Fundamental research is dealing, by definition, with the two extremes: the extremely small and the extremely large. The LHC and Astroparticle physics experiments will soon offer new glimpses beyond the current frontiers. And the computing infrastructure to support such physics research needs to look beyond the cutting edge.
Once more it seems that we are on the edge of a computing revolution. But perhaps what we are seeing now is a even more epochal change where not only the pace of the revolution is changing, but also its very nature. Change is not any more an "event" meant to open new possibilities that have to be understood first and exploited then to prepare the ground for a new leap. Change is becoming the very essence of the computing reality, sustained by a continuous flow of technical and paradigmatic innovation.
The hardware is definitely moving toward more massive parallelism, in a breathtaking synthesis of all the past techniques of concurrent computation. New many-core machines offer opportunities for all sorts of Single/Multiple Instructions, Single/Multiple Data and Vector computations that in the past required specialised hardware.
At the same time, all levels of virtualisation imagined till now seem to be possible via Clouds, and possibly many more. Information Technology has been the working backbone of the Global Village, and now, in more than one sense, it is becoming itself the Global Village. Between these two, the gap between the need for adapting applications to exploit the new hardware possibilities and the push toward virtualisation of resources is widening, creating more challenges as technical and intellectual progress continues. ACAT 2010 proposes to explore and confront the different boundaries of the evolution of computing, and its possible consequences on our scientific activity.
What do these new technologies entail for physics research? How will physics research benefit from this revolution in data taking and analysis, experiment monitoring and complex simulations? What physics research seizing these new technologies may bring forward innovations that would benefit the society at large?
Editorial board: T. Speer (chairman), F. Boudjema, J. Lauret, A. Naumann, L. Teodorescu, P. Uwer
Conference web-site: http://acat2010.cern.ch/
Programme and presentations: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=59397
Session: Plenary contributions |
Computing Outside the Box: On Demand Computing & its Impact on Scientific Discovery PoS(ACAT2010)001 |
History of the ROOT system: conception, evolution and experience PoS(ACAT2010)002 pdf |
Pattern recognition and estimation methods for track and vertex reconstruction PoS(ACAT2010)003 pdf |
LHC Cloud Computing with CernVM PoS(ACAT2010)004 pdf |
Analysis of medical images: the MAGIC-5 Project PoS(ACAT2010)005 pdf |
Data access in the High Energy Physics community PoS(ACAT2010)006 pdf |
Statistics challenges in HEP PoS(ACAT2010)007 pdf |
Automation of multi-leg one-loop virtual amplitudes PoS(ACAT2010)008 pdf |
Data Transfer Optimization - Going Beyond Heuristics PoS(ACAT2010)009 pdf |
How to Navigate Next Generation Programming Models for Next Generation Computer Architecture PoS(ACAT2010)010 |
Tools for Dark Matter in Particle Physics and Astrophysics PoS(ACAT2010)011 pdf |
Lattice QCD simulations PoS(ACAT2010)012 pdf |
Scientific Computing with Amazon Web Services PoS(ACAT2010)013 |
Applying CUDA Computing Model To Event Reconstruction Software PoS(ACAT2010)014 pdf |
Application of Many-core Accelerators for Problems in Astronomy and Physics PoS(ACAT2010)015 pdf |
Numerical approach to Feynman diagram calculations: Benefits from new computational capabilities PoS(ACAT2010)016 |
Summary of Track 1: Computing Technology for Physics Research PoS(ACAT2010)017 |
Summary of Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools PoS(ACAT2010)018 |
Summary of Track 3: Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics PoS(ACAT2010)019 |
Session: Track 1: Computing Technology for Physics Research |
EU-IndiaGrid2 - Sustainable e-infrastructures across Europe and India PoS(ACAT2010)020 pdf |
Teaching a Compiler your Coding Rules PoS(ACAT2010)021 pdf |
Computing at Belle II PoS(ACAT2010)022 pdf |
BNL Batch and DataCarousel systems at BNL: A tool and UI for efficient access to data on tape with faireshare policies capabilities PoS(ACAT2010)023 pdf |
The ALICE Online Data Quality Monitoring PoS(ACAT2010)024 pdf |
Building Efficient Data Planner for Peta-scale Science PoS(ACAT2010)025 pdf |
Distributed parallel processing analysis framework for Belle II and Hyper Suprime-Cam PoS(ACAT2010)026 pdf |
Contextualization in Practice: The Clemson Experience PoS(ACAT2010)027 pdf |
Implementation of new WLCG services into the AliEn Computing model of the ALICE experiment before the data taking PoS(ACAT2010)028 |
Tools to use heterogeneous Grid schedulers and storage system PoS(ACAT2010)029 pdf |
PROOF - Best Practices PoS(ACAT2010)030 |
Optimizing CMS software to the CPU PoS(ACAT2010)031 |
Optimization of Grid Resources Utilization: QoS-aware client to storage connection in AliEn PoS(ACAT2010)032 pdf |
NoSQL databases in CMS Data and Workflow Management PoS(ACAT2010)033 |
PROOF on Demand PoS(ACAT2010)034 |
Debbie: an innovative approach for the CMS Pixel Tracker web-based configuration DB PoS(ACAT2010)036 pdf |
PROOF - Status and New Developments PoS(ACAT2010)038 |
A T3 non-grid end-user analysis model based on prior installed Grid Infrastructure. PoS(ACAT2010)039 pdf |
AliEn2 and beyond PoS(ACAT2010)040 |
Studies of the performances of an open source batch system / scheduler (TORQUE / MAUI) implemented on a middle sized GRID site. PoS(ACAT2010)042 pdf |
Monitoring the software quality in FairRoot PoS(ACAT2010)043 pdf |
An improvement in LVCT cache replacement policy for data grid PoS(ACAT2010)044 pdf |
How computing centres of Alice connect? A social network analysis of cooperative ties PoS(ACAT2010)045 pdf |
Interoperating AliEn and ARC for a distributed Tier1 in the Nordic countries. PoS(ACAT2010)087 pdf |
Session: Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools |
Likelihood-based Particle Flow Algorithm at CDF for Accurate Energy Measurement and Identification of Hadronically Decaying Tau Leptons PoS(ACAT2010)046 pdf |
Classifying extremely imbalanced data sets PoS(ACAT2010)047 pdf |
SFrame - A high-performance ROOT-based framework for HEP analysis PoS(ACAT2010)048 pdf |
Online Filtering for Radar Detection of Meteors PoS(ACAT2010)049 pdf |
Absorbing systematic effects to obtain a better background model in a search for new physics PoS(ACAT2010)050 pdf |
Analysis of Photoluminescence measurement data from interdiffused Quantum Wells by Real coded Quantum inspired Evolutionary Algorithm PoS(ACAT2010)051 pdf |
ATLAS Second-Level Electron/Jet Neural Discriminator based on Nonlinear Independent Components PoS(ACAT2010)052 pdf |
High Volume data monitoring with RootSpy PoS(ACAT2010)053 |
mc4qcd: web based analysis and visualization tool for Lattice QCD PoS(ACAT2010)054 pdf |
TMVA - Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis PoS(ACAT2010)055 |
FAST PARALLELIZED TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR THE MUON DETECTOR OF THE CBM EXPERIMENT AT FAIR PoS(ACAT2010)056 |
The RooStats project PoS(ACAT2010)057 pdf |
Fourier Transforms as a tool for Analysis of Hadron-Hadron Collisions. PoS(ACAT2010)059 pdf |
Fast Parallel Ring Recognition Algorithm in the RICH Detector of the CBM Experiment at FAIR PoS(ACAT2010)060 pdf |
WatchMan Project - Computer Aided Software Engineering applied to HEP Analysis Code Building for LHC PoS(ACAT2010)061 pdf |
Parallel approach to online event reconstruction in the CBM experiment PoS(ACAT2010)062 |
FATRAS — A Novel Fast Track Simulation Engine for the ATLAS Experiment PoS(ACAT2010)063 pdf |
Visual Physics Analysis - Applications in High-Energy- and Astroparticle-Physics PoS(ACAT2010)064 pdf |
ATLAS Physics Analysis Tools PoS(ACAT2010)065 |
The SHUTTLE: the ALICE Framework for the extraction of the conditions Data PoS(ACAT2010)066 pdf |
HepData - the HEP data archive reloaded PoS(ACAT2010)067 pdf |
Using TurboSim for Fast Detector Simulation PoS(ACAT2010)068 |
Automating CMS Calibrations using the WMAgent framework PoS(ACAT2010)069 pdf |
Parallelization of events generation for data analysis techniques PoS(ACAT2010)070 pdf |
Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector PoS(ACAT2010)086 pdf |
Parallelization of Neutron Transport Code ATES3 on BARC's Parallel System PoS(ACAT2010)037 pdf |
Session: Track 3: Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics |
Status of the FORM project PoS(ACAT2010)071 pdf attachments |
Parallel versions of the symbolic manipulation system FORM PoS(ACAT2010)072 pdf |
Deterministic numerical box and vertex integrations for one-loop hexagon reductions PoS(ACAT2010)073 pdf |
Recursive reduction of tensorial one-loop Feynman integrals PoS(ACAT2010)074 pdf |
Automated Computation of One-loop Scattering Amplitudes PoS(ACAT2010)075 pdf |
Calculating one loop multileg processes. A program for the case of $gg\rightarrow t \bar{t}+gg$ PoS(ACAT2010)076 pdf |
The automation of subtraction schemes for next-to-leading order calculations in QCD PoS(ACAT2010)077 pdf |
FeynHiggs 2.7 PoS(ACAT2010)078 pdf |
New developments in event generator tuning techniques PoS(ACAT2010)079 pdf |
IR subtraction schemes PoS(ACAT2010)080 pdf |
Applications of FIESTA PoS(ACAT2010)081 pdf |
Sector decomposition via computational geometry PoS(ACAT2010)082 pdf |
Multiple Polylogarithms and Loop Integrals PoS(ACAT2010)083 |
Two-Loop Fermionic Integrals in Perturbation Theory on a Lattice PoS(ACAT2010)084 pdf |
Unstable-particles pair production in modified perturbation theory in NNLO PoS(ACAT2010)085 pdf |