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CHEP 2000 Program

Index
Plenary Par. A Par. B Par. C Par. D Par. E Par. F Poster
Mon, Feb 7
Tue, Feb 8
Wed, Feb 9
Thu, Feb 10
Fri, Feb 11

PLENARY SESSIONS:
MORNINGS from 09:00 to 12:50

  • Monday February 7, 2000:
    General overview of the progress made with OO by running or ready to run experiments. Reports on good and bad choices focused on what we have gained with OO and the lesson for the future HENP experiments
  • Tuesday February 8, 2000:
    • Review how new ideas of open software products are conceived and how these ideas are transformed in successful products. Can we learn some lessons for HENP for worldwide software production?
    • How to manage Large Computing project in HEP in a worldwide distributed development environment.
    • Vendor Contributions
  • Wednesday February 9, 2000:
    • Technology Transfer
    • Vendor Contributions
    • Status Report on the Research Network (Europe, USA, Rest of the world)
  • Thursday February 10, 2000:
    Worldwide analysis of large data samples and Regional Centers
  • Friday February 11, 2000:
    Summary talks from session chairmen with future perspectives
    Reports from Parallel Session Chairmen
    General Summary and Conclusion

PARALLEL SESSIONS:
AFTERNOONS from 14:15 to 18:15

  1. Data Analysis: Algorithms and methods:
    Architecture, Domain decomposition, Component Software, Analysis and Simulation Algorithms and Packages, Standard design patterns for OO algorithms.

    Chairmen:

    • Vincenzo Innocente (CERN-CMS)
    • Ed Frank (Univ. of Pennsylvania - BaBar)

  2. Data Acquisition and Control System:
    Real-Time Monitoring and Control System for Experiments and Accelerators, Data Acquisition Systems, Event Building, High Level Trigger and Filter Farms.

    Chairmen:

    • Pierre Vande Vyvre (Cern-Alice)
    • Chip Watson (Jefferson Lab)

  3. Object Persistency and Data Handling:
    Object Persistency, Data Storage Technologies, Data Management System and Databases, Network Attached Storage, Distributed data access, Regional Centers.

    Chairmen:

    • Dirk Duellmann (CERN-IT)
    • Torre Wenaus (BNL - Star)

  4. Network: Applications and Services:
    LAN and WAN technologies, Network Management and Security, Audio-video communications, International WAN, Quality of Service, Global File systems, Remote Services, Tools for Distributed Collaboration.

    Chairmen:

    • Stuart Loken (LBL-Atlas)
    • Antonia Ghiselli (INFN)

  5. Commodity Hardware and Software and Integration in Farm and Large Systems:
    Application involving COTS Products, Desktop infrastructure, Open Software, PC as Workstation, PC as farm component, Special Architectures, Mobile Computing, Parallel Computing, LQCD computing, Neural Networks.

    Chairmen:

    • John Gordon (Ral)
    • Steve Wolbers (FNAL)

  6. Data Analysis: Technology and Presentation:
    Analysis tools, Visualization, Software Tools, Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Dynamic Programming, Symbolic Programming.

    Chairmen:

    • Francois Etienne (IN2P3-ATLAS)
    • Ruth Pordes (FNAL)




SCHEDULE

Monday February 7, 2000

Plenary Session

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

General overview of the progress made with OO by running or ready to run experiments. Reports on good and bad choices focused on what we have gained with OO and the lesson for the future HENP experiments

09:00    Welcome by Mazzucato, M. (Chairman) and Puglierin, G. (INFN Padova Director)
   Summary from the Experiments
09:15-09:50    First observations from running the BaBar offline software
A393 Jacobsen, B. (LBL)
09:50-10:15    Object Orientation and Other New Experiences at the Tevatron for the Run II Experiments
A394    Merritt, W. (Fermilab)
10:15-10:40    Computing at STAR
A258    Wenaus, T. (BNL)
 
10:40    Coffee Break
 
11:10-11:30    The Phenix Offline Computing System
E166    Morrison, D. (BNL)
11:30-11:50    Compass off-line computing
A395    Martin, A. (INFN and Univ. of Trieste)
11:50-12:30    Summary and Perspectives
   Shapiro, M. (Univ. of Cal.)
   Lunch


Monday February 7, 2000

Parallel Session A

Chairmen:
 • Vincenzo Innocente
 • Ed Frank

DATA ANALYSIS: ALGORITHMS AND METHODS

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Architecture Related

14:15-14:35    The STAR offline framework
A326    Fine, V.
14:35-14:55    CMS Software Architecture: Software framework, services and persistency in high level trigger, reconstruction and analysis
A090    Innocente, V.
14:55-15:15    GAUDI - The Software Architecture and Framework for building LHCb Data Processing Applications
A152    Cattaneo, M.
15:15-15:35    D0 Offline Reconstruction and Analysis Control Framework
A230    White, V.
15:35-15:55    Use of ROOT in the D0 RunII Online Event Monitoring System
A246    Snow, J.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    Rapid Software Development for CLEO III
A264    Lohner, M.
16:50-17:10    The ALICE Off-line strategy. A succesful migration to OO
A316    Carminati, F.
17:10-17:30    The Design, Implementation and Deployment of Functional Prototype OO Reconstruction Software for CMS. The ORCA project
A108    Stickland, D.
17:30-17:50    NOVA: Networked Object-based Environment for Analysis
A243    Vaniachine, A.


Monday February 7, 2000

Parallel Session B

Chairmen:
 • Pierre Vande Vyvre
 • Chip Watson

DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Location: P4 (Aula Centro Giovanile)

Data Acquisition Systems

14:15-14:35    Online Data for Experiments - ODE
B064    Votavà, M.
14:35-14:55    BELLE DAQ System - Status and Future
B219    Itoh, R.
14:55-15:25    Automated Data Quality Monitoring in the BABAR Online and Offline Systems
B358    Metzler, S.
15:25-15:45    Development, Integration, and Implementation of the CDF Run II Data Acquisition System
B325    Vejcik, S.
15:45-16:05    The ALICE DAQ: current status and future challenges
B298    Vande Vyvre, P.
 
16:05    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    The Dataflow System of the ATLAS DAQ/EF "-1" Prototype Project
B373    Lehmann, G.
16:50-17:10    The Read-Out Crate in ATLAS DAQ/EF prototype -1
B376    Veneziano, S.
17:10-17:30    The D0 Data Acquisition System and its Operational Control
B379    Briskin, G.


Monday February 7, 2000

Parallel Session C

Chairmen:
 • Dirk Duellmann
 • Torre Wenaus

OBJECT PERSISTENCY & DATA HANDLING

Location: P2 (Biblioteca)

14:15-14:35    Status Report of the RD45 Project
C051    Shiers, J.
14:35-14:55    Validation of the MONARC Simulation Tools
C113    Morita, Y.
14:55-15:15    Modeling LHC Regional Computing Centers with the MONARC Simulation Tools
C169    Gaines, I.
15:15-15:35    The GIOD Project
C226    Bunn, J.
15:35-15:55    An ODBMS approach to persistency in CMS
C121    Silvestris, L.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    The HERA-B database management for detector configuration, calibration, alignment, slow control and data classification
C252    Amorim, A.
16:50-17:10    New Data Storage Model for H1
C078    Benisch, T.
17:10-17:30    An OO tag database for physics analysis at HERA
C206    Fox-Murphy, A.
17:30-17:50    CLEO III Datastorage
C254    Lohner, M.
17:50-18:10    The Physics Analysis Server Project
C275    Partridge, R.


Monday February 7, 2000

Parallel Session D

Chairmen:
 • Stuart Loken
 • Antonia Ghiselli

NETWORK: APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES

Location: P5 (Aula Biliardi)

Session1: Network for HEP applications

14:15-14:35    Network Quality of Services for Remote Control in the High Energy Physics Experiments: a Case Study
D094    Ferrari, T.
14:35-14:55    Remote consult in radiotherapy: HEP technologies in health Physics
D159    Squarcia, S.
14:55-15:15    Evaluation of Objectivity/AMS on the Wide Area Network
D235    Sato, H.
15:15-15:35    Distributed applications monitoring at system and network level
D127    Vistoli, C.
15:35-15:55    Managing and Monitoring specific kinds of commands/processes within a Distributed Environment through C++ and Corba in the BaBar Opr setup
D161    Glanzman, T.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 

Session 2: Video/audio and collaborative applications

16:30-16:50    A Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets
D009    Galvez, P.
16:50-17:10    1-800-H.E.P.
D056    Matthews, W.
17:10-17:30    Using Packet Video/Audio Tools on a PC Platform
D038    Kippenhan, Jr.H.
 

Session 3: Distributed computing

17:30-17:50    Production experience with CORBA in the BABAR experiment
D290    Glanzman, T.
17:50-18:10    Condor on WAN
D344    Sgaravatto, M.
18:10-18:30    NASA’s Information Power Grid: Distributed High-Performance Computing and Large-Scale Data Management for Science and Engineering
D220    Johnston, W.


Monday February 7, 2000

Parallel Session E

Chairmen:
 • John Gordon
 • Steve Wolbers

COMMODITY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE & INTEGRATION IN FARM AND LARGE SYSTEMS

Location: P3 (Aula dei Cento)

Compute Farms

14:15-14:35    Design and First Tests of the CDF Run 2 Farms
E070    Wolbers, S.
14:35-14:55    Report on the D0 Linux Production Farms
E060    Schellman, H.
14:55-15:15    The Compass Computing Farm Project
E023    Lamanna, M.
15:15-15:35    Full Online Event Reconstruction at HERA-B
E137    Gellrich, A.
15:35-15:55    A Linux PC Farm for Physics Batch Analysis in the ZEUS Experiment
E150    Kowal, M.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 

Tools for Batch Farms

16:30-16:50    Visualization Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation of Distributed Computing Systems
E186    Cowan, R.
16:50-17:10    Software for Batch Farms
E362    Bird, I.
17:10-17:30    A Mobile-Agent-Based Performance-Monitoring System at RHIC
E168    Ibbotson, R.
17:30-17:50    Sun Microsystems' AutoClient and management of computer farms at BaBar
E115    Salomoni, D.
17:50-18:10    Performance of MAP at Liverpool
E386    Bowcock, T.



Tuesday February 8, 2000

Plenary Session

Chairman:
Les Robertson

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Review how new ideas of open software products are conceived and how these ideas are transformed in successful products. Can we learn some lessons for HENP for worldwide software production ?

09:00-09:40    Benefits of Open Source Practices
A396    Johnson, M.K. (Red Hat, Inc.)
09:40-10:20    Managing Quality in an Open Source Project
A390    Allison, J. (VA Linux System)
10:20-10:45    How HEP can profit from Open Source
A397    Delfino, M. (CERN-IT)
 
10:45    Coffee Break
 
11:15-11:35    How to progress fast towards a new OO HEP library
A398    Kasemann, M. (FNAL)
 

How to manage Large Computing project in HEP in a worldwide distributed development environment:

11:35-12:05    Towards an Open Source Project for Online Software
B389    Jones, R. (CERN - ATLAS)
12:05-12:25    Issues in managing HEP Software development in a distributed environment
A399    Buckley, E. (CDF- FNAL)
 

Vendor Contributions

12:25-12:40    SAN-Enabled RAIT/RAIL
C016    Sobol, G. (StorageTek)
12:40-12:50    LSF: Joining forces in a global compute farm
E400    Kurz, M. (Platform)
   Lunch


Tuesday February 8, 2000

Parallel Session A

Chairmen:
 • Vincenzo Innocente
 • Ed Frank

DATA ANALYSIS: ALGORITHMS AND METHODS

Location: P2 (Biblioteca)

Tracking related

14:15-14:30    Adaptive Multitrack Fitting
A018    Strandlie, A.
14:30-14:45    A neural approach to the analysis of CHIMERA Experimental data
A052    Alderighi, M.
14:45-15:00    Object Oriented Tools for Pat Rec in Tracking Systems
A211    Marsh, M.
15:00-15:15    Track Fitting on the Riemann Sphere
A031    Strandlie, A.
15:15-15:30    The BaBar Track Fitting Algorithm
A328    Brown, D.
15:30-15:45    An object framework for track reconstruction and its implementation for the CMS tracker
A295    Todorov, T.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:45    Object Oriented reconstruction of the CMS muon chambers
A037    Vitelli, A.
16:45-17:00    The LHCb Detector Description Framework
A155    Chytracek, R.
17:00-17:15    Tabular editors for Geant4: Geant4 Geometry Editor and Geant4 Physics Editor
A194    Yoshida, H.
17:15-17:30    OO model of STAR detector for simulation, visualisation and reconstruction
A212    Nevski, P.


Tuesday February 8, 2000

Parallel Session B

Chairmen:
 • Pierre Vande Vyvre
 • Chip Watson

DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Location: P4 (Aula Centro Giovanile)

Controls

14:15-14:35    DIM, a Portable and Efficient Package for Information Publishing, Data Transfer and Interprocess Communications
B157    Gaspar, C.
14:35-14:55    Designing a HEP Experiment Control System; lessons to be learned from 10 years evolution and operation of the Delphi experiment
B229    Augustinus, A.
14:55-15:15    BaBar Online Detector Control
B360    Olsen, J.
15:15-15:35    The PHENIX Ancillary Control System
B184    Ewell, L.
15:35-15:55    Software Tools at the ECAL/CMS Rome Regional Centre
B069    Organtini, G.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 

Triggering

16:30-16:50    Object Oriented simulation of the L1 trigger system of a CMS muon chamber
B029    Grandi, C.
16:50-17:10    The Use of Commodity Products in the ATLAS Level-2 Trigger
B035    Dobson, M.
17:10-17:30    Concept of a software trigger for an experiment at the tesla linear collider
B193    Gerhards, R.


Tuesday February 8, 2000

Parallel Session C

Chairmen:
 • Dirk Duellmann
 • Torre Wenaus

OBJECT PERSISTENCY & DATA HANDLING

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

14:15-14:35    Operational Experience with the BaBar Database
C103    Quarrie, D.
14:35-14:55    Testbeams and Testbeds: Approaches to Object-oriented Data Access in ATLAS
C285    Malon, D.
14:55-15:15    Data Persistency Solution for LHCb
C153    Frank, M.
15:15-15:35    The Data Access Layer for D0 Run II: Design and Features of SAM
C241    White, V.
15:35-15:55    The CDF Run II Event Data Model
C201    Kennedy, R.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    Event data storage and management in STAR
C240    Perevoztchikov, V.
16:50-17:10    Object Oriented Design in PHENIX
C276    Messer, M.
17:10-17:30    New Capabilities in the HENP Grand Challenge Storage Access System and its Application at RHIC
C292    Malon, D.
17:30-17:50    Overview of CDF Run II Data Handling System
C366    Lammel, S.
17:50-18:10    The CDF Run II Data Catalog and Data Access Modules
C367    Calafiura, P.


Tuesday February 8, 2000

Parallel Session E

Chairmen:
 • John Gordon
 • Steve Wolbers

COMMODITY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE & INTEGRATION IN FARM AND LARGE SYSTEMS

Location: P3 (Aula dei Cento)

Large Scale and Production Systems

14:15-14:35    RHIC Computing Facility Processing System
E185    Gibbard, B.
14:35-14:55    The D0 Monte Carlo Challenge
E311    Graham, G.
14:55-15:15    PHENIX Computing Center in Japan (CC-J)
E048    Ichihara, T.
15:15-15:35    AMUN: A Practical Application Using the NILE Control System
E301    Baker, R.
15:35-15:55    Fermilab Computing Division Systems for Scientific Data Storage and Movement
E176    Petravick, D.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 

Administration and Management

16:30-16:50    Automating Linux Installations at CERN
E141    Cancio, G.
16:50-17:10    Elephant, meet Penguin: Bringing up Linux in BaBar
E309    Gowdy, S.
17:10-17:30    Modular Adminstration Tool for Large Clusters of Linux Computers
E237    Skow, D.
17:30-17:50    Large Scale Parallel Print Service
E369    Deloose, I.
17:50-18:10    Software Sharing at Fermilab - Experiences from Run II, KITS and Fermitools
E248    Pordes, R.


Tuesday February 8, 2000

Parallel Session F

Chairmen:
 • François Etienne
 • Ruth Pordes

DATA ANALYSIS: TECHNOLOGY AND PRESENTATION

Location: P5 (Aula Biliardi)

Numerical Library S/w and Simulation

14:15-14:35    Development of numerical library software in Java
F234    Okazawa, H.
14:35-14:55    Scientific Toolkit for Java
F210    Pollack, M.
14:55-15:15    Bringing Mathematical Formatting to the Web - An Overview of the Technology and SLAC's Experience
F019    White, B.
15:15-15:35    Object oriented data analysis in the DELPHI experiment
F071    Smirnov, N.
15:35-15:45    Multi-threaded, discrete event, simulation of distributed computing systems
F148    Sliwa, K.
 
15:45    Coffee Break
 

Electronic Document Management systems

16:15-16:35    Java-based User Interfaces for CERN's Engineering Data Management System
F342    Rousseau, B.
16:35-16:45    Asset Management for Cavities and Computers at DESY
F065    Kreutzkamp, J.
16:45-16:55    Experience with Document Management at DESY
F066    Kreutzkamp, J.
16:55-17:15    Integrated Information Management for TESLA
F359    Hagge, L.
17:15    Round Table Discussion
 
18:30-19:30    Special session on the ATLAS DAQ back-end software

This session will be a live demonstration of the ATLAS DAQ Back-end sub-system. The Back-end sub-system encompasses the software to configure, control and monitor the DAQ but excludes the management, processing or transportation of physics data. See http://atddoc.cern.ch/Atlas/DaqSoft/Welcome.html for more details.



Tuesday February 8, 2000

POSTER SESSION

Location: P6 (Aula Ex Alunni)

16:00-16:30    (during Coffee Break time)
 
18:00-19:30    (Aperitif will be provided)



Wednesday February 9, 2000

Plenary Session

Chairmen:
Fabrizio Gagliardi

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Technology Transfer

09:00-09:20    Geant4 and Esa
A123-A130    Nieminen, P. (ESA)
09:20-09:40    R-Quant - A ROOT Based Framework for Financial Data Analysis
A381    Fokin, A. (TSL)
09:40-10:00    Spin-offs from CERN and the Case of TuoviWDM
A382    Hameri, A.P. (CERN)
10:00-10:20    The CALMA project: a CAD tool in breast radiography
A383    Marzulli, V. (INFN, Sez. Pisa)
10:20-10:30    Summary and conclusions
   Hans Hoffmann (CERN-DG)
 
10:30    Coffee Break
 

Vendor Contributions

11:00-11:20    Technology transfer between Objectivity and HEP
A401    Rick ter Horst (Objectivity)
11:20-11:35    The re-use of Commercial Components in HEP Computing
A145    Walton, J. (Nag)
11:35-11:50    Smart Resource Management Software in High Energy Physics
E387    Gentzsch, W. (GridWare GmbH)
 

Status Report on the Research Network (Europe, USA, Rest of the world)

11:50-12:10    Status of US Networks at the Turn of the Century
D388    Cottrell, L. (SLAC)
12:10-12:30    Research Networking in Europe
D402    Liello, F. (INFN, Sez. Trieste)
12:30-12:50    Networking in Asia
D274    Karita, Y. (KEK)
   Lunch


Wednesday February 9, 2000

Parallel Session A

Chairmen:
 • Vincenzo Innocente
 • Ed Frank

DATA ANALYSIS: ALGORITHMS AND METHODS

Location: P1
(Palazzo del "BO", Università di Padova, Aula EDERLE)

Simulation Related

14:15-14:35    Geant4 Status and Results
A140    Apostolakis, J.
14:35-14:55    Hadronic shower models in geant4 - the frameworks
A197    Wellisch, J.
14:55-15:15    Object oriented design and implementation of an intra-nuclear transport model
A134    Pia, M. G.
15:15-15:35    Pre-equilibrium and equilibrium decays in GEANT4
A096    Lara, V.
15:35-15:55    Use of GEANT4 in CMS
A335    Gonzalez Caballero, I.
 
16:00    Coffee Break with bonus at "Caffè Pedrocchi"
 
16:30-16:50    Status of ATLAS LAr calorimeters simulations with GEANT4
A354    Leltchouk, M.
16:50-17:10    The ALICE Simulation Framework
A378    Hrivnacova, I.
17:10-17:30    North American Linear Collider Detector Simulations
A028    Dubois, R.
 
18:30-19:00    Greeting Cocktail with the Mayor of Padova and the Rector of the University of Padova


Wednesday February 9, 2000

Parallel Session B

Chairmen:
 • Pierre Vande Vyvre
 • Chip Watson

DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Location: P4
(Palazzo del "BO", Università di Padova, Aula E)

Event Building

14:15-14:35    Event Builder and Level 3 Trigger at the CDF Experiment
B224    Kravchenko, I.
14:35-14:55    The NA48 ‘online’ and ‘offline’ PC farms
B364    Peters, A.
14:55-15:15    An implementation of a reliable message broadcast for the CMS event builder system
B232    Suzuki, I.
15:15-15:35    Experiences using CMS Daq Column system at H2 test beam area
B315    Ventura, S.
 
15:45    Coffee Break with bonus at "Caffè Pedrocchi"
 
16:15-16:35    The CMS Event Builder Demonstrators based on Giga Ethernet switched Network
B307    Berti, L.
16:35-16:55    The CMS Event Builder Demonstrator and Results with Myrinet
B352    Meijers, F.
16:55-17:25    The BaBar Online Computing System
B374    Dubois-Felsmann, G.
17:25-17:45    Data Handling and Filter Frameworks for the D0 Level 3 Trigger System
B377    Briskin, G.
 
18:30-19:00    Greeting Cocktail with the Mayor of Padova and the Rector of the University of Padova


Wednesday February 9, 2000

Parallel Session C

Chairmen:
 • Dirk Duellmann
 • Torre Wenaus

OBJECT PERSISTENCY & DATA HANDLING

Location: P3
(Palazzo del "BO", Università di Padova, Aula D'Ajala)

14:15-14:35    Data handling in KLOE
C363    Sfiligoi, I.
14:35-14:55    Improving Performance of Object Oriented Databases, BaBar Case Studies
C110    Becla, J.
14:55-15:15    Distributing Data around the BaBar collaborations Objectivity Federations
C372    Leonardi, E.
15:15-15:35    An interactive browser for BaBar databases
C111    Adesanya, A.
15:35-15:55    Resource Management in, and Tests of, CDF Run II Data Handling
C368    Watts, T.
 
16:00    Coffee Break with bonus at "Caffè Pedrocchi"
 
16:30-16:50    PetaByte Storage Facility at RHIC
C223    Popescu, R.
16:50-17:10    CASTOR project status
C068    Baud, J.
17:10-17:30    Test Results of the EuroStore Mass Storage System
C095    Augustin, I.
17:30-17:50    The EuroStore Project - Results and deployment @DESY
C308    Gasthuber, M.
 
18:30-19:00    Greeting Cocktail with the Mayor of Padova and the Rector of the University of Padova


Wednesday February 9, 2000

Parallel Session D

Chairmen:
 • Stuart Loken
 • Antonia Ghiselli

NETWORK: APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES

Location: P5
(Palazzo del "BO", Università di Padova, Aula Gabbin)

Session 1: Network Technology

14:15-14:35    Potential HEP Applications of a New High Performance Networking Technology
D005    Van Praag, A.
14:35-14:55    Transport and management of high volumes of data through bounded LAN and WAN infrastructures at SLAC
D190    Millsom, D.
14:55-15:15    Traffic analysis and performance diagnosis in the switched data acquisition and control networks of the BaBar experiment
D192    Salomoni, D.
 

Session 2: WEB based applications and tools

15:15-15:35    A new architecture for WEB services at CERN
D076    Pace, A.
15:35-15:55    Where TheHeck: a WEB based source code navigator
D350    Menasce, D.
15:55-16:15    FreeHEP 2000
D251    Johnson, T.
 
16:15    Coffee Break with bonus at "Caffè Pedrocchi"
 

Session 3: Security, Authentication and Networks

16:45-17:05    Security issues in HP-UX and Linux
D278    Paick, K.
17:05-17:25    Fermilab Strong Authentication Project
D306    Gaines, I.
17:25-17:45    KEK-CERN JEG experiment
D283    Karita, Y.
 
18:30-19:00    Greeting Cocktail with the Mayor of Padova and the Rector of the University of Padova


Wednesday February 9, 2000

Parallel Session F

Chairmen:
 • François Etienne
 • Ruth Pordes

DATA ANALYSIS: TECHNOLOGY AND PRESENTATION

Location: P2
(Palazzo del "BO", Università di Padova, Aula C)

Event Displays

14:15-14:35    Atlantis an event display for ATLAS: When displaying 6000 hits recorded by only 7 layers, can we recognize tracks?
F351    Loomis, C.
14:35-14:55    WIRED - World-Wide Web Interactive Remote Event Display
F118    Dönszelmann, M.
14:55-15:15    HepRep: a Generic Interface Definition for HEP Event Display Rapresentables
F171    Perl, J.
 

Analysis Packages

15:15-15:35    Java Analysis Studio
F250    Johnson, T.
15:35-15:55    ROOT at RUN II
F175    Canal, P.
 
16:00    Coffee Break with bonus at "Caffè Pedrocchi"
 
16:30-16:50    Open Scientist
F100    Barrand, G.
 

Experiment Analysis Packages

16:50-17:10    A Graphics Sampler for the D0 Experiment
F170    Hagopian, S.
17:10-17:30    The CMS IGUANA (Interactive Graphical User Analysis) Project
F122    Gaponenko, I.
17:30-17:50    A Comparison of Data Analysis Packages
F181    Gaines, I.
 
18:30-19:00    Greeting Cocktail with the Mayor of Padova and the Rector of the University of Padova



Thursday February 10, 2000

Plenary Session

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Worldwide analysis of large data samples and Regional Centers

09:00-09:40    Perspectives in Grid technology
E403    Foster, I. (ANL & Chicago University)
09:40-10:15    Data Handling at Fermilab and Plans for Worldwide Analysis
C392    White, V. (FNAL-D0)
10:15-10:50    Data Analysis for SLAC Physics
A391    Mount, R. (SLAC)
 
10:50    Coffee Break
 
11:20-11:55    Building a Regional Center
E384    Robertson, L. (CERN)
11:55-12:30    Worlwide Distributed Analysis for the Next Generations of HENP Experiments
E385    Newman, H. (Caltech)
   Lunch


Thursday February 10, 2000

Parallel Session A

Chairmen:
 • Vincenzo Innocente
 • Ed Frank

DATA ANALYSIS: ALGORITHMS AND METHODS

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Status/Lessons learned, Foundation classes, Management

14:15-14:30    ALICE Data Challenges
A314    Rademakers, F.
14:30-14:45    Object Oriented reconstruction software for the IFR detector of BaBar experiment
A039    Lista, L.
14:45-15:00    Implementation of an Object Oriented Track Reconstruction Model in Multiple LHC Experiments
A084    Qian, S.
15:00-15:15    CLHEP - New Developments and Directions
A172    Fischler, M.
15:15-15:30    Libraries for HENP Computing -- the LHC++ project
A083    Pfeiffer, A.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:45    StdHepC++
A205    Fischler, M.
16:45-17:00    The BaBar Prompt Reconstruction Manager
A180    Safai Tehrani, F.
17:00-17:15    The BABAR Prompt Reconstruction System, or Getting the Results out Fast: an evaluation of nine months experience operating a near real-time bulk data production system
A288    Glanzman, T.
17:15-17:30    The Physical Design of the CDF Simulation and Reconstruction Software
A245    Sexton-Kennedy, E.
17:30-17:45    Dedicated OO Expertise Applied to Fermilab Run II Software Projects
A067    Wolbers, S.
17:45-18:00    ALICE Inner Tracking System Off-line Software
A324    Barbera, R.
18:00-18:15    Design Patterns for Description-Driven Systems
A010    Baker, N.


Thursday February 10, 2000

Parallel Session B

Chairmen:
 • Pierre Vande Vyvre
 • Chip Watson

DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Location: P4 (Aula Centro Giovanile)

Run Control and Monitoring

14:15-14:30    Event Logging and Distribution for the Babar Online System
B138    Dasu, S.
14:30-14:45    The BaBar Online Databases
B112    Zioulas, G.
14:45-15:00    Distributed Objects in Action - First Experience with the CLEO III Data Acquisition and Control System
B365    Schwarthoff, H.
15:00-15:15    Process and Data Flow Control in KLOE
B370    Pasqualucci, E.
15:15-15:30    Online monitoring system at KLOE
B146    Doria, A.
15:30-15:45    Online Monitoring and Module Maintenance for CDF in the upcoming Fermilab Tevatron Run II
B371    Wenzel, H.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:45    Star Online System
B336    Pruneau, C.
16:45-17:00    The usage of ROOT for Online Monitoring in the ALICE DATE system
B293    Divia, R.
17:00-17:15    The Performance and Scalability of the back-end DAQ sub-system
B329    Soloviev, I.
17:15-17:30    Java Based Run Control for CMS Small DAQ Systems
B305    Gulmini, M.
17:30-17:45    Application of Java and CORBA to Distributed Control and Monitoring Applications in the PHENIX Online Control System
B154    Desmond, E.


Thursday February 10, 2000

Parallel Session C

Chairmen:
 • Dirk Duellmann
 • Torre Wenaus

OBJECT PERSISTENCY & DATA HANDLING

Location: P2 (Biblioteca)

14:15-14:35    Espresso - a Feasibility Study of a Scalable, Performant ODBMS
C080    Duellmann, D.
14:35-14:55    Practical Security In Large-Scale Distributed Object Oriented Databases
C072    Hanushevsky, A.
14:55-15:15    Schema migration for BaBar's Objectivity Federations
C104    Patton, S.
15:15-15:35    An Overview of the BaBar Conditions Database
C106    Gaponenko, I.
15:35-15:55    Data clustering research in CMS
C073    Holtman, K.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    Disk Cache Management In Large-Scale Object Oriented Databases
C349    Hanushevsky, A.
16:50-17:10    Atlas event data model optimization studies based on the use of segmented VArray in Objectivity/DB
C178    Rolli, S.
17:10-17:30    Building a large location table to find replicas of physics objects
C074    Holtman, K.


Thursday February 10, 2000

Parallel Session E

Chairmen:
 • John Gordon
 • Steve Wolbers

COMMODITY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE & INTEGRATION IN FARM AND LARGE SYSTEMS

Location: P5 (Aula Biliardi)

Data GRIDs

14:15-14:35    Harnessing the Capacity of Computational Grids for High Energy Physics
E163    Livny, M.
14:35-14:55    The Promise of Computational Grids in the LHC Era
E277    Avery, P.
14:55-15:15    Using NetLogger for Performance Analysis of the BABAR Data Analysis System
E345    Tierney, B.

R&D

15:15-15:35    Lattice QCD with Commodity Hardware and Software
E327    Petravick, D.
15:35-15:55    Status report on Open Source/Open Science 1999
E348    Johnson, M.K.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 
16:30-16:50    Designing a PC farm to simultaneously process separate computations through different network topologies interconnecting the individual PCs
E255    Dreher, P.
16:50-17:10    Scalable Parallel Implementation of GEANT4 Using Commodity Hardware and Task Oriented Parallel C
E041    Cooperman, G.
17:10-17:30    An HS-Link Network Interface Board for Parallel Computing
E164    Ungil, C.
17:30-17:50    Farms Batch System and Fermi Inter-Process Communication toolkit
E191    Mandrichenko, I.
17:50-18:10    CORBA/RMI Issues in the Java Implementation of the Nile Distributed Operating System
E272    Mimnagh, D.


Thursday February 10, 2000

Parallel Session F

Chairmen:
 • François Etienne
 • Ruth Pordes

DATA ANALYSIS: TECHNOLOGY AND PRESENTATION

Location: P3 (Aula dei Cento)

Analysis

14:15-14:35    Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis - AIDA
F082    Pfeiffer, A.
14:35-14:55    New Data Analysis Environment in H1
F079    Berthon, U.
14:55-15:15    Distributed BELLE Analysis Framework
F222    Higuchi, T.
15:15-15:35    A Histogramming package in Java
F231    Takashimizu, N.
15:35-15:55    Lightweight Histogram Interface Layer
F320    Leggett, C.
 
16:00    Coffee Break
 

Configuration Management

16:30-16:50    CMT: a Software Configuration Management Tool
F033    Arnault, C.
16:50-17:10    Use of a Configuration Management Tool in LHCb Software
F151    Mato Vila, P.
17:10-17:30    CORBA scripting in HEP and beyond
F119    Lodygensky, O.
 

Software Process

17:30-17:50    An evaluation of tools for static checking of C++ code
F063    Stavrianakou, M.
17:50-18:10    Impact of Software Review and Inspection
F331    Burckhart, D.
18:10-18:30    C++ Code Analysis: an Open Architecture for the Verification of Coding Rules
F361    Tonella, P.



Friday February 11, 2000

Plenary Session

Location: P1 (Aula Teatro)

Summary talks from session chairmen with future perspectives

09:00-09:30    Reports from Parallel Session A Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    Vincenzo Innocente - Ed Frank
09:30-10:00    Reports from Parallel Session B Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    Pierre Vande Vyvre - Chip Watson
10:00-10:30    Reports from Parallel Session C Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    Dirk Duellmann - Torre Wenaus
10:30-11:00    Reports from Parallel Session D Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    Stuart Loken - Antonia Ghiselli
 
11:00    Coffee Break
 
11:30-12:00    Reports from Parallel Session E Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    John Gordon - Steve Wolbers
12:00-12:30    Reports from Parallel Session F Chairmen
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    François Etienne - Ruth Pordes
 
12:30-12:50    General Summary and Conclusion
PowerPoint presentation   RealPlayer video    Paris Sphicas (CMS-CERN)



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