Thursday, September 13, 2007
From CHEP 1992 to CAS 2007 (from the Web to the Grid)
Computing in High Energy Physics is a conference series held roughly every 18 months. It rotates around Europe, North America and elsewhere.
In 1992, it was held in the Imperial Palace in Annecy.
The conference highlight was the WorldWideWeb - still to hit the mainstream. Just months later you heard it mentioned everywhere.
It was an exciting conference - this was the time of HEPLIB, the start of the move from PATCHY to CVS/make etc, PAW++, "the birth of OO" and much else. (Databases for the multi-PB of Physics Data anyone? - that's another story).
It was also the time I realised that I was working ~100% on LHC Computing.
And I still am...
Almost 15 years to the day, I am back on the same stage, talking at CAS 2007 - an equivalent conference for Atmospheric Sciences. In between times, we've had the rise & fall of Object Databases, LHC++ and a few other "lives".
Now - just one day after Ken Jacobs did the Swiss announcement of Oracle 11g at CERN - and ~3 years since we last met - its LHC status time.
Many ghosts have finally been laid to rest.
Time for something new?
In 1992, it was held in the Imperial Palace in Annecy.
The conference highlight was the WorldWideWeb - still to hit the mainstream. Just months later you heard it mentioned everywhere.
It was an exciting conference - this was the time of HEPLIB, the start of the move from PATCHY to CVS/make etc, PAW++, "the birth of OO" and much else. (Databases for the multi-PB of Physics Data anyone? - that's another story).
It was also the time I realised that I was working ~100% on LHC Computing.
And I still am...
Almost 15 years to the day, I am back on the same stage, talking at CAS 2007 - an equivalent conference for Atmospheric Sciences. In between times, we've had the rise & fall of Object Databases, LHC++ and a few other "lives".
Now - just one day after Ken Jacobs did the Swiss announcement of Oracle 11g at CERN - and ~3 years since we last met - its LHC status time.
Many ghosts have finally been laid to rest.
Time for something new?
