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System Managers Web Site Proposal for UK HEP institute computing representation via system managers
Agenda for UK HEP System
Managers Meeting
19th/20th May 1998
Watson-Watt Conference Room 12, Building R68
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Tuesday 19th May
10:30 Registration and coffee
11:00 Welcome and Introduction (Dave Kelsey)
11:05 Video Conferencing - Session 1
Introduction: Videoconferencing for Particle Physics (John Hart)
Experience with packet videoconferencing (Alan Flavell)
(n.b. see also Alan's latest notes on packet based VC)
A scenic tour of current technologies (Geoff Fayers) (all except slide 28!)
(slide 28 - requires Microsoft PowerPoint Animation Player)
12:30 Lunch and Demonstration of Video Conferencing
14:00 Report from PPNCG (Peter Clarke)
14:30 Video Conferencing - Session 2
Market Trends and Directions for VC (Keith Gyford, First Connections)
Demonstrations
Discussion
15:30 Coffee/Tea and Demonstration of Video Conferencing
16:00 Site reports (two slides/5 mins, per UK HEP institute) - Part 1
Brunel (Peter Hobson)
RHBNC (Simon George)
Birmingham (Lawrie Lowe)
Cambridge (John Hill)
Oxford (Ian McArthur)
Manchester (Andy McNab)
RAL PPD (Dave Kelsey)
Edinburgh (Stephen Gowdy)
Glasgow (David Martin)
17:00 First look at future of UK HEP SYSMAN meetings (Bob Cranfield)
Introduction and Proposals (Bob Cranfield)
17:30 End of first day
19:30 Sherry at Coseners House, Abingdon, followed by
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 20th May
09:00 Site reports (continued from Day 1)
Lancaster (Rob Henderson)
QMW (Murrough Landon)
IC (Geoff Fayers)
Sheffield (Lee Thompson)
UCL (Bob Cranfield)
09:30 CNAP report and discussion on future of UK HEP SYSMAN meetings
(Robin Devenish, Oxford)Proposal for UK HEP institute computing representation via system managers
10:00 Report from HEPiX meeting (Andrew Sansum)
10:30 Report from HEPNT/CNAPNT groups (Dave Kelsey)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Windows NT - System Cloning (Gareth Smith)
(Note added by Bob Cranfield - Books on Windows NT)
12:00 Linux - an update (Paul Dixon)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Update on RAL HEP Central facilities (John Gordon) (n.b. slide 10 is garbled! Here is a better Slide 10)
14:30 Computer Security
Recent problems in Glasgow (Alan Flavell)
Reports from Other sites (Dave Kelsey)
General discussion
15:30 Conclusions (and Tea/Coffee)
16:00 End of meeting
