Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Back in Barcelona
Back in Barcelona for the 4th time for LHC Computing. This time, the machine is due to turn on in a matter of weeks.
Barcelona was the scene of a hot workshop on LHC Computing back in the era of Object Databases. The hot - possibly cooling - topic today is (still?) Grids (moving to Cloud computing?)
It was here that the plans to deploy gLite were first discussed widely with the Grid community.
Barcelona was also first step on a circumnavigation tour of (W)LCG Tier1 sites - perhaps appropriately - although Columbus still stands pointing out in the direction of where the New World isn't.
Today it is not only the scene for the possible Grid-cloud watershed, but also for the "future sustainable e-infrastructure" (sic).
What have I learned through it all? Well, quite a lot about hotels and restaurants!
Barcelona was the scene of a hot workshop on LHC Computing back in the era of Object Databases. The hot - possibly cooling - topic today is (still?) Grids (moving to Cloud computing?)
It was here that the plans to deploy gLite were first discussed widely with the Grid community.
Barcelona was also first step on a circumnavigation tour of (W)LCG Tier1 sites - perhaps appropriately - although Columbus still stands pointing out in the direction of where the New World isn't.
Today it is not only the scene for the possible Grid-cloud watershed, but also for the "future sustainable e-infrastructure" (sic).
What have I learned through it all? Well, quite a lot about hotels and restaurants!
