1. Meeting Wrap-up Fall 2011 TRIUMF, Vancouver
Michel Jouvin / Sandy Philpott

2. Successful 20th Year!
The meeting contained all usual HEPiX tracks Good balanced between track New topic emerged: business continuity Oracle-related discussions absent… We had 95 attendees, from 17+ countries Not forgetting Scotland! Largest North American meeting yet HEPiX still healthy after 20 years, plenty of topics for the next 20 !

3. Happy 20th Anniversary!
Thanks to Alan, HEPiX Elder Statesman, for organizing our “20 Years of HEPiX” track!
Excellent banquet dinner on Grouse Mountain, complete with
Photo show by Alan
Piano entertainment by Thomas
T-shirts from Troy and RedHat , with Iwona organizing the HEPiX Trivia game
Snow and grizzly bears!

4. IPv6
WG seen a useful initiative by many partners Work has now actively started with the testbed activities Several sites already have concrete plans It’ll be a long way… many open questions but we’ll need to start without an answer to every question (Les reminded this is how IPv4 started) Membership open to new sites/countries Contact Dave Kelsey

5. Virtualisation
Less visible progress in the last 6 months but still a lot of activity
Focus for the next months: demonstrate the concept of trusted virtual images is usable
Cross-site demonstration
Concerns on the long-term maintenance of required tools
Is StratusLab the answer?

6. Storage
Still an active group of motivated people to continue storage solution evaluation
From the performance point of view
Work in progress, no intent to provide a definitive answer or recommandation
Baseline for discussions and choices
Will begin to look at new storage solutions from the cloud world
Eg. OpenStack Swift

7. Benchmarking
Great success: AMD and Dell presentations based on HEP-SPEC06
Currently mainly background activities but work done is still published on w3.hepix.org
Waiting for availability of new processors from AMD and Intel
A WG revival may be needed after SPEC releases it new benchmark version next year

8. Spring 2012 Meeting Spring 2012 meeting will be held in Prague,
Organized by Milos Lokajicek, FZU
April 23-27
Web site will be open by the end of the year
Preparation process will start in January

9. Next Meetings Fall 2012: Beijing
Organized by Gang Chen, IHEP
Target date: 2nd half of October
Final date will be decided in Prague
Proposal for hosting meetings in the future are welcome…
An will be sent to HEPiX mailing list
Contact HEPiX chairs

10. Your Support is Appreciated
HEPiX thanks you for your support of our meeting
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11. Thanks again… To the local organizers for running a smooth meeting
In particular Steve, Jana and people behind them
To the sponsors
To the session organizers and chairs
To the speakers for interesting talks
To all of you for your participation and attendance
Have a nice trip back; see you at Prague this spring!