HEPix Formed

# High Energy Physics Unix Interest Group Formed

HEPiX is an international group of cooperating institutions all of which are experiencing an explosion in the use of Unix for High Energy Physics (HEP) work. The focus of this group is to share experiences, influence vendors and standards bodies and to investigate solutions to those problems which impede the use of Unix for mainstream work at the member institutions. The initial areas of investigation include topics which are not fully addressed by current Unix offerings and are critical to the HEP computing environment. Such topics include:

- Batch
- Tape support
- Software management & distribution
- Portability of the physicist environment

The group held its first meeting at Fermilab on September 23-25th, 1991. There were about 40 participants from ANL, BNL, CERN, DESY, Fermilab, HEPnet, INFN, KEK, LAMPF, LBL, NIKHEF, SCRI, SLAC, SSCL, SURA/CEBAF, TRIUMF and Yale. Future meetings will be held at roughly half-yearly intervals. HEPiX decided that continuing communication would be achieved via an integrated system comprised of the HEPiX mailer, Netnews discussion groups, and the HEPiX archive on the hepnet.hep.net network information center.