will submit all the abstracts in a single bunch under a generic name (Atlas Collaboration) To have a direct connection with the organizers and follow closely the abstract review (merging ….) No individual submission is accepted bad experience in CHEP2010 with individual submission After the notification of acceptance (December 19 th ) we will communicate the speaker (and co-authors) names Otherwise: The Speaker Committee will handle the submission. Exact procedure yet to be defined

6. Speakers selection The speakers will be chosen in the author lists associated to the abstracts The list has to be complete including all the relevant people involved in the project. Avoid anyway very long lists Complaints from people missing in a CHEP2010 proceeding put at risk the possibility of multi-authors signature for all of them We will ask the project leaders/coordinators to validate the author lists Talks given in the last three years (CHEP09 Prague, CHEP10 Taipei) will be considered in the choice. It’s important to give young people or those with few conference presentations the opportunity to have a talk in such an important conference A suggested speaker (the submitter?) is welcome, we will try to confirm him/her as much as possible After the notification of acceptance (December 19 th ) we will communicate the speaker (and co-authors) names

7. Talk review and autorship The deadline for the talk review is two weeks before the conference start (~ May 7 th ) Talks/Posters, as well as proceedings, will be signed by the speaker ON BEHALF OF ATLAS COLLABORATION or PROJECT “In exceptional cases concerning technical PROC notes only, subject to the style of conference and to endorsement by the PubComm Chair, a few authors may be added besides the speaker” (ATLAS autorship policy) We think that the great majority of computing talks fall under the exceptional cases. Only very general talks (for example “The Atlas Computing Model” or “The Performance of ATLAS Computing in the first two years of data taking …”) or those containing physics data must fulfil the ATLAS policy Final decision by the PubCom

8. ISGC 2012 http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/index.html “Convergence, Collaboration, Innovation” Topics covered in ISGC 2012 include: High Energy Physics, Biomedicine & Life Sciences, Earth Science, Environmental Changes and Natural Disaster Mitigation, Humanities & Social Sciences, Operations & Management, Middleware & Interoperability, Security and Networking, Infrastructure Clouds & Virtualisation, Business Models & Sustainability, Data Management, Distributed Volunteer & Desktop Grid Computing, High Throughput Computing, and High Performance, Manycore & GPU Computing. Abstract submission deadline: October 7 th Internal deadline: September 30 th