Bulletin Introduction The International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) is a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the high energy and nuclear physics community, computer science, and information technology. The CHEP provides an international forum to exchange the experiences and needs of the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities. CHEP 2010 is organized by Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre. There is an International Advisory Committee (IAC) setting the overall themes of the conference, a Programme Committee (PC) responsible for the content, as well as Conference Secretariat responsible for the conference infrastructure. Dates and Venue CHEP 2010 will be held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 18-22 October 2010. Academia Sinica is located in the suburb area of Taipei City. Academia Sinica, one of the leading research institutes in Taiwan, is a place where ideas are embraced and cherished, exploration and research are openly fostered and new knowledge is cultivated and developed for the benefit of society. Further information could be found at http://event.twgrid.org/chep2010/index.html Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2010 Notification of acceptance: 17 June 2010 Registration History CHEP conferences are held at roughly 18 month intervals, alternating between Europe, Asia, America and other parts of the world. Recent CHEP conferences have been held in Prauge, Czech Republic (2009); Victoria, Canada (2007); Mumbai, India (2006); Interlaken, Switzerland (2004); San Diego, California (2003); Beijing, China (2001); Padova, Italy (2000); Chicago, Illinois (1998); Berlin, Germany (1997); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1995); San Francisco, California (1994); Annecy, France (1992); Tsukuba, Japan (1991); Santa Fe, New Mexico (1990); Oxford, England (1989); Asilomar, California (1987); Amsterdam, Netherlands (1985). Online registration will start in June 2010. The fee for early registration will be US$ 400. The registration fee after 31 August will be US$450. The registration fee includes Conference Kit, coffee breaks, lunches, Welcome Reception and Banquet.
Call for Abstracts (http://event.twgrid.org/chep2010/cfp.html) You are invited to submit an abstract of a maximum of 250 words, which will be reviewed by the Programme Committee to select contributions for oral or poster presentations. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 30 April 2010. Decisions on the acceptance of contributions for oral or poster presentations will be made on 17 June 2010. In the abstract submission form, you must indicate the track in which you wish the contribution to be placed. The list of programme tracks and the scope of topics to be covered are as follows: Major Functional Areas I. Online Computing CPU farms for high-level triggering Farm configuration and run control Describing and managing configuration data Online software frameworks and tools Online calibration procedures Remote access to and control of data acquisition systems and experiment facilities II. Event Processing (everything that happens within one executable that processes events reconstruction, simulation, analysis, event data model ) Event generation, simulation, and reconstruction Detector geometries Physics analysis Tools and Techniques for data classification and parameter fitting Event visualization and data presentation Frameworks for event processing Toolkits for simulation, reconstruction, and analysis Event data models
III. Distributed Processing and Analysis (everything that happens on a multi job and/or multi-site level workflow management, data manage ment ) Distributed data processing Data management Distributed analysis Distributed processing experience including experience with Grids and Clouds Experience with real productions and data challenges Experience with real analysis using distributed resources Interactive analysis using distributed resources Solutions for coping with a heterogeneous environment Experience with virtualization Mobile computing Monitoring of user jobs and data Major Technology Areas I. Software Engineering, Data Stores, and Databases Programming techniques and tools Software testing and quality assurance Configuration management Software build, release, and distribution tools Documentation Foundation and utility libraries Mathematical libraries Component models Object dictionaries Scripting Event stores Metadata and supporting infrastructure Databases
II. Computing Fabrics and Networking Technologies Basic hardware, benchmarks and experience Hardware trends and issues such as multi-core, GPU, FPGA Fabric virtualization Fabric management and administration Local site I/O and data access Mass storage systems Local and wide area networking III. Grid and Cloud Middleware Grid/Cloud middleware and monitoring tools Grid/Cloud middleware interoperability Grid/Cloud reliability Grid/Cloud security Evolution of Grids and Clouds Global usage and management of resources Experiment-specific middleware applications IV. Collaborative Tools Collaborative systems, progress in technologies and applications Advanced teleconferencing systems Experience in the use of teleconferencing tools
Social Programme A Welcome Reception will take place on 18 October 2010 and Banquet on 21 October 2010. Entry to both will be included in the conference registration fee. Extra tickets will be available for purchase for accompanying partners. On the Wednesday afternoon, 20 October 2010, sessions will not be held. Delegates will be offered a selection of tours. Full details will appear in the next Bulletin. Timetable Second Bulletin May 2010 Third Bulletin July 2010 Further Information Conference Secretariat Angelina Shen Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) 128, Section 2, Academia Road, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2789-8371 Email: angelina.shen@twgrid.org