
                     HEPiX Europe, Autumn 1994, Saclay, Paris
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                            24 - 26 October, 1994
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                                DRAFT AGENDA
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Monday 24th October - Morning Session - Introduction and Site Reports
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09:00          Departure of the bus from RER station to Saclay

09:00 - 09:30  Registration

09:30 - 10:00  Introduction - Pierre Borgeaud, Chef de Service, DAPNIA/SEI

10:00 - 13:00  Site Reports
               These should be of the order of 10 minutes each and should
               concentrate on changes since the previous HEPiX report.
               There will be a break for coffee.
               Reports so far promised include --
               DAPNIA- P.Micout
               CERN - A.Lovell
               FNAL - J.Nicholls
               INFN Pisa and Dept Phys, Uni Pisa - M.Davini, S.Arezzini
               Institute of Physics of Acad of Sciences, Czech Rep. - J.Hrivnac
               CASPUR - A.Maslennikov
               Uni Dortmund - K.Wacker
               CCIN2P3 - W.Wojcik
               KEK - T.Sasaki
               RAL - A.Sansum
               US HEPiX, Oct 94 report - J.Nicholls

               Other contributions welcome


Monday 24th October - Afternoon Session - General Papers
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14:15 - 14:45  The Status of the POSIX Standardisation Process - M.Wicks/FNAL

14:45 - 15:15  High Availability Services for X11 - T.Finnern/DESY

15:15 - 15:45  cfengine - a UNIX configuration engine - M.Burgess/Uni Oslo

15:45 - 16:00  Coffee

16:00 - 16:30  Application Server - Building Packages for Multiple
               Architectures - M.Wicks/FNAL

16:30 - 17:00  Papers welcome

17:00 - 17:30  Discussion on HEPiX Structure - to keep separate chapters or
               to merge into a single body with alternate meetings in Europe,
               US and possibly at CHEP? (For background on this, see the
               HEPIX news group and mailings.)

17:30          Departure of bus to RER station

20:00          "Repas a la Tour Eiffel"


Tuesday 25th October - Morning Session - AFS and DFS
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09:00          Departure of the bus from RER station to Saclay

09:15 - 09:45  AFS news from CERN, including access from home - R.Tobbicke/CERN

09:45 - 10:00  Experience with ASIS via AFS from RAL - J.Gordon/RAL

10:00 - 10:15  Cross-realm use of AFS at CERN - R.Tobbicke/CERN

10:15 - 10:30  AFS Experience in Pisa, including access from MAC systems
               - M.Davini, S.Arezzini/INFN and Uni Pisa

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee

11:00 - 11:15  Fermilib Experience with AFS, an Update - M.Wicks/FNAL

11:15 - 11:30  AFS and Batch jobs - R.Tobbicke/CERN

11:30 - 11:45  AFS server installation at DAPNIA - P.Micout/DAPNIA

11:45 - 12:00  Fully Automated AFS Backup into an STK Cartridge Robot -
               R.Gurin/CASPUR

12:00 - 13:00  Progress report on AFS at IN2P3, with propositions for
               collaborative discussion - S.Ohlsson/CCIN2P3



Tuesday 25th October - Afternoon Session - DFS, User Environment
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14:15 - 14:30  First tests of DFS - R.Tobbicke/CERN

14:30 - 14:45  Experience with DCE/DFS at KEK - T.Sasaki/KEK

14:45 - 15:15  User Migration off CERNVM to UNIX - M.Marquina/CERN

15:15 - 15:45  User Migration from IBM to UNIX at Desy - J.H.Peters/DESY

15:45 - 16:00  Coffee

16:00 - 16:30  Introduction of the HEPiX Scripts at CERN - A.Taddei/CERN

16:30 - 17:00  CERN's SUE - Shrink-Wrapped User Environment - R.Tobbicke/CERN

17:00 - 17:30  New Developments in UNIX Computing at DESY - K.Kuenne/DESY

17:30 - 18:00  Papers welcome

18:15          Departure of bus to RER station


Wednesday 26th October - Morning Session - Large Installations
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09:00          Departure of the bus from RER station to Saclay

09:15 - 10:15  Proposals for installing and operating an IBM SP2 -
               H.Renshall and T.Cass/CERN

10:15 - 10:45  System Monitoring - Roundtable discussion
               D.Underhill will present the current status and future plans
               of Central Computer Operations and will lead a discussion on
               this subject. Please come prepared to participate!

10:45 - 11:15  Coffee

11:15 - 11:45  Some experience with GeNUAdmin, a system management tool -
               Wolfgang Friebel/DESY

11:45 - 13:00  Papers welcome


Wednesday 26th October - Afternoon Session - Batch and Tapes
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14:15 - 14:45  Latest news of CERN CORE Project - F.Hemmer/CERN

14:45 - 15:15  Load Balancing, Loadleveller and ISS (Interactive Session
               Support) - T.Cass/CERN

15:15 - 15:45  UNIX Tape Stager - J.P.Baud/CERN

15:45 - 16:15  Coffee

16:15 - 16:45  Possible Future Tape Strategies at CERN - C.Curran/CERN

16:45 - 17:05  Status report on xstage at CCIN2P3 - C.Aida Pardo/CCIN2P3

17:05 - 17:30  Papers welcome

17:30          Departure of bus to RER station


                                                   Alan Silverman
                                                   30 September 1994
