Programme Overview

The CERN School of Computing 2004 is organized around 3 thematic tracks, each track comprising lectures and exercises.

 

 

Track 

GT
Grid Technologies

ST
Software Technologies

PC
Physics Computing

Track Coordinators

 Heinz Stockinger

Patricia MacBride
Pere Mato

Rudi Frühwirth
Andreas Pfeiffer

H

H

H

Lecture
Series

 

Grid Technologies

E.Laure H.Stockinger
A.Pace

6

Tools and Techniques

B.Jacobsen

3

General Introduction to Physics Computing

R.Frühwirth

2

Grid Services

C.Bacon

Software Evolution and Testing

P.Tonella

2

Databases and object persistency

D.Düllmann
M.Girone

3

Public Key Infrastructure

A.Pace

1

Technologies for Interactive & Distributed Computing

A. Pfeiffer

3

Experiment Simulation

M.Liendl
A.Ribon

4

Networking QoS Basics

F.Fluckiger

2

 

 

 

Physics in Geant4

A.Ribon

2

 

11

 

8

 

9+2

Exercises

 

Grid exercises 

Grid Team

6

Tools and Techniques

B.Jacobsen

4

Databases and object persistency

D. Düllmann
M.Girone

3

Mini-project

Grid Team

2

Technologies for interactive & distributed computing

A. Pfeiffer

3

Simulation

M. Liendl

3

Wrap up

Grid Team

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

7

 

6

 

Total hours

 

 

20

 

 

15

 

 

15+2

Evening Lectures

See Schedule

Grid Team: C.Bacon, E.Laure, H.Stockinger
Italics: Optional lectures 

Some lectures in the evening will take place after dinner.  These are not mandatory and are to be considered as an agreeable extra to the official programme.
 


Thursday, 2 September: The future of computing, J. Shiers, CERN

Abstract:
"The future (of computing) is already here. It is just not very concentrated yet".

Based on a mis-quote from William Gibson(*), the inventor of the term "cyberspace", this talk makes some bold forecasts concerning the future of computing. Given that the history of computing is littered with predictions that with hindsight look at best amusing, this is clearly either a daring or foolhardy thing to do. Nevertheless, in preparing for LHC computing - which arguably started over 10 years ago - we are required to look many years into the future. After setting the scene by revisiting some of the past's most famous blunders, we will briefly review how we arrived where we are now, before beginning wild and wonderful speculation about the future. Some of it may even come true. Sorry - be true.

* "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Author: William Gibson