Presentation





Plenary Sessions

Plenary sessions featured keynote speakers within the opening session on Monday 7 April and the closing session on Friday 11 April.
Computing in HEP is currently undergoing radical changes, as the growing complexity of computing systems and the increasing speed of technological innovation force the community to introduce, exploit, and rely more and more upon technologies which are developed and maintained outside its field. It was our aim to take CHEPī97 as an opportunity to the assess spread, longevity, and cultural impact of different technologies, and to identify similarities and differences between HEP and non-HEP applications, environments, and experience.

topics

Parallel Sessions

A: DATA ANALYSIS & PRESENTATION

Analysis and Simulation Algorithms and Packages, Visualization, Virtual Reality Projects, Parallelization.

Convenors

Irwin Gaines
gaines@fnal.gov
FNAL

Thomas Naumann
naumann@ifh.de
DESY-Zeuthen and DESY-Hamburg

Joseph Boudreau
joe@cactus.phyast.pitt.edu
Univ. of Pittsburgh

B: DATA ACQUISITION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Real-Time Monitoring and Control Systems for Experiments and Accelerators, Data Acquisition Systems, Event Building, Trigger Systems and Algorithms.

Convenors

Andrew Lankford
lankford@lankford.ps.uci.edu
UCI

Livio Mapelli
Livio.Mapelli@cern.ch
CERN

Bill Haynes
Bill.Haynes@RL.AC.UK
RAL

C: MASS STORAGE & DATA MANAGEMENT

Data Storage Technologies, Data Management Systems, Databases.

Convenors

Jamie Shiers
Jamie.Shiers@cern.ch
CERN

Martin Gasthuber
martin@viper.desy.de
DESY-Hamburg

Mark Fischler
mf@fnal.gov
FNAL

D: NETWORKING & COMMUNICATION

LAN/WAN Technology, Management and Security, WWW Applications and Tools Worldwide Collaboration, International WANs, Global File Systems, Remote Services.

Convenors

Paul Jeffreys
P.Jeffreys@rl.ac.uk

Michael Ernst
ernst@desy.de
DESY-Hamburg

Les Cottrell
cottrell@slac.stanford.edu
SLAC

E: TOOLS & METHODS

Software Tools, Languages, and Environments, Object-Oriented Technologies, Configuration Management and Collaborative Tools, Tools for Distributed Collaborations, Quality Assurance, Dynamic Programming, Symbolic Programming, Component Software.

Convenors

Lothar Bauerdick
bauerdic@mail.desy.de
DESY-Hamburg

Kors Bos
Kors.Bos@cern.ch
CERN

Ruth Prodes
ruth@fnal.gov
FNAL

F: LARGE SYSTEMS & SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS

Special Architectures, Massive Parallel Systems, LQCD Computing, Neural Networks.

Convenors

Fabrizio Gagliardi
Fabrizio.Gagliardi@cern.ch
CERN

Akira Ukawa
ukawa@het.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp
Univ. of Tsukuba

Peter Wegner
Peter.Wegner@ifh.de
DESY-Zeuthen

G: COMMODITY HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

Applications involving Off-The-Shelf Products, System Migration and Portability, Desktop Infrastructure, Mobile Computing, Free Software, PCs as Workstations.

Convenors

Manuel Delfino
Manuel.Delfino@cern.ch
CERN

Gunter Trowitzsch
Gunter.Trowitzsch@ifh.de
DESY-Zeuthen

Steve Wolbers
Pwolbers@fnal.gov
FNAL


Poster Presentation

More emphasis than in previous CHEP conferences were placed on the poster session. Late Tuesday afternoon was allocated to poster presentations. In the poster presentation, posters was grouped by their topics, and the event was accompanied by cheese & wine. In addition to poster space, some stand-alone multi-media PC's were provided to allow participants to enhance their posters with online demonstrations of their projects.
Participants were invited to submit detailed technical presentations directly to the poster session. We emphasized the possibility of supplementing parallel talks with (animated) poster demonstrations.