CERN
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CSC/94 March 1994
THE 1994 CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING
Sopron, Hungary
28 August - 10 September 1994
B U L L E T I N NO. 1
1. Date and place of the School
The seventeenth CERN School of Computing will be held at the Hotel Sopron, Sopron, Hungary, from Sunday 28 August to Saturday 10 September 1994. Sopron is a very picturesque town close to the western border of Hungary, approx. 60 km distant from Vienna. The Hotel Sopron is situated on the edge of the town, uphill, and the centre can easily be reached on foot. The hotel is very modern and has good conference facilities. Recreational facilities include an outdoor swimming pool, two tennis courts, a sauna, a solarium and an exercise room.
2. Participation
The School is open to postgraduate students and research workers with a few years' experience in elementary particle physics, in computing, or in related fields. The number of participants will be of the order of seventy, mostly from the CERN Member States or from laboratories closely associated with CERN, but a few may come from countries which are not Member States of CERN.
Personal contacts and informal discussions among the participants during leisure time are an important aspect of the School. For this reason, participants are asked to note that they should not be accompanied by family members or friends.
An application form is included with this Bulletin. Instructions for the preparation of the 100-word summary, describing the participant's current work, can be found under point 8.
3. Accommodation
All those participating in the School will be lodged in comfortable double rooms with private bathrooms.
4. Scientific programme
The total number of lectures will be forty-eight.
After an opening talk - hopefully by the Hungarian Minister without Portfolio, Prof. E. Pungor - the lecturers of the first day will set the scene for the School: Dr. M. Reeve of the European Commission will speak about the future of computing and Dr. G. Peise, Consultant, will lecture on the interaction between advancing technology and requirements of applications. A review of computing and computers in particle physics will also be given.
The lectures of the first week will serve as tutorial introductions to the two themes treated in the second week. These first week lectures fall into four streams:
- Distributed and Parallel Computing. Speakers are R. Pennington (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and T. Gaal (MSZKI, Budapest and INRIA, Rocquencourt).
- Simulation and Modelling. Lectures will be given by P. Sloot (FWI, University of Amsterdam) and J. Kertesz (Technical University, Budapest). Exercises and demonstrations are expected to be a complement to these lectures.
- Software Technologies for Physics. Lecturers: P. Palazzi and A. Khodabandeh (CERN, Geneva).
- Multimedia Information Systems. The lectures will be given by F. Fluckiger (CERN Geneva).
The second week will be dedicated to the two following themes:
- An LHC experiment from a software point of view. The lecturers are: R. Brun (CERN, Geneva), S. Giani (CERN, Geneva), M. Maire (LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux) and G. Vesztergombi (RMKI, Budapest). It is planned that these lectures will be complemented by exercises and demonstrations.
- An LHC experiment as a real-time challenge. The speakers are R. Jones (CERN, Geneva), P. Ribarics (RMKI, Budapest and MPI, Munich) and S. Cittolin (CERN, Geneva).
In addition a few lectures of general interest are included: "CISC vs RISC and recent developments of RISC machines (F. Vajda, MSZKI, Budapest) and "Cellular Neutral Networks - Theory and Applictions" (T. Roska, SZTAKI, Budapest and University of California, Berkeley).
5. Cost
The cost of the School will be 1.500 Swiss francs per student. This sum should be paid into the following account upon receipt of the letter of acceptance
CERN School of Computing a/c no. 758.112.0 Societe de Banque Suisse CERN CH-1211 GENEVA 23 Switzerland
This sum covers tuition, full board and lodging at the Hotel Sopron from dinner on Sunday 28 August to breakfast on Saturday 10 September 1994, as well as coffee or tea during the morning and afternoon breaks and some social activities, of which details will be given at a later time. It does not include travel expenses from the participant's home institutes to Sopron and back.
6. Language
The working language of the School will be English. There will be no simultaneous translation. Participants should therefore have sufficient understanding of English to enable them to benefit from the School.
7. Travel
Students should reach Sopron for registration during the afternoon or evening of Sunday 28 August. The School will end on the morning of Saturday, 10 September after breakfast. Information on how to reach Sopron will be sent to participants with their letter of acceptance. The nearest airport is Vienna. It is planned to organise transport from and to Vienna airport on the days of arrival and departure of the participants. Sopron can be reached by train from Budapest and Vienna.
8. Application
Application forms are enclosed with this Bulletin. When applying to attend the School, each student is requested to provide a summary in English of about 100 words in length, describing his/her current work. The School booklet, which will be distributed to all participants before the beginning of the School, will include the summaries of the selected students. Applicants are requested to forward their summary to Jacqueline Turner by e-mail (School@cernvm.cern.ch). You will find an example of the presentation of the e-mail on page 4. Those applying to attend the School who have an electronic mail address should also indicate this on the right-hand side of the summary. This will facilitate further contact between participants.
Candidates should ensure that:
The selection of the students will be made by the Advisory Committee and students will be informed of the outcome of their application in the first half of June 1994.
9. Cancellation
The Advisory Committee reserves the right to refuse reimbursement of part or all of the fee in the case of late cancellation. However, each case of cancellation would be considered individually.
10. Replacement
In all cases of withdrawal or cancellation, whether last-minute or otherwise, the choice of a replacement, if any, will lie entirely with the Advisory Committee and not with the laboratory concerned.
11. Advisory Committee
G. Barreira LIP, Lisbon
R. Brun CERN, Geneva
S. Centro INFN, Padova
F. Fluckiger CERN, Geneva
L.O. Hertzberger University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam
A.J. Hey University of Southampton, Southampton
(Chairman)
G. Kellner CERN, Geneva
P. Palazzi CERN, Geneva
K. Szeg| RMKI, Budapest
G. Turchanyi RMKI, Budapest
C. Verkerk CERN, Geneva (Scientific
Secretary)
D.O. Williams CERN, Geneva
P. Zanella Geneva University & CRS4, Cagliari
M. Zimanyi RMKI, Budapest
J. Turner CERN, Geneva (School Secretary)
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12. Enquiries and correspondence
All enquiries and correspondence related to the School should be addressed to :
Miss Jacqueline Turner CERN School of Computing CN Division CERN CH-1211 GENEVA 23 Switzerland Tel. no. : (022) 767.50.49 Telex : 419 000 CER CH Cables : CERNLAB-Geneve Telefax : (022) 767.71.55 E-mail : SCHOOL@CERNVM.CERN.CH
e-mail example: First name and surname Affiliation Street Town Country e-mail address: I am working with the GP-MIMD project at CERN. This is an ESPRIT project which exists in order to build a GP-MIMD (General Purpose Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) parallel supercomputer. My area of work involves porting a large piece of sequential FORTRAN code to a parallel form so that it can be run on a parallel computer. This requires an understanding of parallel computing systems, programming models and parallel programming methods, as well as a good knowledge of the underlying physics. Extensive use is also made of program analysis techniques and software engineering (CASE) tools. I am familiar with IBM/PC, VAX, DECstation and SUN workstations, and MS-DOS, UNIX, Ultrix, VMS and VM operating systems. I am also familiar with C, FORTRAN, Pascal and OCCAM programming languages.
IFG 8 March 1994